Editing Text

Table 1.1 lists various keyboard combinations to edit text in a slide.

Key combinations	Functions
Pressing Arrow keys.	Moves the cursor right, Left, op, or down within the text
pressing Backspace or Delete.	Erases characters before to offer the insertion point
Click and dragging the mouse.	Selects a string of characters
Double-click on a word.	Selects the compete word
Triple-click on a line or paragraph.	selects the entire line or paragraph
pressing Ctrl + A.	Selects the entire text
pressing Ctrl +  Click.	Selects the entire sentence
Pressing Ctrl + x.	Cuts the selected text and places it in the Clipboard
Pressing Ctrl + C	Copies selected text to the Clipboard
Pressing Ctrl +  V.	pastes text from the Clipboard

Table 1.1 Methods of Editing Text

Adding Headers and footers

A header is a text element shown at the top of a slide, it is different form a title, which is a descriptive text specific to the contents of a slide. A footer is a text element shown at the bottom Merging  of the slide. You can add headers and footers to your slides, presentation  notes and audience handouts.

The steps to add a header or a footer are.

1.    Select the Header and footer option from the View menu

The Header and footer dialog box is displayed as shown in Figure 1.13

2.    Select the slide tab to add a data and time, slide number and footer text to slide

Or, select the Notes and Handouts tab to add data, time, header, page number and footer to  notes and handouts.

3. Click on the Don’t show on title slide option to suppress

the title in the Title slide op the presentation

4. Click on the Apply button to apply the settings to every slide in the current presentation.

Inserting a slide

The steps to insert a slide in an existing presentation are :

1.    Open the presentation

2.    Select the New slide option from the Insert menu. This invokes the New slide dialog

3.    Select an appropriate Auto layout From the New Slide dialog box.

4.    Click ok

A new slide is inserted into the presentation after the selected slide.  

Deleting a Slide

The steps to delete a slide from an existing presentation are :

1.    Select the slide to be deleted

2.    Select the Delete slide option from the Edit menu .

The selected slide is deleted from the presentation.

     Views in Power point

PowerPoint provides different types of views to work easily while a presentation is being created. The views are (refer Figure 1.14)

Slide View, Outline View, Normal View, or Tri-pane view, Slide sorter View, Slide Show view,

Slide view

in slide view you can insert text, movie clips, sounds, objects like Cli Art, Autos Shapes and WordArt, You can also edit the text, and the objects you have inserted in the slide.

Outline View

In this view, you can re-arrange your slides and bullets that you have inserted in your slides.