Saturday, March 21, 2009

EXTENDED TIPS ON POWERPOINT

Transition between slides in PowerPoint 2007
To add cool animation effects when you move from one slide to the next, click the Slides tab on the left side of the slide window. Click the thumbnails of the slides that you want to apply the effects to. Go to the Animations tab and the Transition To This Slide group, and select a transition effect. Use Transition Speed in to select the speed of transition. Click Apply to All.
 
Use the Mini toolbar for speedy formatting
The Mini toolbar in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook (2007) helps you to format selected text in these programs—you can work with fonts, alignment, bullets, and other features. The toolbar is semi-transparent when you select text in any of these programs. You can take your pointer to the toolbar and click the option that you want to use.
 
Create two identical slides in PowerPoint 2007
If you want to create two slides that are similar in content and design, go to the Slides tab and right-click the slide that you want to replicate. Then, click Copy on the shortcut menu. On the same tab, right-click where you want to add the new slide and click Paste on the shortcut menu. You can also copy a slide from one presentation into another.

Multiple Slide Masters in PowerPoint
If you want to create multiple Slide Masters for your PowerPoint presentation, in the View menu, select Master, and then Slide Master. Now from the Insert menu, choose Insert New Slide Master. A new Slide Master will appear with default PowerPoint settings, and a thumbnail for it will also appear in the panel on the left. Change the new Slide Master according to your preferences, tweaking the background colour, text styles, background objects, etc, to suit your taste or requirement. Then, from the Slide Master View toolbar, click the button for Close Master View. This will take you back to the Normal view. Do this to add as many more Slide Masters as you want.
 
Embedding audio files into PowerPoint
If you embed a heavy audio file into a PowerPoint presentation and mail it to someone, you often find that when presentation is run, the audio file will not play. This is because PowerPoint by default creates a link to audio files that are heavier than 100 kB. To embed heavy audio files into PowerPoint, from the Tools menu, select Options, and go to the General tab. You will see a field for Link sounds with file size greater than. Set the value for this field at 5000 kB, or whatever you think is the heaviest file size you are likely to use, and click OK. This means you will now be able to embed audio files of upto 5 MB. Any sounds you now insert into your PowerPoint presentation will be embedded instead of being linked, as long as they are under 5000 kB.
 
Inserting email addresses into a PowerPoint slide
Here’s how you can insert email addresses into a PowerPoint slide. In your PowerPoint presentation, select the object to which you want to assign the email address. Right-click it and select Action Settings. In the dialog box that opens, you will see an option for Hyperlink to:. Select this option. From the dropdown list, select URL.... A text box will open, asking for the URL. Enter the email address you want to link to into the text box. Click OK. PowerPoint will link the object to the email address you entered.
 
Review PowerPoint 2007 Presentations
To add review comments to a PowerPoint 2007 presentation slide, select the object or text for which you want to add a comment. To add a comment about the slide as a whole, click anywhere on the slide. On the Review tab, go to the Comments group and click New Comment. In the Comment box that appears on the slide, enter your comments and then click outside the box.
 
The comment will be saved as a thumbnail on the slide. If you can’t see the thumbnail, go the Review tab, and click Show Markup in the Comments group. To edit a comment, click the thumbnail and add your comments. To delete the comment, go to the Review tab, and click Delete in the Comments group.
 
To navigate between comments, go to the Comments group in the Review tab, and click Previous or Next.

Write on PowerPoint slides during presentations
During a PowerPoint 2007 presentation, you can write on the slides to emphasize a point by circling or underlining it; you can also draw arrows to show connections between pieces of information.
 
To do this, select Slide Show view (you’ll probably use this view to deliver your presentation). Right-click the slide you want to write on, point the cursor to Pointer Options, and click pen or highlighter options. You can now use the left mouse button as a pen—drag this to write on the slide.

Inserting hyperlinks
If you want to insert a Hyperlink in a PowerPoint slide, press Ctrl and K together.
 
Duplicating a PowerPoint slide
While making PowerPoint presentations if you want to duplicate a certain slide then go to the slide in question.  Then press Ctrl and D together and you’re ready to go.
 
PowerPoint print
Print a presentation without opening PowerPoint: Go to the Start menu and click on Run. Type in POWERPNT.EXE/pfiletoprint.PPT, replacing pfiletoprint.ppt with the name of the presentation you wish to print.
 
Using Add-Ins in PowerPoint
Add-Ins are programmes that add some feature to PowerPoint. To use add-ins programs, you first have to install it on your computer and then load it on PowerPoint. PowerPoint add-ins are freely available on the Internet. Microsoft has several add-ins that you can download from its website as well. After choosing the add-in of your choice, install it on your computer and save it to a location you remember. After installation, you just have to load it on PowerPoint. Here’s how.
 
In the Tools menu, select Options and click on Add-In. In the dialog box that appears, click on Add New. Now locate the add-in that you had installed previously. Do remember that PowerPoint add-ins have the file extension .ppa. Select the file and press OK. If a message appears that says that the add-in contains Macros, select Enable macros. Close the add-in dialog box. 
 
Draw on the screen during a presentation
To draw on a slide during a presentation, press Ctrl and P together. The cursor will change to a pen. Now use the left mouse button to draw on screen as required. This shortcut is useful when trying to illustrate a point during a presentation. To delete what has been drawn, press E on the keyboard. To remove the pen display, press Ctrl and P again.
 
Slide effects preview
To preview the animation effects of the slide that you are editing, press Ctrl while clicking on the View Slide Show button. This lets you view the effects while editing the slide itself, instead of viewing it during the slide show.

Displaying keyboard shortcuts in tool tip
Here’s a handy tip if you don’t want to remember all those keyboard shortcuts. Click on Tools, then on Customize. Now click on the Options tab, and then choose "Show shortcut keys in screen tips".
 
Subliminal messages animation
Here is something to spice up your presentation. Subliminal messages animation lets a selected message to flash quickly and disappear in the presentation. Select the text, then click on the Animation effects button in your toolbar (it looks like a star), then click on the “Flash Once” button. 

1 comment:

Thompson said...

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