PowerPoint 2007

An overview of PowerPoint 2007

The PowerPoint Interactive Guide allows the user to demonstrate a task in PowerPoint 2003. Then the resource will demonstrate the same task in PowerPoint 2007. To begin click "Start the guide". To go to the next demonstration click on the grayed PowerPoint 2003 tab.

To see what's new in PowerPoint 2007: Up to Speed with PowerPoint 2007

Links to Tutorials:

The Basics
Format Slides or Presentations
Pictures, Movies and Graphics
Planning and Creating a Presentation
Printing

The Basics

• The new PowerPoint 2007 Fluent interface

• When and how to use views in PowerPoint 2007

• Naming files and attachments

• Open a file

• Save a file

• Publish your presentation to the Web

• Distribute a PowerPoint presentation on CD

• Copy a presentation to a CD, network, or local disk drive

• Save a file in PDF format

• Make changes to a PDF file

• Add sounds

• Add animation and sound to text and objects in a presentation

• Hide or show a slide

• Delete a slide

• Add text to a slide

• Undo, redo, or repeat an action

• Add a background to your presentation

• Copy and paste multiple items by using the Office Clipboard

• Paste Special

• Keep sane with the Selection Pane  

• Place your favorite commands on the Quick Access Toolbar

• Compatibility Checker

• File formats that are supported in PowerPoint 2007

• Introduction to new file name extensions and Open XML Formats

• Select multiple files

Format Slides or Presentations

• What happened to the title master?

• What happened to the AutoContent Wizard?

• Add formatting to your document by using the Mini toolbar

• Add colors, fonts, and effects with PowerPoint 2007 themes

• Apply your brand to Office documents with themes

• Change the capitalization of text

• Format text as superscript or subscript

• Change the direction of text in a placeholder

• Clear all text formatting

• Copy the formatting of a shape, object, worksheet cell, or text by using Format Painter

• Change the color of hyperlink text

• Show text formatting in the Notes pane

• Insert outline text from another program into your PowerPoint presentation

• Hide the outline in a Web presentation

• Show or hide the Outline or Slides tab

• Add slide or page numbers or the date and time

• Change the starting slide number

• Add slide transitions to your presentation

• Change the order of your slides

• Duplicate slides within a presentation

• Add headers and footers to a presentation

• Change or delete header and footer information in a presentation

• Reformat, reposition, and resize headers or footers in a presentation

• Make changes to bullets or numbers

• Adjust the indent in a bulleted or numbered list on the ruler

• Copy Excel data or charts to PowerPoint

• Set up an OLE object to run during a presentation

Pictures, Movies and Graphics

• Create a photo album

• Add a picture to a photo album

• What happened to the From Scanner or Camera option for adding pictures to a presentation?

• Remove a picture from a photo album

• Assign an action to a built-in button or picture

• Change the appearance of a picture in a photo album

• Adding pictures, shapes, word art or clip art

• Reduce the file size of a picture

• Add a caption to a picture in a photo album

• Spice up your text with SmartArt graphics

• SmartArt graphics

• Animation Effects

• Brand your slides with a background picture, color, or watermark

• Work with tables in a document, presentation, or message

• Add movies

• I want to add a digital movie from a video DVD to a presentation

• I want to add an Adobe Macromedia Director movie to my presentation

• I want to add a QuickTime movie (.mov) to my presentation

• Compatible multimedia file formats

Planning and Creating a Presentation

• And the research says? PowerPoint meets cognitive science

• Where are the Research options?

• Create a basic presentation in PowerPoint 2007

• Roadmap to building a PowerPoint 2007 presentation

• Create a self-running presentation

• Create and present a custom show

• Create a presentation from slides in a slide library

• Tips for creating and delivering an effective presentation

• Change the default view

• Rehearse and time the delivery of a presentation

• Preview and review a presentation

• What happened to the Send for Review command?

• Always show the pointer during a presentation

• Move to a slide anywhere in (and during) a slide show

Printing

• Create and print handouts

• Create and print notes pages

• Print a presentation in black and white or grayscale

• Create and print a presentation in Outline view

• Send PowerPoint handouts to Word for printing

• Print your slides

Microsoft Office Online: Help and How To

Office 2007: User step-by-step manuals from Information Technology

Quick Reference Guides for all Office 2007 programs are available from Custom Guide