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Figure 22 Editing a Chart
• You can change the X axis of the chart by giving different input to X-axis of chart.
• You can change the Y axis of chart by giving different input to Y-axis of chart.
Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation Basics
Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation tool that supports text, shapes, graphics, pictures 
and multimedia along with integration with other Microsoft Office products like Excel. In this 
lesson learners are expected to develop their skill in the use of Microsoft Word and Excels, 
and Microsoft PowerPoint environment in many ways is similar to the two other Microsoft 
Office products. Thus those essential skills such as creating text and embedding objects are 
not discussed here with the view it will be a repetition, and in light of that in this section only 
selected topics are covered.
Getting Started
To launch Microsoft PowerPoint, just select and click on the commands in order:
Start Button>> All Programs>>Microsoft Office>>Microsoft 
PowerPoint(with the version appended)
This will launch the Microsoft PowerPoint application and a window with the following look will 
be displayed.

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Figure 23 Microsoft PowerPoint Window
Creating Presentation
PowerPoint offers a host to tools that will aid you in creating a presentation. These tools are 
organised logically into various ribbons in PowerPoint. The table below describes the various 
commands you can access from different menus.
Figure 24 Parts of Microsoft PowerPoint Window

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Menu Category
Ribbon Commands
Home
Clipboard functions, manipulating slides, fonts 
paragraph settings, drawing objects and editing 
functions.
Insert
Insert tables, pictures, images, shapes, charts, 
special texts, multimedia and symbols.
Design
Slide setup, slide orientation, presentation 
themes and background.
Transitions
Commands related to slide transitions.
Animations
Commands related to animation within the 
individual slides.
Slide Show
Commands related to slide show set up and 
previews.
Review
Proofing content, language selection, comments 
and comparing presentations.
View
Commands related to presentation views, Master 
slides, color settings and window arrangements.
Working with Multimedia
PowerPoint supports multiple content types including images or pictures. With regards to 
pictures PowerPoint classifies them into two categories:
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