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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 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 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 Time Slides in a Self-Running PowerPoint 2007 Presentation

After you’ve created your self-running PowerPoint presentation, the next task is to tell PowerPoint how long to keep each slide on-screen. As you decide, imagine how long viewers would like each slide [more…]

How to Set Up a Projector for a PowerPoint 2007 Presentation

It’s time to share your PowerPoint presentation with your audience. If you’re going to show your PowerPoint presentation using a computer projector and a laptop, you need to know how to connect the computer [more…]

How to Make Your PowerPoint 2007 Presentation a User-Run Presentation

PowerPoint displays a taskbar along the bottom of the window in a user-run presentation. PowerPoint lets you make a scrollbar appear along the right side of the window as well so that people viewing your [more…]

How to Create a Custom Show in PowerPoint 2007

The Custom Shows feature in PowerPoint lets you create several similar slide shows stored in a single PowerPoint presentation file. A PowerPoint presentation can contain as many custom shows as you want [more…]

Display Your PowerPoint 2007 Presentation

You worked hard designing your PowerPoint 2007 presentation. When your PowerPoint masterpiece is ready, you can display it on the screen. Just follow these steps: [more…]

How to Include a ScreenTip on an Action Button in PowerPoint 2007

PowerPoint action buttons don’t show ScreenTips. PowerPoint doesn’t make it easy, but you can jump through hoops to make it happen. You still can’t include a ScreenTip on the Return action button. Follow [more…]

How to Create a Self-Running Presentation in PowerPoint 2007

Before you can self-run a presentation, you have to tell PowerPoint that you want it to self-run. Self-running PowerPoint presentations don’t have the control buttons in the lower-left corner. You can’t [more…]

What Is a User-Run Presentation in PowerPoint 2007?

A user-run, or interactive, PowerPoint presentation is one that the viewer gets to control. The viewer decides which PowerPoint slide appears next and how long each slide remains on-screen. User-run PowerPoint [more…]

Start or End a Self-Running PowerPoint 2007 Presentation

You’ve designed your PowerPoint slides and set your presentation to be a self-running presentation. Now What? PowerPoint provides these handy techniques for starting a self-running, kiosk-style presentation [more…]

Move from Slide to Slide While Giving Your PowerPoint 2007 Presentation

Whether you show your PowerPoint presentation on a computer or a screen in front of an audience, you use the same PowerPoint tricks to move among your slides. PowerPoint offers four ways to move from slide [more…]

Point with the Arrow While Showing Your PowerPoint 2007 Presentation

What do you want to do with the arrow pointer during a PowerPoint presentation? Most people opt not to show it because it’s a distraction. You can, however, display the arrow pointer and use it to point [more…]

Uses for Self-Running PowerPoint 2007 Presentations

Self-running, kiosk-style PowerPoint presentations usually fall into the show and tell category. These PowerPoint presentations can’t go into very much depth because, without a narrator, all descriptions [more…]