Microsoft Powerpoint 2007 March 21, 2013 6:00 – 7:30 p.m.

So Easy to Add a New Slide Powerpoint tells you where to type Works just like MS Word Anyone can create a simple presentation Good place to show how to change colors, using the Design Tab. Switch from Verve to Oriel and watch how all the graph/chart colors change throughout the slides. Try changing to a new theme like Concourse and not only do colors change but slide format changes as well. Switch to Opulent and you will need to adjust your slides to accommodate the stripe down the right side. You can also change fonts – you may need to make adjustments to your slides as the font size changes. Switch to Civic and then to Equity. You can see the text is smaller in the tables.

More Text Features Shadow fonts Strikethrough fonts Use Shape Fill to change the color of the text box. Shape Outline adds an outer edge Shape Effects can add a glow Both the Shadow Fonts and the Strikethrough Fonts are available on the font section of the Home tab. The Shadow Fonts aren’t very visible with a smaller font size. Shape Fill, Outline, & Effects are under the drawing section of the Home tab.

3-D Effects Glow Text box Transform Relection Fun with WordArt 3-D Effects Glow Text box Add WordArt from the Insert tab. Once WordArt is added, a Drawing Tools – Format tab appears. Use this time to manipulate the WordArt. All of the WordArt on this page was created with the WordArt Styles section. Text Fill, Outline, & Effects changes the text itself. The Shape Styles section (Shape Fill, Outline, & Effects) will change the text box around the text, as with Text box. Transform Relection

It is Easy to Add Graphics Graphs/Charts Create New Copy/paste from Excel Tables Add SmartArt Organization Charts Graphical Lists Add pictures From a file Or clipart Add Charts under the Insert Tab. You can pull data from an Excel spreadsheet that you have already created or start new. Either way, Excel is used. Right click on the graph to edit the data.

Use Preset Table Styles Adding Tables Use Preset Table Styles Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Roast Beef Hot Dogs Lasagna Chicken Pizza Potatoes Chips Garlic bread Rice Bread sticks Green beans Carrots Salad Broccoli Veggies Pie Cake Pudding Cookies Jello Or Not Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Roast Beef Hot Dogs Lasagna Chicken Pizza Potatoes Chips Garlic bread Rice Bread sticks Green beans Carrots Salad Brocolli Veggies Pie Cake Pudding Cookies Jello Point out spell check features Add Tables under the Insert Tab also. Once the table is inserted, two new Table Tools tabs are added – Design & Layout. You can use some preset table styles with a lot of color, or go simple. You can even remove all of the borders.

Use Preset Table Styles Adding Tables Or Not Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Roast Beef Hot Dogs Lasagna Chicken Pizza Potatoes Chips Garlic bread Rice Bread sticks Green beans Carrots Salad Brocolli Veggies Pie Cake Pudding Cookies Jello Use Preset Table Styles Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Roast Beef Hot Dogs Lasagna Chicken Pizza Potatoes Chips Garlic bread Rice Bread sticks Green beans Carrots Salad Broccoli Veggies Pie Cake Pudding Cookies Jello Remove the borders and Tables are a fast and easy way to line up multiple columns of text.

SmartArt Mr. Brosky Ms. Miller Mrs. Wolfe Your organizatinal chart could look like this… Mr. Brosky Ms. Miller Devon Cayla Mrs. Wolfe Amber

SmartArt Or it could look like this! Devon Ms. Miller Cayla Mr. Brosky Mrs. Wolfe Amber Under Home – Paragraph, you can change text to SmartArt. Just select the text box and click Convert to SmartArt. You can also change the colors and the style under the SmartArt Tools Design tab. The format tab lets you change WordArt styles and Shape styles. Switching back to text. You have to use the undo button. If you have already closed the presentation, you will need to copy the text to a new slide – NOT EASY. Copy the slide before you convert – then you have the original in case you change your mind.

Add a picture and caption The Lily Garden at our Goals Retreat.

Add a clipart image Then reformat the image Change the color Change the background Make it 3-D Once you add a picture or clipart, the Picture Tools Format tab will appear. To make the above adjustments, right click on the image and choose Format Picture. Recolor is under Picture in the list. Change the background by clicking on Fill.

Shapes, Shapes, & More Shapes Arrows Equation Shapes Callouts Banners Add Shapes under the Insert Tab. Once you draw the shape, a cursor automatically appears in the middle. If you don’t like the word placement, try drawing a text box inside the shape and moving the text box to the preferred location. Action Buttons

Animations Slide Transitions Transition Sounds Custom Animation Apply to all OR apply to one slide Transition Sounds Use sparingly Custom Animation Text and images can be layered in One line at a time Custom animation – select the image or text box and click Add Effect. There should be numbers running down the left side of your text on the slide. This shows the order in which the text will enter. Everything with a number 1 will enter first and it will enter all at the same time. 2 will be next, etc. To break apart or combine the text, choose the effect and click on Content Placeholder – Effect Options – Text Animation. The Group Text area indicates how many lines will enter at one time. Each indentation is a level. Add an animation for the image and it is numbered after the text. Click and drag or use the Re-Order button to change the line-up.