1.1 INTRODUCTION TO POWERPOINT
Power Point is a graphical presentation program that you can use to organize and present information. PowerPoint provides a variety of output capabilities for presentations. · A presentation prepared in Power Point can be run directly on the computer. · The presentation can be printed to Black and White or Color transparencies depending on your printer. · Slides can be created in Power Point and then sent to a film processing company to be converted to 35mm slides. · Printouts of slides can be made for use as speaker’s notes, audience handouts and even outline pages. BASIC GUIDELINES TO CREATING PRESENTATIONS Once you have a general idea of the points you wish to convey to your audience, you will need to organize your thoughts into a logical sequence. To have a well-constructed talk, your ideas should be presented in an order, which the audience can easily follow. It may help to prepare an outline of the presentation first and build around it as you develop your tal