What Is MS PowerPoint And Uses Of Power Point In Education

Presentations are given at big conferences and meetings. But do you know which software is used to collect all this data that is saved on the computer and presented through a presentation?

So let me tell you that all the presentation work is done in Microsoft PowerPoint.

But what is MS PowerPoint, and what are the uses of PowerPoint in education?

The full name of MS PowerPoint is Microsoft PowerPoint, which we also know as PowerPoint.

This is a very powerful presentation-making program that works to prepare our data (text and audio) in the form of slides and create, edit, format, share, and present it.

Whenever we get a chance to go to any seminar or participate in any program, we see a lot of people giving presentations there.

During the presentation, he explains all the facts to the people with the help of a projector.

Whether you are a student, a businessman, or want to start a new startup, you need some kind of presentation to show or explain your purpose.

MS PowerPoint: What Is PowerPoint? 

MS PowerPoint is software created by Microsoft that is used to prepare this presentation.

This is a very powerful piece of software. This software comes under Microsoft Office as a bundle along with MS Excel, MS Word, MS Outlook, etc.

Just as we can easily prepare any type of document in MS Word, in the same way, we can prepare a presentation through MS PowerPoint,

This software was created on April 20, 1987, by two members of Microsoft named Robert Gaskins and Dennis Austin.

This software was not so good in its initial days, but with time, many changes took place, and today it is capable of creating an attractive and effective slide show presentation.

This application has expanded graphics and formatting capabilities. In this way, you can create an attractive presentation by using pictures, videos, animations, text, and charts in the presentation.

Before launching their new product, big companies use presentations to explain it to their colleagues. This presentation was prepared using MS PowerPoint.

What Is A Slide In PowerPoint?

Just as there is a page in MS Word and a worksheet in MS Excel, in the same way, you will see a slide in MS PowerPoint on which we can work by entering data.

Many slides together form a slideshow or presentation. 8 to 10 slides or even more slides may have been used for this. Slides are used to prepare your topic as a presentation.

What Is MS PowerPoint Slide Layout?

MS PowerPoint Layout is an arrangement of placeholders designed to position your created slide.

Through layout, the slide can be presented in the way required.

In a slide layout, special objects (like text, charts, clipart, etc.) are included as per requirement.

The slide layout you use will depend on where PowerPoint positions your content.

You will see different types of placeholders on the slide layout, and these will be seen on every slide layout.

Overall, its slide layout is a collection of many placeholders.

From where you can easily do important things for your work.

Be it typing or bolding the handwriting, adding photos, or any other work,.

Its layout helps you get the work done.

How do I start PowerPoint?

If you are new to the subject of this software, then it is common for this question to come to your mind: how to start PowerPoint, or, in other words, how to open PowerPoint?

It has some commands and shortcuts with which you can easily open this application. So let us understand it in some detail.

You can start this in two ways. You will be able to understand both of these methods easily by following some steps given below.

Method Number 1

1: First of all you have to click on the Start Button of your computer.

2: After that, click on All Programs.

3: Now click on Microsoft Office.

4: Now click on Microsoft Office PowerPoint.

5: Now your Microsoft Office PowerPoint is ready to use.

Method Number 2

As you know every program has its run command, in the same way this software also has its run command.

That is PowerPoint; that is, if you type this word in Search Programs or File and press the Enter button, then you can start this application directly.

Apart from this, you have to type PowerPoint in the search bar that comes after pressing Window Key + R and you can start Microsoft PowerPoint as soon as you click on Enter.

As soon as you start it, it opens in a normal view, in which you will see a slide, and you can start your work on it. To make you understand this, we have categorized the parts of the slide by some numbers in the screenshot.

1. The Slide/Outline tab shows a thumbnail of the full-size slide.
2. After adding the second slide, you can click on the slide/outline tab so that the slide will appear in the slide/outline tab.
3. To rearrange your presentation, you can arrange the slides by dragging the thumbnails.
4.  From this tab, you can add a new slide and also delete any slide.
5. Here, you will be able to work directly on the slide.
6. In the dotted line box on the slide, you can write text according to your presentation.
7. You can insert a Chart, Pic, and any other object as per requirement.
8. In the note pane below, you can write some notes on the current slide according to your presentation, which can be useful to the viewers during the presentation.

Features Of MS PowerPoint

Every software has some specialty that makes it different from the rest, in the same way, this application also has its specialty. What makes it special is the use of PowerPoint. Let us know in detail about the features of PowerPoint.

• You can use it only for making presentations, or in other words if you want to make any type of presentation, you can easily make it with PowerPoint.
• If you want to show the object (text, picture, or chart) used by you in your presentation in the form of an animation, then you will get all the facilities for this.
• In this, you can easily play any video or audio on your presentation document, you cannot see the benefit of such a facility in slides in any other software.
• In this, you will get different types of themes for your slides, through which you can take a look at your slides and also have some effects on your presentation document.
• Just as functions are provided by Microsoft in MS Word and MS Excel, in the same way, you also get some functions in it so that you can do your work easily without any problem.
• In this way, you can work independently on each part of the slide at your convenience and choose different types of layouts to improve your presentation.

How To Create A PowerPoint Presentation?

People who are learning Microsoft Office have this question how to create a new slide in MS PowerPoint?

Well, there are two ways to create a new slide in PowerPoint, so for this, we will tell you some steps.

Method 1:

1: First of all, open this application. As soon as you open it, you will see a slide on the screen.

2: Now you will see the option of Home at the top. You have to click on it.

3: As soon as you click on Home, you will see many more options. From there, you have to click on New Slide.

4: Now, as soon as you click on New Slide, you will see different types of slide layouts, You can select that layout according to your presentation.

5: By doing this, your new slide will have been created.

Method 2:

1: First of all, open PowerPoint, as soon as you open it, you will see a slide on the screen.

2: Now you will see a slide in the Slide/Outline area.

3: You will have to bring the cursor to the slide and right-click.

4:  As soon as you right-click, many options will appear, and you will have to click on New Slide.

5: By doing this, your new slide will be created.

6: Now you can change the layout of the new slide from here. For this, right-click on the new slide and click on Layout.

Uses Of PowerPoint In Education

• multimodal learning
• Write or highlight on slides
• Type-On Live Slide
• meeting agenda
• class preparation

In Short

It is necessary to give presentations in every corporate office, seminar, etc.

All the work is explained to the people based on the presentation only.

This makes it easier because instead of writing about it on a board, etc., it is better to show the prepared information to people directly with the help of a screen.

For this reason, such presentations are used.

This is why, through this post, we told you what MS PowerPoint is and what the uses of PowerPoint in education.

You also learned how to start MS PowerPoint.

We hope that, with the help of this post,, you will have learned a lot.