Open Microsoft Powerpoint 2007

Introduction
PowerPoint is a presentation tool in which the presentation is displayed as a slide show. Finished presentations can be shown as:
As slides in slide projector As overheads on an overhead projector As a web page From a screen projector linked to a comput
Open Microsoft PowerPoint 2007

START Programe Microsoft office 2007 Microsoft power point 2007 (Or) double click on the ICON deskstop
Creating A New Presentation After opening MS PowerPoint 2007, select Blank Presentationand click on Create. You should get something that looks like this:
Saving your Presentation To save your document, simply click on the MS 2007 logo in the top lefthand corner * + and the menu bar that you see on your right here will drop down giving you various options, including saving.
Saving your Presentation contd When you save a workbook in MS Excel 2007, it automatically saves with .pptxas its extension. However, you can also save your presentation so that its readable by earlier versions of MS PowerPoint (97 2003) by simply selecting PowerPoint 972003 Presentation when choosing what file type to save as (please see the screenshot below).
Getting Help in MS PowerPoint 2007 To get help in Excel 2007, look for the help icon * + in the top righthand corner of the screen and click on it. You will be presented with a window that looks like the one here on the right.
The Slide Master On the master slide you can set the default lookfor each slide. NOTE, the slide master is different than a theme in the sense that the slide master is used to add default content (which can include background pictures) to your presentation and a theme is used toadd a default art style to your presentation. All objects that you place on the master slide will be placed oneach slide. The master slide contains placeholders that can be formatted. You can set the attributes for the text (Size, Weight, Font) andyou can also set the background images and background colour. You can also set the style of bullets to be used. The Slide Master contd To access the slide master, go to the Viewtab and select Slide Master
You should get something that looks like this
The Slide Master contd To add a custom, transparent background to your presentation, go to Background stylesfrom the Slide Master tab and select Format BackgroundSelect Picture or texture fillTo add a texture or picture Select a preinstalled texture Select a picture from your computer Select a picture from the clipboard Select clip artTo add transparency, simply use the side scroll NOTE, you need to make sure your background is not so dark that it is difficult to read the writing on the slidesWhen satisfied, click on Apply to All
Inserting a Slide To insert a new slide From the Hometab, select New Slide
As well, you can rightclick between any 2 slides in the preview frame located on the lefthand side of the Normal view and select New Slide
Inserting Pictures & chart To insert pictures From the Inserttab you can insert pictures from your computer, clip art, shapes, etc
Also, when you have a blank slide (or parts of a blank slide), you can also click on options within these blank compartments to insert pictures
Inserting Charts contd Once youve selected to insert a chart, it will ask you choose what kind of chart youd like to insert .After youve picked a type, the screen will split in half with the chart on one side and an excel spreadsheet on the otherTo modify the chart, make changes in the data presented in the spreadsheet
Charts from Excel can also be copied and pasted into PowerPoint
Inserting Tables To insert a tableFrom the Insert tab, select Tableand a box will drop down giving you more options for inserting a table.
Also, when you have a blank slide (or parts of a blank slide), you can also click on options w/nthese blank compartments to insert tables
Presentation Views There are multiple ways to view the slides in your presentation The view can be changed by going to the Viewtab and choosing from either Normal, Slide Sorter, Notes Page, or Slide Show
As well, towards the bottom right hand corner of the screen are some small view buttons that can also change the view Normal view Slide sorter Slide show
Presentation Views contd

Normal viewis the default view Slide Sorter displays all the slides in consecutive order as thumbnails. Notes Page is similar to the normal view except the slides are reduced in size and located in the upper portion of the screen with the lower portion of the screen being allocated for adding notes to the slide. Slide show is the presentation where the slides are enlarged to fit the entire screen.
Animations
All sorts Animation Effects can be added to your slides and the best way to find out what works best for your presentation is to play around and experiment with all the different options. But first, a cautionary note. Many bad presentations will overly rely on animations (and other stylistic effects) to keep the audience interested (probably because the presentation itself was less than riveting). The best presentations are the ones that effectively use animations as an aid in presenting information, rather than distracting from it. In short, a good rule of thumb to remember would be Less is more. Animations contd Animating objects on a slide 1.Go to the Animationstab
2.Select/Highlight an object on the slide (this could be the title, the main body of text, a textbox, a picture, a shape, a chart, a table, a bullet point, etc 3.Click on Custom Animation 4.The custom animation box will pop up. 5.Click on Add Effect
6.Select the type of animation youd like for this object / component
7.Select the specific animation that youd like for this object / component Animation Example Please note that if these notes are presented as a .pdffile, then this animation example will not work. Also note that this slide is a fun example of what can be done and is not intended to contradict the previous cautionary note from slide #21.
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Transitions
A transition is an entrance animation that is applied to a slide as a whole when that slide is displayed Transitions can be accessed from the Animations tab .Adding transitions is easy, simply View the slide you want to add a transition to From the Animations tab click on the appropriate transition You can adjust the speed of the transition add sounds, and determine whether or not the transition occurs on a mouse click or after an allotted amount of time has passed.

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