PowerPoint

How to Draw an Action Button Hyperlink on Your PowerPoint 2007 Slide

PowerPoint’s Shape gallery offers 11 action buttons (12 if you count the Custom button). As soon as you draw an action button shape, a dialog box appears to help you direct PowerPoint where to go when [more…]

How to Set up a Trigger to Start a PowerPoint Animation

To set up a triggered animation in a PowerPoint presentation, set up the animation you want to play when the trigger is clicked and decide which element on your PowerPoint slide you will click to trigger [more…]

How to Create a Motion Path for Moving Elements Across a PowerPoint 2007 Slide

You can make elements on your PowerPoint slide behave like cartoon characters by making use of a kind of the PowerPoint animation effect called a motion path. Make your PowerPoint elements travel in a [more…]

How to Modify the Slide Master in PowerPoint 2007

If you don’t like the layout of your PowerPoint slides, call up the PowerPoint Slide Master and do something about it, as shown in these steps: [more…]

How to Start PowerPoint 2007

Microsoft provides several ways to start PowerPoint 2007 so you can start creating slides and presentations. You can launch PowerPoint from the Start menu, from a desktop icon, or from the Quick Launch [more…]

How to Draw Straight Lines on PowerPoint 2007 Slides

PowerPoint provides a Line button so you can draw straight lines on your slides. With your PowerPoint slide open, choose a location for your line, then follow these steps: [more…]

How to Animate Text in a PowerPoint Presentation

How to Apply Slide Masters in PowerPoint 2007

If you have created multiple Slide Masters for a PowerPoint presentation, you can select which Master to use for each slide in your presentation. To apply a Master to one or more slides, follow these steps [more…]

How to Start a PowerPoint 2007 Slide Show

You’ve put hours into creating a great PowerPoint presentation. PowerPoint is designed to display slides present on a screen. PowerPoint can show your presentation on your computer’s own monitor, a projector [more…]

How to Apply a PowerPoint 2007 Template to an Existing Presentation

If you created a PowerPoint 2007 blank presentation or applied a PowerPoint template and don’t like the results, it’s easy to apply a different PowerPoint template. [more…]

How to Add Notes to a PowerPoint 2007 Slide

PowerPoint lets you create speaker notes to help you through your presentation. You can write a complete script for your PowerPoint presentation or just jot down a few key points to refresh your memory [more…]

How to Print Notes Pages in PowerPoint 2007

If you don’t have a computer that can show your PowerPoint slides on a projector and your PowerPoint notes on a separate monitor, you can print your notes on paper and use them while you give your presentation [more…]

How to Crop a Graphic in PowerPoint 2007

You can use PowerPoint’s cropping tool to remove unwanted parts of a graphic in your PowerPoint slide. PowerPoint’s cropping tool doesn’t give you the fine control that some photo editing equipment has [more…]

What Are the Different Kinds of Charts in PowerPoint 2007?

PowerPoint offers 11 chart categories. Each type of PowerPoint chart gives you a different kind of picture of the information in it. What kind of chart do you need in your PowerPoint Presentation? Perhaps [more…]

How to Animate a PowerPoint 2007 Object

One common type of animation in PowerPoint is the entrance effect for text that appears on the slide. This is especially useful for bullet lists because it lets you display the list one item at a time. [more…]

Design Slides with PowerPoint Themes

A theme is a set of design elements you can apply to slides in your presentation. Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 includes 20 carefully crafted themes you can use to give your PowerPoint presentations a professional [more…]

Write Equations in PowerPoint 2007

Use the Equation Editor to place mathematical equations and expressions on PowerPoint slides. The equations you draw become embedded PowerPoint objects so you can edit them without leaving PowerPoint, [more…]

How to Lock a PowerPoint 2007 Presentation with a Password

If you don’t want just any Tom, Dick, or Harry to look at your PowerPoint presentation, lock your presentation with a password and give out the password only to people whose opinions you trust. Follow [more…]

The Essentials of Creating and Using Masters in PowerPoint 2007

Review the essentials of creating and using masters in PowerPoint 2007. Using slide masters is a great way to control the style and format of an entire presentation. [more…]

How to Change the Handout Master in PowerPoint 2007

The PowerPoint Handout Master contains formatting information that’s applied automatically to your PowerPoint presentation. You can modify the Handout Master to meet your needs. [more…]

How to Add Video to Your PowerPoint 2007 Slides

The hardest part about using video in a PowerPoint presentation is finding video worth showing. PowerPoint comes with movies in the Media Gallery, and Microsoft has them in its the online Media Gallery [more…]

How to Apply Text Effects to PowerPoint 2007 Text

At the bottom of the PowerPoint Font dialog box are the Effects options. The PowerPoint text effects have various uses, some utilitarian and some strictly for fun. Be careful with text effects. Use them [more…]