Chapter 1 PPT: Creating and Editing Presentations

When you open PowerPoint and click Blank Presentation, you go directly to:

• Your first slide

• Themes

• Layout

• Backstage view

• Online templates

To include identifying information on all slides, insert:

• Background Styles

• Comments

• Slide Masters

• Headers and footers

• Speaker notes

PowerPoint helps provide consistency within your presentation by providing built-in collections of fonts, colors, and background graphics called:

• Layouts

• Themes

• Setups

• Schemes

• Sets

“Views” are important in PowerPoint for organization. The default view is:

• Slide Sorter

• Normal

• Master

• Reading

• Outline

When developing your presentation, you should use this view to see it as your audience will see it:

(a)  

To make your notes area larger in Normal view, adjust the:

• Layout

• Theme

• Font

• Pane size

• Ruler

By default, PowerPoint presentations are saved with which file extension?

• .ppt

• .pptx

• .PDF

• .ppps

• .temp

A rectangular box in a slide layout where you enter text is a(an):

• Slide

• Presentation

• Placeholder

• Theme

• Outline

To copy formatting changes from text, shapes, or pictures and apply these changes to another selection, use:

• Format Painter

• Find/Replace

• Ctrl+C

• Paste Special

• Styles

The keyboard shortcut that duplicates a slide in a presentation is:

• Alt+C

• Ctrl+C