Microsoft® PowerPoint® 2010 Plain & Simple

Nancy Muir

Editor

Kenyon Brown

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Acknowledgments

Thanks to Ken Brown of O’Reilly Media for leading the charge on this title, and to Juliana Aldous of Microsoft Press for signing me up to work on the book originally. Also, my gratitude to Rachel Monaghan at O’Reilly for coordinating various production aspects of the book, and to George Cain for his able technical editing and John Pierce for the great job copy editing the book.

Chapter 1. About This Book

In this section:

- No Computerese!

- A Quick Overview

- A Few Assumptions

- What’s New in PowerPoint 2010?

- The Final Word

If you are the typical PowerPoint user, you lead a hectic life, whether you spend time running from meeting to meeting and conference to conference or from the soccer match to a volunteer committee meeting If so, this book is for you In Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 Plain & Simple, you get an easy-to-use reference that helps you get to work immediately My goals are to help you start building presentations right away and to provide you with information about all sorts of tools and features you can use to create more sophisticated presentations over time.

This book is based on Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 installed on the Windows 7 operating system, but if you have an earlier version of Windows (preferably Windows XP or Windows Vista with available service packs installed), you’ll find that most things work just the same The great new features that PowerPoint 2010 introduces make your work easier to handle and offer some powerful visual tools for your presentations.

No Computerese!

With a presentation deadline staring you in the face, the last thing you want is a lengthy lecture You need to find out how to accomplish something quickly This book is structured task by task to help you find what you need help with now and to keep you moving.

No task in this book makes you read more than two pages to find an answer to your question Look up what you need to do in the table of contents or index, follow the steps in the task, and you’re done I don’t spend lots of time on elaborate explanations, and you don’t need a technical dictionary by your side to understand the steps I describe.

Occasionally, you encounter a See Also element that refers you to a related task simply because some functions overlap each other You can also find tips here and there that provide advice Finally, the Try This feature gives you ideas for how to put PowerPoint to use, and Caution elements warn you of potential problems But the main focus of this book is to keep you on track, providing the information you need quickly and simply.

Just Essential Tasks

The tasks in this book are organized logically for the types of things you do in PowerPoint 2010 If you’ve never built a presentation, you can start at the beginning and work your way through to create your first slide show But you don’t have to move through the book in order If you know exactly what you want to accomplish, just find that task and go to it!.

And the Easiest Way to Do Them

Although PowerPoint 2010 often gives you several ways to get things done, I’ve tried to suggest the easiest way to get results The PowerPoint user interface (what you see on the screen) introduced in PowerPoint 2007 and carried on in PowerPoint 2010 has gotten rid of some methods you might be used to, such as using menus and toolbars for most tasks, but keyboard shortcuts and contextual toolbars (tools that appear when you perform a certain type of task) are still available to address different styles of working I encourage you to explore the user interface and Help system to find other ways of getting things done after you master the basics.

A Quick Overview

Although you don’t have to read this book from front to back (in fact, you probably won’t), it’s useful to understand how I’ve structured it so that you can find your way around.

After you install PowerPoint 2010 (an easy task because the Microsoft Office installer guides you through step by step), you can begin exploring any of the following sections and their individual tasks.

Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 introduce you to what’s new in PowerPoint 2010 and the PowerPoint user interface and explain how you move around and work with tools and views in the program.

Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, and Chapter 7 start you out building the text portion of a presentation by adding text to individual slides in a graphical environment, by using slide masters (tools that allow you to quickly and easily make changes to global design and text settings that apply to all your slides, handouts, or notes pages), and by entering information into a familiar outline format You also learn essential information such as how to open and save a presentation and how to get help You become acquainted with placeholders on slides, which can contain either text or objects, and begin to understand how you build a presentation slide by slide and view the results.

Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Chapter 10, and Chapter 11 are where you begin to look at the overall look and feel of slides in various views You also work with the design aspect of your presentation, using various layouts (different combinations of placeholders and content) and themes that contain color and graphical elements You work with inserting and handling various objects, such as clip art, WordArt, videos, and pictures These sections also provide valuable information on how to format text and other objects in your presentation so that it looks polished and professional.

Chapter 12 and Chapter 13 take you near to your goal of a final presentation by providing information about slick animations and transitions that you can add to your slides to bring them to life You also learn about how to set up your show to run as you want it to and how to rehearse, proof, and generally ensure that your presentation is letter perfect.

Chapter 14, Chapter 15, and Chapter 16 help you actually give your presentation to others, either by running it in person, printing out hard copies of it, sharing it via e-mail, or publishing it to the Web This is what all the rest of the work is for, and if you do your job right, you can provide a well-written and well-designed presentation to your audience.

Finally, Chapter 17 offers information about a few more advanced tools in PowerPoint 2010 that you might want to explore after you master the basics Among other things, you discover how to work with presentation templates to save you time, create custom shows from your larger presentation, customize tools on the ribbon tabs, and even work with PowerPoint presentations from your cell phone.

A Few Assumptions

When you write a book, you have to first think about your readers Who are they, what do they already know, and what do they need to know? In writing this book, I’ve assumed that you are essentially computer literate—you know how to turn your computer on and off, what a mouse is and how to click and double-click items with it, and how to select text or objects I also assume that you have worked with some kind of software and have at least a passing acquaintance with tool buttons, dialog boxes, and software menus made up of various commands.

Whether you use your computer every day in a high-powered job or spend most of your computer time playing games and writing notes to friends, I assume you have an Internet connection and have been on the Internet Other than that, this book tries to provide all the steps you need to accomplish the tasks within it in a straightforward way—with plenty of graphics to help you see what I’m talking about.

What’s New in PowerPoint 2010?

If you worked with PowerPoint 2007, you already know about the ribbon, a set of tools that you access on tabs One major change to that interface in PowerPoint 2010 is the addition of the Office Backstage view, which contains commands and options that you used to work with through the Office button but that you now access through the File tab.

If you only used Office programs prior to Office 2007, you need to become familiar with the ribbon These tools occasionally offer galleries of choices, and when you move your mouse over these choices, they are previewed on your slides before you apply them Sometimes when you work on certain functions, specialized tabs appear; for example, if you select a drawing object, the Drawing Tools, Format tab appears.

PowerPoint 2010 offers improvements to visual elements, including better picture and video formatting tools, and additional themes and SmartArt choices.

Finally, PowerPoint 2010 offers more features for sharing presentations with others and broadcasting slide shows on the Internet I think you’ll like what you see once you absorb the changes PowerPoint 2010 is all about making the tools you work with accessible and obvious.

The Final Word

This book is designed to make your learning painless, with plenty of visual information to help you pick things up at a glance, along with easy-to-follow steps My goals are to give you what you need, make tasks easy to find and understand, and help you have fun learning to work with PowerPoint 2010, which is a great design tool that helps you communicate more effectively.

I hope you find the tasks in this book helpful and that you are producing award-winning presentations in no time.

Chapter 2. What’s New in PowerPoint 2010?

In this section:

- What’s Where in PowerPoint 2010?

- Using the Ribbon

- Using Microsoft Office Backstage

- Working with Improved Picture and Video Formatting Tools

- Taking Advantage of Additional Themes and SmartArt

- Copying Effects with Animation Painter

- Working with Slide Sections

- Broadcasting Slide Shows

If you are making the move from Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 to PowerPoint 2010, you’ll find that it sports an interface that offers a somewhat different way of getting things done. After investing a little time getting used to the new tools and features, you’ll find that this version of PowerPoint is actually easier to use, although you have a small learning curve to go through. If you worked with PowerPoint 2007, you’ve got a head start on this new look and approach to getting things done.

This section is where you get your first look at PowerPoint 2010, discovering where various tools and settings reside and learning how to use the newest features, such as the File tab and Office Backstage.

Other than the selections offered through the File tab, which provides file-management commands such as New, Open, Save, and Print, most features are available as buttons on tabs on the ribbon. In some cases, panes are displayed, such as the Research or the Clip Art pane.

Galleries of graphical selections allow you to preview how effects look on your slides or objects before you apply them, and several enhanced galleries and formatting options are available to explore in PowerPoint 2010. Finally, in this section I introduce you to new features, such as sections, Animation Painter, and broadcasting slide shows.

What’s Where in PowerPoint 2010?

PowerPoint 2010 uses a central ribbon of tools that you access on various tabs. The tools on the tabs are broken into groups. In addition, the Quick Access Toolbar lets you place your favorite tools in one location and access functions that aren’t offered through the ribbon. Some tools on the ribbon display drop-down galleries of selections, and others open dialog boxes for making detailed settings.

You access the File menu by clicking the File tab. Here you can use several common file commands or click the Options command to see a wealth of setting options that control the way PowerPoint—and you—work.

Using the Ribbon

The ribbon is your control central in PowerPoint 2010. The default ribbon consists of nine tabs, although contextual tabs appear now and then when you work with certain types of objects or functions. The Add-Ins tab appears if you install third-party programs and features, such as Microsoft PowerPoint Presenter Tools, or a tool like the one I used to capture the screen shots for this book.

Display Tabs and Panes

1. Click the Review tab.

2. Click Research to open the Research pane.

3. Click the Close button to close the pane.

TRY THIS!

You can open dialog boxes associated with groups of tools by clicking the dialog box launcher, a small arrow at the bottom-right corner of many groups on the ribbon. This displays all settings and features related to that category of functions, including some not shown on the ribbon.

4. Click the Insert tab.

5. Click Shapes, and then click an item in the Shapes gallery. Click anywhere on the slide, and then drag to draw the shape.

6. Note that the Drawing Tools, Format tab appears. This is a contextual tab.

TIP

The Add-Ins tab is where you can add programs or features that are not part of PowerPoint. You include add-in programs here by using the Options command on the File menu. For example, you can include additional presenter tools or presentation notes tools as add-ins.

TIP

Can’t find a tool? Some tools, such as Preview As A Web Page, are not on the ribbon. In this case, you have to add the tools to the Quick Access Toolbar to perform the function. See the task Customizing the Quick Access Toolbar for more about how to do this.

Show or Hide Enhanced ScreenTips

1. Click the File tab to open the File menu.

2. Click Options.

3. Click General.

4. Click the ScreenTip Style drop-down arrow, and choose one of the following settings:

- Show Feature Descriptions In ScreenTips, which displays larger ScreenTips with the tool button name and an explanation of its function.

- Don’t Show Feature Descriptions In ScreenTips, which displays only the tool button name.

- Don’t Show ScreenTips, which displays neither enhanced nor standard ScreenTips.

5. Click OK.

6. Place your pointer over a button on the ribbon, and the appropriate setting takes effect. (Here you see the effects of using the Show Feature Descriptions In ScreenTips setting.)

TIP

When you display either type of ScreenTip, keyboard shortcuts for tool button functions are displayed (when they exist). For example, if you place your pointer over the Paste button, you see Ctrl+V in parentheses after the tool name in the ScreenTip. You can use this keyboard combination to paste an item instead of clicking the button.

Using Microsoft Office Backstage

In PowerPoint 2010, the File tab takes you to a new command central for your documents, called Microsoft Office Backstage. This change to the Office interface in Office 2010 makes accessing often-used settings and activities such as opening, printing, and saving or publishing files easier to do using a panel of options.

Display the File Menu

1. Click the File tab to open the File menu.

2. Click any of the categories on the left to display detailed settings in a pane on the right.

3. Use various check boxes or settings to change the way PowerPoint functions.

4. Some choices open a dialog box in which you click OK to save changed settings.

TIP

Commands located on the File tab in PowerPoint 2010 (an area referred to as Office Backstage) are accessed via the Office button in PowerPoint 2007. From the File menu, you can make many settings that determine how certain functions in PowerPoint work, open or create documents, save files, get help, and print or publish your presentation.

Working with Improved Picture and Video Formatting Tools

PowerPoint 2010 has easy-to-use picture formatting tools and new video formatting tools. These tools provide galleries of effects, such as a variety of contrast or color settings, for you to choose from. Here you get a look at a couple of galleries used for working with pictures. For more about working with video tools, see Chapter 11.

Explore the Artistic Effects and Corrections Galleries

1. Click the Insert tab.

2. Click Picture.

TRY THIS!

The Format tab displays different tools if you insert a video. Try inserting a video from the sample video library by clicking the Insert tab and then clicking the Video button. Explore the tools available on this tab. You can learn more about these in the task Using Video Tools.

3. Click any picture in the Pictures folder, and then click the Open button. (Use files in the Sample Pictures folder if you have none of your own.)

4. Click the Picture Tools, Format tab if it’s not displayed.

5. Click the Artistic Effects button, and move your mouse pointer over the various effects to see them previewed on your picture object. Do the same thing with the Corrections button.

6. Click an effect to apply it.

Taking Advantage of Additional Themes and SmartArt

In PowerPoint 2010, graphics are displayed in galleries that help you browse through different styles and preview how each would look in your presentation. Built-in themes and SmartArt (used to insert workflow and process charts) are designed to give your presentation visual interest.

Get a Cohesive Look with Themes

1. Click the Design tab.

2. Click the More arrow to the right of the Themes group to open the Themes gallery.

3. Move your mouse pointer over the various themes. Each in turn is previewed on your slide presentation.

4. Click a theme to apply it your entire presentation.

TRY THIS!

You can modify a theme by selecting a different color, font, or effect set on the Design tab. Even if you experiment with different combinations, by using these preset design elements you can keep consistency in the various design features of your slides.

SEE ALSO

For more information about working with themes and other design elements, see Chapter 9.

5. Click the Colors button, and then move your mouse pointer over the sets of colors to see previews on your slides. Click a color scheme to apply it.

TIP

Themes were introduced in PowerPoint 2007, and Microsoft offers the option of expanding your theme horizons by visiting Office Online at www.office.microsoft.com. Office Online offers additional looks for your presentation that can give it extra visual excitement.

SEE ALSO

See Chapter 10, for more about working with SmartArt objects as well as tables and various kinds of drawn objects.

Explore SmartArt

1. Click the Insert tab.

2. Click SmartArt to open the Choose A SmartArt Graphic dialog box.

3. Click a category of SmartArt in the list on the left.

4. Click an item in the gallery of SmartArt to select it.

5. Click OK. The SmartArt object appears on the slide.

6. Click in the Type Your Text Here box, and type your text.

TIP

Look at the preview of SmartArt in the Choose A SmartArt Graphic dialog box. Beneath it is a suggestion of uses for that particular SmartArt element to best communicate your message.

Copying Effects with Animation Painter

Animation Painter is a feature that’s new to PowerPoint 2010. If you’ve used Format Painter, which allows you to copy formats such as font and font color from one piece of text to another, you’ll understand how Animation Painter works. Animation Painter copies animation effects from one object to another, saving you the work of applying those effects time after time.

Animations with Animation Painter

1. Click on an object that has an animation applied to it to select it.

2. Click the Animations tab.

3. Click Animation Painter.

4. Click on another object to copy all animation effects from the first object to the second.

SEE ALSO

For more about working with Animation Painter, see the task Using Animation Painter.

Working with Slide Sections

Sections are a new feature in PowerPoint 2010 that allow you to divide up larger presentations so that you can find material more easily, something like headings in a long report. When you create a section and name it, its name appears in a bar that separates the slides within the section from others in the presentation. You can expand or collapse sections, as well.

Add a Section

1. Click the Slide Sorter view button.

2. Click to the left of the first slide in the new section.

3. Click Section on the Home tab, and then choose Add Section.

SEE ALSO

See Working with Sections for more about working with slide sections.

Broadcasting Slide Shows

When you broadcast a presentation, you make it available as a live presentation that others can view using their Web browsers. The process is simple, doesn’t require you to have your own site to host the presentation, and is an excellent way to give a live presentation to remote viewers.

Start a Broadcast

1. Click the File tab.

2. Click Save & Send.

3. Click the Broadcast Slide Show link, and then click the Broadcast Slide Show button that appears.

SEE ALSO

Once you initiate and invite people to a broadcast, you can run the broadcast online. See Chapter 16, for more about working with broadcasting presentations.

4. In the Broadcast Slide Show dialog box, click the Start Broadcast button. Enter your user ID and password if requested, and click OK. (If you don’t have a Windows Live account, you can go to www.WindowsLive.com and sign up for one or, for more information on this feature, see Chapter 16.)

5. In the next dialog box that appears, click the Start Broadcast button to use the default PowerPoint Broadcast Service.

6. Click Copy Link to copy the Web address and paste it into an e-mail invitation yourself, or click Send In Email to simply open an e-mail message and send the link.

Chapter 3. Getting Started with PowerPoint 2010

In this section:

- What’s Where in PowerPoint 2010?

- Using the Ribbon

- Working with the Mini Toolbar

- Customizing the Quick Access Toolbar

- Working with Design Elements

Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 sports the user interface introduced in PowerPoint 2007—with some slight changes. This interface offers a way of getting things done that’s somewhat different from versions of PowerPoint prior to Microsoft Office 2007. After investing a little time getting used to the new tools and features, you’ll find that this version of PowerPoint is actually easier to use.

This section is where you get your first look at PowerPoint 2010, discovering where various tools and settings reside and learning how to use features such as the ribbon and the galleries of design styles.

PowerPoint 2010 has only a single menu, the File menu, which you display by clicking the File tab. (In PowerPoint 2007, this menu was opened by using the Office button.) Other than the File menu, which offers file-management commands such as New, Open, Save, and Print, most features are available as buttons on tabs on the ribbon. In some cases, you work with panes, such as the Research pane, which are essentially like task panes in PowerPoint 2003.

Galleries of graphical selections allow you to preview how effects look on your slides or objects before you apply them. Finally, PowerPoint includes a few contextual tools that appear only when needed.

What’s Where in PowerPoint 2010?

PowerPoint 2010 provides a central ribbon of tools that you access on various tabs. The tools on the tabs are broken into groups. In addition, the Quick Access Toolbar lets you place your favorite tools in one location and access functions that aren’t offered through the ribbon. Some tools on the ribbon offer drop-down galleries of selections, and other tools open dialog boxes for making detailed settings.

You access the File menu by clicking the File tab. Here you can choose several common file commands or click the Options command to see a wealth of setting options that control the way PowerPoint—and you—work.

Using the Ribbon

The ribbon is your control central in PowerPoint 2010. The default ribbon consists of nine tabs, although contextual tabs appear now and then when you work with certain types of objects or functions. An additional tab, Add-Ins, appears if you install third-party programs and features, such as Microsoft PowerPoint Presenter Tools, or a tool like the one I used to capture the screen shots for this book.

Display Tabs and Panes

1. Click the Review tab.

2. Click Research to open the Research pane.

3. Click the Close button to close the pane.

TIP

The Add-Ins tab is where you can add programs or features that are not part of PowerPoint. You include add-in programs here by using the Options command on the File menu. For example, you can include additional presenter tools or presentation notes tools as add-ins.

4. Click the Insert tab.

5. Click the Shapes button, and then click an item in the Shapes group. Click anywhere on the slide, and then drag to draw the shape.

6. Note that the Drawing Tools, Format tab appears. This is a contextual tab.

TRY THIS!

You can open dialog boxes associated with groups of tools by clicking the dialog box launcher, the small arrow at the bottom-right corner of many groups on the ribbon. This displays additional settings and features related to the ribbon functions.

TIP

Can’t find a tool? Some tools, such as Preview As A Web Page, are not on the ribbon. In this case, you have to add the tools to the Quick Access Toolbar to perform the function. See the task Customizing the Quick Access Toolbar for more about how to do this.

Show or Hide Enhanced ScreenTips

1. Choose Options from the File menu.

2. Click General.

3. Click the ScreenTip Style drop-down arrow, and choose one of the following settings:

- Show Feature Descriptions In ScreenTips displays larger ScreenTips with the tool button name and an explanation of its function.

- Don’t Show Feature Descriptions In ScreenTips displays only the tool button name.

- Don’t Show ScreenTips displays neither enhanced nor standard ScreenTips.

4. Click OK.

5. Place your mouse pointer over a button on the ribbon and the appropriate setting takes effect. (Here you see the effects of choosing the Show Feature Descriptions In ScreenTips setting.)

TIP

When you display either type of ScreenTip, keyboard shortcuts for tool button functions are also displayed (when they exist). For example, if you move your mouse pointer over the Paste button, you see Ctrl+V in parentheses after the tool name in the ScreenTip. You can use this keyboard combination to paste an item instead of clicking the button.

Working with the Mini Toolbar

Everybody who has ever worked on any kind of document, from a word-processed letter to a PowerPoint presentation, knows that formatting text is one of the most frequent tasks they perform. That is perhaps why Microsoft created the Mini toolbar. When you select text, a small floating toolbar appears right next to the text itself. You can easily click on tools such as Bold, Italic, or Font Size without having to move your mouse pointer up to the ribbon and back to the text again.

Display the Mini Toolbar

1. Choose Options from the File menu.

2. Click General.

3. Select the Show Mini Toolbar On Selection check box.

4. Click OK.

5. Select text on a slide. The Mini toolbar appears.

SEE ALSO

For more information about working with text formatting tools that appear both on the Home tab of the ribbon and on the Mini toolbar, see Chapter 11.

TIP

The Mini toolbar is somewhat translucent when you first select text; you have to move your pointer to it to get a solid image of the tool buttons on it. If you move the mouse pointer away from the toolbar, you have to select the text again to make the toolbar appear.

Customizing the Quick Access Toolbar

The idea behind the interface that Microsoft Office 2007 introduced is that the most commonly used tools are present on the ribbon rather than buried in dialog boxes, and the tools you use less often, though accessible, aren’t part of the main interface by default. Sometimes the only way to access a function you might have used in previous versions of PowerPoint is to place a command on the Quick Access Toolbar. By default this toolbar contains only the Save, Undo, and Redo commands, but you can add as many commands as you want.

Add Buttons to the Quick Access Toolbar

1. Choose Options from the File menu.

CAUTION

Although you can add many tools to the toolbar, don’t overdo it. Only add the tools you use most often, or add a tool to use a particular function and then remove it to clear clutter off the toolbar.

2. Click Quick Access Toolbar.

3. In the Choose Commands From list, click the arrow and select a category of tools, or simply scroll down and choose the Commands Not In The Ribbon category.

4. Click a command in the list on the left, and then click the Add button to add it to the toolbar. Repeat this step for all the commands you want to add.

5. Click OK.

TIP

If you fill up your Quick Access Toolbar and want to put it back the way it was when you first installed PowerPoint, go to the PowerPoint Options dialog box, select Quick Access Toolbar, and click Reset. The default tool settings are restored.

TIP

You can use the same procedure to add tools to the ribbon, except that in step 2, you select Customize Ribbon instead of Quick Access Toolbar. However, I suggest that you avoid customizing the ribbon extensively because other people using your computer won’t be familiar with what you’ve done and Help files will reflect only the default ribbon settings, which could be confusing.

Remove or Rearrange Tools

1. Choose Options from the File menu.

2. Click Quick Access Toolbar.

3. Click an item in the list on the right.

4. Click Remove to remove it from the toolbar.

5. Click Move Up or Move Down to rearrange the tools.

6. Click OK to save your settings.

TRY THIS!

You can change the Quick Access Toolbar settings for just the currently opened document, not for all documents. When you are in the Quick Access Toolbar window in the PowerPoint Options dialog box, click the arrow on the Customize Quick Access Toolbar list and choose the name of the presentation for which you want to save the changes.

TIP

If you want to add some space between sets of tools on the Quick Access Toolbar, simply click the item labeled <Separator> at the top of the list on the left of the Quick Access Toolbar window, and then click Add.

Working with Design Elements

Several features introduced in PowerPoint 2007 relate to how graphics are displayed and created, so if you have worked only with older versions of PowerPoint, this section gives you a quick preview of those features. Galleries of graphical elements help you browse through different styles and preview how each looks in your presentation. Themes and Quick Styles are designed to give your presentation a cohesive and consistent look with predesigned combinations of colors, graphics, and fonts. Finally, SmartArt is a feature that allows you to easily create various types of diagrams and add text to them.

Preview Design Elements with Galleries

1. Click a placeholder on a slide, enter some text, and select the text.

2. Click the Format tab.

3. Click the More arrow at the bottom right of the WordArt Styles gallery.

4. Move your mouse pointer over various WordArt styles. You can see each style previewed on the selected text. Click a style to apply it.

TIP

Several galleries exist on tabs that don’t appear until you insert certain types of objects, such as pictures or drawings. Although the Format tab contains an Insert Shapes group, there is also a Shapes gallery on the Insert tab, which you can use to draw shapes on your slides when the Format tab isn’t available.

5. Click the Home tab, and then click the arrow on the Font list.

6. Move your mouse pointer down the list of fonts. You can see each font previewed on the selected text. Click a font to apply it.

TRY THIS!

You can preview font sizes on selected text. With text selected, click the arrow on the Font Size list and move your mouse pointer down the list of sizes. Each is previewed on your text.

SEE ALSO

For more information about WordArt and other drawing objects, see Chapter 10.

Get a Cohesive Look with Themes

1. Click the Design tab.

2. Click the down arrow to the right of the Themes gallery. The gallery scrolls to the next row.

3. Move your mouse pointer over the various themes. You see each one previewed on your slide presentation.

4. Click a theme to apply it to your entire presentation.

TRY THIS!

You can modify a theme by selecting a different color, font, or effect set on the Design tab. Even if you experiment with different combinations, by using these preset design elements you can keep consistency in the various design features of your slides.

SEE ALSO

For more information about working with themes and other design elements, see Chapter 9.

5. Click the Colors button and move your mouse pointer over the sets of colors to see them previewed on your slides. Click a color scheme to apply it.

TIP

You can expand the Theme gallery to view all available themes rather than scrolling through line by line. Click the More button (a down arrow with a line above it) to expand the gallery.

Work with SmartArt

1. Click the Insert tab.

2. Click the SmartArt button to open the Choose A SmartArt Graphic dialog box.

3. Click a category of SmartArt in the list on the left.

4. Click an item in the gallery of SmartArt to select it.

5. Click OK.

6. Click in the Type Your Text Here box, and then type your text.

TIP

Look at the preview of SmartArt in the Choose A SmartArt Graphic dialog box. Beneath it is a suggestion of uses for that particular SmartArt element to best communicate your message.

SEE ALSO

See Chapter 10 for more about working with SmartArt objects as well as tables and various kinds of drawn objects.

Chapter 4. Creating Presentations

In this section:

- Creating a Presentation

- Finding and Opening Existing Presentations

- Sizing Panes in Normal View

- Viewing Multiple Slides with Slide Sorter

- Running a Presentation in Slide Show View

- Saving and Closing a PowerPoint Presentation

- Getting Help

When you start a new job, you typically spend the first day getting acquainted with colleagues and finding your way around the office before you get to work. In the same way, whether you want to create a lengthy, elaborate, animated presentation with sound and graphics or a simple presentation consisting of a bulleted list and a handful of slides, your first steps are to learn how to open a blank presentation and to understand the basic structure of a standard Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 presentation.

You can open a blank presentation, open presentations you have previously created and saved, or create presentations based on templates that provide prebuilt design features. After you open a file, you can enter content for a presentation. Then, if you make changes, you need to know how to save those changes and close the presentation.

As you wander around PowerPoint, you get to know the different views you use to accomplish various tasks. When you open a presentation, it opens in Normal view, where you see three panes showing a slide/outline display, the current slide, and an area for notes.

Slide Sorter view is where you go to organize slides. When you want to see your slide show in action, use Slide Show view.

Creating a Presentation

PowerPoint offers a few options for how you get started with a new presentation. For example, if you want a single blank slide with the default layout and design elements, you can open a blank presentation. But if you want to get a head start on your presentation, consider basing it on an existing presentation that contains some elements you want to reuse or applying one of the templates that come with PowerPoint.

Open a Blank Presentation

1. With PowerPoint running, choose New from the File menu to display the New Presentation window.

2. Click Create to open a new presentation based on the default Blank Presentation template.

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If you’re more comfortable using a keyboard shortcut to open a file, you can. Simply press Ctrl+O to display the Open dialog box or Ctrl+N to open a new blank presentation. You should note, however, that keyboard shortcuts are not displayed on the File menu in PowerPoint 2010, as they are in some previous versions.

Open a Presentation Based on an Existing Presentation

1. With PowerPoint running, choose New from the File menu to display the New Presentation window.

2. Click New From Existing.

3. Click the items in the navigation pane of the dialog box that appears to browse the drives and folders of your computer or network.

4. Double-click a folder to open it. Continue to double-click folders in the right pane until you find the file you want.

5. Click the document file to select it.

6. Click Create New to open a new presentation based on the presentation you selected.

SEE ALSO

For information about saving files, see Saving and Closing a PowerPoint Presentation.

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Be sure to save the file you just created to preserve its contents. Be sure to save it with a name different from the file it is based on to ensure that you don’t overwrite the original file.

Open a Template

1. With PowerPoint running, choose New from the File menu to display the New Presentation window.

2. If you are online, you can click the Presentations category in the Office.com Templates area of the window to display categories of templates available from Office Online.

3. Click a category, select a template, and then click the Download button to download the template.

4. If you don’t want to use an online template, click Sample Templates to view the templates installed on your computer when you installed PowerPoint.

5. Click a template to see a preview on the right side of the window.

6. Click a template to select it, and then click Create.

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If you previously saved a template, you can use the My Templates selection in the Available Templates And Themes list to locate and open one.

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Any template you apply to your presentation is accessible by clicking Themes on the Design tab. For information about applying themes to slides, see Apply a Slide Theme.

Finding and Opening Existing Presentations

Very often, you use several work sessions to complete a presentation. Perhaps you enter slide text in one sitting, tweak the arrangement of graphics and colors in another, and still later edit what you created to incorporate others’ feedback or to proof for spelling errors. To open an existing presentation, you can use the following steps.

Open a Presentation

1. With PowerPoint running, choose Open from the File menu to display the Open dialog box.

2. Click in the navigation pane on the left to browse the drives and folders on your computer or network.

3. Double-click a folder to open it and display files in the right pane. Continue to double-click folders until you find the file you want.

4. You might need to specify the file type for the document you want to locate; All PowerPoint Presentations is the default format. Only documents saved in the specified file format are displayed in the file list.

5. Click a file, and then click Open.

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You can use the buttons along the left of the Open dialog box to find a file more quickly. For example, if you just downloaded the file recently, click the Downloads button; if the file is stored in a shared folder on a network, click the Network button to locate it; and so on.

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If you used a file recently, choose Recent from the File menu, and just click one of the listed files to open it.

Moving Among Views

PowerPoint 2010 offers several views that let you focus on different aspects of your presentation. Four of the views—Normal, Slide Sorter, Reading view, and Slide Show—can be accessed from buttons on the status bar located along the bottom of the PowerPoint window; another view, Notes Page, is accessed through the View tab. Note that these buttons do not appear when your presentation is in Slide Show view. You must exit the slide show to use them. You learn more about how each view is used in the following sections.

Slide Show view

Normal view

Sizing Panes in Normal View

You do most of your work building your presentation in Normal view. It consists of three panes: the Slides/Outline pane gives you access to tabs that provide an overview of your presentation; the Notes pane is where you enter speaker notes to help you when you give your presentation; and the Slide pane is where you work on the design of an individual slide. You can temporarily remove the Slides/Outline or Notes panes, or you can resize them to focus on one aspect of your presentation.

Resize a Pane

1. Move your mouse pointer over the edge of the Slides/Outline or Notes pane until the pointer turns into two lines with double arrows.

2. Drag the pane divider in the appropriate direction to make the pane larger or smaller.

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If you drag a pane divider until the pane disappears, the divider is still visible. You can drag the divider to display the pane again. Note that the Outline/Slide pane on the left of Normal view can be resized to a maximum width of about 4 inches.

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You can change how large the slide preview appears in the Slide pane without resizing the pane by dragging the zoom slider at the bottom of the PowerPoint window. To refit the slide to the Slide pane in Normal view after you change its zoom setting, click the Fit Slide To Current Window button, located to the right of the zoom slider. The Fit Slide To Current Window button does not appear in any other view.

Close and Redisplay the Slides/Outline Pane

1. Click the Close button on the Slides/Outline pane to hide it.

2. Click Normal on the View tab to redisplay the pane.

SEE ALSO

For information about working with the Slides tab, see Chapter 6.

For information about working with the Outline feature, see Chapter 7.

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Take advantage of the ability to hide and resize panes to make your work easier. If you need to focus on slide design rather than on entering slide text, close the Slides/Outline pane or make it smaller. If you want to quickly enter text in an outline format for many slides, enlarge the Slides/Outline pane to make the Outline tab larger and the text easier to read.

Viewing Multiple Slides with Slide Sorter

After you create several slides, you might want to take your focus off an individual slide and look at your presentation as a whole. The best view for this task is Slide Sorter view, which displays all your slides as thumbnails placed in sequence from left to right. If you have many slides, they are arranged in rows. In this view, it’s easy to locate a slide, rearrange slides to organize your slide show, or duplicate or delete slides.

Display Slide Sorter View

- Click the Slide Sorter button to display the view.

Display More Slides in Slide Sorter

- Drag the slider on the zoom tool to the left to make the thumbnails smaller and fit more slides on the screen. Drag to the right to make the thumbnails larger, fitting fewer on the screen.

SEE ALSO

You can do more than view slides in Slide Sorter view. You can delete, duplicate, hide, and reorder slides, as well as preview animations and more. See Chapter 8 for more features of this handy view.

Running a Presentation in Slide Show View

Slide Show is the view you use to run your presentation in full-screen mode. If you have your computer connected to an LCD or television monitor, your audience can view your presentation using a larger screen format than is available on your computer.

Slide Show view has several useful tools for navigating through your show, including a pen feature that lets you annotate your slides as you show them. You can even save your annotations at the end of the show.

The new Reading view is essentially a slide show view that is useful for people viewing your presentation on a computer rather than a large screen. This view has similar navigation options.

Start a Slide Show and Advance Slides

1. Click the Slide Show view button to display the slide show starting with the currently selected slide.

2. Press the Left arrow key to move back one slide, or press the Right arrow key to move forward one slide.

End a Slide Show

1. With a presentation in Slide Show view, press Esc on your keyboard to end the slide show and return to the view displayed when you started the presentation (Normal or Slide Sorter).

2. If you created any annotations while running the show, a dialog box appears asking whether you want to save your annotations. Click Keep or Discard.

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You can end a slide show at any point, whether you’ve reached the last slide or not, by using the method described here. If, however, you finish running through the slides in your show and reach the end, you see a message that the show is over. If you see that message, press any key to close the slide show.

SEE ALSO

For information about using different methods to navigate through a slide show, including your mouse, onscreen buttons, and the Slide Show menu, see Chapter 14. For information about setting up the way a slide show runs, see Chapter 13.

Saving and Closing a PowerPoint Presentation

As you work on a presentation, you should save it periodically so that you don’t run the risk of losing any of your work in the event of a computer crash or other problem. You should also save any changes you want to keep before closing a file.

Save a Presentation

1. Choose Save from the File menu to display the Save As dialog box.

2. If you don’t want to save the presentation to the default folder, select another drive or folder.

3. Type a name for the document of up to 255 characters; you cannot use the characters * : < > | " \ or /.

4. To save the document in a format other than the default PowerPoint file format (.pptx), select a different format.

5. Click Save.

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If you want to save a previously saved presentation with a new name, perhaps to use as the basis for another presentation, choose Save As from the File menu. Type a new file name and, if you want to, locate another folder in which to save the file. Click Save, and you save a copy of the presentation with a new name.

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To quickly save any changes to a previously saved document, simply click the Save button on the Quick Access Toolbar. The file is saved without displaying the Save As dialog box.

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You can now save a presentation in PDF format, which allows users of Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader to view it. Simply choose PDF in step 4 of this task to use this feature.

Close a Presentation

1. Click the Save button to be sure that all changes have been saved.

2. Click the Close button to close the file and PowerPoint.

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If you want to close an open presentation without closing PowerPoint—for example, to begin a new blank presentation—choose Close from the File menu.

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You can also close PowerPoint by choosing Exit from the File menu.

Getting Help

PowerPoint 2010 includes both offline Help, in the form of a searchable database of information, and online Help, which takes you to a Microsoft Web site. Learning how to use PowerPoint Help enables you to solve small problems that you run into and to delve deeper into PowerPoint features.

Use Help

1. Click the Microsoft PowerPoint Help button to display the PowerPoint Help window.

2. Enter a search term and click Search.

3. Click the Show Table Of Contents button for a list of offline Help topics.

4. Click Home to go to the main listing of topics at any time.

5. Click the Print button to print the currently displayed topic.

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If you want to keep the Help window visible as you work in your document, click the Keep On Top button before clicking within the document.

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Often, Help search results include links to other information. These links appear in blue. Click one, and you are taken to a Web page or other document where you can find related or additional information.

Chapter 5. Working with Slide Masters

In this section:

- Understanding How Slide Masters Work

- Making Changes to a Slide Master

- Adding and Deleting Master Sets

- Working with Handout and Notes Masters

One of the hallmarks of a good presentation is a uniform look and feel. To achieve that consistency, you can use themes and color schemes built right into PowerPoint. (For more about these features, see Chapter 9.) But you might want to use other elements consistently from slide to slide, such as a company logo, and having to add these elements again and again—slide by slide—can be cumbersome.

That’s where masters come in. A master allows you to add a graphic, modify the text formatting or slide layout, or add a global footer. Then, whatever you add to the master appears on every slide.

Masters are flexible as well. If you want one section of your presentation to use a master element or two, but in another section you want to introduce a change, you can use more than one master in your presentation to do so.

You can work with three types of masters in PowerPoint: a slide master, a handout master, and a notes master. Keep in mind that any changes you make to individual slides override the settings on masters.

Understanding How Slide Masters Work

Slide masters start out with a set of slide layouts defined by the currently applied theme. That theme determines the font treatment, placement and size of placeholders, background graphics, animation, and color scheme. You can make changes to any of the layouts in a slide master so that any time you apply one of those layouts to a slide, whatever is on that layout in the master appears automatically. You can use the Edit Master tools on the Slide Master tab to add a master set or add a new layout to an existing master set. Use Edit Theme tools on the Slide Master tab to change formatting for the text on your slides.

Working with Slide Masters

Making Changes to a Slide Master

Within Slide Master view, you can work with font formats and bullet list styles, insert text or text boxes, add graphics, or rearrange elements of any slide layout. (You learn more about how to take these actions in Chapter 6, Chapter 9, and Chapter 10.) You make these changes much as you do in Normal view. However, any changes you make in Slide Master view are reflected on every slide to which the changed layout is applied. If you want to apply changes to all slides except the Title Slide layout, make those changes to the Master Layout at the top of the layout thumbnails.

Display and Navigate Masters

1. Click the View tab, and choose Slide Master from the Master Views group.

2. Drag the vertical scrollbar on the left pane to view more layouts in the master set.

3. Drag the divider between panes if you want to see more or less of either pane.

4. To close Slide Master view, click the Close Master View button or click the Normal, Slide Sorter, Notes Page, or Reading View button.

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Make changes to the slide master, and then save the presentation as a template (.potx). You can then base future presentations on that template. That way, you can set up your company standard logo, colors, and so on only once and then use the template again and again.

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You can use the zoom slider in the bottom-right corner of the PowerPoint 2010 window to zoom in on and out of the currently displayed layout in Slide Master view’s Slide pane.

Insert Footer Information

1. With Slide Master view displayed, click a footer placeholder to select it. Note that one placeholder contains the current date by default.

2. Enter whatever text you want in the placeholder. If you want to move the footer placeholder, drag it to a new location on the slide.

3. A slide number element is included at the bottom right of slides. If you don’t want to use it, select it and press the Delete key to get rid of it, or if you want to use the element but prefer a different location, drag it to another location on the slide.

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If you delete a footer placeholder in a layout and then want to put it back the way it was, in Slide Master view, click the layout to select it, click the Slide Master tab, and then select the Footers check box. All the original footer placeholders are reinstated.

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The date footer is set to update automatically to reflect the current date when you run the presentation. If you don’t want to display the current date, delete the current date from the placeholder, and type a specific fixed date for each slide layout where you want it to appear. If you prefer that this footer reflect the date and time, or simply the time, use the Date & Time button on the Insert tab to do so.

Work with Master Graphics

1. With the slide master displayed, select the layout on which you want to place the graphic (for example, the title slide or a content slide), and click the Insert tab. If you want to insert the graphic on every layout except the Title Slide layout, click the top-level slide master.

2. Use the controls in the Illustrations or Images group to insert a master graphic in your presentation:

- Click to insert a picture.

- Click to insert clip art.

- Click to insert a chart.

3. When you have inserted a graphic on the slide master, you can resize it or drag it to wherever you want to position it.

SEE ALSO

See Chapter 10, for more about inserting pictures, clip art, and charts in your presentation; see Resizing Objects for more about changing the size of objects.

CAUTION

When you place a master graphic, you typically put it in a corner of a slide so that it doesn’t overlap placeholder text or elements such as large tables. Still, if you use a graphic on every slide, the odds are that it will overlap some object on a few slides in the presentation. Be sure to check for this, and then move the graphic or use the procedure in the task Omit Master Graphics on Individual Slides to remove the graphic on those individual slides.

Add a Layout

1. With Slide Master view displayed, click the Slide Master tab, and choose Insert Layout.

2. On the new Custom Layout slide that appears, make any changes you want to the layout, such as the following:

- Click Insert Placeholder to insert a new placeholder for any type of content.

- Click an existing placeholder and press Delete.

- Drag a placeholder to a new position on the slide.

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You can quickly and easily remove a title or footer placeholder from a layout. In the Master Layout group of tools on the Slide Master tab, just clear the Title or Footers check box. The item you clear disappears from the current layout.

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If you want to include or exclude an item from all slide layouts, use the Master Layout. Click the Master Layout thumbnail to display it, and then click the Master Layout button on the Slide Master tab. Click to display or remove items such as a title or slide number from all slides, and then click OK.

Omit Master Graphics on Individual Slides

1. With the slide displayed in Normal view, click the Design tab on the ribbon.

2. In the Background group, select the Hide Background Graphics check box.

3. Repeat these two steps for any other slides on which you want to omit master graphics.

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What if you have more than one master graphic and you want to omit one but not the others from an individual slide? You have to do this manually. Use the steps here to omit all master graphics, and then insert the ones you want to use on the current slide one by one.

Adding and Deleting Master Sets

You can apply multiple themes to a single presentation. A set of master layouts is created whenever you apply an additional theme template to your presentation. When you apply another theme to some of your slides, another set of thumbnails is displayed in the left pane of the Slide Master view. You can also insert a new blank master and then apply effects to it one by one to make a custom master or duplicate a master and then make changes to it.

If you have no more need for a master, you can delete it, or you can rename it (for example, Company Logo Master) to make it easy to identify.

Rename a Master

1. With Slide Master view displayed, click the Master Layout slide for the master you want to rename.

2. On the Slide Master tab, click Rename in the Edit Master group.

3. In the Rename Layout dialog box, type a new name and click Rename.

CAUTION

Don’t overdo it! The whole point of themes is that they instantly apply a consistent look and feel to your presentation. Mixing and matching too many themes creates a messy and cluttered-looking presentation. A couple of themes is typically the most you should use in any presentation to designate major sections or changes of mood.

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Consider adding presentations including custom masters to a centralized online library of presentations in Microsoft SharePoint. By setting up a SharePoint site, you can build slide libraries and sets of templates everybody in your company can use to streamline presentation creation.

Delete a Master

1. With Slide Master view displayed, click the Master Layout slide for the master you want to delete.

2. Click the Home tab.

3. Click Delete in the Slides group.

CAUTION

If you delete a master from Slide Master, you can’t undo the delete. You have to insert the master again by applying a theme to slides or by using the Insert Slide Master button on the Slide Master tab when Slide Master view is displayed. Note that you cannot delete the Title Slide master.

SEE ALSO

For more information about applying themes to your presentation, see Apply a Slide Theme.

Insert Additional Masters

1. To insert a blank master, with Slide Master view displayed, click the Slide Master tab, and then click Insert Slide Master in the Edit Master group.

2. To insert an additional theme in your presentation, click Themes in the Edit Theme group, and then click the theme you want from the gallery that appears.

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You can also simply apply a theme to your presentation or to some of the slides in your presentation in Normal view. That theme is automatically added as a new set of masters in Slide Master view.

Working with Handout and Notes Masters

Handouts are essentially a printing option for PowerPoint. You can print one, two, three, four, six, or nine slides on a page and hand out those pages to your audience to follow along with your presentation or to take with them as a reminder of key points. In the handout master, you can enter up to two headers and two footers, rearrange or delete placeholders, set the orientation of the handouts, and set the number of slides to print on a page.

Notes can be printed for the benefit of the person making the presentation, providing a handy reference while presenting. Notes consist of a slide along with an area for notes and placeholders for header and footer text. You can enter notes in the Notes pane of Normal view. The notes master allows you to arrange the placement of the various elements on the Notes page globally.

Work with Handout Master

1. On the View tab, click Handout Master in the Master Views group.

2. Do any of the following:

- Click in a placeholder and enter text or replace the date or slide number element already there.

- Drag a placeholder to a new location.

- Click to remove any of the four placeholders from handouts.

3. Click the Handout Masters contextual tab and then click Slide Orientation or Handout Orientation, and choose Portrait or Landscape.

4. Click Slides Per Page, and choose an option from the gallery.

5. Click Background Styles, and choose a background for the handouts from the gallery.

6. Click the various tools in the Edit Theme group to choose formatting options from the various galleries.

7. Click Close Master View when you’re done with handout master settings to return to Normal view.

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You can use the Insert tab when in Handout Master view to insert graphics that appear only on your handouts. For example, you might want to insert a logo and the words "Company Confidential" on handouts to ensure that people treat the handouts as private.

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To leave background graphics off handouts, which can make the text easier to read, select the Hide Background Graphics check box in the Background group on the Handout Master tab.

Work with Notes Master

1. On the View tab, click Notes Master in the Master Views group.

2. Click in a placeholder and enter text or replace the date or slide number element already there.

3. Drag a placeholder to a new location.

4. Clear check boxes to remove any of the six placeholders from handouts.

5. Click Slide Orientation or Notes Page Orientation, and choose Portrait or Landscape.

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You can drag any placeholder to a new location.

6. Click to choose a background for the handouts from the Background Styles gallery.

7. Click the tools in the Edit Theme group to choose formatting options from the various galleries.

8. Click Close Master View when you’re done with notes master settings to return to Normal view.

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Be sure to format the notes body so that you can easily read your notes while making a presentation—often in a darkened room. Make the font size large, and use a font that is clean and easy to read.

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For more information about formatting text to make it easily readable, see Formatting Text.

Chapter 6. Building a Presentation

In this section:

- Understanding How to Build a Presentation

- Building a Slide

- Working with Text

- Finding and Replacing Text

- Manipulating Placeholders

Although a presentation can contain text, graphics, animations, and special elements such as charts and WordArt, most presentations begin with you entering some kind of text. Text is used for the major headings for each slide as well as for the individual bullet points that provide the details of your topic. You can enter text in an outline or in placeholders on individual slides in Normal view in Microsoft PowerPoint 2010. (For more about entering text in an outline, see Chapter 7.)

In this section you discover how to insert a new slide in your presentation and enter text on it. Once you enter text, you often need to edit it by modifying what you entered, cutting or copying text and then pasting it in new locations, or finding and replacing text. As you insert and edit text, knowing how to undo and redo actions as you go is another useful skill you’ll be very glad to have, and it’s covered in this section, too.

Finally, in this section you work with manipulating the placeholders where you enter text. You can apply formatting to placeholders and align the text within them. One other feature you learn about is the Selection And Visibility pane, which aides you in selecting and manipulating placeholders on slides.

Understanding How to Build a Presentation

You enter most text, as well as elements such as pictures and tables, by using placeholders on slides in Normal view. You can format placeholders to use fill colors and borders. Slide title and subtitle placeholders typically hold a single heading, while content placeholders are used to enter a bulleted list of key points. When you enter text in placeholders, it is reflected in the Outline tab in Normal view.

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There are other text-only slide layouts as well as a blank slide. Try inserting a Section Header or a Two Content slide layout from the Layout gallery. You can add text to a blank slide by using a text box (see Add a Text Box), but remember that text in a text box is not reflected in the presentation outline.

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Although this section deals with the basics of inserting slides with a few different layouts, I deal with different slide layouts in more detail in Chapter 9.

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When you insert a new slide, it uses the layout of the slide that’s displayed when you click the New Slide button, except when you have a title slide displayed. PowerPoint assumes that you want only one title slide for your presentation, so when you display a title slide and click New Slide, the new slide uses the Title And Content layout.

Building a Slide

When you open a blank presentation, PowerPoint provides you with one blank title slide. A title slide contains two placeholders—a title and a subtitle. When you insert another slide, a slide that uses the Title And Content layout is inserted by default. This layout contains a title placeholder where you enter the topic for the slide and a placeholder for inserting bulleted points for that topic. Other slide layouts also use text placeholders, but these are the two types of slides you use most often for building presentation contents. (See Chapter 10, for information about working with slide layouts that include graphic elements.)

Insert a New Slide

1. Click the Home tab.

2. Click New Slide to insert a new title and content slide.

3. Click the arrow on the New Slide button, and then choose a layout option from the Office Theme gallery that appears. With this method, you can choose any layout you want as you’re creating the new slide.

Enter Text on Slides

1. Click a title placeholder.

2. Type your text, and then click anywhere outside the placeholder.

3. Click a content placeholder, and type one line of text, press Enter, and then type the next line of text. Bullet points are added automatically.

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You can modify bullet point styles that are inserted in content placeholders. Click the arrow on the Bullets button in the Paragraph group on the Home tab and choose a different style, or click Bullets And Numbering at the bottom of the list to customize bullet styles.

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For information about formatting text you type into placeholders, see Formatting Text.

Insert a Symbol

1. Click in a placeholder where you want to insert a symbol.

2. Click the Insert tab.

3. Click Symbol.

4. Click the arrow on the Font list to choose a font set.

5. Scroll to locate the symbol you want to insert, and click it.

6. Click Insert. The symbol is inserted on the slide.

7. Continue to locate and insert symbols you need, and click Close when you’re done.

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All fonts have some symbols, such as percent and dollar signs, but if you’re looking for little pictures or design elements rather than text, your best bet is to choose from these font sets: Symbol, Wingdings, Wingdings 2 or 3, or Webdings.

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For some font sets you can narrow down the symbols available in the Symbols dialog box by choosing a category from the Subset list. For example, if you want symbols only for international currencies, choose the Currency Symbols category, and if you want only arrow symbols, choose Arrows.

Insert the Date and Time

1. Click the placeholder where you want to insert the date and time.

2. Click the Insert tab.

3. Click Date & Time.

4. Click a date and time format.

5. Click OK.

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If you want the date and time to update whenever you print or show your presentation, select the Update Automatically check box in the Date And Time dialog box before you click OK in step 5.

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You can also place the date and time in a footer on a slide master so that it appears on every slide in your presentation. See Chapter 5, for more about working with masters.

Working with Text

Most of us aren’t letter perfect the first time we write something. We need to go back and make changes and even undo some things we’ve done. Sometimes we need to move some text from one spot to another. To help out with these tasks, PowerPoint makes it easy to shift things around when you change your mind. You can edit text; cut, copy, and paste text; and undo or redo actions.

Edit Text

1. Click in a placeholder at the location in the text that you want to edit. (If you select text to edit it, the Mini toolbar containing formatting tools appears.)

2. Take any of the following actions:

- Press Delete to delete text to the right of the cursor one character at a time.

- Press Backspace to delete text to the left of the cursor one character at a time.

- Drag over text, and then press the Delete key to delete all selected text.

- Begin typing any additional or replacement text.

3. Click outside the placeholder.

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The Paste Special command allows you to paste text or objects that you cut or copy to your PowerPoint presentation in different formats, such as HTML, which is readable by Web browsers, or OLE (object linking and embedding), which pastes an icon rather than the actual content in your presentation. For more about working with a presentation outline, see Chapter 7.

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For information about cutting, copying, and pasting entire slides or duplicating slide contents, see Managing Slides in Slide Sorter View.

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You can also edit text in the Outline pane. Remember that any change you make to placeholder text on a slide is reflected in the outline and vice versa. See Chapter 7 for more about working with a presentation outline.

Undo and Redo an Action

1. After performing an action such as typing, formatting, or moving an object, click the Undo [Action] button on the Quick Access Toolbar. The action is reversed.

2. To redo an undone action, click the Redo [Action] button.

3. If you want to undo a series of actions, click the arrow on the Undo [Action] button, and choose the actions from the list that appears.

CAUTION

You can’t undo an action you took prior to other actions without undoing every action you performed following it. In this case, it might be simplest to just make the change yourself by retyping, reformatting, or redoing whatever it was you did that you want undone.

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A quick and easy way to undo what you just did is to press Ctrl+Z. You can redo what you’ve undone by pressing Ctrl+Y.

Cut, Copy, and Paste Text

1. Click the Home tab.

2. Click the placeholder you want to copy, or drag to select text if you want to copy or cut and paste the text only (and not the placeholder).

3. Click Cut or Copy.

4. Click where you want to paste the cut or copied text.

5. Click Paste.

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If you click the arrow on the Paste button you can choose from a variety of special paste options that might allow you to keep original formatting, use destination formatting, or paste in a special format.

Finding and Replacing Text

Often when you create a presentation, you need to change every instance of a word or phrase. For example, your company might change the name of a product under development. In that case, finding and editing each instance manually can be time-consuming. Use the Find and Replace feature to easily find every instance and change them all instantly or one by one.

Find and Replace Text

1. Click the Home tab.

2. Click Find.

3. Enter a word or phrase you want to find and change.

4. Click Replace.

5. Enter the word or phrase with which you want to replace the original text.

6. Do one of the following:

- Click Find Next to find the next instance of the text.

- Click Replace to replace the currently selected instance of the text.

- Click Replace All to replace all instances of the text. Note that you are not asked to confirm this choice, but you can use the Undo action to revert changes if anything disastrous happens!

7. When you finish finding or replacing text, PowerPoint displays a confirming message. Click OK.

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Use the Match Case and Find Whole Words Only check boxes in the Find And Replace dialog box to narrow your search. If, for instance, you want to find the word Bell (a last name) and you don’t want lowercase instances of the word bell or words such as bellow, you could use both of these qualifiers in your find and replace operation.

Manipulating Placeholders

With the exception of text boxes (covered in Chapter 10), placeholders are where you create the elements of your presentation. They contain text, drawings, pictures, charts, and more. Placeholders provide an easy way to arrange the components of each slide, and because they come with certain predesigned formatting, they make adding everything from a bulleted list to a chart easy. By selecting a placeholder (made easier with the Selection And Visibility pane), you can align the contents of placeholders and format their backgrounds and borders.

Use the Selection And Visibility Pane

1. Display the slide you want to work on in Normal view, and click the Home tab.

2. Click Select in the Editing group, and choose Selection Pane.

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In addition to using the Selection And Visibility pane to help you select objects, you can click the Arrange button on the Home tab and use the Bring To Front and Send To Back buttons to move a selected item in a stack of items to the front or back of others.

3. In the Selection And Visibility pane, do any of the following:

- Click an item in the Shapes On This Slide list to select the object.

- Click Hide All to hide all items.

- Click Show All for an item again to display the item.

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If you click an object, the Format tab appears on the ribbon. This tab also contains the Arrange group of tools, including the Selection Pane, Bring To Front, and Send To Back buttons.

SEE ALSO

For more information about working with objects on your slides, see Chapter 10.

Align Placeholder Contents

1. Click the placeholder containing the text you want to align, and then click the Home tab.

2. If you want to align only one line of several, select the text you want to align.

3. Click any of the alignment buttons, and the text shifts accordingly.

CAUTION

Themes that you apply to your slides provide a certain design balance to elements on the page. Be sure that if you shift the alignment of text in placeholders that the text is balanced on the slide against any graphics or master elements such as footers.

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Use centered text for emphasis for a single line of text. If you’re working with bulleted lists, you should usually use left or justified alignment so that each bulleted item begins at the same place, making the list easier to follow.

Formatting Placeholders

1. Right-click the placeholder border, and choose Format Shape from the shortcut menu.

2. Click a category on the left.

3. Choose settings to add a fill color, add and adjust a border line, or add a shadow or 3-D effect. Notice that whatever settings you make are previewed on the placeholder.

4. Click Close to apply your new settings.

CAUTION

Don’t go overboard adding effects to placeholders, especially if your slide contains a lot of graphics and text. Let the text be the important element on any slide to help get your message across.

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After you apply a fill color to a placeholder, a quick way to change the fill color is to select the placeholder, click the Shape Fill button on the Format tab, and then choose a new color scheme for the presentation.

Chapter 7. Building a Presentation Outline

In this section:

- Understanding the Relationship of the Outline to Slides

- Working with the Outline

- Adding Text in the Outline Tab

- Working with Outline Contents

A tool for organizing your thoughts and information that has been around for quite some time is the outline. An outline breaks down information into multiple headings and subheading levels.

The outlining feature in Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 helps you use this valuable tool to enter text, reorganize it into topics and subtopics, and reorder the contents of your presentation.

You access the outlining feature from the Outline tab in the Slides/Outline pane in Normal view. If you are focused on entering a lot of text and not as much on the look of individual slides, it can be faster to enter that text in the Outline tab rather than on each individual slide.

When you enter text on a slide, the content is reflected in the outline, and vice versa. As you work in the outline, the slide that corresponds to the text you’re working on appears in the Slide pane, so you can see how changes to the outline affect the slide.

Another nice aspect of the outlining feature in PowerPoint is that you can cut and paste an outline you create in a Microsoft Word document into the Outline pane, where it can form the basis of your presentation. You can also copy text in the Outline pane of PowerPoint and paste it into a Word document to create a written report or a useful audience handout.

Understanding the Relationship of the Outline to Slides

Different slide layouts contain different placeholders, such as title, subtitle, text, and content placeholders. You can enter text in the placeholders on a slide or in the Outline tab of the Slides/Outline pane. When you enter text into title, subtitle, or text placeholders in the Slide pane, the text also appears in the outline. When you enter a top-level heading in the outline, PowerPoint creates a new slide, and that heading appears in the slide title placeholder. Any text that you enter at an indented level in the Outline pane becomes a bullet point in a text placeholder on the slide.

Graphics do not appear in the outline. Text that you enter in text boxes (which are drawing objects that are different from text placeholders) also doesn’t appear in the outline.

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What if you want to see a thumbnail of a slide but need more room to work in the outline? You can expand the Outline tab so that it fills about three-quarters of the screen, which leaves you with a small preview of the slide in the Slide pane and large, easy-to-read outline contents. To expand the Outline tab, drag the divider between the Outline tab and the Slide pane to the right as far as you can.

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If you have a long presentation and you expand the Outline tab to view more of the outline, the slide preview may be too small to be readable. Drag the zoom slider at the bottom-right corner of the PowerPoint window to quickly enlarge the slide preview but not the outline text.

Working with the Outline

You can work on an outline in the Outline tab in the Slides/Outline pane displayed at the left of the Slide pane in Normal view. The Outline tab lets you compare the outline with slides, which might include graphics or text boxes that don’t show up in the outline. Entering text in the outline can be faster than entering it on individual slides when you’re focused purely on presentation text content.

Display the Outline Tab

1. Click the View tab and then click the Normal View button.

2. Click the Outline tab.

3. Click the Outline View button on the Quick Access Toolbar to display the Outline view. (You may have to add this button to the toolbar by using PowerPoint Options.)

SEE ALSO

You can format text in both the Outline tab and the Slide pane to change the size or type. A change made in one place is reflected in the other. For more about changing text format, see Formatting Text.

SEE ALSO

You can add the Slides From Outline button to the Quick Access Toolbar. See Customizing the Quick Access Toolbar. When you click the button, you can insert an outline created in a word processor as slides in a blank presentation.

Adding Text in the Outline Tab

One of the benefits of the Outline tab is that it provides a fast way for you to enter text without having to deal with placeholders or graphics. After you enter the title, adding text to the outline consists of pressing Enter to create a new entry in the outline and then entering the text, which appears at the same outline level as the line before. You can then demote text to become a subheading (subtitle or bullet point) or promote a bullet point to become the next slide title.

Add a Slide Title

1. With the Outline tab selected in Normal view, click in the outline.

2. Enter some text, which is automatically formatted as a slide title, and press Enter. The slide title appears in both the outline and the Slide pane, and the cursor is in place to create the next slide title.

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The first slide is always created using the Title Slide layout. There is typically only one title slide in a presentation, although you could duplicate it and place the duplicate at the end of your presentation. A title slide consists of a title and subtitle. After the first slide, other slides you insert use the layout of the slide that’s selected when you insert them by default.

SEE ALSO

For more information about slide layouts, see Understanding What Slide Layouts and Themes Control.

Promote and Demote Headings

1. Enter text in the Outline tab, or click in an existing line of text to select it.

2. Click the Home tab, and choose Decrease List Level or Increase List Level from the Paragraph group. Decrease demotes the heading; Increase promotes it to a higher level in the outline.

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You can create many levels of indented bullets in an outline, but a couple of levels is usually the most you should ever have. As a rule, if you have that much detail to provide about a point, it really should be on a separate slide. Also, in the typical presentation environment, attendees can’t possibly see more than two levels of headings on the screen.

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After you demote a heading to the bullet point level, when you press Enter to create the next heading, that heading is also at the bullet point level. When you’re ready to start the next slide, you can type a heading and then promote it to slide title level. You can also use a shortcut to do this: press Shift+Tab to promote a heading or Tab to demote it.

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In PowerPoint 2010, when you select text, a Mini toolbar containing the most commonly used text formatting tools appears. You can use the Promote and Demote buttons on the Mini toolbar to structure your outline.

Working with Outline Contents

Once you enter your contents in your outline and demote and promote headings to create an outline structure, you might want to work with the outline contents in various ways. For example, at times you might want to view just the slide titles; at other times, you want to see all the detailed headings. You might also want to move headings around in an outline to reorganize the content.

Finally, text formatting is shown by default in an outline, but you can turn it off and back on easily, which can come in handy as you edit and review your slides.

Expand and Collapse the Outline

1. Click the Outline tab to display it, and then right-click a slide.

2. Do either of the following to collapse the outline:

- Choose Collapse to hide all the subheads for this slide title.

- Choose Collapse All to hide all the subheads for the presentation.

3. Do either of the following to expand the outline:

- Choose Expand to display all the subheads for this slide title.

- Choose Expand All to display all subheads in the presentation.

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In a longer presentation, collapse headings for slides that you’ve finished working on to speed up scrolling through your outline to find information you need. When you are ready to view all your contents again, right-click in the Outline tab and choose Expand, Expand All.

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Collapsing or expanding your outline has no effect on what appears in the Slide pane or on what appears when you give your slide presentation. A presentation in which you have collapsed the outline still shows all headings at every level when you display Slide Show view.

Move Slides or Text Up and Down in an Outline

1. Right-click the line of text or right-click and drag to select multiple lines of text that you want to move.

2. Choose Move Up or Move Down from the shortcut menu. The selected line or lines move one line up or down together.

3. To move an entire slide, you can drag the slide icon to a new position in the outline. A line appears, indicating the position of the text as you drag.

SEE ALSO

For information about editing text in slides, see Edit Text.

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If slide subheads are collapsed under the title and you move the title, all subheads move along with their slide title. If you don’t want to move a subhead, you must first expand the slide and either move the subhead to another family of headings (by cutting and pasting it elsewhere) or promote it to be a slide title on its own.

Turn Formatting On and Off in an Outline

1. Right-click anywhere in the Outline tab.

2. Choose Show Text Formatting from the shortcut menu.

3. To return text to the way it was, right-click in the Outline tab and choose Show Text Formatting again.

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Showing formatting in the outline is a good way to see whether you have a balance of fonts or formats such as bold in your presentation and to confirm that you have kept text formatting consistent overall. Another good way to view this is to display Slide Sorter view.

Insert a Word Outline into PowerPoint

1. Choose New from the File menu; click Blank Presentation and then click the Create button.

2. If necessary, add the Slides From Outline button to the Quick Access Toolbar (click the Customize Quick Access Toolbar button, choose More Commands, click Slides From Outline, click Add, and then click OK) and then click it.

3. In the Insert Outline dialog box, locate the Word document you want to use, and click Open. The outline content appears as slides in the blank presentation.

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You can also cut text from the PowerPoint Outline pane and paste it into Word to create a Word outline from it.

Chapter 8. Managing and Viewing Slides

In this section:

- Viewing Slides in the Slide Pane

- Managing Slides in Slide Sorter View

- Hiding and Unhiding Slides

- Working with Sections

Once you create some slides, you often need to work with them to refine your content. For example, you might want to move among your slides to review their content, delete or copy certain slides, move slides, or hide them in the presentation.

The Slides tab is useful for viewing the slides in your presentation as thumbnails, which appear next to the larger view of the selected slide displayed in Normal view.

Sometimes while refining a presentation, you need to delete a slide that’s no longer relevant or copy and paste a slide from one place—or presentation—into another. Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 also has a handy, one-step feature to duplicate a slide by copying and pasting. If the content of your presentation needs reorganizing, you can move slides around quite easily in Slide Sorter view.

You can use the new Section feature to break up larger presentations so that you can focus on the portion you want to work on. Sections are displayed both on the Slides tab in Normal view and in Slide Sorter view.

Finally, you can choose not to show certain slides while running your presentation by hiding them. You can easily unhide them when you need to use them again. Hiding and unhiding slides makes it easy to customize presentations for different audiences.

Viewing Slides in the Slide Pane

PowerPoint offers several views of your slides. In Normal view, the Slide pane is the central display area for the currently selected slide. Typically, this is where you focus on the design elements of each slide. In addition, the Slides tab, which is coupled with the Outline tab to the left of the Slide pane, shows all the slides in your presentation in order. Use this tab to see an overview of the look and contents of all slides side by side, with one slide shown in more detail.

Display Slides

1. Click the Slides tab in the Slides/Outline pane in Normal view. The Slides tab appears.

2. From the Slides tab, do any of the following to move around in your presentation:

- Click the Scroll Down button to move ahead in the presentation.

- Click the Scroll Up button to move back in the presentation.

- Drag the scroll bar to move ahead or back in the presentation by one or more slides at a time.

- Click just above or just below the scroll bar to move ahead or back in the presentation by one slide at a time.

3. Click a slide to select it. The slide is then displayed in the Slide pane.

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Can’t find the Slides tab? If the Slides/Outline pane is not visible in Normal view, you closed it at some point. Just click the Normal View button to restore it.

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You can resize the Slides tab to see more or fewer of the slides in your presentation and to enlarge the contents of each slide. Click the border between the Slides tab and the Slide pane and drag it to the right to enlarge the Slides tab (it can’t be expanded larger than a few inches) and to the left to shrink it.

Managing Slides in Slide Sorter View

As with anything you write, part of the process of building a PowerPoint presentation is revising and refining your content as you go along. Just as you edit a report by deleting or copying a sentence, you might delete a slide in a PowerPoint presentation or copy a slide so that you can base a new slide on existing content. It’s also typical to rearrange the flow of your thoughts as you write. In PowerPoint, that’s as easy as moving a slide around in your presentation. All these tasks are simple to do in Slide Sorter view.

Delete Slides

1. Click the Slide Sorter View button to display Slide Sorter view.

2. Right-click a slide.

3. Choose Delete Slide from the shortcut menu.

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You can use the Zoom slider in the bottom-right corner of the PowerPoint window to zoom in on and out of the selected slide’s contents in the Slide pane. If you zoom out and enlarge the contents and then need more space to show the enlarged slide on your screen, you can shrink the Slides tab by using the method described in the Try This tip on the previous page.

CAUTION

If you delete a slide and exit PowerPoint, that slide is gone forever. Be sure you don’t need any of a slide’s contents before you delete it.

SEE ALSO

Instead of deleting a slide, you can temporarily hide it from view. Then, if you decide you need the contents later, you can simply unhide it. See Hiding and Unhiding Slides for help with this feature.

Copy and Paste Slides

1. With Slide Sorter view displayed, click a slide.

2. Click the Home tab on the ribbon.

3. Click the Copy button.

4. Click the slide you want to paste the original slide after.

5. On the Home tab, click Paste.

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You can also use keyboard shortcuts to cut, copy, and paste selected slides. Keyboard shortcuts are displayed in the Enhanced ScreenTip that appears when you hold your mouse over an item on the ribbon. Use Ctrl+X to cut, Ctrl+C to copy, and Ctrl+V to paste.

SEE ALSO

Use the procedures here to cut, copy, and paste whole slides. For more about cutting, copying, and pasting specific elements from the contents of slides, see Cut, Copy, and Paste Text.

Duplicate Slides

1. With Slide Sorter view displayed, click a slide.

2. On the ribbon, click the Home tab.

3. Click the arrow on the New Slide button, and choose Duplicate Selected Slides. The duplicate slide appears to the right of the original slide.

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After you duplicate a slide, you can move the duplicate wherever you want in the presentation and make changes to it. See the next task for more about moving slides.

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You can also cut, copy, paste, and duplicate slides by using the Slides tab in Normal view. Just right-click any slide on the tab, and choose the appropriate command from the shortcut menu that appears.

Move a Slide

1. With Slide Sorter view displayed, click a slide.

2. Drag the slide to where you want it to appear in the presentation. A vertical line indicates the new position.

3. Release the mouse button to place the slide in the new position.

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You can use the Outline tab in Normal view to move slides around in text form. Right-click a slide icon and choose Move Up or Move Down to move a slide one position at a time, or drag the slide icon to any other position in the outline.

SEE ALSO

For more about managing slides in the Outline tab, see Move Slides or Text Up and Down in an Outline.

Hiding and Unhiding Slides

Sometimes you might want to use a subset of slides for a presentation, or perhaps you need to hide a single slide because it contains information not appropriate for a particular audience. For example, you might choose not to show a management benefits slide when you’re making a presentation about benefits to nonmanagers. In that case, you can easily hide the slide, give the presentation, and then unhide it.

Hide Slides

1. Click the Slide Sorter View button.

2. Click a slide to select it. If you want to hide more than one contiguous slide, click the first slide, hold down Shift, and then click the last slide. To select noncontiguous slides, click the first one, hold down Ctrl, and then click additional slides to select them.

3. On the ribbon, click the Slide Show tab.

4. In the Set Up group, click Hide Slide to hide all selected slides. A gray box appears over the slide number, indicating that it is hidden; the slide does not appear when you run the presentation.

Unhide Slides

1. With Slide Sorter view displayed, click the slide or slides you want to unhide.

2. On the Slide Show tab, click Hide Slide in the Set Up group. The gray box disappears from around the slide number. The slide now appears when you run the presentation.

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Try printing a presentation that includes hidden slides. When you display the Print options on the File tab in Backstage view, you can click the Print Hidden Slides check box in the Print pane so that slides you’ve hidden are included in the printout.

SEE ALSO

For more information about printing presentations with hidden slides, see Choose Which Slides to Print.

Working with Sections

Sections are a new feature in PowerPoint 2010 that help you find your way around larger presentations more easily. They function something like headings in a long report, helping you find groups of slides that address similar topics. When you create a section and name it, its name appears in a bar separating the slides within the section from others in the presentation. You can use a feature on that bar to expand or collapse sections, which is useful for focusing on just one section at a time.

Add a Section

1. Click the Slide Sorter View button.

2. Click to the left of the first slide in the next section.

3. On the Home tab, click Section, and then choose Add Section.

4. Repeat steps 1 through 3 to create additional sections.

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Create several sections in your presentation, and then in Slide Sorter view, click the small arrow to the left of a section’s name to collapse it. Click the arrow again to expand that section. Experiment with using this feature to more easily navigate through a larger presentation.

Rename a Section

1. Click the Slide Sorter View button.

2. Right-click a section.

3. Choose Rename Section from the shortcut menu.

4. In the Rename Section dialog box, enter a new name and click Rename.

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You can also work with sections from the Slides tab in Normal view. Right-click the section to work with the same shortcut menu displayed in step 3 above.

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You can also rearrange sections in your presentation by choosing Move Section Up or Move Section Down from the shortcut menu that appears when you right-click a section.

Delete a Section

1. Click the Slide Sorter View button.

2. Right-click a slide and choose Remove Section from the shortcut menu. The section (but not the slides within it) disappears.

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If you want to get rid of all your sections at some point, choose Remove All Sections from the shortcut menu that appears when you right-click a section. If you want to get rid of both a section and the slides within it, choose Remove Section & Slides.

Chapter 9. Using Slide Layouts and Themes

In this section:

- Understanding What Slide Layouts and Themes Control

- Working with Layouts

- Working with Themes

- Changing Theme Colors and Fonts

A presentation has to have solid content and clearly fleshed-out topics, but it must also hold your audience’s attention. Visual enhancements such as color, font styles, and graphics go a long way toward impressing your audience with your professional approach.

Microsoft has built in several design aspects for your presentations in PowerPoint 2010. These design elements, including themes, color schemes, and slide layouts, offer a built-in consistency through a common look and feel. This design consistency means that you don’t have to be a graphic designer to design an attractive presentation.

Themes can be applied to individual slides or to multiple slides in your presentation. A theme includes background colors, graphics, font styles and sizes, and alignment of placeholders and text.

Layouts control how many and what types of placeholders appear on a slide. For example, a layout might contain only a slide title placeholder or a slide title plus content placeholders. (Content placeholders can contain several kinds of content, such as a chart, table, picture, SmartArt object, or video.)

Color schemes are preset combinations of colors for your slide backgrounds, text, and graphic elements.

Understanding What Slide Layouts and Themes Control

Slide layouts provide a basic structure to your slides by including placeholders that can contain title or subtitle text, bulleted lists, or a variety of graphic elements (referred to as content) in a variety of combinations. By selecting the right slide layout, you make the job of adding text and content easier because placeholders can help to automate the building of slides.

While slide layouts control the types of slide content, slide themes are concerned with the design elements of a slide. These might include a background color or an effect such as a gradient; font styles, sizes, and alignment; bullet styles; and graphic elements.

Working with Layouts

A slide layout in PowerPoint is like a blueprint for a house; it establishes the various types of "rooms" that appear on your slide. Just as certain types of rooms contain certain types of furniture, slides can contain different types of objects. A title and content slide holds a title and bullet list, while a picture with caption layout can hold an image and text describing it.

The placeholders in a layout automate tasks involved with creating and formatting content specific to each type of placeholder.

Apply a Layout

1. Display the slide whose layout you want to change, and click the Home tab.

2. Click Layout to open the Layout gallery.

3. Click a layout to apply it.

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You can determine a slide’s layout when you first create it. Click the Home tab, and then click the arrow on the New Slide button. Click the layout you prefer, and the slide is created with that layout applied.

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PowerPoint 2003 and earlier versions include slide layouts with bullet point content and others with graphic and multimedia content. In PowerPoint 2010 and 2007, layouts with content now include both bullet point and graphic/multimedia content tools on one slide. You have to pick one or the other, though: when you use either of these tools to add content to these placeholders, the other tool disappears.

Add a Placeholder to a Slide Layout

1. Click the View tab.

2. Click Slide Master. The slide master appears.

3. Click Insert Placeholder.

4. Select a style of placeholder to insert.

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If you’d rather create an additional placeholder on only one slide, try duplicating an existing placeholder. First, select the placeholder on the slide. Then, on the Home tab, click the arrow on the Copy button and choose the Duplicate command. A copy of the placeholder is pasted on the slide.

5. Click the slide, and then drag to draw the placeholder where you want it to appear.

6. If necessary, click the placeholder to select it, and then drag it to a new position on the slide.

7. Click the Close Master View button to close the slide master. The additional placeholder now appears on every slide of that type in the presentation.

SEE ALSO

For information about working in Slide Master view, see Making Changes to a Slide Master.

Working with Themes

Themes in PowerPoint provide a suite of design settings that give your slides a consistent look and feel. You can apply a theme with a single action, putting in place background graphics and colors and font and font size settings. The gallery of themes located on the Design tab helps you preview and easily choose the best look for your presentation.

Apply a Slide Theme

1. Click the Design tab.

2. Click the More arrow in the Themes gallery.

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You can find additional themes online. Because nearly everybody who creates PowerPoint presentations picks from the same set of built-in themes, at some point you may want to show folks something entirely new. Finding updated themes becomes a way to differentiate your presentation.

SEE ALSO

For information about making individual changes to design elements on slides, see Chapter 11.

3. Move your mouse pointer over the themes to preview them on your slides.

4. Right-click a theme, and then click one of two options:

- Choose Apply To All Slides to apply the theme to every slide in your presentation.

- Choose Apply To Selected Slides to apply the theme only to the currently selected slide or slides.

SEE ALSO

When you apply a new theme, it creates a master. For more information about working with slide masters, see Understanding How Slide Masters Work.

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If you want to apply a theme to several slides, it’s easiest to display Slide Sorter view, click the first slide you want to apply the theme to, and then hold down the Ctrl key and click other slides. Follow the preceding steps to apply the theme to the selected slides.

Find Slide Themes Online

1. With your computer logged on to the Internet, click the File tab.

2. Click New.

3. Enter a search term in the Search Office.com For Templates search box.

4. Click the Start Searching button.

5. In the results that appear, click a thumbnail.

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By default, the blank Office theme is applied to new presentations. You can set a different theme as the default theme to be applied to every new presentation. First locate the theme in the Theme gallery, and then right-click it and select Set As Default Theme.

6. Click the Download button to download the template. PowerPoint automatically opens a new presentation with your new template applied.

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If you can’t find a theme you thought you downloaded, try choosing the Browse For Themes command at the bottom of the Theme gallery. In the Choose Theme Or Themed Document dialog box, enter the name of the theme (the Office Themes and Themed Document format is specified by default) or use tools to browse for the theme in the various folders on your computer.

Changing Theme Colors and Fonts

Themes include settings for colors and fonts. A theme’s color scheme affects most elements on your slide, including background, text, and graphics. Themes provide sets of colors that work well together, so your slides maintain an attractive and cohesive look. Font schemes include settings for heading and body fonts. When you apply a theme, it contains a preset color scheme and fonts, but you can change these to give your slides a different look.

Select a Different Theme Color Scheme

1. Click the Design tab.

2. Click Colors in the Themes group.

3. Right-click a color scheme, and choose Apply To All Slides or Apply To Selected Slides.

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Be sure to use color combinations that work well in the space where you will give your presentation. Most color combinations PowerPoint offers should help to keep your text readable, but if you decide to change the color of an individual element yourself, remember that light text colors are hard to read in a lighter space.

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You can also apply theme elements to all slides by applying them through the slide master. For more information about working with masters, see Display and Navigate Masters.

Change Theme Fonts

1. Click the Design tab.

2. Click Fonts.

3. Move your mouse pointer over the fonts to preview them on your slides.

4. Click a font style to apply it to all slides.

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To create your own font theme, choose Create New Theme Fonts from the Fonts gallery. Select a heading font and body font, give the font theme a name, and click Save. The theme is now available in the Fonts gallery.

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To learn how to manually change fonts for selected text, see Applying Fonts.

Chapter 10. Inserting Media and Drawing Objects

In this section:

- Working with Tables

- Editing Tables

- Creating and Modifying Charts

- Inserting Clip Art

- Creating WordArt

- Working with SmartArt

- Working with Pictures

- Inserting Media Objects

- Creating a Photo Album

- Drawing Shapes and Text Boxes

The ability to add graphical elements to your slides lets you add a visual pizzazz to your presentation that helps keep viewers entertained and interested. In a multimedia-savvy world, people expect more than black bullet points and a white background, and Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 helps you meet those expectations.

Although visual elements should never overpower the message of your presentation, some visual elements, such as photographs or charts, might actually help you convey your message in a "picture is worth a thousand words" way. Sometimes you use elements such as illustrations, shapes, or WordArt effects simply to add visual interest. Using video or audio clips allows you to bring other people into the presentation to make a point or give a testimonial or demonstrate a product feature.

In this section, you explore the process of inserting various visual elements into slides—tables, charts, pictures, clip art, WordArt, audio, and even video clips. Once you insert such elements, move on to Chapter 11, where you discover how to format and modify those elements to best effect.

Working with Tables

Tables allow you to arrange information in cells organized by rows and columns to show the relationships among various sets of data. Tables offer the option of formatting those columns and rows with color and shading, which helps the person viewing the table differentiate the sets of data at a glance.

Insert a Table

1. Click the Insert tab.

2. Click Table.

3. In the Insert Table drop-down, drag across the squares to select the number of rows and columns you want to include in your table.

4. Release your mouse.

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You can also insert a table by using an icon in the set of icons that appears in any empty content placeholder. Click the icon at the upper left to display a dialog box where you can specify the number of rows and columns for the table.

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The Comparison slide layout includes a title placeholder, two subtitle placeholders, and two content placeholders. If you want to include two tables that viewers can compare side by side, with a heading describing the contents of each, this is a useful layout to use.

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Although this section deals with the basics of inserting tables, please see Editing Tables for more about formatting tables.

Insert Rows and Columns

1. Click the table to select it.

2. Click the Table Tools, Layout tab.

3. Place your mouse pointer above a column or to the left of a row until the pointer turns into an arrow, and then click to select the column or row.

4. Click the Insert Left or Insert Right button to insert a column to the left or right of the selected column.

5. Click the Insert Above or Insert Below button to insert a row above or below the selected row.

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You can split the cells of a table column in two to include two sets of data without having to add a new column. Select the column as described in step 3 in the next task, and then click the Split Cells button on the Table Tools, Layout tab. In the Split Cells dialog box, click OK to accept the default number of columns. The column splits in two parts, and you can enter text in each.

Editing Tables

There are several things you can do to help make your tables more easily readable, including adding borders to cells to keep the information separate and aligning text in cells both horizontally and vertically. You can also merge two or more cells. For example, you can merge cells so that the title of a table runs across all the columns in the table.

Modify Table Borders

1. Drag across a table to select all its cells.

2. Click the Table Tools, Design tab.

3. Click the arrow at the right side of the Borders tool.

4. Choose a border style such as All Borders to outline each and every cell in the table or Outside Borders to surround the outside of the table with a border.

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You can use the Draw Table tool to draw borders around cells one by one. Click the Draw Table tool on the Table Tools, Design tab. Then, using the pencil-shaped pointer, click any cell edge to draw a line. This method draws only one cell edge at a time. To get rid of a cell border, you can use the Erase tool on the same tab.

SEE ALSO

For information about formatting table styles and adding background colors, see Formatting Objects.

Align Text in Cells

1. Drag across the cells to select the ones whose text you want to align.

2. Click the Table Tools, Layout tab.

3. Click the Align Text Left, Center, or Align Text Right buttons to align the text from left to right in the cells.

4. Click the Align Top, Center Vertically, or Align Bottom buttons to align the text between the top and bottom of the cells.

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You can also click the Arrange button on the Home tab, click Align, and then choose any of the alignment commands from the menu that appears.

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To align a table relative to the edges of your slides, click Arrange, Align, and choose Align To Slide.

Merge Cells

1. Drag to select the cells you want to merge.

2. Click the Table Tools, Layout tab.

3. Click Merge Cells.

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To return the merged cells to individual cells again, drag to select the merged cell, and then click the Split Cells button on the Table Tools, Layout tab. In the dialog box that appears, enter the number of columns or rows you want to split the merged cell into, and click OK.

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You can merge any number of cells, including cells in multiple rows and columns. This is often useful for tables you use to create forms that might have nonuniform cells for holding different types of information or pictures of various sizes.

Creating and Modifying Charts

Charts in PowerPoint are based on Excel’s charting feature. When you insert a chart, Excel opens so that you can enter the underlying data for the chart. When Excel opens, it displays some sample data, which should help you enter your specific data in the proper format to form the basis of a chart. Charts are wonderful tools for providing lots of information in a quickly understood, visual format. PowerPoint’s chart feature offers dozens of styles of charts to choose from.

Insert a Chart

1. Click the Insert tab.

2. Click Chart.

3. Click a category of chart type on the left.

4. Click a chart style from the thumbnails displayed.

5. Click OK.

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You can also insert a chart by using the icons that appear in an empty content placeholder. Click the icon in the middle of the top row of icons to display the Create Chart dialog box, where you can specify the type and style of chart as outlined in the preceding steps.

6. Modify the sample data with your own source data for the chart.

7. Click the Close button in the Excel window to return to PowerPoint and view the chart.

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You can change the chart type at any time by clicking Change Chart Type on the Chart Tools, Design tab. The Change Chart Type dialog box (which is identical to the Create Chart dialog box) appears for you to select another type of chart.

Change Chart Style and Layout

1. Click a chart to select it.

2. Click the Chart Tools, Design tab.

3. Click the More button on the Chart Layouts gallery.

4. Click a new layout to apply it.

5. Click the More button on the Chart Styles gallery.

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Chart types control the chart objects, such as whether your chart uses bars, lines, or pie wedges to represent data. Chart layouts control whether your chart includes a legend, the source data, and elements such as grid lines. The Chart Styles gallery offers sets of colors for chart elements and the chart background.

6. Click a new style to apply it.

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A layout applies formatting to your chart, but you can modify each aspect of the chart layout manually by using the tools on the Chart Tools, Layout tab. The next task explains how to modify the legend display, for example.

Display or Hide a Chart Legend

1. Click on a chart to select it.

2. Click the Chart Tools, Layout tab.

3. Click Legend.

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Instead of choosing a placement for the legend by selecting a layout or by using the Legend button, you can move the legend to any position you want by dragging it within the chart box.

4. Click a layout position for the legend, or click None to turn the legend off.

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You can format a legend by right-clicking it in the chart and choosing Format Legend. In the Format Legend dialog box, you can modify the position of the legend and the line style surrounding it, add a fill color as a background for it, and so on.

Inserting Clip Art

Clip art is a treasure trove of absolutely free art that you can use in your presentations to help get your message across or simply to add some visual excitement. Clip art includes photos, illustrations, movies, and sounds. PowerPoint comes with one collection of clip art, but you can also browse the Internet to access other collections. You can use the Clip Art task pane to search for and insert clip art.

Search for Clip Art

1. With a slide layout containing a content placeholder displayed, click the Clip Art icon.

2. Enter a search term in the Search For box to find related art.

3. Click the arrow on the Results Should Be list, and choose the format of media you want to search.

SEE ALSO

For information about rotating clip art objects, see Rotating and Flipping Objects.

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Although clip art is typically free, other art you find on the Internet is not. You must get permission to use any art or text you find online and sometimes must pay a fee. If you want additional free clip art, a safe bet is to go to Microsoft Office Online and browse for clip art collections.

4. Click Go.

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To view clip art collections available from the Microsoft Office Web site, you can select the Include Office.com Content check box under the Results Should Be list in the Clip Art task pane. You must be logged on to the Internet to view these collections.

Insert Clip Art

1. After performing a search for clip art, scroll through the results in the Clip Art task pane by using the scroll bar.

2. To insert a clip, click the thumbnail of the clip, or...

3. Click the arrow along the side of the clip and choose Insert.

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After you locate a clip you want to use, you can also drag it to a slide in your presentation.

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You don’t have to use a content placeholder to insert clip art. You can insert it anywhere on any slide layout by clicking the Clip Art button on the Insert tab. This opens the Clip Art task pane. Follow the steps in Search for Clip Art to locate and insert clip art on your slide.

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Clip art often appears larger than you want it for your presentation, overlapping other elements on your slide. Don’t worry! Chapter 11 provides steps for resizing and moving clip art on your slides.

Creating WordArt

WordArt is a tool that allows you to apply interesting effects such as curves or 3-D views to any text. WordArt is best used to call attention to an important short phrase, such as "Free!" or "All New." The distortions of WordArt designs can make longer phrases hard to read. You first insert a WordArt placeholder, then enter text into it, and then apply various effects.

Insert WordArt

1. Click the Insert tab.

2. Click WordArt.

3. Click a WordArt style.

4. Type your text in the placeholder.

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You can also select text in your presentation and then follow the steps to insert WordArt. In this case, the WordArt placeholder appears with the selected text already displayed in it.

5. Click outside the placeholder to view the WordArt.

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You can resize WordArt easily by clicking a handle around the edges and dragging out or in. To keep the object’s original proportions, be sure to drag only a corner handle.

Apply Effects to WordArt

1. Click the WordArt object to select it.

2. Click the Drawing Tools, Format tab.

3. Click Shape Effects.

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In versions of PowerPoint prior to Microsoft Office 2007, you chose one set of effects, such as shape, 3-D perspective, and colors, to apply to your WordArt. In PowerPoint 2010 and 2007, WordArt offers more powerful design tools, although you have to apply various effects individually. You can use the Shape Effects, Shape Outline, and Shape Fill tools on the Drawing Tools, Format tab to individually apply these effects. You can also use the QuickStyles gallery to choose preset combinations of effects.

4. Move your mouse pointer over a category, and another gallery appears.

5. Move your pointer over various effects to preview them on your WordArt object.

6. Click an effect, and it’s applied to the WordArt. You can apply multiple categories of effects.

Working with SmartArt

A feature that was new in PowerPoint 2007 and is also in PowerPoint 2010 is SmartArt, a souped-up diagramming tool that allows you to quickly create all kinds of diagrams and workflow charts. After you select and insert a SmartArt diagram, you can use a simple outline pane to enter the text that populates the various boxes and shapes in the diagram. You can insert or delete elements easily. SmartArt also works like the shapes built into PowerPoint, so after you insert a diagram, you can change various elements of it by altering its shapes, adding shapes, modifying their colors, and more.

Insert SmartArt

1. Display a slide with a layout containing a content placeholder.

2. Click the SmartArt icon in the placeholder (in the top-right corner).

3. In the Choose A SmartArt Graphic dialog box, click a category on the left.

4. Click a style in the center.

5. Click OK to insert the SmartArt object.

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You can close the text entry box to the left of a SmartArt object by clicking the Close button in the top-right corner. To redisplay it, click the left-facing arrow along the left side of the SmartArt object.

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Some SmartArt styles include picture icons. Click these to display the Insert Picture dialog box. Locate a picture file you want to use, and click Insert. This feature is useful for diagrams such as organizational charts in which you want to insert photos of individuals in the organization.

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For more information about working with objects on your slides, see Formatting Objects.

Add Text to SmartArt

1. Click the SmartArt placeholder to open it for editing.

2. Type the text for the first heading

3. Click in the next text box, and type the next heading.

4. Headings appear in the SmartArt graphic. Press the Up or Down arrow key to move between headings, and then continue to fill in the headings. If you want to add an additional heading, press Enter after typing a heading.

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To insert SmartArt in a placeholder that doesn’t contain content icons, just click the Insert tab and then click the SmartArt button to insert SmartArt anywhere on the slide.

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The Tab key works a little differently in SmartArt. If you press Tab after clicking a heading placeholder, the cursor does not move to the next heading as it does in some forms and programs. Instead, if you click a heading placeholder and press Tab, the heading is indented one level. If you click a heading and press Shift+Tab, the heading moves up one level in the outline.

Working with Pictures

If you have taken photos yourself or somebody has provided photos, using them in PowerPoint can add to your presentation’s impact. Perhaps you have a photo of your newest product for a sales presentation, or a photo of your soccer team in action for a school sports presentation. Inserting a photo onto a slide is easy to do. Once a picture is inserted, you can trim away unwanted portions by using the Crop tool.

Insert a Picture

1. Display a slide with a layout that contains a content placeholder.

2. Click the Insert Picture From File icon.

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The Photo Album feature allows you to create groups of photos to help you organize your images. For more about this feature, see Creating a Photo Album.

3. Locate the picture file you want to insert, and click it to select it.

4. Click Insert.

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Insert a picture anywhere on a slide by clicking the Picture button on the Insert tab.

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For more information about formatting pictures by using the Picture Tools, Format tab on the ribbon, see Working with Picture Tools.

Crop a Picture

1. Click a picture to select it.

2. Click the Picture Tools, Format tab.

3. Click Crop.

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If you just want a smaller picture, you can resize it rather than remove some of the picture by cropping. To resize a picture, select it, click any of the handles that appear, and then drag in or out.

4. Click any of the lines that appear around the edge of the picture, and then drag inward to crop the picture. Continue cropping from various sides until the picture appears as you want it to.

5. Press the Esc key, or click anywhere outside the picture to turn off the Crop tool.

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If you crop too much from your picture, you can use the Crop tool to drag outward again and restore the portion you cropped. You can do this even after deactivating the cropping session in which you first trimmed the picture.

Inserting Media Objects

Sprinkling sounds and video into your presentations can add some sparkle or even help you bring a point home with flair. When you insert multimedia objects onto slides, a video object is indicated by an illustration icon, and an audio object is indicated by a small speaker icon. You can choose to play the video or sound object as soon as the slide it’s placed on appears or when you click the object while running in Slide Show view.

Insert Video or Audio

1. Click the Insert tab.

2. Click the Video or Audio button.

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You can also insert a media clip from the Clip Art task pane. When searching for clip art, just select Videos or Audio in the Results Should Be list. By inserting a media clip in this way, you can use a preview feature to see or hear it before inserting the object. See Inserting Clip Art for more about how to do this.

3. Locate the file you want to insert, and click Insert.

4. Click the Play/Pause button in the toolbar beneath the media icon to preview the file.

5. Click the Video/Audio Tools, Playback tab, and then click Automatically or On Click to select how you want the object to run.

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If you set up a media clip to play automatically when a slide appears during a slide show, it plays once. If you want to play it again, you can click the object to start it over.

Creating a Photo Album

If you want to create a slide show or a portion of a show that consists of a series of photos, you can use a feature called Photo Album. A photo album is a tool you use to set up a series of photos and text boxes, one each per slide in sequence. You can include captions for the photos, and you can also make use of photo editing tools included in the Photo Album feature. These tools allow you to rotate photos or change their brightness or contrast.

Insert a New Photo Album

1. Click the Insert tab.

2. Click Photo Album.

3. Click the File/Disk button in the Photo Album dialog box.

4. Locate a picture to insert, and then click the Insert button. Repeat this for as many photos as you want to include in the album.

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You can edit a photo album once you’ve created it. Click the arrow on the Photo Album button, and then choose Edit Photo Album. In the Edit Photo Album dialog box, use the tools to remove photos, add photos, rearrange photos, or change any of the picture or layout options.

5. If you want to include a text slide, click the New Text Box button.

6. Use any of the tools to modify your photo album.

7. Click Create to save the album. The new presentation is created. Save it as a stand-alone presentation or insert it into a larger presentation.

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After you create a photo album, you can modify the individual pictures by resizing, rotating, or moving them on the slides. For more information about working with objects, see Rotating and Flipping Objects.

Drawing Shapes and Text Boxes

You can use the Shapes feature in PowerPoint to draw a variety of objects—from lines, arrows, and boxes to scrolls, callouts, and action buttons. When you draw a shape, you can enter text in it; however, that text does not appear in your presentation outline. If you draw an action button, you can then associate an action with that button, such as running another program or playing a sound when you click the button during a slide show. In addition to various shapes, you can draw a text box, which is simply a placeholder where you can enter text. By default, a text box has no border, so the text appears to float on your page. Text in text boxes is not reflected in the presentation outline.

Draw a Shape

1. Click the Insert tab.

2. Click Shapes.

3. Click a shape. Your mouse pointer turns into a plus sign.

4. Click anywhere on your slide, and then drag to draw an object of whatever size you need.

5. If you draw an action button, a dialog box appears in which you can choose to jump to another slide or presentation, run a program, run a macro, initiate an action, or play a sound. Make the settings you need.

6. Click OK to save the settings.

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You can use an action button setting to link to a URL. With your computer connected to the Internet, this allows you to display a Web site during your presentation. Use this feature to show your company’s Web site or to bring up an image or data on another site to help support your presentation’s point.

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There are two tabs in the Action Settings dialog box, Mouse Click and Mouse Over. Depending on which tab you use to make settings, the action is initiated when you click the object or when you pass your mouse over the object during the presentation.

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After you draw a shape on your slide, you can just click it and begin typing to add text.

Add a Text Box

1. Click the Insert tab.

2. Click Text Box. Your pointer turns into a plus sign.

3. Drag on the slide to draw the text box, which remains open for editing.

4. Type text, and then click outside the box.

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You can format a text box. Right-click the text, and choose Format Shape. In the Format Shape dialog box, use the various categories of settings to add fill color, an outside border, 3-D and rotation effects, and more. When you select a shape you’ve drawn, the Drawing Tools, Format tab becomes available, which you can also use to make formatting changes.

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In addition to adding action buttons to your slides, you can use effects such as animations and transitions to make your presentation more dynamic. See Chapter 12, for more about working with animations and transitions on slides.

Chapter 11. Formatting Text, Objects, and Slides

In this section:

- Applying Fonts

- Formatting Text

- Formatting Objects

- Resizing Objects

- Rotating and Flipping Objects

- Grouping and Changing the Order of Objects

- Working with Picture Tools

- Using Video Tools

- Changing the Slide Background

If you select a theme for your slides, a set of font styles and colors are applied, but sometimes you might want to modify those styles or format a portion of the text for emphasis.

In addition to formatting text, placing a picture, a piece of line art, or a drawing on a slide helps you add some interest to your presentation, but it’s important that you make the object fit your overall design. That might mean resizing or rotating the object to align it better with other elements on the slide, or you might need to modify the color or brightness of an image to match your slide color scheme.

It may be useful to group objects that you insert on your slide so that you can move or modify them as one object, or to set an order for objects so that one appears on top of another if they overlap.

Finally, Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 provides tools you can use to customize pictures and videos that you place in your presentation and slide backgrounds that you choose for one or more of your slides.

In this section, you explore the many ways you can format text and objects in PowerPoint and learn how to resize, rotate, group, and order those objects.

Applying Fonts

Fonts are sets of design styles for text, and they add a distinct personality to your slide contents. Some fonts are playful, others are traditional, and still others are great for adding emphasis. The trick to choosing the right font for a presentation is to be sure that it fits the design mood of your slides. You should also be sure that it is readable by your audience in whatever setting you show your presentation.

Select a Font

1. Click the Home tab.

2. Select the text you want to format.

3. Click the arrow on the Font list.

4. Move your mouse pointer down the list of fonts. Each font is previewed on the selected text in turn as you move the pointer through the list.

5. Click the font you want to apply to the selected text.

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The fonts you see on the Font list are those that are installed with Windows. You can find additional font sets online, some free and some that you have to pay for. Visit the Microsoft Typography Web site at www.microsoft.com/typography/default.mspx to learn more about fonts and to find additional font sets.

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You can also use the Font dialog box to change the font; however, there is no preview of the font’s appearance using this method. Click the dialog box launcher in the Font group on the Home tab to open the dialog box, and then click the arrow in the Latin Text Font list to display the Font list. Choose the font you want, and then click OK to apply it to selected text. The main benefit of using the Font dialog box is that you can apply several formatting settings, such as size, font, and a bold effect, from one location.

Formatting Text

There are several things you can do to help make your text more interesting or more easily readable, including resizing it, changing its color, or applying effects such as bold, italic, or underline. Design themes apply preset font size and color, but when you want to fit more text on a page or emphasize some text, resizing is handy. When you want to call attention to certain text, changing its color or making it bold, for example, can make it stand out.

Change Text Color

1. Click the Home tab.

2. Select the text you want to format.

3. Click the Font Color tool.

4. Move your mouse pointer over the colors in the palette to preview them in the selected text.

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Be careful about choosing lighter colors that are hard to read unless your slides have a dark background against which a light color can stand out. Likewise, don’t choose dark font colors to use against a dark background. Remember, the whole point of your presentation is that viewers should be able to read it!

5. Click the More Colors option to view additional color choices.

6. Click either the Standard or Custom tab.

7. Click a color choice. The Custom tab offers a red-green-blue (RGB) color system that provides many more color choices and lets you make specific RGB settings.

8. Click OK to close the Color dialog box, and apply the new color.

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You can use the contextual toolbar that appears when you select text to change the font size and color or apply effects.

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To change the background color of your slides so that it works with your font color choices, see Changing the Slide Background.

Change Text Size

1. Click the Home tab.

2. Select the text you want to resize.

3. Click the arrow on the Font Size tool.

4. Move your pointer over the sizes, and they are previewed on the selected text.

5. Click a size to apply it.

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Not every single font size is available on the Font Size list. Only very commonly used sizes are included. If you find you need a size in between the preset ones, you can also type a size, such as 100, 13, or 30, in the Font Size box to apply it.

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Don’t make fonts so small that they are difficult to read. Also, notice that as you add text to a placeholder, font sizes might shrink to fit in all the text. By keeping font sizes large enough to read and your placeholder text to no more than six or so short bullet points, you ensure that your viewers can see your presentation contents clearly.

Apply Effects to Text

1. Click the Home tab.

2. Select the text you want to format.

3. Click any of the following buttons to apply that format to the selected text:

- Bold

- Italic

- Underline

- Strikethrough

- Shadow

4. Click the arrow on the Character Spacing button.

5. Click the spacing you prefer, from Very Tight to Very Loose. Very tight spacing pushes letters close together; very loose spacing places them farther apart.

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To create custom character spacing, click the More Spacing option on the Character Spacing list. In the Font dialog box that appears, on the Character Spacing tab choose Expanded or Condensed from the Spacing list, and then specify by how many points this effect should be applied. Click OK to save the new setting.

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Character spacing is also known as kerning. On the Character Spacing tab in the Font dialog box, you can specify that the kerning you apply be used only for fonts of a certain size or larger by selecting the Kerning For Fonts check box and selecting a font size.

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You can apply multiple effects to text, such as bold plus italic plus shadow, but don’t go overboard, or you’ll make the text too busy to read!

Formatting Objects

Objects, including clip art, WordArt, pictures, and shapes that you draw on your slides, can all be formatted in several ways. You can fill an object with color or a pattern, change the outline of the shape by modifying the line style and thickness, and apply a wide variety of effects, such as softening the edges or applying a three-dimensional (3-D) or rotation effect. Together, these formatting options let you customize an object to make it appear just the way you want it to.

Apply a Fill Color or Effect

1. Select a shape, text box, or WordArt object. (You can also perform these steps with SmartArt objects, but the Format tab in the next step is then named SmartArt Tools.)

2. Click the Drawing Tools, Format tab.

3. Click the Shape Fill button.

4. Use the Shape Fill gallery to make the changes you want to the selected object.

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The Fill gallery uses the Live Preview feature. When you pass your mouse pointer over a Theme or Standard color or over a Gradient or Texture option, it is previewed on the object on your slide.

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You cannot add a fill to clip art or a picture object because their "fill" is the image they contain. However, you can change their shape or border or add effects such as 3-D. See tasks elsewhere in this section to learn how to do this.

Change the Shape Outline

1. Click an object to select it.

2. Click the Drawing/Picture Tools, Format tab (depending on whether you’ve selected a picture or other type of object).

3. Click the Picture Border or Shape Outline button.

4. Use the gallery to make the changes you want to the selected object.

- Click More Outline Colors to display a dialog box offering custom color options.

- Click Weight, Dashes, or Arrows (drawing objects only) to display a submenu of formatting choices for the picture border or shape outline.

- Click No Outline to clear any outline or border.

- Click a Theme or Standard color to apply it as the outline or border.

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The Arrow option on the Shape Outline or Picture Border palette is available only if you are working with a line object.

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If you want to format a placeholder rather than an object, see Formatting Placeholders.

Apply a Shape Effect

1. Click an object to select it.

2. Click the Drawing Tools/Picture Tools, Format tab (depending on the type of object you selected).

3. Click the Shape Effects or Picture Effects button.

4. Move your mouse pointer over a category of effects, and then click on an effect in the gallery that appears.

5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 to apply additional effects to the object.

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You can apply more than one effect to an object. For example, you might choose to add a shadow, a reflection, and a 3-D effect to one image. Just remember that you have to apply these effects one by one, using the steps outlined here.

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You can click the Format Shape dialog box launcher in the Shape Styles group to open the Format Shape dialog box. From there you can apply all kinds of effects to the selected object from one place. When you are done applying effects, click Close, and they are all applied.

Resizing Objects

When you insert an object, it may not fit exactly as you’d like alongside other objects or placeholders on your slide. In that case, you can resize the object easily by using resizing handles that appear when you click the object. Dragging corner handles resizes the object while maintaining its original proportions. Dragging handles on the sides of the object resizes it but does not maintain the original proportions. This can cause it to appear distorted, like an image in a funhouse mirror.

Resize Objects

1. Click the object you want to resize.

2. Click a handle, and then drag inward to shrink the object or drag outward to enlarge it.

3. To resize the object to a specific measurement, click the Format tab.

4. In the Size group, use the arrows for the Shape Height and Shape Width settings to specify a measurement.

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Sometimes rotating an object helps you fit it on a slide among other objects. See the next task, Rotating and Flipping Objects, to learn how to rotate an object.

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If a picture is too large for your slide, consider cropping it by using the Crop tool on the Format tab. This allows you to trim out unneeded portions of the picture, thereby saving space, without reducing the picture size, which might make it hard to see. For more about working with pictures, see Chapter 10.

Rotating and Flipping Objects

Being able to rotate objects can help you make interesting design arrangements on your slides or help organize objects so that they fit together. Rotating is easy to do using a rotation handle that appears whenever you click an object. By dragging the handle, you can rotate the object anywhere along a 360-degree axis.

Rotate an Object

1. Click the object to select it. Notice the green rotation handle that appears above it.

2. Drag the rotation handle to spin the object. When the object appears at the angle you want, release the mouse button.

3. To rotate the selected object precisely 90 degrees, click the Home tab.

4. Click the arrow on the Arrange button.

5. Click Rotate, and choose Rotate Right 90° or Rotate Left 90° from the submenu.

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You can apply 3-D rotation effects to give objects perspective—as if they were rotated to place one edge farther in space from you than the other. See the task Apply a Shape Effect to learn how to apply 3-D effects.

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For more rotation options, click More Rotation Options on the Rotate menu. On the Size page in the Format Picture dialog box that appears, you can enter specific measurements for height and width as well as for setting the distance of the object from the edges of the slide.

Flip an Object

1. Select the object, and click the Home tab.

2. Click the Arrange button.

3. Click Rotate, and choose Flip Vertical or Flip Horizontal from the submenu. The action is previewed on the slide.

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Flipping shifts the object precisely 180 degrees. Another way to precisely place an object on your slide is to use the rotation handle to freely rotate it, but to display the gridlines so that you end up with the object aligned precisely to the edge of the slide and not at an angle. To display gridlines, click the View tab, and select the Gridlines check box.

Grouping and Changing the Order of Objects

Two handy functions help you work with objects on your slide. Grouping allows you to group several objects, such as the different objects that form a drawing or logo, into a single object. You can then work with that single object to format, move, or resize it. Also, you might decide to have several objects on a slide overlap each other, either to save space or to create a design effect. In that case you should know how to control the order of objects on a page—that is, which object appears on top and which appears to be positioned underneath another.

Group and Ungroup Objects

1. Click an object to select it.

2. Press Ctrl, and then click on one or more other objects you want to group together.

3. Click the Drawing Tools, Format tab or Picture Tools, Format tab, depending on the type of object.

4. Click the Group button, and choose Group.

5. To ungroup the objects, select the grouped object, click the Group button, and then click Ungroup.

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A grouped object has one outline surrounding all the objects and a single rotation handle. After objects are grouped, you can resize, move, rotate, and change the fill color of all objects at once.

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To quickly select multiple objects on a slide, drag across them; a highlighted box surrounds the objects. Release your mouse, and all objects within the area you highlighted are selected (not including placeholders).

Change Object Order

1. Click an object to select it.

2. Click the Drawing Tools, Format tab or Picture Tools, Format tab, depending on the type of object you’re working with.

3. Click the Bring Forward or Send Backward button to move the object one place forward or back in any series of objects it overlaps.

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For more information about inserting objects on your slides, see Chapter 10.

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You can click the arrow on either the Bring Forward or Send Backward button and choose Bring to Front or Send to Back if you want to move an object all the way forward or backward in a stack of objects, rather than moving it one position at a time in the stack.

Working with Picture Tools

Because pictures have attributes such as brightness and contrast, they have their own special set of tools you can use to make adjustments to the images. By using these tools, you can make pictures that are too dark appear brighter and pictures that are hard to see crisper by adjusting the contrast between darks and lights. You can also recolor pictures to apply a wash of light or dark color to them.

Adjust Brightness or Contrast

1. Click a picture to select it.

2. Click the Picture Tools, Format tab.

3. Click Corrections.

4. Choose an option in the Brightness and Contrast section of the drop-down gallery or in the Sharpen and Soften section. The effects are previewed on the picture as you move your pointer over the options.

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If you want to explore some interesting effects for your picture, such as adding granularity to the photo or washing away details to make it appear more like a drawing, click the Artistic Effects button, and move your mouse pointer over the effects displayed to preview them.

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The Photo Album feature was introduced in PowerPoint 2007. It allows you to create groups of photos to help you organize your images. See Creating a Photo Album for more about Photo Album.

Recolor a Picture

1. Click a picture to select it.

2. Click the Picture Tools, Format tab.

3. Click Color.

4. Move your pointer to any Color Saturation, Color Tone, or Recolor option to preview it.

5. Click an option to apply it.

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When you click Set Transparent Color on the Color menu, the portion of the image that you drag over with your mouse appears to disappear, revealing any objects underneath.

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Be careful how you recolor pictures. Although coloring a picture can add some interest, it can also make the picture difficult to see in certain settings. Consider instead applying a colored border or slide background to add visual interest to a picture.

Using Video Tools

Not to be left behind in the age of video sharing sites such as YouTube, PowerPoint 2010 now offers enhanced video formatting tools. Video is a great way to add some multimedia punch to a presentation. Once you insert a video into a presentation, you can use these tools to format the shape and border of your video, modify playback options such as how playback is initiated, or even trim the video to get rid of unwanted footage. (See Chapter 10 for more about inserting video clips.)

Apply Video Formats

1. Click a video object to select it.

2. Click the Video Tools, Format tab.

3. Click the More arrow at the right of the Video Styles gallery.

4. Move your mouse pointer over the styles to preview them on your video clip. When you find one you like, click it.

5. Click the Video Border tool, and select a color from the list to change the color of the border.

6. Click the Video Effects button, and choose from the variety of effects offered there.

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You can use the Corrections and Color buttons on the Format tab to modify the appearance of your video. These work similarly to the same tools covered under the previous task, Working with Picture Tools.

Setting up Video Playback

1. Click a video object to select it.

2. Click the Video Tools, Playback tab.

3. In the Video Options group, click the arrow on the Start field, and choose whether the video should play automatically when you display the slide or manually when you click the video object.

4. Select various check boxes to set whether to play the video in full-screen mode, loop the video to play continuously, or rewind the video after it finishes playing.

5. Click Volume, and choose the volume for the video sound.

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If you want to trim the video to cut some of the footage from it, click the Trim Video button, and drag the left or right side of the bar at the bottom of the Trim Video dialog box to cut time from the beginning or end of the video. Click OK to save the changes.

Changing the Slide Background

If you choose a slide theme, a background is automatically applied, but you might want to apply a background of your own choosing. A background can be a solid color, an effect such as a gradient (which makes it appear as though a light source is shining on the background from a certain direction), or even a picture or texture. Backgrounds help make objects and text on the page stand out and add color and interest to your slides.

Change the Background Style

1. Display the slide whose background you want to change.

2. Click the Design tab.

3. Click Background Styles.

4. Click a style to apply it.

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You can also customize a background by clicking Format Background at the bottom of the Background gallery. In the Format Background dialog box, choose the type of fill you want to apply (Solid, Gradient, Picture Or Texture, or Pattern), and choose the settings for that type of background.

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You can use the Hide Background Graphics check box in the Format Background dialog box to hide objects you have placed on a slide master. See Chapter 5, for more about slide masters.

Chapter 12. Adding Transitions and Animations

In this section:

- Applying a Transition

- Adding Sound to a Transition

- Modifying Transition Speed

- Choosing How to Advance a Slide

- Applying a Custom Animation to an Object

- Using Animation Painter

- Previewing an Animation

Animations in Microsoft PowerPoint are used to transition from one slide to another when you are showing a presentation in slide show mode. They can also be applied to individual objects to cause them to appear on a slide with an effect such as spinning or to appear to grow on the slide.

The transition that occurs when you move from one slide to another in a slide show can vary for each slide change or be applied globally. You can also control the speed of each transition, and you can even add a sound that is played along with the transition effect.

Using a custom animation effect to control how individual objects are displayed on your slides allows you to cause individual bullet points to appear in a timed sequence or one by one as you click your mouse. You can even apply a motion path so that an object enters from a certain direction, moves to one area of the slide, then moves to another, and so forth. New to Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 is Animation Painter, a tool that allows you to copy an animation effect or set of effects from one object to another.

Animations and transitions are a great way to draw attention or add visual interest to your presentation.

Applying a Transition

You can use a gallery of preset animations to apply a transition effect that occurs when a new slide is displayed. These transition effects are divided into categories such as Subtle, Exciting, or Dynamic Content. You can apply a different effect between each pair of slides or one effect that occurs every time a new slide appears.

Apply a Transition Scheme to a Slide

1. If you want a transition to occur when a particular slide appears, display that slide.

2. Click the Transitions tab.

3. Click the More button on the Transitions gallery.

4. Move your mouse pointer over the various effects to see them previewed on your slide.

5. Click a transition effect to apply it to that slide.

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If you apply a transition to a slide and then decide you don’t want to include the transition anymore, select the slide and then click the None option. (This is the first item in the Transition gallery.)

Apply a Transition to All Slides

1. Click the Transitions tab.

2. Apply a transition scheme to a slide following the steps in the previous task.

3. Click the Apply To All button. Stars appear next to all slides in the Slide pane to indicate a transition is applied.

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If you apply a transition to one slide and want to then apply it to all slides, first display that slide in Normal view. Then, on the Animation tab, click Apply To All in the Timing group.

SEE ALSO

For more information about adding animations to individual objects on a slide, see Applying a Custom Animation to an Object.

Adding Sound to a Transition

Imagine that you have set up a slide transition so that a new slide appears to fly in from the left side. If you also add a sound effect like a burst of wind, you can add impact to the transition. That’s what adding sounds to transitions is all about: catching your audience’s attention with a sound that complements the transition effect and the contents of the slide. You can also add sounds to custom animations on individual objects—so, when that clip art of a pile of money appears, why not have a cash register sound happen simultaneously?

Add Sound

1. Select a slide with a transition applied to it, and click the Transitions tab.

2. Click the Sound list.

3. Move your pointer over the sounds in the list to preview them.

4. Click a sound to apply it to the current slide.

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You can apply a sound to an object that has a custom animation applied to it simply by selecting the object before applying the sound. To learn more, see Modify Animation Settings.

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If you want a sound to keep repeating until the next sound is played, click the Loop Until Next Sound option at the bottom of the Sound list. Repeating a sound in this way can be a great effect, but don’t let it go on too long, or you’ll drive your viewers crazy!

Modifying Transition Speed

Transitions can happen at various speeds. Fast transitions between slides provide a little subconscious shift, but it’s so fast that most people don’t notice the effect. Transitions that happen slowly, on the other hand, are more noticeable to viewers, but you run the danger of slowing down your presentation if you overuse them. The ability to control the speed of transitions is useful, but you have to determine which speed best fits each transition and your presentation.

Set the Speed for Transitions

1. Display a slide that has a transition applied to it.

2. Click the Transitions tab if necessary.

3. Use the spinner arrows on the Duration field to display the transition for a longer or shorter time.

SEE ALSO

For information about setting the speed for custom animations applied to individual objects, see Applying a Custom Animation to an Object.

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If you play a sound along with a transition and you set the transition to run fast, the sound occurs quickly, too. In fact, the sound may happen so quickly that it can be hard to tell what the sound is. If you associate a sound like a typewriter, for example, with a fast transition, your viewers might hear a single click of a typewriter key—not enough to know what it is they are hearing!

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To use the transition speed that is applied to the currently selected slide for all the slides in your presentation, click the Apply To All button on the Animations tab.

Choosing How to Advance a Slide

You can advance from slide to slide in a presentation in several ways, such as by clicking your mouse or by waiting for a certain interval of time to pass. The manual approach of clicking your mouse gives you control, but it keeps your hands busy during the presentation. The automatic timed-advance feature is useful when you are showing a slide show on the Web or in an unattended setting, such as a mall kiosk. If you need to have a combination of methods within a presentation, you can make this setting on a slide-by-slide basis by using tools on the Animations tab.

Select a Method to Advance a Slide

1. Display a slide with a transition applied to it. Click the Transitions tab.

2. If you want to advance slides manually, click the On Mouse Click check box to select it.

3. Clear the On Mouse Click check box to advance the slide according to preset timings.

4. Use the spinner arrows in the After field to set a time interval.

SEE ALSO

For more about navigating through a slide show presentation, see Navigating Through Slides.

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You can also use the Right arrow key to advance a presentation, if you have the keyboard handy, or click the Slide tool that appears in Slide Show view and choose Next or Previous from the pop-up menu. Many presentation settings also make a remote control unit available that you can use for forwarding slides.

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You can set up your show so that all slides are advanced using the same method.

Applying a Custom Animation to an Object

You can apply animations to individual objects on your slide, from clip art and pictures to text placeholders. Animations include effects that make an object seem to appear on or disappear from your slide in Slide Show view in some fashion. For example, you might choose to have a heading appear letter by letter or fly onto your slide. The Motion Path category of animations allows you to have the object appear and then move around a path you specify on your slide.

Add an Animation Effect to an Object

1. Click the object to select it.

2. Click the Animations tab.

3. Click Add Animation to display the Animation gallery.

4. Click an effect from the gallery.

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If you want the same animation applied to all objects of a certain type—for example, to all title objects on slides using the Title And Content layout—apply the custom animation in Slide Master view.

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Don’t overdo animations. If they play all the time, your audience can become bored with them. Use them for special emphasis, at the start of a new section of your presentation, or to drive home a key point.

Modify Animation Settings

1. Display a slide that has an object with an animation effect applied to it.

2. Click the Animations tab.

3. Click Animation Pane to display the Animation Pane.

4. Click the arrow at the right side of the animation you want to modify in the list.

5. Click any of the first three settings on this menu to specify whether the effect plays when you click your mouse, along with any previous animation, or after the previous animation.

6. Click the Effect Options command on this menu to open an effect dialog box.

7. On the Effect tab of this dialog box, you can make settings depending on which effect you chose. For example, if your effect shrinks your text, the Font Size field lets you choose the font size to shrink to. If your effect causes the object to spin, the Amount field lets you choose by how many degrees the object should spin.

8. Click the Timing tab, and choose the duration for the effect and whether it should repeat.

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To remove an animation effect from an object, click the arrow next to it in the list of effects in the Animation Pane and click Remove.

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You can click the arrow at the right of an effect in the list of effects and choose Effect Options from the menu that appears to make all these settings and more in a dialog box. If you select the option of starting an animation after another animation plays, you can use the Timing tab in this dialog box to specify a delay between the two animations.

Reorder Effects

1. With the Animation Pane displayed (click the Animation Pane button on the Animations tab), click an effect in the list.

2. Click the up arrow in the Re-Order area at the bottom of the pane to move the effect up in the list.

3. Click the down arrow to move the effect down in the list.

4. Repeat steps 1, 2, and 3 to reorganize the list of effects in any way you like.

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If you reorganize slides, remember to check each slide’s Start setting. For example, if you want a slide to use a certain entrance effect that relates to the contents of the slide before it, you may want to change the entrance effect to be relevant to its new predecessor when you move that slide.

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You can apply more than one animation to any object—so, you might have a heading shrink its font size, spin around 360 degrees, and then fly off the slide. If you do this, you can use the method described here to reorder the effects applied to that object.

Using Animation Painter

You can apply multiple animation effects to a single object, so the ability to replicate those effects on other objects can be a big time saver. Animation Painter, a feature that’s new to PowerPoint 2010, works similarly to Format Painter, which allows you to copy formats such as font and font color from one piece of text to another. Animation Painter, however, copies animation effects from one object to another.

Copy Animations with Animation Painter

1. Click an object that has an animation applied to it to select it.

2. Click the Animations tab.

3. Click Animation Painter.

4. Select another object on the same or another slide.

5. Click the object to copy all animation effects from the first object to the second.

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Clicking Animation Painter allows you to copy animation effects to one object. If you want to copy the animation effects to more than one other object, double-click the Animation Painter button in step 2. When you finish, press the Esc key to turn off Animation Painter.

Previewing an Animation

PowerPoint offers a couple of options for previewing an animation effect on a slide in Normal view. There is a Preview button on the Animation tab that plays all the effects on a slide, and the Animation Pane offers a Play button to play the individual animations on the animation list. You can also click the Slide Show button in the view buttons to quickly go into Slide Show view.

Preview an Animation

1. With a slide containing animations displayed, click the Animations tab.

2. Click the Preview button to play all animations on the slide.

3. Click Animation Pane.

4. Click Play to play the applied animations in sequence.

5. To view the animation in Slide Show view, click the Slide Show button at the bottom right of the PowerPoint window.

6. To stop the preview from running, click the Stop button in the Animation Pane at any time.

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If you click the Play button in the Animation pane to preview the animations, a little timer bar appears at the bottom of the list. You can use this to tally up the seconds it takes for all your animations to play.

Chapter 13. Finalizing Your Slide Show

In this section:

- Reviewing Your Presentation

- Setting Up a Slide Show

- Rehearsing Your Presentation

- Taking a Presentation with You

After you put in all the effort to build a stunning presentation—composing the perfect content and choosing attractive design elements and graphics—you should take the time to proofread it to be sure you haven’t made spelling or other errors. Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 provides a spelling checker to help you check your contents, as well as a thesaurus to help you find the perfect word. You can also send the presentation to be reviewed by other people, who can help you spot problems before you give the presentation in front of an audience.

At this point, you should also set up how you want your slide show to run. For example, can you use multiple monitors, and will the presentation run in a continuous loop or just one time from beginning to end? This is also the time to rehearse your presentation to ensure that the slide show runs smoothly. While rehearsing a presentation, you can add a narration and timings that control how long each slide is displayed. These are useful if the presentation runs on its own with no live presenter available.

Reviewing Your Presentation

When you finish adding the last sentence of text and final graphic object to your presentation, you’re not quite done. Because your presentation is likely to be displayed on a large screen in front of many people, any error or glitch is likely to undermine the credibility of your message. For that reason, taking the time to check spelling, word choices, and the look of your contents is very important. PowerPoint provides tools to help you check the accuracy of your contents and lets you send your presentation to others to review it to be sure everything looks perfect. You can ask others to make changes or to simply add comments with their suggestions for your review.

Check Spelling

1. Open the presentation you want to review. If you want to check the spelling of a single word, select it.

2. Click the Review tab.

3. Click Spelling.

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After working on your presentation for hours, days, or weeks, you are often too close to it to spot problems. In addition to using PowerPoint’s spelling checker, be sure to have somebody objective read through the presentation or, if nobody else is available, read each sentence backward yourself to proof it. When we read a sentence forward, we make assumptions about the next word based on context. When we read from the last word to the first, each word and its spelling stand out, and any missing words might be more obvious.

4. Take any of the following actions:

- Click a spelling in the Suggestions list, and then click Change or Change All to apply it to the current word or to all instances of the word in your presentation, respectively.

- Enter a new spelling in the Change To box, and then click Change or Change All.

- Click Ignore or Ignore All to disregard this instance of the spelling or all instances of it in your presentation, respectively.

- Click Add to add the spelling to the dictionary in PowerPoint.

- Click AutoCorrect if this is a mistake you commonly make and want to add it to the AutoCorrect list to be corrected in the future as you type.

5. When you click one of the previous options, PowerPoint moves to the next word that needs checking. When all errors have been checked, PowerPoint displays a dialog box telling you that the spelling check is complete. Click OK.

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For information about viewing and moving slides around in your presentation, see Viewing Slides in the Slide Pane and Move a Slide.

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To stop a manual spelling check at any time, just click the Close button in the Spelling dialog box.

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PowerPoint is set up by default to check spelling automatically, which causes wavy colored lines to appear under words that have a questionable spelling. To get rid of those wavy lines on your screen, click the File tab, click Options, and then select Proofing. Select the Hide Spelling Errors check box, and then click OK.

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If you right-click a word that is possibly misspelled, PowerPoint displays alternative spellings or words on the shortcut menu that appears. Just click an entry to make the change.

Use the Thesaurus

1. Display the slide that contains the word you want to check and select that word. If the word you want to check isn’t in your presentation, skip this step.

2. Click the Review tab.

3. Click Thesaurus.

4. If you did not select a word prior to clicking the Thesaurus button, enter a word in the Search For box.

5. Click the Start Searching button.

6. Click a word in the list of results to display additional similar words.

7. Click the Back button to move back to a previous list of words.

8. Click the arrow next to a selected word in the Thesaurus and choose Insert to replace the word selected in your presentation or, if no word was selected in step 1, to insert the word in your slide.

9. Click the Close button in the Research task pane.

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You can change which resources are searched by clicking the second list in the Search For section of the Research task pane and selecting a different option. These options consist mainly of different language dictionaries and, if you are connected to the Internet, encyclopedias and other research sites.

Add Comments

1. Display a slide to which you want to add a comment.

2. If you want to attach a comment to a particular object or placeholder, click to select it.

3. Click the Review tab.

4. Click New Comment.

5. Type your comment, and then click anywhere outside the comment box.

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Try using the tools in the Comments group on the Review tab to edit, delete, or cycle through comments in your presentation. To hide all comments from your view, click the Show Markup button.

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Comments do not show up in Slide Show or Slide Sorter view. They are intended mostly for reviewers to provide comments on a presentation as it is being created. If you want to include comments with your presentation, consider adding notes and printing the Notes view for your audience.

E-Mail a Presentation for Review

1. With the presentation open that you want to send in e-mail, click the File tab.

2. Click Save & Send.

3. Click Send Using E-mail, and then choose whether to send the file as an attachment, a link, or an XPS or PDF document.

4. In the e-mail form that opens in your default e-mail program, type a recipient’s e-mail address in the To field.

5. Type a subject in the Subject field.

6. Type the text of any message you want to send in the body of the message.

7. Click Send.

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If you are sending the presentation to somebody who doesn’t have PowerPoint available, consider saving the presentation as a PDF or an XPS file. These formats retain most formatting on any Windows computer; however, viewers cannot use reviewing features such as inserting comments and cannot play the show.

Setting Up a Slide Show

Several variables affect how your slide show runs. For example, you can set up a slide show to be presented by a live speaker or to be browsed by a viewer. You can specify that a show loop continuously or be shown with or without a recorded narration. You can even choose to have only a subset of the slides in the presentation included in a particular slide show. You can set up your show to advance manually when a presenter clicks or automatically according to recorded timings. Finally, you can specify to use more than one monitor. With this feature, the presenter can use one monitor to orchestrate the show while the audience views the presentation on another monitor.

Set the Show Type

1. Click the Slide Show tab.

2. Click Set Up Slide Show.

3. Click one of the three options in the Show type section:

- Presented By A Speaker displays the slide show in full-screen mode and assumes a live presenter is running the show.

- Browsed By An Individual is the setting to use if an individual will view the show from a computer or CD. This option runs the presentation in a window rather than full screen.

- Browsed At A Kiosk provides a self-running, full-screen presentation that might be set up at a kiosk.

4. Click OK to save your settings.

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If you want a show to run unattended, it’s a good idea to loop it so that it repeats over and over again in your absence.

Specify Show Options

1. Click the Slide Show tab.

2. Click Set Up Slide Show.

3. Select any of the three check boxes in the Show Options section:

- Loop Continuously Until ‘Esc’. Choose this option if you are running the show unattended and want it to continuously repeat.

- Show Without Narration. If you recorded a narration but now want a live presenter to give the show, select this option.

- Show Without Animation. Because animations might not run smoothly on slower computers, you can turn them off by using this setting.

4. Click the arrow on the Pen Color list and choose an ink color from the drop-down palette for annotations you can make while running a show.

5. Click OK to save your settings.

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For information about working with the pen to make annotations during a presentation, see Make Annotations on Slides.

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You can choose additional colors for the pen by clicking More Colors at the bottom of the drop-down palette. This displays the Colors dialog box, where you can select a standard or custom color to apply. You can also use your mouse as a laser pointer during a slide show by holding down Ctrl and pressing the left mouse button. Set the laser pointer color using the Laser Pointer Color drop-down palette in the Set Up Show dialog box.

Specify Which Slides to Include

1. Click the Slide Show tab.

2. Click Set Up Slide Show.

3. In the Show Slides section, choose one of three options:

- Choose All to include all slides in the presentation (except for slides you’ve hidden).

- Enter beginning and ending slide numbers in the From and To boxes to show a range of slides.

- Click Custom Show to pick and choose any number or range of slides you want to present. This feature enables you to present different versions of your show to different audiences.

4. Click OK to save your settings.

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If you have a large slide show and find it’s running slowly on the presenting computer, don’t shorten your show. Instead, you can modify your monitor’s resolution in Windows Control Panel by using the Adjust Screen Resolution link. Your slides run faster at a lower resolution, such as 600×800, although the image quality is grainier.

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For information about working with custom shows, see Creating Custom Shows.

Set Up How to Advance Slides

1. Click the Slide Show tab.

2. Click Set Up Slide Show.

3. Click an option for how to advance slides:

- Manually requires you to click a mouse, press an arrow key, or use the navigation tools in Slide Show view.

- Using Timings, If Present moves the slides forward automatically based on the timings you save when you rehearse the show and save timings.

4. Click OK to save your settings.

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The Show Presenter View option in the Set Up Show dialog box can come in handy if you have a system with multiple monitors. Select it if you want to control the show from one screen—your laptop, for instance—but use another screen to display the presentation to your viewers. By using the Show Presenter View option on your screen, you can navigate the slide show, and your actions are invisible to your viewers. For example, you can use thumbnails of your slides to build a custom presentation, reordering slides to offer a recap of key ideas on the fly.

SEE ALSO

For more information about how to move from slide to slide in a presentation, see Navigating Through Slides.

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When you record a narration, you are offered the option of saving timings as well. If you do, those timings can be used to advance slides based on when the narration for each slide is complete. The Slide Show tab includes a Use Timings check box that you can select to override narration timings.

Rehearsing Your Presentation

It’s very important that you prepare for your presentation. Rehearsing has several benefits. First, during rehearsal you can save timings that can be used to advance your slides automatically or you can record a narration. Even if you don’t use those timings to navigate your presentation, they help you anticipate whether your presentation runs under or over the allotted time. In addition, rehearsing helps you spot problems in running your presentation, such as animations that take a long time to play or type that is hard to read.

Add a Narration

1. Attach a microphone to your computer if one is not built in.

2. Click the Slide Show tab.

3. Click the arrow on the Record Slide Show button, and choose to record from the beginning or from the currently displayed slide.

4. In the dialog box that appears, choose to record narrations and laser pointers, and then click the Start Recording button.

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Your sound quality is better if you have a more sensitive microphone. It might be worth spending a bit more for a better microphone headset to provide quality recording. Typically, an outlet for plugging in a microphone or a headset is on the back or front of your computer, and no other special hardware is required.

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You can clear timings you recorded previously by clicking the Record Slide Show button and choosing Clear. In the menu that appears, you can clear timings or narrations on the current slide or for all slides

5. The presentation begins, and the Recording dialog box appears in the upper-left corner. Navigate through the presentation reading your narration into your microphone.

6. To stop recording at any point, click the Close button on the Recording dialog box.

Save Timings

1. Click the Slide Show tab.

2. Click Rehearse Timings.

3. Navigate through your slide show, displaying each slide for the approximate length of time you want to show it and discuss its contents.

4. When the slide show is done, in the dialog box that displays the total time for the show, click Yes to keep the settings or No to discard them.

5. Click the Slide Sorter view button and note that saved timings appear beneath slides.

SEE ALSO

For more information about running your slide show, see the tasks Navigating Through Slides and End a Show.

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If you add to or change the content of your presentation in any way, you might want to change the saved timings. To save new timings, simply run the Rehearse Timings feature again and save the timings. Only one set of timings can be saved with your slides.

Taking a Presentation with You

Most of the time, you don’t give a presentation where you designed it. Instead, you take it on the road, whether the locale is a meeting room two doors down or in another state or country. To do this, you save a presentation to media such as a CD. When you publish your presentation to media in this way, you can also add the PowerPoint Viewer so that you can run the presentation on a computer that doesn’t have PowerPoint installed.

Save a Presentation to CD

1. Insert a CD or DVD in your computer’s CD/DVD drive.

2. Click the File tab.

3. Click Save & Send.

4. Click Package Presentation For CD.

5. Click Package For CD in the pane that appears.

6. In the Package For CD dialog box, enter a name for the CD.

7. If you want to add more files, such as files you need for background information, click Add and select them. (Note that you will be prompted to include linked files when you initiate the copying process.)

8. Click Copy To CD.

9. Click Yes in the message box that appears asking whether you want to include linked files.

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To ensure that fonts display accurately, select the Embedded TrueType fonts option in the Options dialog box.

Chapter 14. Running a Presentation

In this section:

- Starting and Ending a Slide Show

- Navigating Through Slides

- Working with the Pen and Annotations

- Switching to Another Program

After you build your slides, set up your slide show, rehearse your presentation, and save it to a CD or USB stick, the time comes to present your slide show to an audience. If the show is set up to be given by a live presenter, the presenter must know how to run the show, navigate between slides, annotate slides, and other tasks. (For more about settings for live presentations, see Chapter 13.)

Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 offers a few different ways to move around a presentation and also a set of annotation tools that allows you to make notes as you present. If your presentation sparks interesting ideas, action items, or questions you need to follow up on, you can use the annotation tools to jot notes and save those annotations with your presentation. You can also switch to another program or even go online while presenting to display other kinds of documents and content.

Knowing how to use these tools can make the difference between a smooth presentation and an awkward viewing and presenting experience.

Starting and Ending a Slide Show

Starting a slide show simply involves displaying Slide Show view. This view shows your slides in full-screen mode (unless you set up your show to be browsed by an individual, in which case your slides appear with a scroll bar around them). In Slide Show view, there are no speaker’s notes or tool tabs in evidence, although a set of presentation tools appears in the bottom-right corner of the screen when you move your mouse pointer over them. You learn more about these tools in the following two tasks.

Start a Show

1. If you are using some form of LCD or other display equipment, connect it to your computer and turn it on.

2. Open the presentation you want to present.

3. If you want to start the show from the first slide, display it.

4. Click the Slide Show icon.

SEE ALSO

For information about switching between views in PowerPoint, see Running a Presentation in Slide Show View.

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Always try to check display equipment before you present and, if possible, have the user manual for that equipment handy. In some cases you need to know which button or keyboard combination to use to switch the display on or connect it to your computer.

SEE ALSO

To learn more about setting up your show to be browsed by individuals or run by a presenter, see Setting Up a Slide Show.

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Another method for viewing a presentation on a computer screen rather than a large screen is to display Reading view.

End a Show

- With a presentation running in Slide Show view, do one of the following:

- Press the Esc key.

- Click the Slide Show Menu icon, and choose End Show.

- Click Break.

- Press the hyphen key [-].

- Navigate to the last slide in the presentation, and press the Right arrow key. A black screen appears with a message that instructs you to click your mouse to end the show.

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If you want to temporarily remove your presentation from the screen, you don’t have to exit the show. Instead, you can click the Slide Show Menu icon, choose Screen, and then choose the Black Screen or White Screen command. This step is useful if you pause for a discussion and don’t want people to be distracted by the words and images on the screen.

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Did you forget how to jump to another slide or some other handy navigation shortcut? Don’t worry. Click the Slide Show Menu icon and choose Help. A Slide Show Help window appears listing common keyboard commands. This list includes some very useful shortcuts; for example, to go to a black screen, you can simply type "b".

Navigating Through Slides

There are times when you need to move back to a previous slide to reinforce a point or jump ahead when somebody anticipates a topic through a question or comment. Here are a few different methods you can use to navigate from slide to slide.

Move to Next and Previous Slide

1. Click the Slide Show icon to display Slide Show view.

2. Use any of these methods to move to the next or previous slide:

- Press the Right arrow key for the next slide, or the Left arrow key for the previous slide.

- Click your mouse button to get to the next slide.

- Click the Next or Previous arrow.

- Click the Slide Show Menu icon, and choose Next or Previous.

- Press Spacebar for the next slide, or Backspace for the previous slide.

- Press the Page Up key for the next slide, or the Page Down key for the previous slide.

- Type "N" to go to the next slide, or "P" to go to the previous slide.

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You can access the Slide Show menu by right-clicking anywhere on your screen while running a slide show. Then click Next or Previous to move forward or backward in your presentation.

Go to a Particular Slide

1. Click the Slide Show icon to display Slide Show view.

2. Use any of these methods to move to any slide in the presentation:

- Click the Slide Show Menu icon, choose Go To Slide, and then click the title of the slide you want to go to.

- Press the slide number on your keyboard, and press Enter.

- Press Ctrl+S. The All Slides dialog box appears showing a list of all slide titles. Click a title, and then click Go To.

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You can use the Home and End keys on your keyboard to move to the first or last slide in your presentation. You can also hold down both the right and left mouse buttons for a few seconds to jump to the last or first slide.

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You can decide you want to display a hidden slide. When you get to the slide before the hidden one, press H, and PowerPoint goes ahead and shows the hidden slide. To return to the last slide you had displayed, click the Slide Show Menu icon, and choose Last Viewed from the menu that appears.

Start a Custom Show

1. Open a presentation that contains a custom show.

2. Click the Slide Show tab.

3. Click Custom Slide Show.

4. In the Custom Shows dialog box that appears, click the custom show title. PowerPoint displays the show in Slide Show view.

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If you create a large presentation, create summary slides that introduce each major section of the show. Then create a custom show that consists of those summary slides. You can go to that custom show at the end of the larger show to review the major topics.

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For information about working with custom shows, see Creating Custom Shows.

Working with the Pen and Annotations

A tool called a pen allows you to use a technology that Microsoft calls ink to write on your slides when running your presentation in Slide Show view. The Pen tool allows you to select different pen types, such as ballpoint, felt tip, and highlighter, and to change the ink color. You can use the pen to write on slides and then use an eraser tool to remove the writing, or you can use a command to remove all ink markings on a slide. At the end of your presentation, you are offered the option of saving your ink annotations or discarding them.

Choose a Pen Style and Color

1. Click the Slide Show view icon to begin your presentation.

2. Click the Pen button.

3. Click a pen style to select it.

4. Click the Pen button again, and this time click Ink Color.

5. Click a color in the palette that appears.

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You can also use the Pen menu to make changes to the arrow pointer that appears when the pen isn’t activated. Click the Pen button, and then click Arrow to return to the arrow pointer after using the pen; open the menu again, click Arrow Options, and choose Automatic, Visible, or Hidden to specify whether the arrow pointer is visible only when you move the mouse or all the time or if it should be invisible.

Make Annotations on Slides

1. With a slide displayed in Slide Show view, click the Pen button and choose a pen style.

2. Click the screen, and then draw or write wherever you want to using your mouse. If you chose the highlighter pen style, drag over the object or text you want to highlight.

3. To turn off the pen, click the Pen button, and choose Arrow.

SEE ALSO

If you choose a pen color other than the default to write on a slide, be aware that when you move to another slide the default pen color takes over again. For more about choosing a default pen color, see Specify Show Options.

Erase Annotations on Slides

1. Click the Pen button.

2. Choose Eraser.

3. Move the mouse pointer over the annotation you want to remove.

4. To erase all annotations on a slide, click the Pen button, and choose Erase All Ink On Slide.

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Here are a few shortcuts for turning these tools on and off. To quickly change from the arrow pointer to the Pen tool, press Ctrl+P. To change from the arrow pointer to the Eraser tool, press Ctrl+E. To return to the arrow, press Ctrl+A. To turn off the Pen or Eraser tool, you can simply press Esc on your keyboard.

Save Annotations

1. Navigate to the end of a presentation in which you’ve made annotations.

2. When you click to end the show, a dialog box appears.

3. Click Keep to save your annotations and Discard if you don’t want to save them.

4. Saved annotations appear on the slides in Normal view.

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After you save an annotation, even if you go back to Slide Show view, you can’t use the Eraser tool to erase it. That’s because ink annotations are objects that can be resized, rotated, moved, and so on, just like any other object. To remove them from your presentation in Normal view, you can simply click one and press Delete.

Switching to Another Program

There are many reasons to switch to another program installed on your computer while you are running a PowerPoint presentation. You might want to demo a software system or run a new product demo in a movie program, or you might want to go to the Internet and browse for information to answer a question. Although you can place links in your presentation that open documents in other programs, if you prefer to open the programs themselves to work in them, you can do so easily.

Switch to Another Program

1. With a slide show running and the program you want to switch to open, click the Slide Show Menu icon and choose Screen.

2. Click Switch Programs.

3. Click the program name on the Windows taskbar that appears.

4. When you’re done working in the program, simply click the Close or Minimize button.

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If you’d rather place a hyperlink to a particular document, including a Web page, in your presentation, use the Hyperlink command on the Insert menu. Then click the link while running your slide show and the document or Web page opens.

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For more information about action buttons that you can use to jump to other documents and programs, see Drawing Shapes and Text Boxes.

Chapter 15. Printing a Presentation

In this section:

- Inserting Headers and Footers

- Using Print Preview

- Establishing Printer Settings and Printing

You might choose to print your presentation for any number of reasons. Perhaps you want others to review it to help you correct or edit it before you present your slide show. Or you might want to print audience handouts or a copy for yourself to refer to while presenting the show. You might also want to preserve a printout of the outline of your contents for your files or to use as the basis for another document.

Whatever your reason for printing your presentation, Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 provides tools to help you preview your printed document, add headers or footers, and choose printing options such as page orientation.

When you print your slides, you can choose how many slides to print on a page. You can print audience handouts that include several slides on a page and leave space for taking notes. You can also print one slide per page with your speaker notes included. Finally, you can print the Outline view of a presentation, which includes only the outline text.

Inserting Headers and Footers

Before you print slides, you might want to include information such as slide number, the date and time the presentation is printed, or the name of the author of the presentation. To do so, you use the Header and Footer feature. You can insert separate headers and footers on slides and on notes and handouts. You can also choose to omit header and footer text on the title slide of a presentation.

Insert Headers or Footers

1. Click the Insert tab.

2. Click Header & Footer.

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All items inserted using the Slide tab of the Header And Footer dialog box are inserted as footers, but you can drag footers to place them anywhere on an individual slide in Normal view or on the slide master. The Notes And Handouts tab uses both header and footer placeholders, and again, you can move those placeholders around in the Notes Page view or handout master.

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For information about working with footer placeholders using the slide master feature, see Insert Footer Information.

3. Click either the Slide or Notes And Handouts tab, depending on where you want to set headers and footers.

4. Click the Date And Time check box to include a date and/or time, and then choose either of these options:

- Update Automatically, to include the current date and/or time. If you choose this option, use the drop-down lists to select a date/time format, language, and calendar type. The date is updated every time you open the slide show.

- Fixed, to include a date you specify by typing it in.

5. Click the Slide Number check box to include the number of each slide.

6. Click the Footer check box, and then enter text to appear in the footer.

7. If you are working with the Slide tab, you can select the Don’t Show On Title Slide check box to omit the footer information from any slide with a Title Slide layout.

8. Click Apply To All to apply the settings to all slides. On the Slide tab, you have the option to click Apply if you want to apply the settings only to the current slide.

Using Print Preview

In PowerPoint 2010, Print Preview has been included as part of the print options displayed when you choose Print from the File menu. It’s very useful for previewing documents—including handouts, Outline view, and notes pages—before you print them. Print Preview also offers a zoom slider that allows you to view your previews at various sizes.

Display Print Preview

1. Click File.

2. Click Print. The preview appears to the right of the print options.

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The zoom slider in the bottom-right corner of the PowerPoint window works in Print Preview as well. Use it to zoom in on and out of your preview to review the contents.

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You can add a Print Preview icon to the Quick Access Toolbar if you want to open Print Preview with a single click. For more information about setting up the Quick Access Toolbar, see Customizing the Quick Access Toolbar.

Navigate Print Preview

1. Drag the scroll bar to move to any slide in the presentation.

2. Click above or below the scroll bar to move forward or backward one slide or page at a time.

3. Click the Next Page or Previous Page button to move forward or backward one slide or page at a time.

4. Enter a number in the current page indicator in the bottom-left corner of the preview pane and press Enter to display that slide.

5. Click Zoom To Page to adjust the size of the slide to fill the window.

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The Zoom dialog box lets you choose a percentage in which to display a slide. You can double-click the percentage number on the zoom slider to quickly display the Zoom dialog box in Print Preview.

Establishing Printer Settings and Printing

The PowerPoint print options include some settings that are probably familiar to you from word processor or spreadsheet programs and some that are specific to PowerPoint. For example, you can choose to print slides, the presentation outline, handouts, or notes pages. You can also choose how many slides to include on a single page if you are printing slides, handouts, or notes. If you haven’t used a Microsoft Office 2010 product before, however, you’ll find that print options are accessed a bit differently than in previous versions.

Choose a Printer and Paper Options

1. On the File menu, click Print.

2. Choose a printer from the Printer drop-down list.

3. Click Printer Properties. (The Properties dialog box shows settings specific to your printer model.)

4. Set options available for your printer, such as changing the paper size or orientation.

5. Click OK to save the settings and return to the Print Settings window. At this point, you can continue to change the settings as described in the next three tasks or click Print to print your presentation.

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Different printers offer different property options. For example, if you have a color printer, you can choose to print in color or grayscale. You might be able to select media type, such as printing to glossy paper or to transparencies for overhead projection. Take a look at your Printer Properties dialog box to see what settings are available to you.

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If you want the same printer to be the default option every time you print, go to the Windows Control Panel (Start, Control Panel, and then click the printers link), right-click a printer, and choose Set As Default Printer. You can still change the printer when you print an individual file, but that setting applies only to the document you are printing.

Choose Which Slides to Print

1. Open Print settings from the File menu (see previous task).

2. Click Print What and choose any of the following options:

- Print All Slides to print all the slides in the presentation.

- Print Current Slide to print only the currently displayed slide.

- Print Selection to print whatever contents you select prior to opening the Print settings. Selecting this option limits your navigation in Print Preview to just the selected slides.

- Custom Range to print a range or selection of slides. Enter slide numbers or a range (2, 15, or 3–15, for example).

3. Click Print to print the specified slides.

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If you want to prepare a printed outline of your presentation in Microsoft Word rather than in PowerPoint, you can cut the outline from the PowerPoint Outline pane, paste it into Word, and then prepare the outline for printing from Word’s Print options.

Choose the Format to Print

1. Open Print settings from the File menu.

2. Under Settings, choose the type of output to print.

3. Choose the Print Layout. If you select Handouts, click the number of slides per page you want and select whether to add a frame by selecting Frame Slides.

4. Choose a horizontal option in the Handouts area to print pages with multiple slides progressing from right to left across the page. Click a vertical option to have slides progress down the page along the left margin and then move to the top of the right side of the page in a second column.

5. Click Print.

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For more information about working with handouts and notes layouts, see Working with Handout and Notes Masters.

Specify the Number of Copies to Print

1. Open Print settings from the File menu.

2. In the Copies box, click the spinner arrows up or down until the number of copies you want to print appears.

3. Click Collated to collate the pages of multiple copies. Use the Print Sides button to print on one or both sides of the paper.

4. Click Print.

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If you have to print a lot of copies and want to save pages, consider modifying the number of slides per page that you print for handouts or notes pages. For more information about this setting, see Choose the Format to Print.

Chapter 16. Sharing a Presentation on the Web

In this section:

- Saving a Presentation to the Web

- Saving as a PDF File

- Broadcasting a Presentation

- Creating a Video

The ability to publish a presentation to the Internet as a Web document allows you to share your ideas with anybody, any time. You can, for example, publish your presentation as a follow up to giving it in person so that your audience can review or print the content for themselves at their leisure. You might also publish a presentation to the Web for others to review and suggest changes before you present it.

You can ave a presentation to the Web by using a Windows Live ID and placing the presentation in either a public or a private folder.

You can also save a file in PDF format, which is easily viewed by anybody using the free Adobe Reader. This step is a handy way to share the file with those who don’t have Microsoft PowerPoint or to view it on the Web.

Finally, you can broadcast your presentation to people in a remote location using a Windows Live account on the Internet. People can view your presentation in their browsers or create a video version of your presentation.

Saving a Presentation to the Web

To save a presentation to the Web, you need a Windows Live ID. The presentation is then saved to Windows Live as a free service to PowerPoint users. This is very handy for sharing the presentation online.

Save to the Web

1. Click the File tab.

2. Click Send & Save, and then click Save To Web.

3. Click the Sign In button to sign in to your Windows Live account, and then enter your user name and password in the dialog box that appears.

4. Click a folder to save the presentation to.

5. Click Save As.

6. In the Save As dialog box, modify the file name if you want to, and then click Save.

7. To access your presentation on the Web, go to the Windows Live home page, click More, and then click SkyDrive on the menu that appears. SkyDrive opens and displays your folders.

8. Click a folder to open it, and then click the presentation you want to view.

9. To run the presentation, click the preview box on the left side of the screen. The presentation opens in a new window.

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Go to www.home.live.com, and click the Sign Up button. A Windows Live account from Microsoft is free and provides you with an e-mail account as well as access to Windows Live SkyDrive, the free online storage feature that enables you to post and share presentations online.

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Versions of PowerPoint prior to 2007 contained a Web toolbar, but that feature is missing in PowerPoint 2010. Instead, you can add Web tools to the Quick Access Toolbar. (See Chapter 3, for more about this toolbar.) The tools you can place on the toolbar include the Web Options button and Web Page Preview button.

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You can share the presentation with others by using Live Messenger. (When you sign up for Windows Live, you also get a free Live Messenger account.) Just right-click a presentation displayed in step 9, choose Share With Live Messenger, and follow the instructions.

Share a Web Presentation

1. Follow the steps in the previous task to save your presentation to the Public folder.

2. Go to Windows Live, open SkyDrive, and then double-click the Public folder to open it.

3. Click More, and then click Share.

4. Click the E-Mail A Link To This Item link.

5. Enter an e-mail address in the To field.

6. Enter a message if you like, and then click the Send button. A link to your presentation is sent via e-mail.

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For information about saving your presentation to the default PowerPoint format, see Save a Presentation.

Saving as a PDF File

An easy format to use to share a presentation online is PDF, or Portable Document Format. Anybody with Adobe Acrobat or the free Adobe Reader can view the presentation as the pages of a document. However, they cannot edit the file.

Save a Presentation as a PDF File

1. Choose Save & Send from the File menu.

2. Click Create PDF/XPS Document, and then click the Create PDF/XPS button that appears.

3. In the Publish As PDF Or XPS dialog box, type a name for the document of up to 255 characters. You cannot use the characters * : < > | " \ or /.

4. Be sure that the Save As Type list shows the PDF format, and then click Publish. The PDF document is displayed in an Adobe Reader window.

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XPS is an electronic paper document developed by Microsoft that is also used to share your presentation with others who don’t have PowerPoint. Also, if you save a file as a PowerPoint Show, the PowerPoint Viewer is built in, allowing those without PowerPoint to view the show.

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For a free copy of Adobe Reader, go to http://get.adobe.com/reader/, and click the Download button.

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You can also send PDF files using e-mail simply by attaching them to your e-mail message.

Broadcasting a Presentation

When you broadcast a presentation you make it available as a live presentation that others can view using their Web browsers. The process is simple, doesn’t require you to have your own site to host the presentation, and is an excellent way to give a live presentation to remote viewers.

Start a Broadcast

1. Click the File tab.

2. Click Save & Send.

3. Click the Broadcast Slide Show link, and then click the Broadcast Slide Show button that appears.

4. In the Broadcast Slide Show dialog box, click the Start Broadcast button. Enter your user ID and password if requested, and click OK.

5. Click the Start Broadcast button to use the default PowerPoint Broadcast Service.

6. Click Copy Link to copy the Web address, and then paste it into an e-mail invitation yourself, or click the Send In Email link to simply open an e-mail message and send the link.

Run a Broadcast

1. Follow the steps in the preceding task to set up the show and invite attendees. Then, click the Start Slide Show button in the Broadcast Slide Show dialog box to begin the online presentation.

2. The slide show runs. Use the tools in the bottom-left corner to navigate through it:

- The left arrow moves back one slide.

- The right arrow moves forward one slide.

- Click the Options button, and use the Go To Slide command to move to a specific slide.

3. Press Esc, and then click the End Broadcast button that appears under the ribbon in the PowerPoint window to end the presentation.

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All the tools you can use to navigate or annotate a presentation are available to you when you are running a broadcast. See Chapter 14, for more about using these tools.

Creating a Video

You can save your PowerPoint presentation as a video that includes all the narration, timings, and animations you’ve built into it. People can then watch the video on their computing devices or you might post it on the Web on a video-sharing site such as YouTube.

1. Click the File tab.

2. Click Save & Send.

3. Click Create A Video.

4. Click the first drop-down list, and select the type of display you want to use for the video presentation: Computer & HD Displays, Internet And DVD, or Portable Devices.

5. Click the next list, and choose whether to use recorded timings and narrations with your video.

6. Use the spinner arrows beside Seconds To Spend On Each Slide to set the time each slide should be displayed in the video.

7. Click Create Video.

8. In the Save As dialog box, enter another name in the File Name box if you want to, and click Save. The video is saved to your SkyDrive folder. Go to the folder to view it.

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When you play a video file, if you haven’t used preset timings, you can use the backward and forward arrows to move from slide to slide.

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Saving a file as a video presentation can take a bit of time. Also, if you close PowerPoint before the video has been created, PowerPoint displays warning messages. It’s a good idea to create a video when you have an errand to run or feel like multitasking with some other project.

Chapter 17. Introducing Advanced PowerPoint Topics

In this section:

- Saving Your Own PowerPoint Templates

- Creating Custom Shows

- Removing Hidden Data with Document Inspector

- Adding a Digital Signature

- Customizing the Ribbon

The preceding sections of this book cover the topics you need to create most presentations and to use Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 efficiently. However, the advanced features that you can explore in this section help you work more efficiently.

You can develop a presentation that forms the basis of other presentations and save that presentation as a template. This step can save you a great deal of work setting up themes, layouts, and slide master settings for each new presentation.

Custom shows are subsets of the slides in a presentation that can be saved right inside the same file. Custom shows might contain only some of the slides in the presentation or rearrange the order of slides. For example, if you have a master presentation on your entire product line, you can save custom shows that focus on each product line separately and then show only the presentation that relates to an individual customer’s needs.

A feature called Document Inspector allows you to search your files for hidden data and remove it before saving the file. Finally, you can add a digital signature to your presentation. A digital signature assures whoever opens the file that it comes from you.

Finally, once you’re comfortable with the ribbon interface, you can explore customizing it to contain the tools you use most often.

Saving Your Own PowerPoint Templates

You can save any file in a template format (.potx). A template can contain various custom settings, such as changes you make to the slide master, custom layouts or animations you created, or themes and font choices you applied. Your templates can also contain text or graphic elements in placeholders. By using a template as the basis of a new presentation, you not only save time but guarantee a consistency of look and feel among all your presentations.

Save a Presentation as a Template

1. Make any settings or changes you want to the presentation, and then click the File tab.

2. Click Save As.

3. In the Save As Type list, choose PowerPoint Template.

4. Enter a name in the File Name box.

5. Click Save.

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Keep in mind that after you open a template, you need to save it as a regular PowerPoint presentation with a new name so that you don’t overwrite the template with presentation-specific changes. For more information about saving files, see Saving and Closing a PowerPoint Presentation.

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If you have access to a Microsoft SharePoint site or a company intranet, you might consider sharing templates across an organization so that all presentations have a consistent company look and feel.

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If you or somebody else wants to use the template with an earlier version of PowerPoint, you should choose PowerPoint 97-2003 Template in step 3. This is useful if you are sharing a template with people working on earlier versions of the software.

Creating Custom Shows

The ability to create and store custom shows within a single presentation file offers you great flexibility. You can create several custom shows from one presentation by simply choosing the slides to include and reorganizing them in any way you want. The slides in a custom show remain identical to the corresponding slides in your main presentation, but by selecting and rearranging their order, you can create quite different shows to meet your viewers’ needs.

Create a Custom Show

1. Click the Slide Show tab.

2. Click Custom Slide Show.

3. Click Custom Shows.

4. Click New in the Custom Shows dialog box.

5. Click a slide in the Slides In Presentation list.

6. Click Add. Repeat steps 5 and 6 to add all the slides you want in your custom show.

7. Click a slide in the Slides In Custom Show list.

8. Use the Move Up and Move Down buttons to reorganize the slide order. Repeat this step with other slides until your slides are in the order you want.

9. Enter a name in the Slide Show Name box.

10. Click OK.

11. Click Close to close the Custom Shows dialog box.

TIP

If you change your mind about including a slide in a custom show, click that slide in the Slides In Custom Show list and then click the Remove button.

TRY THIS!

If you created a custom show and need to edit it, click the Custom Slide Show button on the Slide Show tab. Select the show, and then click the Edit button. Use the preceding steps to add, remove, or rearrange the slides in the show, and then click OK.

Run a Custom Show

1. Click the Slide Show tab.

2. Click Custom Slide Show.

3. Click the name of the custom show. The show begins to run.

4. Use the navigation tools to move through the presentation. Press Esc to stop the show at any time.

TIP

You can use the Set Up Show dialog box (click the Set Up Slide Show button on the Slide Show tab) to set up your file to play a custom show whenever you click the Slide Show button. Just select the custom show you want to use from the Custom Show list.

SEE ALSO

For more information about using navigation tools in Slide Show view, see Navigating Through Slides.

Removing Hidden Data with Document Inspector

When you intend to share a presentation, either by publishing it online or by handing it to somebody on a CD, it’s a good idea to make sure there isn’t any hidden data included. For example, a file might contain personal information about the author or document properties (called metadata) that you’d rather not share. You can use the Document Inspector feature in PowerPoint to remove such information.

Remove Hidden Data with Document Inspector

1. Save a copy of your presentation with a new name.

2. Click the File tab.

3. Click Info.

4. Click Check For Issues.

5. Click Inspect Document.

6. Select the various check boxes to choose what content to check for.

7. Click Inspect.

8. Click the Remove All buttons that appear in the results window.

9. Click Close to save the file with the selected data omitted.

TIP

I start out this task by having you save a copy of the presentation because much of the data you delete using Document Inspector cannot be restored. If you don’t save the file first, a window appears alerting you to this issue. The data that Document Inspector removes might be useful information for a presentation you are still working on, such as the date you last made a change to the presentation or invisible contents on slides. Working on a copy preserves that data in the original.

TRY THIS!

If you want to manually edit your presentation properties to remove personal information instead of letting Document Inspector do all the work, click the File tab, choose Info, and then click the Properties button and choose Show Document Panel. Just delete any data in any field that you don’t want included with the file.

Adding a Digital Signature

A digital signature is much like a handwritten signature on a check or other legal document. It can be used to ensure that the document was created by a particular person. In a world where computer files can contain potentially harmful materials, a digital signature helps to reassure recipients that a file was created by somebody they know and trust. You can use a digital signature provided by a third party that others can use to verify your document. You can also create one that serves only for you to verify that a document you open on your computer is your own.

Purchase a Third-Party Digital Signature Product

1. Be sure your computer is connected to the Internet, and then click the File tab.

2. Click Info, and then click Protect Presentation.

3. Click Add A Digital Signature.

4. In the confirming dialog box that appears, click Signature Services From The Office Marketplace.

5. Select a digital signing provider in the list (which might change from time to time).

6. Click the Learn More link on the screen that appears and follow the steps to purchase a digital signature product or download a free trial. These steps might vary slightly from service to service.

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Digital signing software can cost anywhere from under $100 to over $250. You might make this investment if it’s important that you be sure that documents come from the person they purport to be from and that the contents of the document haven’t been changed since they were signed.

TRY THIS!

You can also use the Information Rights Management Service to authenticate the sender and recipient of files sent by e-mail to ensure that your files don’t fall into the wrong hands. Click the File tab, and choose Info. Then click the Protect Presentation button, choose Restrict Permission By People, and choose Restricted Access. Follow the instructions to sign up for this service from Microsoft.

Create Your Own Digital Signature

1. Save your file as a PowerPoint presentation, and then click the File tab.

2. Click Info, and then click Protect Presentation.

3. Click Add A Digital Signature.

4. In the confirming dialog box, click OK. If you saved a digital signature before, skip to step 9.

5. Click Create Your Own Digital ID.

6. Click OK.

7. Enter your name, e-mail address, organization, and location in the Create A Digital ID dialog box.

8. Click Create.

9. In the Sign dialog box, fill in the Purpose For Signing This Document box.

10. Click Sign.

11. In the Signature Confirmation dialog box, click OK.

TIP

To view signatures associated with a document, click the File tab, click Info, and then click View Signatures. A Signatures pane appears listing any signatures associated with the file. Click a signature listed there to view its details.

Customizing the Ribbon

The idea behind the interface that started in Microsoft Office 2007 is that the most commonly used tools are present on the ribbon rather than buried in dialog boxes, and the tools you use less often, although accessible, aren’t part of the main interface by default. Sometimes, the only way to access a function you might have used in a previous version of PowerPoint is to place a command on the ribbon.

Add Buttons to the Ribbon

1. Choose Options from the File menu.

2. Click Customize Ribbon.

3. Click the arrow on the Choose Commands From list, and select a category of tool, or simply scroll down and choose the Commands Not In The Ribbon category.

4. Click Main Tabs in the list on the right side, and click New Tab or New Group. Use the Rename button to rename the tab or group.

5. Click a command in the list on the left, and then click the Add button to add it to the ribbon. Repeat this step for all the tools you want to add.

6. Click OK.

CAUTION

Although you can add many tools to the ribbon, don’t overdo it. Only add the tools you use most often, or add a tool to use a particular function, and then remove it to clear clutter off the ribbon.

TIP

If you change the ribbon and then want to put it back the way it was when you installed PowerPoint, go to the PowerPoint Options dialog box, select Customize Ribbon, and click Reset. The default ribbon settings are restored.

Remove or Rearrange Tools

1. Choose Options from the File menu.

2. Click Customize Ribbon.

3. Click an item in the list on the right.

4. Click Remove to remove it from the ribbon.

5. Click Move Up or Move Down to rearrange the tools.

6. Click OK to save your settings.

TIP

Be cautious about making changes to the ribbon because it might confuse others who use your copy of PowerPoint or even confuse you because the items on the ribbon will no longer match those in the Help system or books such as this one you use to learn PowerPoint.

Appendix A. About the Author

Nancy Muir runs the Web site TechSmartSenior.com, where she offers advice on computing and the Internet to those over 50, and writes a column on computers and the Internet on Retirenet.com. She is also the author of more than 50 books on technology topics, including Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® 2007 Plain & Simple and the bestselling Computers For Seniors For Dummies from Wiley Publishing. Over the years, Nancy has worked in the software and book publishing industries as well as academia, and has served as a consultant to major technology companies.

Index

A NOTE ON THE DIGITAL INDEX

A link in an index entry is displayed as the section title in which that entry appears. Because some sections have multiple index markers, it is not unusual for an entry to have several links to the same section. Clicking on any link will take you directly to the place in the text in which the marker appears.

Symbols

3-D effect, Formatting Placeholders

A

action buttons, Drawing Shapes and Text Boxes, Draw a Shape

Action Settings dialog box, Draw a Shape

Add-Ins tab in ribbon, Using the Ribbon, Using the Ribbon

Adobe Reader, Sharing a Presentation on the Web, Saving as a PDF File

obtaining copy, Saving as a PDF File

advancing slides, Choosing How to Advance a Slide

alignment of text, Align Placeholder Contents, Align Text in Cells

in table cells, Align Text in Cells

placeholder contents, Align Placeholder Contents

All Slide dialog box, Go to a Particular Slide

animation indicator in Slide Sorter view, Viewing Multiple Slides with Slide Sorter

Animation Painter, Copying Effects with Animation Painter, Adding Transitions and Animations, Using Animation Painter

copying with, Copying Effects with Animation Painter

animations, Adding Transitions and Animations, Applying a Custom Animation to an Object, Modify Animation Settings, Modify Animation Settings, Reorder Effects, Previewing an Animation, Specify Show Options

applying custom to object, Applying a Custom Animation to an Object

modifying settings, Modify Animation Settings

preview, Previewing an Animation

removing from object, Modify Animation Settings

reordering effects, Reorder Effects

running slide show without, Specify Show Options

Animations tab in ribbon, Copying Effects with Animation Painter, Applying a Custom Animation to an Object, Modify Animation Settings, Previewing an Animation

Add Animation, Applying a Custom Animation to an Object

Animation Pane, Modify Animation Settings

Preview, Previewing an Animation

annotations, End a Slide Show, Specify Show Options, Working with the Pen and Annotations, Working with the Pen and Annotations, Make Annotations on Slides, Erase Annotations on Slides, Save Annotations, Save Annotations

deleting, Save Annotations

erasing, Erase Annotations on Slides

making on slides, Make Annotations on Slides

pen style and color, Working with the Pen and Annotations

saving, End a Slide Show, Save Annotations

arrows, drawing, Drawing Shapes and Text Boxes

Artistic Effects button, Working with Picture Tools

Artistic Effects gallery, Working with Improved Picture and Video Formatting Tools

audience handouts, Working with Handout and Notes Masters (see )

audio, Inserting Media Objects, Draw a Shape, Adding Sound to a Transition, Modifying Transition Speed

action button for playing, Draw a Shape

adding to transition, Adding Sound to a Transition

inserting, Inserting Media Objects

speed of transition and, Modifying Transition Speed

automatic slide advancement, Set Up How to Advance Slides

Available Templates And Themes list, Open a Template

My Templates selection, Open a Template

B

background, Work with Handout Master, Work with Notes Master, Changing the Slide Background

for handouts, Work with Handout Master

gallery, Work with Notes Master

Backstage view, File tab, Print Options, Unhide Slides

black screen, displaying temporarily, End a Show

blank presentation, opening, Creating a Presentation

bold text, Apply Effects to Text

border line, Formatting Placeholders

borders of tables, Editing Tables

brightness adjustment in picture, Working with Picture Tools

Bring Forward button, Change Object Order

Broadcast Slide Show dialog box, Start a Broadcast, Broadcasting a Presentation, Run a Broadcast

broadcasting slide shows, Broadcasting Slide Shows, Broadcasting a Presentation

Browse For Themes command, Find Slide Themes Online

bullet points, Building a Slide, Enter Text on Slides, Understanding the Relationship of the Outline to Slides, Promote and Demote Headings, Adding Transitions and Animations

in outlines, Understanding the Relationship of the Outline to Slides, Promote and Demote Headings

placeholder for, Building a Slide

timed sequence for appearance, Adding Transitions and Animations

bulleted lists, alignment, Align Placeholder Contents

buttons, adding to Quick Access Toolbar, Insert a Word Outline into PowerPoint

C

callouts, drawing, Drawing Shapes and Text Boxes

CDs, saving presentation to, Taking a Presentation with You

cells in tables, Align Text in Cells, Merge Cells

aligning text, Align Text in Cells

merging, Merge Cells

centered text, Align Placeholder Contents

Change Chart Type dialog box, Insert a Chart

Character Spacing button, Apply Effects to Text

Chart Layouts gallery, Change Chart Style and Layout

Chart Styles gallery, Change Chart Style and Layout

charts, Creating and Modifying Charts, Creating and Modifying Charts, Insert a Chart, Change Chart Style and Layout, Change Chart Style and Layout, Display or Hide a Chart Legend

changing style and layout, Change Chart Style and Layout

inserting, Creating and Modifying Charts

legend display, Display or Hide a Chart Legend

types, Insert a Chart, Change Chart Style and Layout

Choose A SmartArt Graphic dialog box, Explore SmartArt, Work with SmartArt, Working with SmartArt

Choose Commands From list, for Quick Access Toolbar, Add Buttons to the Quick Access Toolbar

Choose Theme Or Themed Document dialog box, Find Slide Themes Online

clip art, Inserting Clip Art, Inserting Clip Art, Search for Clip Art, Insert Clip Art

inserting, Insert Clip Art

permission to use, Search for Clip Art

searching for, Inserting Clip Art

closing, Close a Presentation, Close a Presentation

PowerPoint, Close a Presentation

presentations, Close a Presentation

collapsing outlines, Working with Outline Contents

collated copies when printing, Specify the Number of Copies to Print

color, Get a Cohesive Look with Themes, Formatting Text, Apply Video Formats, Specify Show Options, Specify Show Options, Working with the Pen and Annotations

for annotations, Specify Show Options

of ink, Working with the Pen and Annotations

of laser pointer, Specify Show Options

of text, Formatting Text

of video border, Apply Video Formats

previewing, Get a Cohesive Look with Themes

Color dialog box, Change Text Color

color schemes, Working with Slide Masters, Using Slide Layouts and Themes, Changing Theme Colors and Fonts

changing in theme, Changing Theme Colors and Fonts

columns in tables, inserting, Insert Rows and Columns

commands, adding to Quick Access Toolbar, Customizing the Quick Access Toolbar

comments, adding, Add Comments

content placeholders, Understanding How to Build a Presentation, Enter Text on Slides, Using Slide Layouts and Themes, Understanding What Slide Layouts and Themes Control, Creating and Modifying Charts

icons in, Creating and Modifying Charts

text entry, Enter Text on Slides

contextual tab, Display Tabs and Panes

contrast adjustment in picture, Working with Picture Tools

copying, Copying Effects with Animation Painter, Cut, Copy, and Paste Text, Copy and Paste Slides, Duplicate Slides, Add a Placeholder to a Slide Layout, Using Animation Painter

effects, Copying Effects with Animation Painter

placeholders, Add a Placeholder to a Slide Layout

slides, Copy and Paste Slides, Duplicate Slides

text, Cut, Copy, and Paste Text

with Animation Painter, Using Animation Painter

corner handles, dragging to resize object, Resizing Objects

Corrections gallery, Working with Improved Picture and Video Formatting Tools

Create A Digital ID dialog box, Create Your Own Digital Signature

Create Chart dialog box, Creating and Modifying Charts

cropping, Working with Pictures, Crop a Picture, Resizing Objects

custom animation effect, Adding Transitions and Animations

Custom Layout slide, Add a Layout

custom slide shows, Start a Custom Show, Introducing Advanced PowerPoint Topics, Creating Custom Shows, Run a Custom Show

creating, Creating Custom Shows

running, Run a Custom Show

starting, Start a Custom Show

cutting text, Cut, Copy, and Paste Text

D

Date & Time button, Insert Footer Information

date and time, Insert the Date and Time, Insert Headers or Footers

adding to header or footer, Insert Headers or Footers

inserting, Insert the Date and Time

date footer, Insert Footer Information

default Blank Presentation template, Creating a Presentation

default pen color, Make Annotations on Slides

default PowerPoint Broadcast Service, Start a Broadcast

default printer, Choose a Printer and Paper Options

default settings, Add Buttons to the Quick Access Toolbar, Add Buttons to the Ribbon

restoring Quick Access Toolbar to, Add Buttons to the Quick Access Toolbar

restoring ribbon, Add Buttons to the Ribbon

default theme, Find Slide Themes Online

deleting, Insert Footer Information, Add a Layout, Adding and Deleting Master Sets, Delete a Master, Working with Text, Managing Slides in Slide Sorter View, Delete a Section, Erase Annotations on Slides, Save Annotations, Removing Hidden Data with Document Inspector

annotations, Erase Annotations on Slides, Save Annotations

hidden data with Document Inspector, Removing Hidden Data with Document Inspector

master sets, Adding and Deleting Master Sets

masters, Delete a Master

placeholders from slide master, Add a Layout

section, Delete a Section

slide number element, Insert Footer Information

slides, Managing Slides in Slide Sorter View

text, Working with Text

demoting headings in outlines, Promote and Demote Headings

design elements, Working with Design Elements, Using Slide Layouts and Themes

(see also , , )

Design tab in ribbon, Taking Advantage of Additional Themes and SmartArt, Get a Cohesive Look with Themes, Get a Cohesive Look with Themes, Omit Master Graphics on Individual Slides, Working with Themes, Changing Theme Colors and Fonts, Change Theme Fonts, Changing the Slide Background

Background group, Omit Master Graphics on Individual Slides

Background Styles, Changing the Slide Background

Color, Get a Cohesive Look with Themes

Fonts, Change Theme Fonts

More, Themes, Working with Themes

Themes, Taking Advantage of Additional Themes and SmartArt, Get a Cohesive Look with Themes, Changing Theme Colors and Fonts

Colors, Changing Theme Colors and Fonts

diagramming tool, SmartArt as, Working with SmartArt

Dialog Box Launcher, Using the Ribbon, Display Tabs and Panes

dialog boxes, opening, Using the Ribbon, Display Tabs and Panes

digital signature, Introducing Advanced PowerPoint Topics, Adding a Digital Signature

Document Inspector, Introducing Advanced PowerPoint Topics, Removing Hidden Data with Document Inspector

downloading templates, Find Slide Themes Online

Drawing Tools in ribbon, Display Tabs and Panes

Format, Display Tabs and Panes

duplicating, Copying Effects with Animation Painter (see )

DVD, saving presentation to, Taking a Presentation with You

E

e-mail, E-Mail a Presentation for Review, Share a Web Presentation, Broadcasting a Presentation

for sharing Web presentation link, Share a Web Presentation

to send invitation to broadcast, Broadcasting a Presentation

to send slide show for review, E-Mail a Presentation for Review

editing text, Working with Text

Edit Photo Album dialog box, Creating a Photo Album

Effect Options command, Modify Animation Settings

effects, Copying Effects with Animation Painter, Apply Effects to WordArt, Formatting Objects, Working with Picture Tools, Apply Video Formats, Reorder Effects

applying to WordArt, Apply Effects to WordArt

copying, Copying Effects with Animation Painter

for objects, Formatting Objects

for pictures, Working with Picture Tools

for video, Apply Video Formats

reordering, Reorder Effects

ending slide show, End a Slide Show, Go to a Particular Slide

erasing, Erase Annotations on Slides (see )

Esc key, End a Show

to end slide show, End a Show

Excel, Creating and Modifying Charts

expanding outlines, Working with Outline Contents

F

file format, for saving presentation, Saving and Closing a PowerPoint Presentation

file-management commands, Getting Started with PowerPoint 2010

File menu, What’s Where in PowerPoint 2010?, Using Microsoft Office Backstage, Getting Started with PowerPoint 2010, What’s Where in PowerPoint 2010?, Creating a Presentation, Open a Presentation Based on an Existing Presentation, Finding and Opening Existing Presentations, Saving and Closing a PowerPoint Presentation, Saving and Closing a PowerPoint Presentation, Close a Presentation, Close a Presentation, Insert a Word Outline into PowerPoint, Using Print Preview, Establishing Printer Settings and Printing, Choose Which Slides to Print, Saving as a PDF File

(see also )

Close, Close a Presentation

displaying, Using Microsoft Office Backstage

Exit, Close a Presentation

New, Creating a Presentation, Open a Presentation Based on an Existing Presentation, Insert a Word Outline into PowerPoint

Open, Finding and Opening Existing Presentations

Print, Using Print Preview, Establishing Printer Settings and Printing, Choose Which Slides to Print

Save, Saving and Closing a PowerPoint Presentation

Save & Send, Saving as a PDF File

Save As, Saving and Closing a PowerPoint Presentation

filenames, for presentations, Saving and Closing a PowerPoint Presentation

File tab in ribbon, Broadcasting Slide Shows, Getting Started with PowerPoint 2010, What’s Where in PowerPoint 2010?, Find Slide Themes Online, E-Mail a Presentation for Review, Taking a Presentation with You, Saving a Presentation to the Web, Broadcasting a Presentation, Creating a Video, Removing Hidden Data with Document Inspector, Adding a Digital Signature, Create Your Own Digital Signature

Info, Removing Hidden Data with Document Inspector, Adding a Digital Signature, Create Your Own Digital Signature

Check For Issues, Removing Hidden Data with Document Inspector

Permissions, Adding a Digital Signature

Protect Presentation, Create Your Own Digital Signature

New, Find Slide Themes Online

Save & Send, Broadcasting Slide Shows, E-Mail a Presentation for Review, Taking a Presentation with You, Saving a Presentation to the Web, Broadcasting a Presentation, Creating a Video

Broadcast Slide Show, Broadcasting a Presentation

Create A Video, Creating a Video

Save To Web, Saving a Presentation to the Web

fill color, Formatting Placeholders, Formatting Objects

Find Whole Words Only option, Finding and Replacing Text

finding, Finding and Opening Existing Presentations, Finding and Replacing Text, Find Slide Themes Online, Inserting Clip Art

clip art, Inserting Clip Art

existing presentations, Finding and Opening Existing Presentations

text, and replacing, Finding and Replacing Text

themes online, Find Slide Themes Online

first slide, moving to, Go to a Particular Slide

Fit Slide To Current Window button, Sizing Panes in Normal View

flipping objects, Flip an Object

floating toolbar, Mini toolbar as, Working with the Mini Toolbar

folders, opening, Open a Presentation Based on an Existing Presentation

Font dialog box, Applying Fonts, Apply Effects to Text

Character Spacing tab, Apply Effects to Text

font schemes, Changing Theme Colors and Fonts

fonts, Preview Design Elements with Galleries, Work with Notes Master, Insert a Symbol, Understanding What Slide Layouts and Themes Control, Change Theme Fonts, Applying Fonts

applying, Applying Fonts

for notes, Work with Notes Master

for themes, Change Theme Fonts

symbols in, Insert a Symbol

viewing list, Preview Design Elements with Galleries

Fonts gallery, Create New Theme Fonts, Change Theme Fonts

footers, Insert Footer Information, Insert Footer Information, Inserting Headers and Footers, Insert Headers or Footers, Insert Headers or Footers

adding date or time to, Insert Headers or Footers

adding in Slide Master view, Insert Footer Information

inserting, Inserting Headers and Footers

restoring placeholder after deleting, Insert Footer Information

text for, Insert Headers or Footers

Format Legend dialog box, Display or Hide a Chart Legend

Format Painter, Using Animation Painter

Format Shape dialog box, Add a Text Box, Apply a Shape Effect

for text box, Add a Text Box

Format tab in ribbon, Working with Improved Picture and Video Formatting Tools, Working with Design Elements, Use the Selection And Visibility Pane, Resizing Objects, Resizing Objects

Crop, Resizing Objects

Size group, Resizing Objects

formatting, Formatting Placeholders, Turn Formatting On and Off in an Outline, Display or Hide a Chart Legend, Add a Text Box

for chart legend, Display or Hide a Chart Legend

for outlines, Turn Formatting On and Off in an Outline

placeholders, Formatting Placeholders

text box, Add a Text Box

formatting objects, Formatting Objects, Formatting Objects, Change the Shape Outline

fill color or effect, Formatting Objects

shape outline changes, Change the Shape Outline

formatting text, Working with the Mini Toolbar, Formatting Text, Formatting Text, Change Text Size

color, Formatting Text

Mini toolbar for, Working with the Mini Toolbar

size changes, Change Text Size

frames for slides, Choose the Format to Print

full-screen mode for running presentation, Running a Presentation in Slide Show View

G

galleries, What’s New in PowerPoint 2010?, Display Tabs and Panes, Working with Improved Picture and Video Formatting Tools, Working with Improved Picture and Video Formatting Tools, Working with Improved Picture and Video Formatting Tools, Getting Started with PowerPoint 2010, What’s Where in PowerPoint 2010?, Working with Design Elements, Working with Design Elements, Get a Cohesive Look with Themes, Understanding How to Build a Presentation, Building a Slide, Understanding What Slide Layouts and Themes Control, Understanding What Slide Layouts and Themes Control, Working with Layouts, Working with Themes, Change Chart Style and Layout, Change Chart Style and Layout, Apply a Fill Color or Effect, Using Video Tools, Applying a Transition, Applying a Custom Animation to an Object

Animation, Applying a Custom Animation to an Object

Artistic Effects, Working with Improved Picture and Video Formatting Tools

Chart Layouts, Change Chart Style and Layout

Chart Styles, Change Chart Style and Layout

Corrections, Working with Improved Picture and Video Formatting Tools

Layout, Understanding How to Build a Presentation, Understanding What Slide Layouts and Themes Control, Working with Layouts

Office Theme, Building a Slide

Shape Fill, Apply a Fill Color or Effect

Shapes, Display Tabs and Panes

Themes, Get a Cohesive Look with Themes, Understanding What Slide Layouts and Themes Control, Working with Themes

Transitions, Applying a Transition

Video Styles, Using Video Tools

WordArt Styles, Working with Design Elements

gradient, Apply a Fill Color or Effect

graphics, Getting Started with PowerPoint 2010, What’s Where in PowerPoint 2010?, Work with Master Graphics, Omit Master Graphics on Individual Slides, Work with Handout Master, Understanding the Relationship of the Outline to Slides, Understanding What Slide Layouts and Themes Control, Inserting Media and Drawing Objects

galleries of, Getting Started with PowerPoint 2010, What’s Where in PowerPoint 2010?

master, Work with Master Graphics

omitting master from individual slide, Omit Master Graphics on Individual Slides

removing background from handouts, Work with Handout Master

gridlines, Flip an Object

grouping objects, Grouping and Changing the Order of Objects

groups, What’s Where in PowerPoint 2010?

H

Handout Master view, Insert tab, Work with Handout Master

handout masters, Working with Handout and Notes Masters

handouts, Working with Handout and Notes Masters, Printing a Presentation, Choose the Format to Print

printing, Choose the Format to Print

Header And Footer dialog box, Inserting Headers and Footers, Inserting Headers and Footers

Notes And Handouts tab, Inserting Headers and Footers

Slide tab, Inserting Headers and Footers

headers, Inserting Headers and Footers, Insert Headers or Footers

adding date or time to, Insert Headers or Footers

inserting, Inserting Headers and Footers

headings in outlines, Promote and Demote Headings

promoting and demoting, Promote and Demote Headings

Help, Getting Help, End a Show

hidden data, Document Inspector for removing, Removing Hidden Data with Document Inspector

hidden slides, Unhide Slides, Go to a Particular Slide

displaying, Go to a Particular Slide

printing presentation with, Unhide Slides

hiding, Display Tabs and Panes, Show or Hide Enhanced ScreenTips, Omit Master Graphics on Individual Slides, Work with Handout Master, Use the Selection And Visibility Pane, Display or Hide a Chart Legend

advanced ScreenTips, Display Tabs and Panes

background graphics, Omit Master Graphics on Individual Slides

background graphics on handout, Work with Handout Master

chart legend, Display or Hide a Chart Legend

items on slide, Use the Selection And Visibility Pane

ScreenTips, Show or Hide Enhanced ScreenTips

hiding slides, Managing and Viewing Slides, Managing Slides in Slide Sorter View, Hiding and Unhiding Slides

vs. deleting, Managing Slides in Slide Sorter View

Home key, to move to first slide, Go to a Particular Slide

Home tab in ribbon, Working with Slide Sections, Preview Design Elements with Galleries, Delete a Master, Building a Slide, Cut, Copy, and Paste Text, Finding and Replacing Text, Manipulating Placeholders, Manipulating Placeholders, Manipulating Placeholders, Manipulating Placeholders, Align Placeholder Contents, Working with Layouts, Applying Fonts, Formatting Text, Change Text Size, Apply Effects to Text

allignment buttons, Align Placeholder Contents

Arrange button, Manipulating Placeholders

Bring To Front, Manipulating Placeholders

Cut, Copy, and Paste, Cut, Copy, and Paste Text

Editing, Select, Manipulating Placeholders

Find, Finding and Replacing Text

Font, Preview Design Elements with Galleries, Applying Fonts

Font Color, Formatting Text

Font Size, Change Text Size

New, Working with Layouts

New Slide, Building a Slide

Section, Add Section, Working with Slide Sections

Send To Back, Manipulating Placeholders

Slides group, Delete, Delete a Master

text formatting, Apply Effects to Text

HTML, Working with Text

Hyperlink command, Switching to Another Program

hyphen key [-], to end slide show, End a Show

I

illustrations, Inserting Clip Art (see )

Information Rights Management Service, Purchase a Third-Party Digital Signature Product

ink color, Working with the Pen and Annotations

Insert Outline dialog box, Insert a Word Outline into PowerPoint

Insert Picture dialog box, Working with SmartArt

Insert Picture From File icon, Working with Pictures

Insert tab in ribbon, Working with Improved Picture and Video Formatting Tools, Explore SmartArt, Display Tabs and Panes, Working with Design Elements, Work with SmartArt, Insert Footer Information, Insert a Symbol, Working with Tables, Creating and Modifying Charts, Insert Clip Art, Creating WordArt, Inserting Media Objects, Inserting Media Objects, Creating a Photo Album, Drawing Shapes and Text Boxes, Add a Text Box

Audio, Inserting Media Objects

Chart, Creating and Modifying Charts

Clip Art, Insert Clip Art

Date & Time button, Insert Footer Information

Photo Album, Creating a Photo Album

Picture, Working with Improved Picture and Video Formatting Tools

Shapes, Drawing Shapes and Text Boxes

Shapes gallery, Working with Design Elements

SmartArt, Explore SmartArt, Work with SmartArt

Symbol, Insert a Symbol

Table, Working with Tables

Text Box, Add a Text Box

Video, Inserting Media Objects

WordArt, Creating WordArt

inserting, Work with SmartArt, Work with Master Graphics, Insert Additional Masters, Building a Slide, Insert a Symbol, Insert the Date and Time, Add a Placeholder to a Slide Layout, Working with Tables, Insert Rows and Columns, Creating and Modifying Charts, Insert Clip Art, Creating WordArt, Working with SmartArt, Working with Pictures, Inserting Media Objects, Add a Text Box, Inserting Headers and Footers

charts, Creating and Modifying Charts

clip art, Insert Clip Art

date and time, Insert the Date and Time

headers and footers, Inserting Headers and Footers

master graphic, Work with Master Graphics

masters, Insert Additional Masters

media objects, Inserting Media Objects

new slide, Building a Slide

photos, Working with Pictures

placeholder in slide master, Add a Placeholder to a Slide Layout

SmartArt, Work with SmartArt

symbols, Insert a Symbol

table rows and columns, Insert Rows and Columns

tables, Working with Tables

text boxes, Add a Text Box

WordArt, Creating WordArt

Internet, Draw a Shape, Applying Fonts, Sharing a Presentation on the Web

displaying Web site during presentation, Draw a Shape

for font sets, Applying Fonts

publishing presentation to, Sharing a Presentation on the Web

Internet connection, A Quick Overview

italic text, Apply Effects to Text

J

jump to slide, action button for, Draw a Shape

K

kerning, Apply Effects to Text

keyboard shortcuts, Show or Hide Enhanced ScreenTips, Show or Hide Enhanced ScreenTips, Creating a Presentation, Undo and Redo an Action, Promote and Demote Headings, Copy and Paste Slides, Erase Annotations on Slides

displaying, Show or Hide Enhanced ScreenTips, Show or Hide Enhanced ScreenTips

for cut, copy and paste, Copy and Paste Slides

for Pen tool, Erase Annotations on Slides

for promoting and demoting headings, Promote and Demote Headings

for undo and redo, Undo and Redo an Action

to open file, Creating a Presentation

L

language dictionaries, Use the Thesaurus

laser pointer, color of, Specify Show Options

last slide, End key to move to, Go to a Particular Slide

Layout gallery, Understanding How to Build a Presentation, Understanding What Slide Layouts and Themes Control, Working with Layouts

layouts, Understanding How to Build a Presentation, Using Slide Layouts and Themes, Understanding What Slide Layouts and Themes Control, Working with Layouts, Working with Layouts, Add a Placeholder to a Slide Layout, Change Chart Style and Layout

adding placeholder, Add a Placeholder to a Slide Layout

applying, Working with Layouts

for charts, Change Chart Style and Layout

for new slide, Understanding How to Build a Presentation

legend for chart, displaying or hiding, Display or Hide a Chart Legend

lines, drawing, Drawing Shapes and Text Boxes

Live Messenger, Save to the Web

live presentation to remote viewers, Broadcasting a Presentation

Live Preview feature, Apply a Fill Color or Effect

Loop Until Next Sound option, Adding Sound to a Transition

looping slide show continuously, Specify Show Options

loose character spacing, Apply Effects to Text

M

macro, action button for running, Draw a Shape

master graphics, Work with Master Graphics, Omit Master Graphics on Individual Slides

omitting from individual slides, Omit Master Graphics on Individual Slides

Master Layout thumbnail, Understanding How Slide Masters Work

master sets, adding and deleting, Adding and Deleting Master Sets

masters, Working with Slide Masters, Adding and Deleting Master Sets, Delete a Master, Insert Additional Masters, Work with Notes Master

(see also )

deleting, Delete a Master

inserting additional, Insert Additional Masters

name changes, Adding and Deleting Master Sets

notes, Work with Notes Master

Match Case option for Find, Finding and Replacing Text

media objects, inserting, Inserting Media Objects

merging table cells, Merge Cells

microphone, Rehearsing Your Presentation

Microsoft Excel, Creating and Modifying Charts

Microsoft Office Backstage, Using Microsoft Office Backstage

Microsoft Office Online, for clip art, Search for Clip Art

Microsoft SharePoint site, Adding and Deleting Master Sets, Saving Your Own PowerPoint Templates

online library of presentations, Adding and Deleting Master Sets

Microsoft Typography Web site, Applying Fonts

Microsoft Word, Building a Presentation Outline (see )

Mini toolbar, Working with the Mini Toolbar, Working with Text, Promote and Demote Headings

monitor, Specify Which Slides to Include, Start a Show

checking before use, Start a Show

resolution, and slide show speed, Specify Which Slides to Include

motion path, Adding Transitions and Animations

Motion Path category of animations, Applying a Custom Animation to an Object

moving, Moving Among Views, Move Slides or Text Up and Down in an Outline, Navigating Through Slides

between slides, Navigating Through Slides

between views, Moving Among Views

slides or text in outline, Move Slides or Text Up and Down in an Outline

moving slides, Move a Slide

multiple slides, selecting, Hiding and Unhiding Slides

N

names of sections, changing, Rename a Section

narration, Set Up How to Advance Slides, Rehearsing Your Presentation

adding, Rehearsing Your Presentation

recording, Set Up How to Advance Slides

New Presentation window, Creating a Presentation, Open a Presentation Based on an Existing Presentation, Open a Template

New From Existing, Open a Presentation Based on an Existing Presentation

Next Page button, Navigate Print Preview

Normal view, Creating Presentations, Moving Among Views, Sizing Panes in Normal View, Insert Additional Masters, Working with Handout and Notes Masters, Understanding How to Build a Presentation, Managing and Viewing Slides, Viewing Slides in the Slide Pane, Duplicate Slides, Move a Slide, Rename a Section, Previewing an Animation

applying theme in, Insert Additional Masters

copy, paste and duplicate, Duplicate Slides

Notes pane, Working with Handout and Notes Masters

Outline tab, for moving slides, Move a Slide

placeholders, Understanding How to Build a Presentation

previewing animation, Previewing an Animation

sizing panes, Sizing Panes in Normal View

Slides tab, sections, Rename a Section

notes, Working with Handout and Notes Masters, Work with Notes Master

font for, Work with Notes Master

on handouts, Working with Handout and Notes Masters

notes master, Working with Handout and Notes Masters, Work with Notes Master

Notes Page view, Moving Among Views

Notes pane in Normal view, Sizing Panes in Normal View

O

object formatting, Formatting Objects, Formatting Objects, Change the Shape Outline, Resizing Objects

fill color or effect, Formatting Objects

shape outline changes, Change the Shape Outline

sizing, Resizing Objects

objects, Working with SmartArt, Rotating and Flipping Objects, Flip an Object, Grouping and Changing the Order of Objects, Grouping and Changing the Order of Objects, Group and Ungroup Objects, Change Object Order, Applying a Custom Animation to an Object, Modify Animation Settings, Add Comments

(see also )

attaching comment, Add Comments

custom animation for, Applying a Custom Animation to an Object

flipping, Flip an Object

grouping and ungrouping, Grouping and Changing the Order of Objects

order of, Grouping and Changing the Order of Objects, Change Object Order

removing animation, Modify Animation Settings

rotating, Rotating and Flipping Objects

selecting for group, Group and Ungroup Objects

Office Backstage view, What’s New in PowerPoint 2010?

Office button (PowerPoint 2007), Getting Started with PowerPoint 2010

Office Online, Get a Cohesive Look with Themes, Open a Template

templates from, Open a Template

Office Theme gallery, Building a Slide

OLE (object linking and embedding), Working with Text

online Help, Getting Help

Open dialog box, Creating a Presentation, Finding and Opening Existing Presentations

opened document, changing Quick Access Toolbar for only, Remove or Rearrange Tools

opening dialog boxes, Using the Ribbon, Display Tabs and Panes

Options command, What’s Where in PowerPoint 2010?, Display Tabs and Panes, What’s Where in PowerPoint 2010?, Show or Hide Enhanced ScreenTips, Customizing the Quick Access Toolbar, Remove or Rearrange Tools, Customizing the Ribbon

Customize Ribbon, Customizing the Ribbon

General, ScreenTip Style, Show or Hide Enhanced ScreenTips

Quick Access Toolbar, Customizing the Quick Access Toolbar, Remove or Rearrange Tools

Choose Commands From list, Customizing the Quick Access Toolbar

removing or rearranging tools, Remove or Rearrange Tools

order of objects, Grouping and Changing the Order of Objects, Change Object Order

Outline pane, Working with Text

text editing in, Working with Text

Outline pane in Normal view, Understanding How to Build a Presentation, Choose Which Slides to Print

cutting and pasting into Word, Choose Which Slides to Print

Outline tab in Normal view, Building a Presentation Outline, Understanding the Relationship of the Outline to Slides, Working with the Outline, Adding Text in the Outline Tab, Viewing Slides in the Slide Pane, Move a Slide

expanding, Understanding the Relationship of the Outline to Slides

for moving slides, Move a Slide

text entry, Adding Text in the Outline Tab

outlines, Building a Presentation Outline, Understanding the Relationship of the Outline to Slides, Working with the Outline, Promote and Demote Headings, Working with Outline Contents, Move Slides or Text Up and Down in an Outline, Turn Formatting On and Off in an Outline, Add Text to SmartArt

changing levels, Add Text to SmartArt

expanding and collapsing, Working with Outline Contents

moving slides or text, Move Slides or Text Up and Down in an Outline

promoting and demoting headings, Promote and Demote Headings

relationship to slides, Understanding the Relationship of the Outline to Slides

text entry, Working with the Outline

text formatting on or off, Turn Formatting On and Off in an Outline

P

Package For CD dialog box, Taking a Presentation with You

panes, Using the Ribbon, Getting Started with PowerPoint 2010, Using the Ribbon, Sizing Panes in Normal View, Close and Redisplay the Slides/Outline Pane

displaying, Using the Ribbon, Using the Ribbon

hiding, Close and Redisplay the Slides/Outline Pane

sizing in Normal view, Sizing Panes in Normal View

Paste Special command, Working with Text

pasting, Cut, Copy, and Paste Text, Copy and Paste Slides

slides, Copy and Paste Slides

text, Cut, Copy, and Paste Text

PDF file format, Saving and Closing a PowerPoint Presentation, E-Mail a Presentation for Review, Sharing a Presentation on the Web, Saving as a PDF File

for sending slide show, E-Mail a Presentation for Review

saving slide show, Saving and Closing a PowerPoint Presentation, Saving as a PDF File

Pen tool, Working with the Pen and Annotations, Erase Annotations on Slides

keyboard shortcuts, Erase Annotations on Slides

permission for clip art use, Search for Clip Art

photo album, Working with Pictures, Creating a Photo Album, Creating a Photo Album

inserting new, Creating a Photo Album

photos, Working with Pictures, Crop a Picture

cropping, Crop a Picture

inserting, Working with Pictures

Picture Border palette, Change the Shape Outline

picture formatting tools, Working with Improved Picture and Video Formatting Tools

Picture Tools, Working with Picture Tools

pictures, recoloring, Recolor a Picture

placeholders, Insert Footer Information, Add a Layout, Working with Handout and Notes Masters, Understanding How to Build a Presentation, Building a Slide, Working with Text, Manipulating Placeholders, Align Placeholder Contents, Formatting Placeholders, Using Slide Layouts and Themes, Understanding What Slide Layouts and Themes Control, Working with Layouts, Add a Placeholder to a Slide Layout, Add a Placeholder to a Slide Layout, Creating WordArt, Add Comments, Insert Headers or Footers

adding to layouts, Add a Placeholder to a Slide Layout

aligning contents, Align Placeholder Contents

attaching comment, Add Comments

duplicating, Add a Placeholder to a Slide Layout

editing text in, Working with Text

for WordArt, Creating WordArt

formatting, Formatting Placeholders

in Normal view, Understanding How to Build a Presentation

layouts to control, Using Slide Layouts and Themes

manipulating, Manipulating Placeholders

on custom layout slide, Add a Layout

on handout master, Working with Handout and Notes Masters

on slide masters, Insert Footer Information

on slides, Insert Headers or Footers

on title slide, Building a Slide

playback of video, setup, Setting up Video Playback

.potx file format, Making Changes to a Slide Master, Saving Your Own PowerPoint Templates

PowerPoint, What’s New in PowerPoint 2010?, Close a Presentation, Save to the Web

closing, Close a Presentation

new features 2010, What’s New in PowerPoint 2010?

version changes, Save to the Web

PowerPoint Broadcast Service, default, Start a Broadcast

PowerPoint Options dialog box, Add Buttons to the Ribbon

Customize Ribbon, Add Buttons to the Ribbon

PowerPoint Show, saving file as, Saving as a PDF File

PowerPoint Viewer, Taking a Presentation with You, Saving as a PDF File

presentations, Choosing How to Advance a Slide (see , )

preview, Working with Design Elements, Preview Design Elements with Galleries, Work with SmartArt, Apply a Slide Theme, Insert Video or Audio, Previewing an Animation

of animation, Previewing an Animation

of design elements, Working with Design Elements

of font sizes, Preview Design Elements with Galleries

of media files, Insert Video or Audio

of SmartArt, Work with SmartArt

of themes, Apply a Slide Theme

Previous Page button, Navigate Print Preview

Print Preview, Using Print Preview

Printer Properties dialog box, Establishing Printer Settings and Printing

printer, choosing, Establishing Printer Settings and Printing

printing presentations, Unhide Slides, Printing a Presentation, Inserting Headers and Footers, Choose Which Slides to Print, Choose the Format to Print, Specify the Number of Copies to Print, Specify the Number of Copies to Print

collated copies, Specify the Number of Copies to Print

format choices, Choose the Format to Print

number of copies, Specify the Number of Copies to Print

reasons, Printing a Presentation

slide selection, Choose Which Slides to Print

with headers and footers, Inserting Headers and Footers

with hidden slides, Unhide Slides

promoting headings in outlines, Promote and Demote Headings

Publish As PDF Or XPS dialog box, Saving as a PDF File

publishing presentation to Internet, Sharing a Presentation on the Web

Q

Quick Access Toolbar, What’s Where in PowerPoint 2010?, What’s Where in PowerPoint 2010?, Display Tabs and Panes, Customizing the Quick Access Toolbar, Add Buttons to the Quick Access Toolbar, Remove or Rearrange Tools, Saving and Closing a PowerPoint Presentation, Undo and Redo an Action, Undo and Redo an Action, Working with the Outline, Insert a Word Outline into PowerPoint, Using Print Preview, Save to the Web

adding buttons, Insert a Word Outline into PowerPoint

adding Print Preview icon, Using Print Preview

customizing, Customizing the Quick Access Toolbar

Outline View button, Working with the Outline

Redo, Undo and Redo an Action

removing or rearranging tools, Remove or Rearrange Tools

resetting defaults, Add Buttons to the Quick Access Toolbar

Save, Saving and Closing a PowerPoint Presentation

Undo, Undo and Redo an Action

Quick Styles, Working with Design Elements

R

Reading view, Moving Among Views, Running a Presentation in Slide Show View, Start a Show

recoloring pictures, Recolor a Picture

redoing action, Undo and Redo an Action

remote viewers, live presentation to, Broadcasting a Presentation

removing, Erase Annotations on Slides (see )

Rename Layout dialog box, Adding and Deleting Master Sets

Rename Section dialog box, Rename a Section

repeating sound, Adding Sound to a Transition

replacing text, Finding and Replacing Text

Research pane, Using the Ribbon

resizing, Resizing Objects (see )

resolution of monitor, and slide show speed, Specify Which Slides to Include

Review tab in ribbon, Using the Ribbon, Reviewing Your Presentation, Use the Thesaurus, Add Comments

New Comment, Add Comments

Spelling, Reviewing Your Presentation

Thesaurus, Use the Thesaurus

review, e-mailing slide show for, E-Mail a Presentation for Review

ribbon, What’s New in PowerPoint 2010?, What’s New in PowerPoint 2010?, What’s Where in PowerPoint 2010?, What’s Where in PowerPoint 2010?, Using the Ribbon, Using the Ribbon, Display Tabs and Panes, Working with Improved Picture and Video Formatting Tools, Working with Improved Picture and Video Formatting Tools, Taking Advantage of Additional Themes and SmartArt, Explore SmartArt, Copying Effects with Animation Painter, Working with Slide Sections, Broadcasting Slide Shows, Getting Started with PowerPoint 2010, Getting Started with PowerPoint 2010, What’s Where in PowerPoint 2010?, Using the Ribbon, Using the Ribbon, Using the Ribbon, Display Tabs and Panes, Add Buttons to the Quick Access Toolbar, Working with Design Elements, Preview Design Elements with Galleries, Get a Cohesive Look with Themes, Get a Cohesive Look with Themes, Work with SmartArt, Moving Among Views, Understanding How Slide Masters Work, Understanding How Slide Masters Work, Making Changes to a Slide Master, Insert Footer Information, Add a Layout, Omit Master Graphics on Individual Slides, Adding and Deleting Master Sets, Delete a Master, Insert Additional Masters, Working with Handout and Notes Masters, Work with Notes Master, Building a Slide, Insert a Symbol, Cut, Copy, and Paste Text, Finding and Replacing Text, Manipulating Placeholders, Use the Selection And Visibility Pane, Align Placeholder Contents, Copy and Paste Slides, Copy and Paste Slides, Duplicate Slides, Working with Sections, Working with Layouts, Add a Placeholder to a Slide Layout, Working with Themes, Find Slide Themes Online, Changing Theme Colors and Fonts, Change Theme Fonts, Working with Tables, Creating and Modifying Charts, Insert Clip Art, Creating WordArt, Creating a Photo Album, Drawing Shapes and Text Boxes, Add a Text Box, Applying Fonts, Formatting Text, Change Text Size, Resizing Objects, Resizing Objects, Flip an Object, Applying a Transition, Apply a Transition to All Slides, Adding Sound to a Transition, Choosing How to Advance a Slide, Applying a Custom Animation to an Object, Modify Animation Settings, Reviewing Your Presentation, Use the Thesaurus, Add Comments, E-Mail a Presentation for Review, Setting Up a Slide Show, Specify Show Options, Specify Which Slides to Include, Set Up How to Advance Slides, Rehearsing Your Presentation, Save Timings, Taking a Presentation with You, Start a Custom Show, Inserting Headers and Footers, Broadcasting a Presentation, Creating Custom Shows, Removing Hidden Data with Document Inspector, Customizing the Ribbon, Add Buttons to the Ribbon, Add Buttons to the Ribbon

Add-Ins tab, Using the Ribbon, Display Tabs and Panes, Using the Ribbon

Animations tab, Copying Effects with Animation Painter, Applying a Custom Animation to an Object, Modify Animation Settings

Add Animation, Applying a Custom Animation to an Object

Animation Pane, Modify Animation Settings

avoiding clutter, Add Buttons to the Ribbon

customizing, Add Buttons to the Quick Access Toolbar, Customizing the Ribbon

Design tab, Taking Advantage of Additional Themes and SmartArt, Get a Cohesive Look with Themes, Get a Cohesive Look with Themes, Omit Master Graphics on Individual Slides, Working with Themes, Changing Theme Colors and Fonts, Change Theme Fonts

Background group, Omit Master Graphics on Individual Slides

Color, Get a Cohesive Look with Themes

Fonts, Change Theme Fonts

More, Themes, Working with Themes

Themes, Changing Theme Colors and Fonts

Themes gallery, Get a Cohesive Look with Themes

File tab, What’s Where in PowerPoint 2010?, Broadcasting Slide Shows, Getting Started with PowerPoint 2010, Find Slide Themes Online, E-Mail a Presentation for Review, Taking a Presentation with You, Broadcasting a Presentation, Removing Hidden Data with Document Inspector

Info, Check For Issues, Removing Hidden Data with Document Inspector

New, Find Slide Themes Online

Save & Send, Broadcasting Slide Shows, E-Mail a Presentation for Review, Taking a Presentation with You, Broadcasting a Presentation

file-management commands, Getting Started with PowerPoint 2010

Format tab, Working with Improved Picture and Video Formatting Tools, Working with Design Elements, Use the Selection And Visibility Pane, Resizing Objects, Resizing Objects

Crop, Resizing Objects

Size group, Resizing Objects

Home tab, Working with Slide Sections, Preview Design Elements with Galleries, Delete a Master, Building a Slide, Cut, Copy, and Paste Text, Finding and Replacing Text, Manipulating Placeholders, Align Placeholder Contents, Copy and Paste Slides, Copy and Paste Slides, Duplicate Slides, Working with Sections, Working with Layouts, Applying Fonts, Formatting Text, Change Text Size

allignment buttons, Align Placeholder Contents

Copy button, Copy and Paste Slides

Cut, Copy, and Paste, Cut, Copy, and Paste Text

Editing, Manipulating Placeholders

Find, Finding and Replacing Text

Font, Preview Design Elements with Galleries, Applying Fonts

Font Color, Formatting Text

Font Size, Change Text Size

New, Working with Layouts

New Slide, Building a Slide, Duplicate Slides

Paste button, Copy and Paste Slides

Section, Working with Slide Sections, Working with Sections

Slides group, Delete a Master

Insert tab, Working with Improved Picture and Video Formatting Tools, Explore SmartArt, Display Tabs and Panes, Work with SmartArt, Insert Footer Information, Insert a Symbol, Working with Tables, Creating and Modifying Charts, Insert Clip Art, Creating WordArt, Creating a Photo Album, Drawing Shapes and Text Boxes, Add a Text Box, Inserting Headers and Footers

Chart, Creating and Modifying Charts

Clip Art, Insert Clip Art

Date & Time button, Insert Footer Information

Header & Footer, Inserting Headers and Footers

Photo Album, Creating a Photo Album

Picture, Working with Improved Picture and Video Formatting Tools

Shapes, Display Tabs and Panes, Drawing Shapes and Text Boxes

SmartArt, Explore SmartArt, Work with SmartArt

Symbol, Insert a Symbol

Table, Working with Tables

Text Box, Add a Text Box

WordArt, Creating WordArt

restoring default, Add Buttons to the Ribbon

Review tab, Using the Ribbon, Reviewing Your Presentation, Use the Thesaurus, Add Comments

New Comment, Add Comments

Spelling, Reviewing Your Presentation

Thesaurus, Use the Thesaurus

Slide Master tab, Understanding How Slide Masters Work, Understanding How Slide Masters Work, Add a Layout, Adding and Deleting Master Sets, Insert Additional Masters

Edit Master, Understanding How Slide Masters Work, Adding and Deleting Master Sets, Insert Additional Masters

Edit Theme, Understanding How Slide Masters Work

Insert Layout, Add a Layout

Slide Show tab, Setting Up a Slide Show, Specify Show Options, Specify Which Slides to Include, Set Up How to Advance Slides, Rehearsing Your Presentation, Save Timings, Start a Custom Show, Creating Custom Shows

Custom Slide Show, Start a Custom Show, Creating Custom Shows

Record Slide Show, Rehearsing Your Presentation

Rehearse Timings, Save Timings

Set Up Slide Show, Setting Up a Slide Show, Specify Show Options, Specify Which Slides to Include, Set Up How to Advance Slides

Transitions tab, Applying a Transition, Apply a Transition to All Slides, Adding Sound to a Transition, Choosing How to Advance a Slide

On Mouse Click, Choosing How to Advance a Slide

Sound, Adding Sound to a Transition

View tab, Moving Among Views, Making Changes to a Slide Master, Working with Handout and Notes Masters, Work with Notes Master, Add a Placeholder to a Slide Layout, Flip an Object

Gridlines, Flip an Object

Master Views, Making Changes to a Slide Master, Working with Handout and Notes Masters, Work with Notes Master

Slide Master, Add a Placeholder to a Slide Layout

rotating objects, Rotating and Flipping Objects

rows in tables, inserting, Insert Rows and Columns

running slide show, Running a Presentation in Slide Show View, Setting Up a Slide Show, Running a Presentation, Starting and Ending a Slide Show, End a Show, End a Show, End a Show, Navigating Through Slides, Start a Custom Show, Switching to Another Program, Run a Custom Show

(see also )

custom, Run a Custom Show

displaying black screen temporarily, End a Show

ending, End a Show

in Slide Show view, Running a Presentation in Slide Show View

keyboard commands, End a Show

navigation, Navigating Through Slides

starting, Starting and Ending a Slide Show

starting custom, Start a Custom Show

switching to other program, Switching to Another Program

unattended, Setting Up a Slide Show

S

Save As dialog box, Saving and Closing a PowerPoint Presentation, Save to the Web

saving, End a Slide Show, Saving and Closing a PowerPoint Presentation, Save Timings, Save Annotations, Saving a Presentation to the Web, Saving as a PDF File, Creating a Video, Saving Your Own PowerPoint Templates

annotations, End a Slide Show, Save Annotations

in PDF format, Saving as a PDF File

presentation, Saving and Closing a PowerPoint Presentation

presentation as video, Creating a Video

presentation to Web, Saving a Presentation to the Web

templates, Saving Your Own PowerPoint Templates

timing, Save Timings

schemes, Working with Slide Masters (see )

ScreenTips, showing or hiding, Display Tabs and Panes, Show or Hide Enhanced ScreenTips

scrolling, Viewing Slides in the Slide Pane, Navigate Print Preview

in Print Preview, Navigate Print Preview

in Slides tab, Viewing Slides in the Slide Pane

searching, Inserting Clip Art (see )

Section Header, Understanding How to Build a Presentation

sections, Working with Slide Sections, Managing and Viewing Slides, Working with Sections, Working with Sections, Rename a Section, Delete a Section

adding, Working with Slide Sections, Working with Sections

deleting, Delete a Section

renaming, Rename a Section

selected slides, applying theme to, Apply a Slide Theme

selected text, floating toolbar for, Working with the Mini Toolbar

selecting, Viewing Slides in the Slide Pane, Hiding and Unhiding Slides, Group and Ungroup Objects, Specify Which Slides to Include, Choose Which Slides to Print

multiple slides, Hiding and Unhiding Slides

objects for grouping, Group and Ungroup Objects

slide for display, Viewing Slides in the Slide Pane

slides for inclusion, Specify Which Slides to Include

slides for printing, Choose Which Slides to Print

Selection And Visibility pane, Building a Presentation, Manipulating Placeholders

Send Backward button, Change Object Order

<Separator> in Quick Access Toolbar, Remove or Rearrange Tools

Set Up Show dialog box, Set Up How to Advance Slides, Run a Custom Show

shadow, Formatting Placeholders

shadow text, Apply Effects to Text

Shape Fill gallery, Apply a Fill Color or Effect

Shape Outline palette, Change the Shape Outline

shapes, Drawing Shapes and Text Boxes, Change the Shape Outline, Apply a Shape Effect

applying effect, Apply a Shape Effect

outline changes, Change the Shape Outline

Shapes button, Display Tabs and Panes

Shapes gallery, Display Tabs and Panes, Working with Design Elements

sharing Web presentation, Share a Web Presentation

shortcut menu, Managing Slides in Slide Sorter View, Duplicate Slides, Rename a Section, Delete a Section, Delete a Section

Delete Slide, Managing Slides in Slide Sorter View

in Normal view, Duplicate Slides

Remove All Sections, Delete a Section

Remove Section, Delete a Section

Rename Section, Rename a Section

shortcuts, Show or Hide Enhanced ScreenTips (see )

Show Text Formatting option, Turn Formatting On and Off in an Outline

signature, Introducing Advanced PowerPoint Topics (see )

Signature Confirmation dialog box, Create Your Own Digital Signature

sizing, Sizing Panes in Normal View, Viewing Slides in the Slide Pane, Insert WordArt, Crop a Picture, Change Text Size, Resizing Objects

objects, Resizing Objects

panes in Normal view, Sizing Panes in Normal View

photos, Crop a Picture

Slides tab, Viewing Slides in the Slide Pane

text, Change Text Size

WordArt, Insert WordArt

SkyDrive, Save to the Web, Share a Web Presentation

sharing Web presentation, Share a Web Presentation

Slide Master tab in ribbon, Understanding How Slide Masters Work, Understanding How Slide Masters Work, Add a Layout, Adding and Deleting Master Sets, Insert Additional Masters

Edit Master, Understanding How Slide Masters Work, Adding and Deleting Master Sets, Insert Additional Masters

Insert Slide Master, Insert Additional Masters

Rename, Adding and Deleting Master Sets

Edit Theme, Understanding How Slide Masters Work

Insert Layout, Add a Layout

Slide Master view, Understanding How Slide Masters Work, Making Changes to a Slide Master, Insert Footer Information, Add a Layout, Applying a Custom Animation to an Object

adding footer, Insert Footer Information

adding layout, Add a Layout

applying animation in, Applying a Custom Animation to an Object

making changes, Making Changes to a Slide Master

slide masters, Working with Slide Masters, Understanding How Slide Masters Work, Add a Placeholder to a Slide Layout

adding placeholder, Add a Placeholder to a Slide Layout

slide numbers, Viewing Multiple Slides with Slide Sorter, Insert Footer Information, Hiding and Unhiding Slides, Go to a Particular Slide, Insert Headers or Footers

deleting, Insert Footer Information

gray box over, Hiding and Unhiding Slides

in Slide Sorter view, Viewing Multiple Slides with Slide Sorter

including when printing, Insert Headers or Footers

Slide pane in Normal view, Sizing Panes in Normal View, Apply a Transition to All Slides

stars in, Apply a Transition to All Slides

slide preview, Sizing Panes in Normal View, Understanding the Relationship of the Outline to Slides

size of, Sizing Panes in Normal View

zoom slider for, Understanding the Relationship of the Outline to Slides

Slide Show icon, Starting and Ending a Slide Show, End a Show

Slide Show tab in ribbon, Setting Up a Slide Show, Specify Show Options, Specify Which Slides to Include, Set Up How to Advance Slides, Rehearsing Your Presentation, Save Timings, Start a Custom Show, Creating Custom Shows

Custom Slide Show, Start a Custom Show, Creating Custom Shows

Record Slide Show, Rehearsing Your Presentation

Rehearse Timings, Save Timings

Set Up Slide Show, Setting Up a Slide Show, Specify Show Options, Specify Which Slides to Include, Set Up How to Advance Slides

Slide Show view, Moving Among Views, Running a Presentation in Slide Show View, Starting and Ending a Slide Show, Navigating Through Slides, Working with the Pen and Annotations

annotations in, Working with the Pen and Annotations

running presentation, Running a Presentation in Slide Show View

slide shows, Creating Presentations, Creating a Presentation, Open a Presentation Based on an Existing Presentation, Open a Template, Finding and Opening Existing Presentations, Finding and Opening Existing Presentations, Running a Presentation in Slide Show View, End a Slide Show, Saving and Closing a PowerPoint Presentation, Close a Presentation, Adding and Deleting Master Sets, Understanding How to Build a Presentation, Finding and Replacing Text, Viewing Slides in the Slide Pane, Draw a Shape, Choosing How to Advance a Slide, Finalizing Your Slide Show, Reviewing Your Presentation, Reviewing Your Presentation, Use the Thesaurus, Add Comments, E-Mail a Presentation for Review, Setting Up a Slide Show, Specify Which Slides to Include, Rehearsing Your Presentation, Save Timings, Running a Presentation, Sharing a Presentation on the Web, Broadcasting a Presentation

(see also )

advancing slides, Choosing How to Advance a Slide

broadcasting, Broadcasting a Presentation

building, Understanding How to Build a Presentation

closing, Close a Presentation

displaying Web site, Draw a Shape

ending, End a Slide Show

finalizing, Finalizing Your Slide Show, Reviewing Your Presentation, Reviewing Your Presentation, Use the Thesaurus, Add Comments, E-Mail a Presentation for Review

adding comments, Add Comments

e-mailing for review, E-Mail a Presentation for Review

review, Reviewing Your Presentation

spell check, Reviewing Your Presentation

Thesaurus, Use the Thesaurus

finding and replacing text, Finding and Replacing Text

finding existing, Finding and Opening Existing Presentations

opening, Creating Presentations

opening based on existing presentation, Open a Presentation Based on an Existing Presentation

opening blank, Creating a Presentation

opening existing, Finding and Opening Existing Presentations

opening template for, Open a Template

publishing to Internet, Sharing a Presentation on the Web

publishing to media, Save Timings

rehearsing, Rehearsing Your Presentation

saving, Saving and Closing a PowerPoint Presentation

scrolling through, Viewing Slides in the Slide Pane

setting up, Setting Up a Slide Show

starting, Running a Presentation in Slide Show View

troubleshooting, Specify Which Slides to Include

with multiple themes, Adding and Deleting Master Sets

Slide Sorter view, Working with Slide Sections, Creating Presentations, Moving Among Views, Viewing Multiple Slides with Slide Sorter, Managing and Viewing Slides, Managing Slides in Slide Sorter View, Copy and Paste Slides, Duplicate Slides, Move a Slide, Hiding and Unhiding Slides, Working with Sections, Delete a Section, Apply a Slide Theme, Apply a Slide Theme

adding section, Working with Sections

adding sections, Working with Slide Sections

copying and pasting slides, Copy and Paste Slides

deleting section, Delete a Section

duplicating slides, Duplicate Slides

for applying themes, Apply a Slide Theme

hiding and unhiding slides, Hiding and Unhiding Slides

moving slides, Move a Slide

selecting slides, Apply a Slide Theme

slide title placeholders, Understanding How to Build a Presentation, Using Slide Layouts and Themes

slide titles, Adding Text in the Outline Tab, Move Slides or Text Up and Down in an Outline

adding to outline, Adding Text in the Outline Tab

moving subheadings with, Move Slides or Text Up and Down in an Outline

slides, Viewing Multiple Slides with Slide Sorter, Running a Presentation in Slide Show View, Understanding How to Build a Presentation, Building a Slide, Building a Slide, Enter Text on Slides, Insert a Symbol, Insert the Date and Time, Undo and Redo an Action, Understanding the Relationship of the Outline to Slides, Move Slides or Text Up and Down in an Outline, Managing and Viewing Slides, Managing and Viewing Slides, Viewing Slides in the Slide Pane, Managing Slides in Slide Sorter View, Copy and Paste Slides, Duplicate Slides, Move a Slide, Hiding and Unhiding Slides, Hiding and Unhiding Slides, Changing the Slide Background, Applying a Transition, Choosing How to Advance a Slide, Specify Which Slides to Include, Go to a Particular Slide, Choose Which Slides to Print

advancing, Running a Presentation in Slide Show View, Choosing How to Advance a Slide

applying transition scheme, Applying a Transition

background, Changing the Slide Background

building, Building a Slide

copying and pasting, Copy and Paste Slides

deleting, Managing Slides in Slide Sorter View

duplicating, Duplicate Slides

hiding and unhiding, Managing and Viewing Slides, Hiding and Unhiding Slides

inserting date and time, Insert the Date and Time

inserting new, Building a Slide

inserting symbol, Insert a Symbol

layout for new, Understanding How to Build a Presentation

moving, Move a Slide

moving in outline, Move Slides or Text Up and Down in an Outline

moving to specific when running show, Go to a Particular Slide

relationship to outlines, Understanding the Relationship of the Outline to Slides

selecting, Hiding and Unhiding Slides, Specify Which Slides to Include

selecting for printing, Choose Which Slides to Print

Slide pane for viewing, Viewing Slides in the Slide Pane

text entry, Enter Text on Slides

undoing and redoing action, Undo and Redo an Action

viewing, Managing and Viewing Slides

viewing multiple, Viewing Multiple Slides with Slide Sorter

Slides tab, Viewing Slides in the Slide Pane

Slides/Outline pane in Normal view, Sizing Panes in Normal View, Close and Redisplay the Slides/Outline Pane

closing, Close and Redisplay the Slides/Outline Pane

SmartArt, Taking Advantage of Additional Themes and SmartArt, Explore SmartArt, Working with Design Elements, Work with SmartArt, Working with SmartArt, Add Text to SmartArt

adding text, Add Text to SmartArt

inserting, Explore SmartArt, Work with SmartArt, Working with SmartArt

sound, Draw a Shape (see )

speed of transitions, Modifying Transition Speed

spell check, Reviewing Your Presentation

Split Cells dialog box, Insert Rows and Columns

splitting merged table cells, Merge Cells

stack of items, arranging front to back, Manipulating Placeholders

stars, in Slide pane, Apply a Transition to All Slides

starting slide show, Running a Presentation in Slide Show View

strikethrough text, Apply Effects to Text

subheadings, moving with slide titles, Move Slides or Text Up and Down in an Outline

subtitle placeholders, Understanding How to Build a Presentation

summary slides, for large presentation, Start a Custom Show

switching programs, when running slide show, Switching to Another Program

symbols, inserting, Insert a Symbol

synonyms, Thesaurus for, Use the Thesaurus

T

Tab key, in SmartArt, Add Text to SmartArt

tables, Working with Tables, Working with Tables, Insert Rows and Columns, Editing Tables, Align Text in Cells, Merge Cells

aligning text in cells, Align Text in Cells

inserting, Working with Tables

inserting rows and columns, Insert Rows and Columns

merging cells, Merge Cells

modifying borders, Editing Tables

tabs in ribbon, What’s Where in PowerPoint 2010?, Using the Ribbon, Using the Ribbon, What’s Where in PowerPoint 2010?, Using the Ribbon

displaying, Using the Ribbon, Using the Ribbon

templates, Open a Template, Making Changes to a Slide Master, Saving Your Own PowerPoint Templates, Saving Your Own PowerPoint Templates

opening for new presentation, Open a Template

saving, Saving Your Own PowerPoint Templates

saving slide master changes to, Making Changes to a Slide Master

sharing, Saving Your Own PowerPoint Templates

text, Working with Text, Finding and Replacing Text, Align Placeholder Contents, Move Slides or Text Up and Down in an Outline, Changing Theme Colors and Fonts, Align Text in Cells, Formatting Text

alignment in table cells, Align Text in Cells

centered, Align Placeholder Contents

color, Changing Theme Colors and Fonts

editing, Working with Text

finding and replacing, Finding and Replacing Text

formatting, Formatting Text

moving in outline, Move Slides or Text Up and Down in an Outline

text boxes, Understanding How to Build a Presentation, Understanding the Relationship of the Outline to Slides, Drawing Shapes and Text Boxes, Add a Text Box

inserting, Add a Text Box

text entry, Understanding How to Build a Presentation, Understanding How to Build a Presentation, Enter Text on Slides, Working with the Outline, Adding Text in the Outline Tab, Add Text to SmartArt

in blank slide, Understanding How to Build a Presentation

in outlines, Working with the Outline, Adding Text in the Outline Tab

in placeholders, Understanding How to Build a Presentation

in slides, Enter Text on Slides

to SmartArt, Add Text to SmartArt

text formatting, Working with the Mini Toolbar, Formatting Text, Change Text Size, Apply Effects to Text

color, Formatting Text

effects, Apply Effects to Text

Mini toolbar for, Working with the Mini Toolbar

size changes, Change Text Size

textures, Apply a Fill Color or Effect

Theme gallery, Understanding What Slide Layouts and Themes Control

themes, Taking Advantage of Additional Themes and SmartArt, Working with Design Elements, Get a Cohesive Look with Themes, Working with Slide Masters, Understanding How Slide Masters Work, Adding and Deleting Master Sets, Align Placeholder Contents, Using Slide Layouts and Themes, Understanding What Slide Layouts and Themes Control, Working with Themes, Apply a Slide Theme, Find Slide Themes Online, Changing Theme Colors and Fonts, Change Theme Fonts, Formatting Text, Objects, and Slides, Formatting Text

and element alignment, Align Placeholder Contents

and text formatting, Formatting Text

applying to slides, Apply a Slide Theme

changing color scheme, Changing Theme Colors and Fonts

finding online, Find Slide Themes Online

fonts in, Change Theme Fonts

for slide layouts, Understanding How Slide Masters Work

multiple in presentation, Adding and Deleting Master Sets

Themes gallery, Taking Advantage of Additional Themes and SmartArt

Thesaurus, Use the Thesaurus

Third-Party Digital Signature Product, purchasing, Adding a Digital Signature

third-party programs, Add-Ins tab for, Using the Ribbon

thumbnails, Viewing Multiple Slides with Slide Sorter, Understanding How Slide Masters Work, Managing and Viewing Slides, Creating and Modifying Charts

in Slide Sorter view, Viewing Multiple Slides with Slide Sorter

Master Layout, Understanding How Slide Masters Work

of chart styles, Creating and Modifying Charts

tight character spacing, Apply Effects to Text

time and date, Insert Footer Information, Insert the Date and Time, Insert Headers or Footers

adding to header or footer, Insert Headers or Footers

adding to slide master, Insert Footer Information

inserting in slide, Insert the Date and Time

timed-advance for slides, Choosing How to Advance a Slide

timing for slides, Viewing Multiple Slides with Slide Sorter, Set Up How to Advance Slides, Rehearsing Your Presentation, Save Timings

clearing, Rehearsing Your Presentation

for automatic slide advance, Set Up How to Advance Slides

in Slide Sorter view, Viewing Multiple Slides with Slide Sorter

saving, Save Timings

Title and Content layout, Understanding How to Build a Presentation, Building a Slide

title placeholder, text entry, Enter Text on Slides

title slide, Building a Slide

Title Slide layout, Adding Text in the Outline Tab, Insert Headers or Footers

omitting footer information, Insert Headers or Footers

toolbars, Working with the Mini Toolbar (see , )

tools, Display Tabs and Panes

location, Display Tabs and Panes

transitions, Adding Transitions and Animations, Applying a Transition, Adding Sound to a Transition, Modifying Transition Speed

adding sound to, Adding Sound to a Transition

applying, Applying a Transition

speed of, Modifying Transition Speed

Transitions tab in ribbon, Applying a Transition, Apply a Transition to All Slides, Adding Sound to a Transition, Choosing How to Advance a Slide

On Mouse Click, Choosing How to Advance a Slide

Sound, Adding Sound to a Transition

Trim Video dialog box, Setting up Video Playback

troubleshooting, Viewing Slides in the Slide Pane, Specify Which Slides to Include

Slides/Outline pane display, Viewing Slides in the Slide Pane

slow slide shows, Specify Which Slides to Include

Two Content slide layout, Understanding How to Build a Presentation

U

underlining text, Apply Effects to Text

undoing action, Undo and Redo an Action

ungrouping objects, Grouping and Changing the Order of Objects

unhiding slides, Hiding and Unhiding Slides

URL, action button for link, Draw a Shape

user interface, No Computerese!, What’s New in PowerPoint 2010?, What’s Where in PowerPoint 2010?, Getting Started with PowerPoint 2010, What’s Where in PowerPoint 2010?

components, What’s Where in PowerPoint 2010?

V

video, Inserting Media Objects, Using Video Tools, Setting up Video Playback, Setting up Video Playback, Creating a Video

cutting time from, Setting up Video Playback

formatting, Using Video Tools

inserting, Inserting Media Objects

playback setup, Setting up Video Playback

saving presentation as, Creating a Video

Video Border tool, Apply Video Formats

video formatting tools, Working with Improved Picture and Video Formatting Tools

Video Styles gallery, Using Video Tools

View tab in ribbon, Moving Among Views, Close and Redisplay the Slides/Outline Pane, Making Changes to a Slide Master, Working with Handout and Notes Masters, Work with Notes Master, Add a Placeholder to a Slide Layout, Flip an Object

Gridlines, Flip an Object

Master Views, Making Changes to a Slide Master, Working with Handout and Notes Masters, Work with Notes Master

Handout Master, Working with Handout and Notes Masters

Notes Master, Work with Notes Master

Slide Master, Making Changes to a Slide Master

Normal, Close and Redisplay the Slides/Outline Pane

Slide Master, Add a Placeholder to a Slide Layout

viewing slides, Managing and Viewing Slides, Viewing Slides in the Slide Pane

views, moving between, Moving Among Views

visual elements, Understanding the Relationship of the Outline to Slides (see )

W

wavy colored lines, Check Spelling

Web browsers, live presentation on, Broadcasting Slide Shows

Web document, publishing slide show as, Sharing a Presentation on the Web

Web page, Draw a Shape, Switching to Another Program

displaying during presentation, Draw a Shape

including in slide show, Switching to Another Program

Web toolbar, Save to the Web

Webdings font set, Insert a Symbol

white screen, displaying temporarily, End a Show

Windows, Applying Fonts

fonts installed, Applying Fonts

Windows Live, Start a Broadcast, Sharing a Presentation on the Web, Saving a Presentation to the Web, Saving a Presentation to the Web, Saving a Presentation to the Web, Save to the Web, Share a Web Presentation

account, Start a Broadcast, Saving a Presentation to the Web

home page, Save to the Web

ID, Sharing a Presentation on the Web, Saving a Presentation to the Web

sharing Web presentation, Share a Web Presentation

SkyDrive, Saving a Presentation to the Web

Wingdings font, Insert a Symbol

Word, Building a Presentation Outline, Choose Which Slides to Print

copying and pasting outline from document, Building a Presentation Outline

cutting and pasting from Outline pane, Choose Which Slides to Print

Word document, Insert a Word Outline into PowerPoint

copying and pasting outline from, Insert a Word Outline into PowerPoint

WordArt, Creating WordArt, Creating WordArt, Insert WordArt, Apply Effects to WordArt

applying effects, Apply Effects to WordArt

inserting, Creating WordArt

sizing, Insert WordArt

WordArt Styles gallery, Working with Design Elements

words, Thesaurus to select, Use the Thesaurus

workflow charts, Working with SmartArt

X

XPS file format, E-Mail a Presentation for Review, Saving as a PDF File

for sending slide show, E-Mail a Presentation for Review

Y

YouTube, Creating a Video

Z

zoom slider, Sizing Panes in Normal View, Viewing Multiple Slides with Slide Sorter, Making Changes to a Slide Master, Understanding the Relationship of the Outline to Slides, Managing Slides in Slide Sorter View, Using Print Preview

for slide preview, Sizing Panes in Normal View, Understanding the Relationship of the Outline to Slides

in Print Preview, Using Print Preview

in Slide Master view, Making Changes to a Slide Master

in Slide Sorter view, Viewing Multiple Slides with Slide Sorter

Zoom To Page, Navigate Print Preview

in Print Preview, Navigate Print Preview

About the Author

Nancy Muir is the Vice President of Content and Curriculum for Look Both Ways Foundation, a non-profit organization committed to helping people of all ages stay safer online. She is also the author of more than fifty books on technology topics, including Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® 2007 Plain & Simple and the bestselling Computers For Seniors For Dummies from Wiley Publishing. Over the years, Nancy has worked in the software and book publishing industries as well as academia, and has served as a consultant to major technology companies.

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Table of Contents

Microsoft® PowerPoint® 2010 Plain & Simple

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Acknowledgments

1. About This Book

No Computerese!

Just Essential Tasks

And the Easiest Way to Do Them

A Quick Overview

A Few Assumptions

What’s New in PowerPoint 2010?

The Final Word

2. What’s New in PowerPoint 2010?

What’s Where in PowerPoint 2010?

Using the Ribbon

Display Tabs and Panes

Show or Hide Enhanced ScreenTips

Using Microsoft Office Backstage

Display the File Menu

Working with Improved Picture and Video Formatting Tools

Explore the Artistic Effects and Corrections Galleries

Taking Advantage of Additional Themes and SmartArt

Get a Cohesive Look with Themes

Explore SmartArt

Copying Effects with Animation Painter

Animations with Animation Painter

Working with Slide Sections

Add a Section

Broadcasting Slide Shows

Start a Broadcast

3. Getting Started with PowerPoint 2010

What’s Where in PowerPoint 2010?

Using the Ribbon

Display Tabs and Panes

Show or Hide Enhanced ScreenTips

Working with the Mini Toolbar

Display the Mini Toolbar

Customizing the Quick Access Toolbar

Add Buttons to the Quick Access Toolbar

Remove or Rearrange Tools

Working with Design Elements

Preview Design Elements with Galleries

Get a Cohesive Look with Themes

Work with SmartArt

4. Creating Presentations

Creating a Presentation

Open a Blank Presentation

Open a Presentation Based on an Existing Presentation

Open a Template

Finding and Opening Existing Presentations

Open a Presentation

Moving Among Views

Sizing Panes in Normal View

Resize a Pane

Close and Redisplay the Slides/Outline Pane

Viewing Multiple Slides with Slide Sorter

Display Slide Sorter View

Display More Slides in Slide Sorter

Running a Presentation in Slide Show View

Start a Slide Show and Advance Slides

End a Slide Show

Saving and Closing a PowerPoint Presentation

Save a Presentation

Close a Presentation

Getting Help

Use Help

5. Working with Slide Masters

Understanding How Slide Masters Work

Making Changes to a Slide Master

Display and Navigate Masters

Insert Footer Information

Work with Master Graphics

Add a Layout

Omit Master Graphics on Individual Slides

Adding and Deleting Master Sets

Rename a Master

Delete a Master

Insert Additional Masters

Working with Handout and Notes Masters

Work with Handout Master

Work with Notes Master

6. Building a Presentation

Understanding How to Build a Presentation

Building a Slide

Insert a New Slide

Enter Text on Slides

Insert a Symbol

Insert the Date and Time

Working with Text

Edit Text

Undo and Redo an Action

Cut, Copy, and Paste Text

Finding and Replacing Text

Find and Replace Text

Manipulating Placeholders

Use the Selection And Visibility Pane

Align Placeholder Contents

Formatting Placeholders

7. Building a Presentation Outline

Understanding the Relationship of the Outline to Slides

Working with the Outline

Display the Outline Tab

Adding Text in the Outline Tab

Add a Slide Title

Promote and Demote Headings

Working with Outline Contents

Expand and Collapse the Outline

Move Slides or Text Up and Down in an Outline

Turn Formatting On and Off in an Outline

Insert a Word Outline into PowerPoint

8. Managing and Viewing Slides

Viewing Slides in the Slide Pane

Display Slides

Managing Slides in Slide Sorter View

Delete Slides

Copy and Paste Slides

Duplicate Slides

Move a Slide

Hiding and Unhiding Slides

Hide Slides

Unhide Slides

Working with Sections

Add a Section

Rename a Section

Delete a Section

9. Using Slide Layouts and Themes

Understanding What Slide Layouts and Themes Control

Working with Layouts

Apply a Layout

Add a Placeholder to a Slide Layout

Working with Themes

Apply a Slide Theme

Find Slide Themes Online

Changing Theme Colors and Fonts

Select a Different Theme Color Scheme

Change Theme Fonts

10. Inserting Media and Drawing Objects

Working with Tables

Insert a Table

Insert Rows and Columns

Editing Tables

Modify Table Borders

Align Text in Cells

Merge Cells

Creating and Modifying Charts

Insert a Chart

Change Chart Style and Layout

Display or Hide a Chart Legend

Inserting Clip Art

Search for Clip Art

Insert Clip Art

Creating WordArt

Insert WordArt

Apply Effects to WordArt

Working with SmartArt

Insert SmartArt

Add Text to SmartArt

Working with Pictures

Insert a Picture

Crop a Picture

Inserting Media Objects

Insert Video or Audio

Creating a Photo Album

Insert a New Photo Album

Drawing Shapes and Text Boxes

Draw a Shape

Add a Text Box

11. Formatting Text, Objects, and Slides

Applying Fonts

Select a Font

Formatting Text

Change Text Color

Change Text Size

Apply Effects to Text

Formatting Objects

Apply a Fill Color or Effect

Change the Shape Outline

Apply a Shape Effect

Resizing Objects

Resize Objects

Rotating and Flipping Objects

Rotate an Object

Flip an Object

Grouping and Changing the Order of Objects

Group and Ungroup Objects

Change Object Order

Working with Picture Tools

Adjust Brightness or Contrast

Recolor a Picture

Using Video Tools

Apply Video Formats

Setting up Video Playback

Changing the Slide Background

Change the Background Style

12. Adding Transitions and Animations

Applying a Transition

Apply a Transition Scheme to a Slide

Apply a Transition to All Slides

Adding Sound to a Transition

Add Sound

Modifying Transition Speed

Set the Speed for Transitions

Choosing How to Advance a Slide

Select a Method to Advance a Slide

Applying a Custom Animation to an Object

Add an Animation Effect to an Object

Modify Animation Settings

Reorder Effects

Using Animation Painter

Copy Animations with Animation Painter

Previewing an Animation

Preview an Animation

13. Finalizing Your Slide Show

Reviewing Your Presentation

Check Spelling

Use the Thesaurus

Add Comments

E-Mail a Presentation for Review

Setting Up a Slide Show

Set the Show Type

Specify Show Options

Specify Which Slides to Include

Set Up How to Advance Slides

Rehearsing Your Presentation

Add a Narration

Save Timings

Taking a Presentation with You

Save a Presentation to CD

14. Running a Presentation

Starting and Ending a Slide Show

Start a Show

End a Show

Navigating Through Slides

Move to Next and Previous Slide

Go to a Particular Slide

Start a Custom Show

Working with the Pen and Annotations

Choose a Pen Style and Color

Make Annotations on Slides

Erase Annotations on Slides

Save Annotations

Switching to Another Program

Switch to Another Program

15. Printing a Presentation

Inserting Headers and Footers

Insert Headers or Footers

Using Print Preview

Display Print Preview

Navigate Print Preview

Establishing Printer Settings and Printing

Choose a Printer and Paper Options

Choose Which Slides to Print

Choose the Format to Print

Specify the Number of Copies to Print

16. Sharing a Presentation on the Web

Saving a Presentation to the Web

Save to the Web

Share a Web Presentation

Saving as a PDF File

Save a Presentation as a PDF File

Broadcasting a Presentation

Start a Broadcast

Run a Broadcast

Creating a Video

17. Introducing Advanced PowerPoint Topics

Saving Your Own PowerPoint Templates

Save a Presentation as a Template

Creating Custom Shows

Create a Custom Show

Run a Custom Show

Removing Hidden Data with Document Inspector

Remove Hidden Data with Document Inspector

Adding a Digital Signature

Purchase a Third-Party Digital Signature Product

Create Your Own Digital Signature

Customizing the Ribbon

Add Buttons to the Ribbon

Remove or Rearrange Tools

A. About the Author

Index

About the Author

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