Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 Tutorial—Free & Online
With Microsoft PowerPoint, you can create exciting slide show presentations. This PowerPoint tutorial will teach
you how. Click here to start. If you are using PowerPoint 2002, click here for our PowerPoint 2002 tutorial.
Lesson 1: The PowerPoint
Window
PowerPoint is a presentation software
package. With PowerPoint, you can easily create slide shows. Trainers
and other presenters use slide shows to illustrate their presentations.
This tutorial teaches PowerPoint basics. This lesson introduces you to
the PowerPoint window. You use the window to interact with PowerPoint.
- The Microsoft Office Button
- The Quick Access Toolbar
- The Title Bar
- The Ribbon
- Rulers
- Slides, Placeholders, and Notes
- Status Bar, Tabs, View Buttons, and More
Lesson 2: Creating Your First PowerPoint
Presentation
You create your PowerPoint presentation on
slides. You use layouts to organize the content on each slide.
PowerPoint has several slide layouts from which to choose. Themes are
sets of colors, fonts, and special effects. Backgrounds add a colored
background to your slides. You can add themes and backgrounds to your
slides. After you complete your slides, you can run your presentation.
In this lesson you learn how to create slides, makes changes to slides,
apply a theme and run a slide show.
- Create a Title Slide
- Create New Slides
- Make Changes to Your Slides
- Apply a Theme
- Run Your PowerPoint Slide Show
Lesson 3: Animations, Transitions, Spell Check, Outline Tab, Slides Tabs, Sorter View, and Printing
Animations control how objects move
onto, off of, and around your slides. Transitions control how your
presentation moves from one slide to the next. In this lesson you learn
how to create animations and transitions. You also learn how to
spell-check your document, how to use the Outline and Slides tabs, how
to use Sorter view, and how to print.
- Add Animations
- Add Transitions
- Spell Check
- Use the Outline and Slides Tabs
- Use Slide Sorter View
