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The document discusses the essential components of effective presentations, particularly using PowerPoint, which allows for the incorporation of multimedia elements. It also covers various internet applications such as search engines, online education, email, and online shopping, highlighting their significance in modern communication and information access. Additionally, it explains the concept of URLs and domain names, emphasizing their role in navigating the internet.
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_ Agood presentation has an introduction, body and conclusion. ina presentation at
are two parties involved- the presenter and the audience. The presenter is the person
who makes the presentation, Aad the audience ste group of people to whom the
Presentation is being addressed.
Presentation is made colourful and attractive by adding pictures, colored text, video |
and audio clips or animated objects,
PowerPoint is presentation software that can help you to quickly create effective 'slide
based! presentation. A slide is an electronic page in a slide show.
Each slide contains any text, graphics and sound.
A PowerPoint presentation is a group of various slides. |
Some of most popular graphics, muikimedia and presentation packages are CorelDraw, _
Macromedia®, Director®, and PowerPoint etc.
Presentation is one type of communication where one can put his thoughts, ideas and
FEATURES OF POWERPOINT
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Auto content wizard
Slide sorter view
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Notes view
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Design templates
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PowerPoint.
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to the slides.
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ives you the facility to create stunning presentations that incorporate video and PowerPoint
aimations. |
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‘Search Engines : Search engines are applications of web sites over the internet.
‘This provides facility to the user for locating a web page from world wide according to
the given aiteria.
Online Education : With the help of intemet you can apply for admission in any
‘university of the world and can also study virtually.
email : E-Mail stands for Electronic Mail. The exchanging of text message and file
‘between computer over a network is called as E-Mail, Internet provides you to facility
to send letters or messages anywhere in the world in just few seconds.
Online Ticket Booking : Booking of Air, Train and Bus tickets is an important
advantage of internet. You can reserve any ticket of any part of the world with its help.
Job Search : With the help of intemet any person can search job all over the world.
Many websites provides this facility. A person can also apply for job through intemet.
They are provides Interview tips, Resume writing tips.
Research : Intemet provides many facilities for research work; we can see different
types of information on different topics. Many websites provides this facility for out
extra knowledge and guidance.
News Groups : Newsgroups are “Forums on the internet for discussion on different
subjects”. A newsgroup consists of a topic of discussion and all the responses of posted
by the people. With the help of intemet, we canget updated news about any country of
world and about hot issues any time.
Entertainment : Internet provides many types of entertainment for us. We can play
games, watch movies, listen to music and see match etc. online,
Online Shopping : This is the modern way of buying and selling goods over the
internet. Vendors provide information about their products/services on the internet and
customer can place order online.i bisa te
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software applications like robots, bots, or spiders.
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an indexer reads these documents and creates an
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@ URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator. URL is the address or location of somet
on the internet It is used to create a complete web address to direct a baie toa n
page online called a web page. It is asset of directions and every web page has a unique
i is a unique identifier used to locate a resource on
AURL (Uniform Resource Locator) is a unique identi : n
the intemet. It is also referred to as a web address. End users use URLs by typing them.
directly into the address bar of a browser or by clicking a hyperlink found on a webpage,
bookmark list, in an email or from another application.
URL Format
URLs consist of multiple parts -- including a protocol and domain name -- that tela
web browser how and where to retrieve a resource.
URLs have the following format.
protocol://hostname/other_information
Example : http://www.amazon.com/
A URL incorporates the domain name, along with oth le in. A domai
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Ba etailed informatio:servers \
jn the browser URL bar to visit ime is the address of your website that people
$e your domain name will be its ee For example, if your website was a house,
A domain name is the website name. A domai where Internet
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Need for Domain Name
The Internet is a giant network of computers connected to each other through a global
network of cables. Each computer on this network can communicate with other computers.
Jo identify them, each computer is assigned an IP address. It is a series of numbers that
identify a particular computer on the internet. Now an IP address like this is quite difficult to
remember. Imagine if you had to use such numbers to Visit your favorite Websites.
Domain Name Format
Adomain name takes the form of two main elements
1. Website Name
2. Domain Name Extension
Example : In the domain name Facebook.com, the website’s name is Facebook and the
domain name extension is .com.
Adomain name can be any combination of letters and numbers, and it can be used in,
om, .net and more.
combination of the various domain name extensions, such @s
registered before you can use it, Every domain name is
The domain name must be
je domain name:
Unique, No two websites can have the sar
Domain Name Types
Top-Level Domain (TLD) refers to the suffi
alimited list of predefined suffixes which includes
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.com - Commercial Business
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Webmail : Webmail is an online email system which allows users to set up a free
email account. This allows users to create/send emails and manage their address book.
As long as you have an internet connection, you can access your account on any
iivice and browser. It is ideal for general users or small companies) COnsidannia mags
webmail services are free. The storage is limited too, which prevents you from sending
large files”)
GETTING AN E- MAIL ACCOUNT
Setting up an email account is very easy. There are many email service providers.
However in this book, we are showing setting up an Gmail Account.
AGmail account offers these and a robust spam filter. You can use it to access be
junk. You can also use it
®isting email accounts and profit from Gmail eliminating the
profit from Gmat ; that
old mail or as a backup. Setting up a free Gmail account is a quick, easy proce
little time to complete
Baefile known as workbook.
is tegories of people like accounts,
be used by various ca ’
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FEATURES OF MS-EXCEL ‘
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number of features that are av:
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1. Formatting: Formattingis one ides i
ksh legible out look. MS-Excel provides different tyy
Boe date and time formatting, text formatting ef.
formatting, like number formatting,
2, Macros: Macros are particularly useful when you want to perform repetitive
: Macros is a series of commands and other actions, recorded and saved witha
for later use. Macro saves the time and speed up the activities.
3. Charts: Charts are the pictorial representation of worksheet data. These aero
analytical tools. MS-Excels has fifteen basic charts types and many sub types. The
choice you make depends on the kind of data you're plotting.
4. Autofill: This feature allows you to quickly fill cells with repetitive or sequential daft
such as chronological dates or numbers, and repeated text. Autofill feature canalsobe
in Excel to make our task easier
used to copy functions.
Automatic worksheet formatting: Auto format is a very useful feature of excel thateal |
help you to quickly format data entered in the enitioct