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When you view and print in this mode, objects have no fills, and so your text is not obscured.
Note Exceptions to this rule are bitmaps, clip art, and charts, which continue to show in grayscale even in Pure Black and White view and print m...
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Here's an idea for an autumn slide:
Create a slide with falling leaves that seem to pile up at the bottom of the slide.
Here's how:
Run PowerPoint and then choose Insert|Picture|ClipArt.
When the Insert ClipArt dialog box opens, cl...
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When you're presenting a PowerPoint slide show, you might want to use an animated slide during the intermission period. You can set this up to run continuously until you start the next part of the show.
As an example, suppose you create a...
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When you're presenting a PowerPoint slide show, you might want to use an animated slide during the intermission period. You can set this up to run continuously until you start the next part of the show.
As an example, suppose you create a...
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If you want to include a summary of the key points in your Microsoft PowerPoint presentation, you can use Slide Sorter view to easily create a single slide that presents a list of selected slide titles.
1. On the View menu, click Slide Sor...
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If you want to include a summary of the key points in your Microsoft PowerPoint presentation, you can use Slide Sorter view to easily create a single slide that presents a list of selected slide titles.
1. On the View menu, click Slide Sor...
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1. On the File menu, click New.
2. Under New, click From AutoContent Wizard.
3. Click the Next button.
4. Select the category that you want your template to be displayed in.
5. Click Add.
6. Find the template you want to add, and then...
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There are a variety of sounds that you can add to PowerPoint 2000 slides.
To look into this feature, open a blank slide and choose Insert|Pictures|ClipArt.
When Insert ClipArt opens, click the Sounds tab.
Now, as an example, click Anima...
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Introduction
Trying to create a banner in your PowerPoint presentation? You can easily do this with AutoShapes. This How-To Article explains how to add text to an AutoShape.
Add Text to an AutoShape
1. Click the AutoShape that you woul...
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If you want to insert a chart or graph into your presentation, PowerPoint makes this easy.
Add a Chart
1. Click the Insert menu and select Chart... from the menu that appears.
2. Enter the information you want in the graph in the mi...
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1. On the Tools menu, click Customize.
2. If the menu you want to change is on a toolbar, make sure the toolbar is visible.
How?
1. In the Customize dialog box, click the Toolbars tab.
2. Select the check box for the too...
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You can take any of the images in your presentation and animate them. That is what really brings your presentation to life. There are many different types of animations to choose from. To animate an image follow these steps:
1.Right click o...
You can add customized transitions to your slide show that will make it come alive and become appealing to your audience. Follow these steps when adding Slide Transitions.
1.In slide or slide sorter view, select the slide or slides you want to add a tra...
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Right-click, point to Pointer Options, and then click Arrow.
Note: By default, the arrow is set at Automatic, which means it's hidden automatically after 3 seconds of inactivity. The arrow appears again when you move the mouse. To keep ...
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Two vertical lines in front of toolbar can be dragged and moved.
Home key bring to slide number 1, up/down arrow to bring next and previous slide
Ctrl & m – new slide
Ctrl & n – New presentation
From the picture tool bar,
Set the ...
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There are two ways I know that you could do this; both are hacks. The most elegant, but also most time consuming would be to make more slides with the zoomed-in bitmaps on them. These could be hidden slides, which would allow you to gracefull...
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From the Tools menu, select Options, and then click on the View tab.
There is a checkbox in the Slide Show section:
"Popup menu on right mouse click"--uncheck this box and the right mouse button will make slide show go backwards.
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1. On the Formatting toolbar, click Design , and in the task pane, click Color Schemes.
2. Do any of the following:
Apply a color scheme to notes pages
1. If you want to apply a color scheme to one notes page, selec...
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1. Select at least three objects you want to arrange.
2. On the Drawing toolbar (toolbar: A bar with buttons and options that you use to carry out commands. To display a toolbar, click Customize on the Tools menu, and then click the Toolbar...
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When you often use the same words in your PowerPoint slides, why not take advantage of AutoCorrect to speed up your work? For example, if you work for Wonderful World of Disney, you could enter www into AutoCorrect and let PowerPoint type in ...
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1. On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Edit tab.
2. Select the Use smart cut and paste check box.
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When you select this option, Microsoft PowerPoint automatically selects a whole word and the space after it so you don't have to drag over every character.
1. On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Edit tab.
2. Select the W...
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To open a Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint 95, the file must first be saved to the PowerPoint 95 format.
1. In Office PowerPoint 2003, on the File menu, click Save As. In the Save as type box, click Po...
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1. On the Tools menu, click AutoCorrect Options, and then click the AutoCorrect tab.
2. Do one of the following:
Change the misspelled entry
1. In the list of entries, click the row with the entry you want to change.
2. Clic...
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To change the color scheme of a slide go to the "Format" menu, select "Slide Color Scheme". From the "Color Scheme" dialogue box chose either "Standard or Custom" tab. Select a color choice and either click "Apply," or "Apply to All." The Cus...
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Use this procedure to change text and background colors for the outline and notes panes of a Web presentation.
1. In Microsoft PowerPoint, open the Web presentation you want to change.
2. On the File menu, click Save as Web page.
3. Cl...
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1. On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Spelling and Style tab.
2. Under Style, select the Check Style check box, and then click Style Options.
3. Do any of the following:
On the Case and End Punctuation tab, select ...
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Do one of the following:
On the Outline tab in normal view, select one or more slide icons , and then drag the selection to a new location.
On the Slides tab in normal view, select one or more slide thumbnails, and then drag th...
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When you click New on the Standard toolbar, Microsoft PowerPoint displays a new slide that uses a default ("blank") design. You can change this design so that it always includes certain elements, such as a logo or a type of background, font, ...
You can change the layout of any slide in your presentation at any time. Here's how:
1. From the Format menu, select Slide Layout.
2. The Slide Layout screen opens. Choose the type of layout you desire by clicking it once.
If you wish to ...
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Suppose you decide to insert a particular ClipArt picture into a PowerPoint slide. How much do you really know about that picture? Do you know how large it is (in bytes)? What if you think you'd like to use the same picture again. Can you fin...
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Here's an effect that you can use to enhance some of your graphic objects in PowerPoint. Try this: run PowerPoint and open a blank slide. Now choose Insert/Picture/ClipArt. When the Insert ClipArt dialog box opens, select a picture, right-cli...
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1. In Microsoft Excel, select the range of cells you want to copy, and then click Copy .
2. Switch to Microsoft PowerPoint, and then click the slide or notes page where you want to insert the cells.
3. On the Edit menu in PowerPoint, clic...
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1. On the Slides tab in normal view, click the slide thumbnail that you want the copied slides to follow.
2. On the Insert menu, click Slides from Files.
3. Click Browse to look for the file; in the Browse dialog box, select the file, and...
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Microsoft PowerPoint can count the number of words that are in a presentation and report how many slides, paragraphs, bytes, notes, hidden slides, and multimedia clips are in the presentation.
To view the number of words that are in your P...
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Microsoft PowerPoint can count the number of words that are in a presentation and report how many slides, paragraphs, bytes, notes, hidden slides, and multimedia clips are in the presentation.
To view the number of words that are in your P...
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You can call out information in your presentation with footnotes. For example, you can use a footnote to explain a bullet point on a slide or to cite a resource you've used to compile information in your presentation.
Add a footnote to a sin...
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When you follow these steps, you create a copy of an existing presentation so you can make design and content changes to it for a new presentation, without altering the original.
1. If the New Presentation task pane isn't displayed, on t...
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When you follow these steps, you create a copy of an existing presentation so you can make design and content changes to it for a new presentation, without altering the original.
1. If the New Presentation task pane (task pane: A window wi...
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1. On the Insert menu, point to Picture, and then click New Photo Album.
2. In the Photo Album dialog box, click on the File/Disk button to browse to your image folder. Select one or many images to place into your presentation.
Shift-cli...
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1. If the New Presentation task pane isn't displayed, on the File menu, click New.
2. Under New, click From Design Template.
3. In the Slide Design task pane, click a design template that you'd like to apply.
4. If you want to keep the ...
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Step 1: Save your slide or presentation as a .bmp file
1. Open the PowerPoint presentation. If you want to save a specific slide, select it in normal view.
2. On the File menu, click Save As.
Select an empty folder or create a new emp...
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Create the table of contents slide after you have created the rest of the presentation.
Note: The following task shows you how to create a table of contents for a presentation (.ppt) file and link it to custom shows (custom show: A presen...
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If you want to convert a color image into a black and white image for use in your presentation, PowerPoint makes it easy.
This How-To Article explains how to convert a color image into a black and white (grayscale) image.
1. Insert the...
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1. In the notes pane, type your notes for the current slide.
2. To navigate between slides as you add your notes to the notes pane, click the slide thumbnails on the Slides tab or click the icons on the Outline tab.
Note: If your tex...
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1. Begin typing your text in the list.
2. To move to the next item in the list without a bullet, press SHIFT + ENTER.
3. The cursor will now move down to the next line without a bullet.
4. Type the next item in the list, and press...
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Suppose you have to go on the road with a slide show. The show is basically for all the sites you will visit, but site 1 needs to see one group of slides and site 2, a slightly different group. You don't have to create two or more slide shows...
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1. On the Formatting toolbar, click Design , and in the task pane, click Color Schemes.
2. On the Slides tab, click a slide to display the color schemes in the task pane.
If you have applied more than one design template in the presen...
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1. Click the Tools menu and select "Options..." from the menu that appears.
2. Click the "View" tab.
3. Check the "End with black slide" check box.
4. Click the OK button.
5. Now, once you click through the last slide in your ...
If you'd like to see the available keyboard shortcuts for menus, commands, and toolbar buttons, go to Tools/Customize, click on the Options tab, and click on "show shortcut keys in screen tips".
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This How-To Article shows you how to keep a slide hidden, only making it visible when you are editing your presentation.
Hide a Slide
1. Navigate to the slide which you would like hidden in your presentation.
2. Click the "Slide Sho...
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You know that you can draw a perfectly straight line in PowerPoint by holding down the Shift key while you draw the line. But, did you know that you can also draw the straight line at a perfect angle as well? To try this, click the Line tool ...
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Duplicated slides are inserted directly below the slides you have selected.
1. On the Outline tab or Slides tab in normal view, select the slides you want to duplicate. (If you want to select slides in order, press SHIFT as you click; for ...
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1.Save your presentation.
Tip: It is important to save your presentation before even attempting to send it to prevent any data loss if PowerPoint or Outlook crashes.
2.Click the File menu, point to Send To, and click "Mail Recipien...
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When you work with text on the Outline tab in normal view, you can collapse text so that you see only the first outline level (slide titles) as you organize. You can reexpand text at any time.
Collapse text on one slide
Do one of the fo...
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When you work with text on the Outline tab in normal view, you can collapse text so that you see only the first outline level (slide titles) as you organize. You can reexpand text at any time.
Collapse text on one slide
Do one of the foll...
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A graduated background adds pizzazz. To see how such a background looks on one of your slides, run PowerPoint and open the slide show. Choose Format | Background. When the Background dialog box opens, click the arrow at the right side of the ...
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To print vertical and horizontal lines between the cells of a Word table, you must apply borders to the table.
The easiest way to do this is to automatically apply predefined combinations of borders and shading by using the Table AutoForma...
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Click or tap the pointer arrow on the Slide show toolbar, point to Arrow Options, and then click or tap Hidden.
Note: If you choose the Automatic option, the pointer is hidden after three seconds of no movement. The pointer appears again...
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Let's suppose that you're preparing for a big presentation. Here's a suggestion: create slides that show all of the data that you used to reach a conclusion. Create slides for any question that you think might arise. Nobody can anticipate all...
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Let's suppose that you're preparing for a big presentation. Here's a suggestion: create slides that show all of the data that you used to reach a conclusion. Create slides for any question that you think might arise. Nobody can anticipate all...
Solution:
1.On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the View tab.
2.Under General, select the view in which you want PowerPoint to always open.
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Turn off text AutoFit (this is on by default). When resizing is turned off, Microsoft PowerPoint will not reduce your font size and line spacing to fit spillover text into a placeholder (placeholders: Boxes with dotted or hatch-marked borders...
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1.On the Tools menu, click AutoCorrect Options, and then click the AutoCorrect tab.
2.Do one or more of the following:
To turn off the capitalization options, clear the check boxes (second through sixth) relating to capitalization.
...
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Each slide has what is referred to as a "color scheme".
The scheme colors are the colors that appear in the little pop-ups for different controls.
PowerPoint templates come with multiple color schemes built in, which you can change by usin...
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Microsoft PowerPoint checks spelling as you type, and any words that aren't in the PowerPoint dictionary are marked with a wavy, red underline.
To turn off automatic spelling checks, do the following:
On the Tools menu, click Optio...
Go to VIEW/SLIDE MASTER; then from the INSERT menu, select NEW TITLE MASTER.
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Often cutting and pasting text into PowerPoint can be written in the wrong case. All capitals, or all lower case, or a combination of both.
To save rewriting all the text again in the correct case, PowerPoint has a handy function to help ...
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1.On the Tools menu, select Customize
2.Click the Toolbars tab, then click New
3.In the Toolbar name box, type a name of your choice, then click OK
4.Click the Commands tab to display a list of available commands in Powerpoint
5.In th...
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PowerPoint by default links to sound files greater than 100Kb. This means that if you embed your sound file into your PowerPoint presentation and send your presentation by email, or play your presentation on another machine, the sound file wi...
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To insert a Macromedia Flash movie into PowerPoint ensure that you have the Flash media player installed.
1.Open the presentation into which you wish to insert the Flash movie
2.Select "Toolbars" from the View main menu option.
3.Choose...
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1. Select the slide you want to add the video to.
2. On the Insert menu, point to Movies and Sounds.
3. Click Movie from File, locate the folder that contains the video, and then double-click the video you want.
4. You are prompted to c...
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To insert an email address into a PowerPoint slide:
1.Open your PowerPoint presentation.
2.Select the object, text, or shape that you wish to assign the email link to.
3.Right-click the object and Select "Action Settings" from the pop...
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To insert an Excel worksheet
1.Position the cursor at the point where you want to place the worksheet
2.From the Insert menu, click Object
3.Select the Create from file option, and then click Browse
4.Navigate to the folder that con...
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When distributing your presentation, or playing your presentation from another computer, you cannot always guarantee that the machine chosen to play your presentation has the same font or fonts that you used to create your presentation.
I...
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a) Right-click in the file icon holding down the shift key (if you have Windows Millennium you will not need to hold it down).
b) Choose "Open with..." from the context menu
c) Select "PowerPoint" from the "Open With" dialog box
Otherwise,...
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To play different music or sound tracks across different slides in the same PowerPoint 2002, 2003, or 2004 presentation:
1.Choose "Movies and Sounds" from the Insert main menu option.
2.Depending on your preference, select "Sound From C...
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1.From the File menu, select Package for CD
2.In the Name the CD box, type the name of your presentation, and click Options
3.Select the Embedded TrueType fonts check box, and click OK
4.Click Copy to Folder, click Browse, navigate to t...
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To print your presentation without even opening PowerPoint:
1.Click the Windows Start button in the lower left hand corner.
2.Select "Run"
3.Type "POWERPNT.EXE /p filetoprint.PPT" into the text field. Replacing filetoprint.PPT, w...
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1. Open the presentation that has the notes pages you want to print.
2. On the File menu, click Print Preview.
3. On the Print Preview toolbar, in the Print What box, click Notes Pages.
4. To choose the page orientation, click Portrait o...
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Let's suppose that you have inserted a ClipArt picture onto a PowerPoint slide. The picture is just what you want, except that the dress the cartoon woman is wearing is red and you'd rather it be green. No problem (or least, no big problem). ...
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1.Select the File menu, click on Save as Web Page
2.Type in a name for your presentation (remember to include the .html extension)
3.Select the folder where you want your presentation stored and then click the Publish button.
4.Select t...
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1.On the File menu, select Send To, and then select Mail Recipient (for Review)
2.Click in the To: box and enter the recipient's e-mail address
3.Click in the message area below the text Please review the attached document, and if necessa...
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1. Open the presentation, and then select the Slide Show menu, click Set Up Show
2..In the Set Up Show dialog box's Show type area, select the Browsed at a kiosk (full screen) option
3.Click OK
4.To test the show, move to Slide 1, and c...
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1.Select a slide and then click the Slide Show button
2.Right-click anywhere on the screen, click Pointer Options on the shortcut menu, click Felt Tip Pen, and then make you mark
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To open a Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 presentation in PowerPoint 95, the file must first be saved to the PowerPoint 95 format.
1.In PowerPoint 2002, on the File menu, click Save As, and in the Save as type box, click PowerPoint 95.
2.Click S...
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To apply the original default design to a presentation:
1.Open the presentation to which you want to apply the default design.
2.On the toolbar, click Design .
3.Under Available for use, click the first item, Default Design.
If you w...
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The Close box is in the upper-right corner of the Outline and Slides tabs. To redisplay normal view with the tabs restored, do one of the following:
1.On the View menu, click Normal (Restore Panes).
2.In the lower left of the Microsoft Powe...
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To turn off the AutoCorrect Options button, on the Tools menu, click AutoCorrect. On the AutoCorrect tab, clear the Show AutoCorrect Options buttons check box.
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To turn off the AutoCorrect Options button, on the Tools menu, click AutoCorrect Options. On the AutoCorrect tab, clear the Show AutoCorrect Options buttons check box.
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Click the AutoCorrect Options button , and then click the Undo (automatic correction or capitalization) command or the Change back to (previous formatting) command. The command varies depending on the type of correction.
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Drag-and-drop editing might be turned off. On the Tools menu, click Options. On the Edit tab, select the Drag-and-drop text editing check box. Now, when you select text on the slide and point to it, you'll see the pointer, and when you click, a...
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Many people like to work in Word as much as possible and then import the Word document into PowerPoint. To do this, run Word and open the document you want to use in PowerPoint. Now choose File/Send To/Microsoft PowerPoint. This will open Pow...
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When you enter text into a PowerPoint bulleted list, each line has a bullet. But, what do you do if you'd like to enter a line with no bullet? Normally, you type in a line and press Enter to move to the next line. However, if you type Shift +...
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You often need to insert more than one ClipArt picture into a PowerPoint slide. You don't have to keep closing and opening ClipArt to do this. Just right click the picture you want to use and choose Insert. Now, you can move to another pictur...
1. From the Insert menu, select Slides From Files.
2. In the window that pops up, click Browse and select the presentation from which you want to insert the slides.
Check the box next to Keep Source Formatting if you want to retain the slide's ...
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It is very easy to make a perfect circle, square, or any other shape in PowerPoint, Word, or Excel. All you need to do is click the object button (Oval, Rectangle) in the Drawing toolbar. Then hold down the Shift key while you draw the circle...
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If you are creating a presentation with PowerPoint 2002 that may need to also run on PowerPoint 95, save the presentation as a PowerPoint 95 file. It is also recommended that you give the file a different name when you are saving from PowerPo...
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If you are creating a presentation with PowerPoint 2002 that may need to also run on PowerPoint 97-2002 & 95 Presentation, save the presentation as a PowerPoint 97-2002 & 95 Presentation file. It is also recommended that you give the file a d...
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Video resolution settings
Video resolution (resolution: The fineness of detail in an image or text produced by a monitor or printer.) refers to the size of the elements displayed on the screen in relation to the size of the screen itself...
1. Select Open An Existing Presentation from the picture above
2. Click on your presentation in the white box below step 1
If you do not see your presentation in the white box, select More Files and hit OK.
Locate you existing Presentation and hit...
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1. Choose Insert, Movies and Sounds, then choose one of the options, such as Sound From File. Locate the sound and insert it. (You see a sound icon, which you can drag off the slide if you don't want it to appear during your presentation.)
...
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There are tons of templates that come with PowerPoint 2000. The problem is that you may not find them all because they're not all installed. To install all of them (they require only a paltry 3 MB of disk space), insert your Office 2000 disc ...
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PowerPoint doesn't limit you to the custom animations you can apply to PowerPoint objects -- you can also insert short movies into PowerPoint slides. To check this out, run PowerPoint and open a blank slide. Choose Insert|Picture|ClipArt. Whe...
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Although you can copy Word and Excel tables and paste them into PowerPoint slides, you can also create tables in PowerPoint.
The PowerPoint slides are not quite the same as those in Word and Excel, but are comprised of Office Art shapes.
...
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An eye-catching animation on a PowerPoint slide is to have the text "type in" as though it were being typed on a typewriter. PowerPoint even provides the typewriter sound.
To check this out, open a blank slide and click the Text Box button ...
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An eye-catching animation on a PowerPoint slide is to have the text "type in" as though it were being typed on a typewriter. PowerPoint even provides the typewriter sound.
To check this out, open a blank slide and click the Text Box button ...
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There are times when you need to select a very small object in PowerPoint. Or perhaps you need to select an object that's hidden behind another object. Try this: press Esc to make sure that nothing is selected. Now, press the Tab key until th...
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This process does not change the colors or design in the original color presentation.
1. On the View menu, point to Color/Grayscale, and then click Grayscale or Pure Black and White.
2. Do one of the following:
To adjust the...
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This process does not change colors or design in the original color presentation.
1. On the View menu, point to Color/Grayscale, and then click Grayscale or Pure Black and White.
2. Do one of the following:
1. To adjust t...
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Follow the steps in this topic to use the default handout layout options that come with PowerPoint. If you want to further customize the look of your handouts, you can send the content of your presentation to Microsoft Office Word to do addit...
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Make it easy for your audience to follow and remember your next PowerPoint® 2000 presentation. Supply them with a handout of your presentation, complete with lines on which they can take notes.
To print lines for audience notes:
1. On t...
You can print all or some of your slides in the format you want using PowerPoint. Depending on your printer, you can print in color, grayscale or Black and White. You can also print only the outline if you just want to verify the presentation's content.
...
Solution:
1. Click the File menu and select Print... from the menu that appears.
2. From the "Print What:" drop-down menu, select Notes Pages.
3. In the "Print range" area, select the slides you want to print the note pages for.
4. Change a...
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1. On the View menu, click Notes Page.
2. If the page you want isn't displayed, scroll to display it.
3. On the Format menu, click Notes Layout.
4. Click the Reapply master check box.
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When you want to run your PowerPoint slide show automatically, you need to set the appropriate timing for each slide. To do this, open the slide show you want to work with and choose Slide Show/Rehearse Timings. When the slide show opens, you...
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1. On the Windows Start menu, click Run. In the Open box, type regedit, then click OK.
2. Locate the following key in the registry by clicking the plus signs next to the appropriate keys.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Power...
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1. On the Edit menu, click Replace.
2. In the Find what box, enter the text you want to find and replace.
3. In the Replace with box, enter the text you want to use as the replacement.
4. To search for the next occurrence of the text, cli...
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When you create a new template, it appears in the Slide Design task pane the next time you open Microsoft PowerPoint, in alphabetical order under Available for Use.
1. On the File menu, click New.
2. In the New Presentation task pane, un...
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1. With your presentation open in Microsoft PowerPoint, on the File menu, point to Send To, and then click Microsoft Word.
2. Under Add slides to Microsoft Word document, do one of the following:
If you want to embed (embedded object...
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1. On the Slide Show menu, click Set Up Show.
2. Select the Loop continuously until 'Esc' check box.
Tip: If you want a self-running presentation— for example, at a trade show kiosk— click Browsed at a kiosk (full screen) in the Set U...
Solution:
1. On the Slide Show menu, click Set Up Show.
2. Select the Loop continuously until 'Esc' check box.
If you want a self-running presentation— for example, at a trade show kiosk— click Browsed at a kiosk (full screen) in the Set Up Show ...
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1. On the File menu, click Save As.
2. In the Save as type box, select PowerPoint show (.pps).
3. In the File name box, enter a file name, and then click Save.
Notes
To start the presentation, double-click the file name in Windows ...
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1. On any toolbar, click the Toolbar Options arrow.
2. Point to Add or Remove Buttons, and then click Customize.
3. Click the Options tab.
4. Select the Always show full menus check box.
Note Changing this setting affects a...
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Sizing pictures in PowerPoint slides is an easy job. All you have to do is grab the picture by a corner and drag. This should increase the picture size without changing the aspect ratio. But, if you want to be absolutely sure that you don't c...
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To do this, you must be running the show on more than one monitor and select to use presenter view during the slide show.
In presenter view, click Black Screen.
This turns the audience's monitor black, but maintains the presenter v...
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When text AutoFit is on, the AutoFit Options button appears to the left of the text the first time text is resized.
1. Click the AutoFit Options button.
2. Click Stop Fitting Text to This Placeholder.
The spillover text is not res...
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Set timings manually
Repeat the following process for each slide you want to set the timing for.
1. On the Slides tab in normal view, select the slides you want to set the timing for.
2. On the Slide Show menu, click Slide Transition....
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How to begin the effect:
1. On click (click of the slide); With previous (play at the same time as the previous item in the list or on load of the slide if the effect is first in the list); and After previous (play immediately following the...
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1. Open the Excel sheet and highlighted the area you want to make a chart to.
(don’t include total columns)
2. Make sure no blank row or column among the data sheet area.
3. Copy that area into the clipboard.
4. Go to the PowerPoint ...
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When you turn automatic spelling checks off, Microsoft PowerPoint does not check spelling as you type, and no words get marked with a wavy, red underline. You can still run a spelling check using Spelling , on the Standard toolbar, at any tim...
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1. Click Grid and Guides on the View menu.
2. Under Snap To, select or clear the Snap objects to grid check box.
Note: This setting applies to the current presentation only.
Tip; If you want the setting to be the default setti...
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1. On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Spelling and Style tab.
2. Under Style, select or clear the Check Style check box.
Note: When you turn style checks on, be sure you also enable the Microsoft Office Assistant.
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Turning AutoFit on or off for body text also turns it on or off for text in the notes pane (notes pane: The pane in normal view in which you type notes that you want to accompany a slide. You print these notes as notes pages or have them displa...
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To change the background of a slide go to the "Format" menu, select "Background." From the background dialogue box, click on the arrow and select "Fill Effects" from the drop down menu. On the "Fill Effects" dialogue box choose the Gradient, ...
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The drag-and-drop editing setting allows you to drag text to move or copy it within a presentation or from Microsoft PowerPoint to another Microsoft Office program.
1. On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Edit tab.
2. Sel...
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A summary slide creates a slide listing the slide names of selected slides. Besides using a summary slide for summaries, you can use it to create agenda slides.
A nice use for the summary slide is for a question & answer session. Here's h...
You can quickly make a copy of any object by holding down the CTRL key while you drag on the object. You will then "drag off" a new copy.
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When working with PowerPoint (or other Office 2000 programs), you'll find the new Office Clipboard handy. Suppose, as an example, that you need to insert several Clip Art pictures into a series of slides.
First, choose View/Toolbars/Clipb...
The pen is a neat tool that you can use while in your presentation. You can draw on your slide for effect. You can write on your slide. To activate and use the pen follow these steps:
1.While in the slide show mode either right click on the slide and ch...
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Displaying slides in high contrast (high contrast: An accessibility setting that changes the appearance of displayed items on your screen by enlarging windows, toolbar buttons, and fonts, and displaying them in black and white.) is supported ...
You can view your slide show by any of the following ways:
1.Click Slide Show at the lower left of the PowerPoint window.
2.On the Slide Show menu, click View Show.
3.On the View menu, click Slide Show.
4.Press F5 on the keyboard
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This How-To Article shows you how to loop a sound file in a PowerPoint presentation.
Loop a Sound File
1. Right-click the Speaker icon of the sound you have inserted.
2. From the menu that appears, select "Edit Sound Object".
3...
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If you want an image to look good on the screen in PowerPoint, scan it at the screen resolution: 72. dpi. Higher does you no good--it only makes the files bigger. HOWEVER, you may find that 72 dpi images are a bit too low-res for printed outp...
The Slide Master is used when one wishes to make changes to an entire presentation.
1. From the View menu select Master and then Slide Master.
2. The Slide Master allows for various changes to be made.
3. Any changes that are made within the ...
Choose Format, Slide Color Scheme, click the Custom tab, double click the Background color patch and change the color to one that contrasts with your text color.
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