1. POWERPOINT 2007 Introduction to Microsoft Office Skills

2. Microsoft Office 2007-Illustrated Introductory, Premium Video Edition Formatting Text Once text is entered, you can format it with fonts, colors and sizes Formatting text allows you to make specific points stand out and grab the audience’s attention To format text Select a text box or Highlight a word or phrase Use buttons on the Mini toolbar to format selected text

3. Microsoft Office 2007-Illustrated Introductory, Premium Video Edition Formatting Text Highlighted text Mini toolbar

4. Microsoft Office 2007-Illustrated Introductory, Premium Video Edition Formatting Text You can also remove bullets from a bulleted list by selecting the text, then clicking the Bullets button on the Paragraph tab Use the Paragraph tab to change the alignment of text Alignment buttons Bullets buttons

5. Microsoft Office 2007-Illustrated Introductory, Premium Video Edition Formatting Text You can replace fonts in a presentation Use the Replace command Enter text to replace Enter new text

6. Microsoft Office 2007-Illustrated Introductory, Premium Video Edition Checking Spelling in a Presentation To check spelling in a presentation, click the Review tab, then click Spelling The Spelling dialog box appears and identifies the first misspelled word The misspelled word may be a proper name that the electronic dictionary does not recognize

7. Microsoft Office 2007-Illustrated Introductory, Premium Video Edition Checking Spelling in a Presentation Spelling dialog box This word is not in the dictionary

8. Microsoft Office 2007-Illustrated Introductory, Premium Video Edition Checking Spelling in a Presentation Click Change or Change All to correct a misspelled word Use the correctly spelled suggested word For proper names you can click Ignore All The spellchecker will not question any more occurrences of the word

9. Microsoft Office 2007-Illustrated Introductory, Premium Video Edition Checking Spelling in a Presentation You should always proofread your work even after you spell check it The spellchecker will not correct words that are spelled correctly but used incorrectly The spellchecker does not check the text in inserted pictures or objects

10. Microsoft Office 2007-Illustrated Introductory, Premium Video Edition Insert Clip Art PowerPoint has access to many professionally designed graphics, called clip art Clip art includes: Clip art Photographs Movies Sounds

11. Microsoft Office 2007-Illustrated Introductory, Premium Video Edition Insert Clip Art Microsoft Office clip art is stored in the Microsoft Clip Organizer and is recognized using keywords Microsoft Clip Organizer

12. Microsoft Office 2007-Illustrated Introductory, Premium Video Edition Insert Clip Art You can customize the Clip Organizer by: adding clips to a collection moving clips from one collection to another creating a new collection Collections

13. Microsoft Office 2007-Illustrated Introductory, Premium Video Edition Insert Clip Art Clip art is also available on the Clip Art task pane Click the Insert tab on the Ribbon, then click the Clip Art button or Click the Clip Art icon in a content placeholder Clip Art icon Clip Art button

14. Microsoft Office 2007-Illustrated Introductory, Premium Video Edition Insert Clip Art When you find the clip art you want, click it to insert it on the slide Clip Art can be modified like other PowerPoint objects Keyword Examples of “sunshine” found in All collections

15. Microsoft Office 2007-Illustrated Introductory, Premium Video Edition Insert Clip Art To modify clip art, click the clip art, then click the Drawing Tools tab above the Format tab Use the Picture Styles and Adjust groups on Ribbon Sunshine clip art

16. Microsoft Office 2007-Illustrated Introductory, Premium Video Edition Insert Clip Art Use the Size group to crop or change the width and height of the clip art Sunshine clip art

17. Microsoft Office 2007-Illustrated Introductory, Premium Video Edition Insert and Style a Picture In PowerPoint, a picture is artwork created in another program and inserted into a PowerPoint digital photograph a piece of line art or clip art other artwork

18. Microsoft Office 2007-Illustrated Introductory, Premium Video Edition Insert and Style a Picture There are 17 types of picture formats that you can insert into PowerPoint Examples include: JPEG BMP TIFF

19. Microsoft Office 2007-Illustrated Introductory, Premium Video Edition Insert and Style a Picture There are 17 types of picture formats that you can insert into PowerPoint Examples include: JPEG BMP TIFF

20. Microsoft Office 2007-Illustrated Introductory, Premium Video Edition Insert and Style a Picture To insert a picture, click the Picture button in the Illustrations group or Click Picture icon in a content placeholder Look for a picture in the Insert Picture dialog box, then click Insert

21. Microsoft Office 2007-Illustrated Introductory, Premium Video Edition Insert and Style a Picture Crop a picture to remove unwanted areas Crop pointer – position over corners or sides

22. Microsoft Office 2007-Illustrated Introductory, Premium Video Edition Insert and Style a Picture The Crop button is in the Size group of the Format tab The cropped portion of a picture, when you save unless you change the setting in the Compression Settings dialog box

23. Microsoft Office 2007-Illustrated Introductory, Premium Video Edition Insert a Text Box Sometimes you need an extra text box in addition to the text box placeholders Label Small phrase To insert a text box, click the Text Box button in the Text group on the Insert tab

24. Microsoft Office 2007-Illustrated Introductory, Premium Video Edition Insert a Text Box Text group Text Box button

25. Microsoft Office 2007-Illustrated Introductory, Premium Video Edition Insert a Text Box Drag Text Box tool to create a text box where you want it on the slide Text boxes can be moved to new locations Text box being created

26. Microsoft Office 2007-Illustrated Introductory, Premium Video Edition Insert a Text Box When finished, cursor is flashing so that you can enter text Format text just as you would text in other placeholders Text box Flashing cursor

27. Microsoft Office 2007-Illustrated Introductory, Premium Video Edition Checking Spelling in a Presentation You should always proofread your work even after you spell check it The spellchecker will not correct words that are spelled correctly but used incorrectly The spellchecker does not check the text in inserted pictures or objects

28. Insert and Format WordArt When plain old text seems dull and boring, you can rely on WordArt to make your slides more interesting WordArt is a set of decorative text styles that you can apply to any text object Microsoft Office 2007-Illustrated Introductory, Premium Video Edition

29. Insert and Format WordArt Insert WordArt by clicking the WordArt button on the Text group Microsoft Office 2007-Illustrated Introductory, Premium Video Edition WordArt buttonWordArt styles

30. Insert and Format WordArt You can apply WordArt to existing text or you can start from scratch Microsoft Office 2007-Illustrated Introductory, Premium Video Edition WordArt text box with sample text Your text

31. Insert and Format WordArt You can format WordArt using the Text Effects button in the WordArt Styles group Choose a new style for WordArt Microsoft Office 2007-Illustrated Introductory, Premium Video Edition

32. Converting Text to SmartArt Microsoft Office 2007-Illustrated Introductory, Premium Video Edition When formatting your text alone simply does not work, you can use SmartArt You can convert existing text into a SmartArt graphic or start from scratch

33. Converting Text to SmartArt Microsoft Office 2007-Illustrated Introductory, Premium Video Edition When formatting your text alone simply does not work, you can use SmartArt A SmartArt graphic is a professional-quality diagram that visually illustrates text

34. Converting Text to SmartArt Microsoft Office 2007-Illustrated Introductory, Premium Video Edition You can convert existing text into a SmartArt graphic or start from scratch To convert existing text, select text box, then click Convert to SmartArt button in Paragraph group

35. Converting Text to SmartArt SmartArt graphics are grouped by category Click More SmartArt Graphics to see additional categories Microsoft Office 2007-Illustrated Introductory, Premium Video Edition More SmartArt Graphics button Convert to SmartArt button

36. Converting Text to SmartArt Microsoft Office 2007-Illustrated Introductory, Premium Video Edition Click text placeholders to enter text Basic Venn SmartArt graphic

37. Converting Text to SmartArt SmartArt graphics can be modified using the SmartArt Tools contextual tab A SmartArt Style is a pre-set combination of simple and 3-D formatting options that follows the presentation theme Microsoft Office 2007-Illustrated Introductory, Premium Video Edition

38. Converting Text to SmartArt Microsoft Office 2007-Illustrated Introductory, Premium Video Edition Layouts group SmartArt Styles group

39. Inserting and Modifying Shapes Microsoft Office 2007-Illustrated Introductory, Premium Video Edition In PowerPoint you can insert many different types of shapes including lines, geometric figures, arrows, stars, callouts, and banners Click the Shapes button in the Illustrations group on the Insert tab

40. Inserting and Modifying Shapes Microsoft Office 2007-Illustrated Introductory, Premium Video Edition Shapes button

41. Inserting and Modifying Shapes Microsoft Office 2007-Illustrated Introductory, Premium Video Edition You can create single shapes or combine several shapes together to make a more complex figure Use the Shape Fill, Shape Outline and Shape Effects on the Drawing group to modify a shape

42. Inserting and Modifying Shapes Microsoft Office 2007-Illustrated Introductory, Premium Video Edition To resize a shape, drag a resizing handle or use the Width and Height commands in the Size group on the Ribbon Click Format tab on Ribbon to see Size group Shape Height Shape Width

43. Inserting and Modifying Shapes Microsoft Office 2007-Illustrated Introductory, Premium Video Edition You can also apply a Quick Style A Quick Style is a set of formatting options, including line style, fill color, and effect

44. Inserting and Modifying Shapes Microsoft Office 2007-Illustrated Introductory, Premium Video Edition Quick Styles button

45. Editing and Duplicating Shapes Microsoft Office 2007-Illustrated Introductory, Premium Video Edition With PowerPoint, you can edit adjust various aspects of shapes to help change the look of them You use the adjustment handle—a small yellow diamond—to change the appearance of an object

46. Editing and Duplicating Shapes The adjustment handle appears next to the most prominent feature of the object Drag handle to change appearance of shape Microsoft Office 2007-Illustrated Introductory, Premium Video Edition Adjustment handle

47. Editing and Duplicating Shapes The rotate handle is used to rotate an object in the direction and the amount that you drag the handle Microsoft Office 2007-Illustrated Introductory, Premium Video Edition Rotate handle

48. Editing and Duplicating Shapes As you drag a handle, a semitransparent copy shows the updated image before you release the handle Microsoft Office 2007-Illustrated Introductory, Premium Video Edition Semitransparent copy

49. Editing and Duplicating Shapes You can also edit shapes by copy and pasting them, adding text to them, and moving them PowerPoint aligns objects to a hidden grid on the slide as you manipulate them Microsoft Office 2007-Illustrated Introductory, Premium Video Edition

50. Aligning and Grouping Objects You can position objects accurately on the slide using Align commands in the Arrange group You can align objects relative to each other by snapping them to a grid of evenly spaced vertical and horizontal lines Microsoft Office 2007-Illustrated Introductory, Premium Video Edition

51. Aligning and Grouping Objects Microsoft Office 2007-Illustrated Introductory, Premium Video Edition Select the objects to be aligned Align options Arrange button

52. Aligning and Grouping Objects Microsoft Office 2007-Illustrated Introductory, Premium Video Edition Result of aligning objects by their left edges

53. Aligning and Grouping Objects Microsoft Office 2007-Illustrated Introductory, Premium Video Edition You can group objects to secure their relative position to each other Grouping objects makes it easy to edit and move them Click the Arrange button, then click Group

54. Aligning and Grouping Objects Microsoft Office 2007-Illustrated Introductory, Premium Video Edition Result of grouping objects

55. Aligning and Grouping Objects Microsoft Office 2007-Illustrated Introductory, Premium Video Edition To distribute objects is to evenly space them horizontally or vertically relative to each other or the slide The Distribute commands are beneath the Align commands

56. Aligning and Grouping Objects Microsoft Office 2007-Illustrated Introductory, Premium Video Edition Result of vertically distributing objects Space between objects is equal