Transcript Introduction to PowerPoint 2007

By Tom Kleen
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The Home tab contains the
commands you use most often
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Insert pics, shapes, sound, video, etc.
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Set the overall look of your slide
show: backgrounds, colors, fonts
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Controls how your slides transition
from one to the next
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Add movement and action
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Set up your slide show
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Sprelling, Thesaurus,
Comments
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All the views in which you can
work with PowerPoint
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You focus on content
PowerPoint takes care of design
◦ Hundreds of templates online
◦ Dozens of preformatted slide layouts
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Use what you know from other Office applications (ribbons,
shortcut keys, etc.)
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A template is a pre-designed slide show where you fill in the
blanks
◦ Click on the File tab.
◦ Click on New.
◦ From the New Presentation window, make your selection.
 Click on a theme, or
 Click on one of the suggested searches and then click on a theme, or
 Enter a search term in the Search box and then click on a theme.
◦ Click on the Create button.
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Slides appear in the window on the left
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In Slide Sorter view, click and drag the slide from
its current position to its new position
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Previews the slide show exactly as the audience will see it.
◦ To begin with the current slide:
 Click on the Slide Show button on the status bar
◦ To begin with slide #1:
 Press F5 on the keyboard
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In Normal view:
◦ Click on the thumbnail on the left side.
◦ Press the Delete key on the keyboard.
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Slide Sorter view:
◦ Click on the slide you want to delete.
◦ Press the Delete key on the keyboard.
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Click on the Home tab.
In the Slides group, click on the
New Slide button.
From the drop-down list of choices,
click on the desired layout.
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Next slide:
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N (“Next”)
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Enter
Space
mouse click
mouse wheel
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Previous slide:
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P (“Previous”)
PgUp
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Backspace
Mouse wheel
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Black: B
White: W
End slide show: Escape
Show navigation options: F1
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To jump to any slide:
◦ Right-click on the current slide.
◦ From the popup menu, click on See All
Slides
◦ Click on the slide you want to jump to.
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To draw on your slides during
the presentation:
◦ Right-click on the slide.
◦ Click on Pointer options.
◦ Click on your desired drawing
tool.
◦ Draw by holding the left mouse
button down and dragging the
mouse.
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Theme: the background, fonts, colors, etc.
Click on the Design tab.
In the Themes group, click on the More button.
Click on the desired theme.
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Click on the Insert tab.
In the Images group, click on the Picture button.
Navigate to the desired picture and click on Insert.
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Click on the Insert tab.
In the Images group, click on the Online Pictures button.
Enter a keyword and click on Search.
Click on the desired picture.
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Click on the Insert tab.
In the Images group, click on the Screenshot button.
Select the program that you want to select the screenshot
from.
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Click on the Insert tab.
In the Illustrations group, click on the Shapes button.
Navigate to the desired shape and click on it.
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Click on the Insert tab.
In the Illustrations group, click on the SmartArt button.
Navigate to the desired shape and click on it.
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Select the text that is to be the hyperlink.
Click on the Insert tab.
In the Links group, click on Hyperlink.
Enter the URL (web address) of the web page you want to
navigate to.
Yahoo!
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Click on the Insert tab.
In the Text group, click on the WordArt button.
Enter your text and set the desired formatting options.
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Computer presentations (like this one)
Audience handouts
Speaker notes
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Click on the File tab.
Click on Print.
Under Settings, click on Full Page Slides
Click on Notes pages
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Create handouts for your audience to keep.
Click on the File tab.
Click on Print.
Click on Full Page Slides.
From the Handouts group, click on the
desired format.
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This option is no longer available in PowerPoint 2013.
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Help files (F1)
Google
Microsoft PowerPoint home page
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Put each slide show you create in its own folder.
Before inserting a movie or sound, copy the movie or sound
file into the folder for the slide show!
Then copy the entire folder to a USB drive, burn it to a CD, or
zip it up and email it to yourself.
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If the computer you use for your presentation doesn’t have
PowerPoint, you are in big trouble!
Option 1: Have the free PowerPoint viewer installed on the
computer (requires administrative privileges!).
Option 2: Save the presentation in another format:
◦ Video: MPEG-4, WMV
◦ Image: GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP
◦ Document: PDF
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Option 3: Use Libre Office. It’s free.
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Death by PowerPoint
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