Change the Layout of Master Slides in PowerPoint 2007
Changing the layout of a PowerPoint master slide entails changing the position and size of text frames and content frames on your PowerPoint slides, as well as removing these frames. PowerPoint content [more…]
How to Play a Sound Over Several PowerPoint 2007 Slides
Sometimes, you want a PowerPoint sound file to play while you display several slides in your PowerPoint presentation. PowerPoint stops a sound when you move to the next slide. You can alter this behavior [more…]
How to Create a Color Scheme in PowerPoint
Each Microsoft PowerPoint theme includes a built-in color scheme to apply to your slides. If you don’t like the available choices, you can create custom color schemes in PowerPoint to use in your presentation [more…]
How to Create an Action Button on Your PowerPoint 2007 Slide
Placing an action button on a PowerPoint slide gives you a way to view the PowerPoint slides in any order, access sound and video clips, and more. To add a button to a PowerPoint slide, move to the slide [more…]
Design the PowerPoint 2007 Page Setup
The PowerPoint 2007 Page Setup group consists of a Slide Orientation control so you can display your PowerPoint presentation in Landscape mode (the default) or Portrait mode. You should use Portrait mode [more…]
How to Record a Narration in PowerPoint 2007
PowerPoint lets you record a narration for your PowerPoint slide show. As you record your narration, PowerPoint stores slide files separately so the slides are synchronized with the narrations you recorded [more…]
How to Enter Symbols, Foreign Characters, Quote Marks, and Dashes into PowerPoint 2007 Slides
If you need to enter an umlaut, grave accent, or cedilla on a PowerPoint slide, PowerPoint has Symbol dialog box. PowerPoint’s Symbol dialog box has a copyright symbol and an eight ball, and tons of foreign [more…]
How to Insert a Sound Object in Your PowerPoint 2007 Slides
PowerPoint lets you play a sound whenever you display a specific PowerPoint slide, or only when you click the sound icon on the PowerPoint slide. If you want the sound to play automatically and the sound [more…]
How to Create a Navigation Toolbar on Your PowerPoint 2007 Slides
Grouping PowerPoint action buttons into a navigation toolbar makes a PowerPoint slide show easy to navigate. The bottom of the PowerPoint Slide Master is a good place to add navigation. Beginning, Backward [more…]
How to Adjust a Connector in PowerPoint 2007
Chances are a PowerPoint connector will need adjusting to make it fit correctly between the two shapes on your PowerPoint slide. PowerPoint lets you click to select your connector and follow these techniques [more…]
How to Insert a Movie from the Clip Organizer into a PowerPoint 2007 Slide
If you have movie clips stored on your computer, PowerPoint lets you insert the movie from the Clip Organizer into a PowerPoint slide. To add a movie from the Clip Organizer into your PowerPoint presentation [more…]
How to Package Your PowerPoint 2007 Presentation on a CD
Sometimes you need to share a PowerPoint presentation with someone who doesn’t own a copy of PowerPoint. Fortunately, PowerPoint includes a Package for CD command that creates a CD that creates a CD with [more…]
How to Play a Track from a CD During Your PowerPoint 2007 Presentation
You aren’t limited to single sounds in your PowerPoint presentations. PowerPoint can also tell your CD player to play tracks. To access a CD in your PowerPoint presentation, pop it into your computer’s [more…]
How to Assign Action Buttons in Your PowerPoint 2007
When a user clicks an action button during a PowerPoint slide show, PowerPoint takes the action you have assigned to it. Action buttons in a PowerPoint presentation can make it easy for someone to view [more…]
How to Change the Tab Settings on Your PowerPoint 2007 Slides
PowerPoint displays tab stop markers on the ruler. By default, PowerPoint tab stops are left-aligned. PowerPoint offers two ways to change tab settings: Open the Tabs dialog box from the Home tab or with [more…]
How to Change the Direction of a PowerPoint 2007 Diagram
If your PowerPoint diagram is horizontally oriented, you can flip it over so that the rightmost shape in your diagram becomes the leftmost shape, and vice versa. If there are arrows in your diagram, PowerPoint [more…]
How to Add a Sound from the Microsoft Web Site to Your PowerPoint Slide
PowerPoint lets you insert sound files into your PowerPoint Slides. Many basic sounds come with PowerPoint. Many more useful sounds are available on the Microsoft Web site. To search Microsoft for a sound [more…]
How to Create a Hyperlink to Another Slide in PowerPoint 2007
A PowerPoint hyperlink is text or a graphic that you click to summon another PowerPoint slide, or presentation, or a Word document or Excel spreadsheet. Your PowerPoint hyperlink may also lead to a page [more…]
