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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 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…]
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…]
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…]
What Kind of Sound Files Can I Use in My PowerPoint 2007 Slides?
PowerPoint comes with sound files you can insert into your PowerPoint slides. Windows comes with some useful sounds, too. If you have access to the Web, you have access to an unlimited supply of sounds [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 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 E-Mail a PowerPoint 2007 Presentation
If your PowerPoint presentation is a team effort, you need a way to share it. Emailing copies of the PowerPoint presentation to your colleagues is easy. PowerPoint includes a built-in feature for doing [more…]
Keyboard and Mouse Tricks for Your PowerPoint 2007 Slide Show
While showing your PowerPoint slide show, you can use the keyboard and mouse to control your presentation. PowerPoint offers keys and clicks that you can use to make your PowerPoint presentation run smoothly [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 Use Comments in Your PowerPoint 2007 Presentation
When reviewing a PowerPoint presentation, you can insert comments. PowerPoint lets you turn comments on and off. View the comments while you’re editing your PowerPoint presentation, and turn them off when [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 Spell Check a Completed PowerPoint 2007 Presentation
PowerPoint lets you run the spell checker after you finish your presentation. The PowerPoint spell checker checks your entire presentation, bringing any misspelled words in 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 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…]
Defining a PowerPoint Presentation
PowerPoint is similar to a word processor, except that it’s geared toward creating presentations rather than documents. PowerPoint presentations consist of one or more slides [more…]
How to Translate Text in PowerPoint 2007
PowerPoint offers a little gizmo for translating words and phrases from one language to another. PowerPoint’s translator is good only for translating single words and well-known phrases. To translate an [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…]
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 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 Use the PowerPoint 2007 Print Dialog Box
Printing your PowerPoint presentation is easy. PowerPoint gives you plenty of printing options. The PowerPoint Print dialog box gives you precise control over how your presentation is printed. To print [more…]
Navigating PowerPoint 2007
The top part of the PowerPoint 2007 screen is full of icons and buttons designed to make navigation easy as you create your PowerPoint presentation. When you first open PowerPoint, you see the main PowerPoint [more…]
How to Correct Capitalization in PowerPoint 2007
You want your PowerPoint presentation to be perfect. The PowerPoint Change Case command enables you to capitalize the text in your PowerPoint slides properly. Slide titles should almost always use title [more…]
How to Print a Part of a PowerPoint 2007 Presentation
By default the All option of PowerPoint Print command is selected so your entire PowerPoint presentation prints. The Print Range area of the PowerPoint Print dialog box has options that enable you to tell [more…]
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