Top 10 MS PowerPoint Basic Features Everyone Should Know – Abstract Review
MS PowerPoint is one of the famous and most used software for presentations in universities, offices, and other necessary presentations stuff all around the world. Almost all Windows operating system users are using MS PowerPoint. MS PowerPoint came in the MS Office package. There are a number of versions released available of MS Office. The version of MS Office is MS Office 2003, MS Office 2007, MS Office 2010, MS Office 2013, MS Office 2016, MS Office 2019, MS Office 2020, and MS Office 365. The top 10 best basic features of MS PowerPoint are;
List of MS PowerPoint Features
- Create New File
- Open File
- Save & Save As
- Font Styling & Alignment
- Transitions
- Animations
- SlideShow
- Famous Shortcut Keys
- Notes & Comments
- Print & Print Options
These are some very basic and most important features of MS PowerPoint. Read all of the features in detail you will be benefited from the article. If you are a new/beginner or expert you will still get some new things in the article so stay tuned. As every student, employee, faculty member or sales boy/ girl needs to know the basics.
Before starting the brief description of features let me show you how to start MS PowerPoint 2013 program if the MS PowerPoint shortcut icon is not present. Go to the Start menu write MS PowerPoint and you will see the MS PowerPoint icon with the version you had installed. Here is a brief description of the top 10 basic features of MS PowerPoint listed below.
1. Create New File – PowerPoint
Creating a new file in MS PowerPoint is simple. You need to click on the File menu, then click on new File, after that you can select either the template of the start file or can choose the blank document to start work on.
The shortcut key to open a new file is Ctrl + N
2. Open File – PowerPoint
The file in Microsoft PowerPoint can be opened in multiple ways firstly, after opening Microsoft PowerPoint. Click on the File menu that can be found at the top left of the menu. You will see the option open, click on that, and after that, you need to select the file to open via giving the path to it. It is the second feature out of the top 10 basic features of MS PowerPoint.
Second Method: You can go to the file location then double click the file it will open the file in MS PowerPoint.
Third Method: You can drag and drop the file in MS PowerPoint that will also open up the file in MS PowerPoint.
The Shortcut Key to open the File is: Ctrl + O
3. Create New Slide – PowerPoint
Creating a new slide is important in MS PowerPoint as it is a most using feature, the simplest way to do is just to click on the
Insert menu -> New Slide
The shortcut of inserting a new slide is Ctrl + m
Another way is to right-click inside of the left side menu, you will see the New Slide option click on that for a new slide.
4. Save & Save As – PowerPoint
Save: Once you wrote something in the file most probably you need to save that file to use the same file with the same data in the future. Method 1 to save file is you need to click on the File menu you will see the Save option, click on that and it will ask for saving file destination, press okay to save the file.
The Shortcut Key is: Ctrl + S
Save As: In MS PowerPoint the Save as is needed because someone wants to save the same with little changes with a different version name. That will allow saving as an option. Click on the File menu and click on the save as menu. It will again ask for the file name and destination. After providing detail click okay to save.
The Shortcut Key is: Ctrl + Shift + S
5. Font Styling & Alignment – PowerPoint
Styling is the most important section in MS PowerPoint that is under the menu bar, Inside the font and paragraph section. You can change the font family, font size, bold, italic, underline, superscript, subscript, background color, font color, and font case, and clear all format options inside the Font Section.
The paragraph section has the unordered list, ordered list, suborder list, alignment of paragraphs, line heights, font color, border, paragraph indentations, sorting in A to Z order, and show hide for the formatting of pages.
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Conclusion
This post is for beginners to Microsoft PowerPoint / MS PowerPoint. Therefore, the top 10 basic features of MS PowerPoint are very helpful to those who are new to Microsoft Office. Here we described the top 10 basic/ necessary features for starters/beginners. If you have any queries please comment, we will reach you as soon as possible for guidance.