For Seniors: How to Run a PowerPoint Presentation
The whole point of a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation is to deliver a show to an audience. If that audience is in the same room with you, you can display your slide show onscreen. [more…]
For Seniors: How to Use the PowerPoint Slide Show Tools
When you’re working in the Microsoft PowerPoint Slide Show view, a very faint set of buttons appears in the lower-right corner. When you roll your mouse over these buttons, they brighten up so that you [more…]
For Seniors: How to Print a PowerPoint Presentation
You may want to print your Microsoft PowerPoint presentation. When you print in PowerPoint, you’re given a choice of the type of printout you want. Here are the choices available: [more…]
For Seniors: How to Move around an Excel Worksheet
You can move around a Microsoft Excel worksheet using the cell cursor (also called the active cell indicator). The cell cursor is the dark outline around the active cell. To change which cell is active [more…]
For Seniors: How to Format an Entire Excel Worksheet
To save time, you can format an entire Excel worksheet (also known as spreadsheet) at once. The Page Layout tab contains various formatting controls that affect the entire worksheet. These controls affect [more…]
For Seniors: How to Explore the PowerPoint Interface
In Microsoft PowerPoint, you work with slides and presentations rather than documents (as in Word) or worksheets (as in Excel). A slide is an individual page of the presentation. The term page [more…]
For Seniors: How to Understand PowerPoint Views
Like other Office applications, PowerPoint provides several different views for you to work with. Each view is useful for a different set of activities. Normal view — the default — is the most commonly [more…]
For Seniors: How to Save and Open a PowerPoint Presentation
Microsoft PowerPoint is best known for creating business presentations — slide shows, if you will. When you start PowerPoint, it automatically starts a new blank presentation for you, with a single slide [more…]
For Seniors: How to Create a New PowerPoint Slide
Each new Microsoft PowerPoint presentation begins with one slide in it: a title slide. You can easily add more slides to your PowerPoint presentation in any of these ways: [more…]
For Seniors: What Are PowerPoint Slide Layouts and Placeholders All About?
A Microsoft PowerPoint slide layout is a combination of one or more content placeholders. For example, the default slide layout — Title and Content — has two boxes: a text box at the top for the slide’s [more…]
For Seniors: How to Move or Resize PowerPoint Slide Content
Each placeholder box on a Microsoft PowerPoint slide is a separate object that you can move or resize freely. To resize a placeholder box, select it and then drag a selection handle. [more…]
For Seniors: How to Enter and Fit Text into a PowerPoint Slide
To add text to a content placeholder in Microsoft PowerPoint, click the Click to Add Text area and type what you want. To add any other type of content, click the icon in the placeholder for the type you [more…]
For Seniors: How to Wrap Text in Microsoft Word
In Microsoft Word, you can wrap text around a picture. The default text wrapping for a picture is In Line with Text. This type of alignment makes Word treat the picture like an individual character of [more…]
For Seniors: Close a Windows Program on Your Laptop
When you are through with a Windows program, close it to save computer resources. Closing a Windows program removes its window from the screen and the taskbar, and removes the program from memory. Before [more…]
For Seniors: Understand Your Laptop's Windows 7 Desktop
The Windows 7 desktop appears when you log on to your laptop. On the desktop you'll find the Windows Start menu, taskbar, and shortcuts to favorite programs and files. You can use various elements of the [more…]
For Seniors: Use a Laptop's Windows 7 Start Menu
Use the Windows 7 Start menu on your laptop to access your laptop's settings, files, folders, and software. You can customize the Windows Start menu if you like, to fit the way you like to work on your [more…]
For Seniors: Access a Laptop's Frequently Used Programs
Programs you use often on your laptop can be pinned to the Frequently Used Programs area on the Windows 7 taskbar. After you add frequently used programs to the taskbar, you'll be just one click away from [more…]
For Seniors: Arrange Icons on Your Laptop's Desktop
Program icons on your laptop's Windows 7 desktop can be arranged in a variety of ways. Arrange your desktop icons so you can quickly access the programs and files they represent. Icons can be automatically [more…]
For Seniors: Empty Your Laptop's Recycle Bin
When you delete a file on your laptop, it's placed in the Windows 7 Recycle Bin. Deleted files remain in the Recycle Bin until you empty it. Thus, until you empty your laptop's Recycle Bin or it reaches [more…]
For Seniors: Find Laptop Files with Windows Explorer
Windows Explorer is a great way to look for files on your laptop. Using Windows Explorer, you can locate a file or folder by navigating through an outline of folders and subfolders on your laptop. [more…]
For Seniors: Create Windows 7 Shortcuts on a Laptop
Shortcuts are icons you put on the Windows 7 desktop for quick access to programs or files you use frequently. On a laptop, shortcuts are especially useful for users who may have to get to what they need [more…]
For Seniors: Start a Windows Program on a Laptop
Before you can use a Windows program on your laptop, you have to start it (launch the program). Windows provides several ways to start programs; choose the method you like best. [more…]
For Seniors: Minimize, Maximize, Restore, and Resize Windows
Under Windows 7, application windows can be minimized, maximized, restored, and resized as needed. Maximize a program window to fill the whole screen, restore it to its original size, or minimize it to [more…]
For Seniors: Switch between Programs on a Windows Laptop
Windows 7 allows you to run multiple programs at the same time, and switch between them as you work. Switch from one Windows program to another whenever you like, without closing them down [more…]
For Seniors: Arrange Windows on a Windows Laptop Quickly
Using the Shake, Snap, and Peek features in Windows 7, you can quickly arrange windows on your laptop. You can minimize all windows, align them side-by-side, maximize a window, or take a quick peek at [more…]
