Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 Top 100 Simplified Tips & Tricks

by McFedries, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780470131961
• ISBN10: 0470131969
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-05-29
• Publisher: Visual

Summary

You already know PowerPoint 2007 basics. Now you'd like to go beyond with shortcuts, tricks, and tips that let you work smarter and faster. And because you learn more easily when someone shows you how, this is the book for you. Inside, you'll find clear, illustrated instructions for 100 tasks that reveal cool secrets, teach timesaving tricks, and explain great tips guaranteed to make you more productive with PowerPoint 2007. * Minimal text and maximum illustrations * Task-oriented, step-by-step approach * Navigational aids connect instructions to illustrations * Self-contained, two-page lessons * Uniform layout makes it easy to read less, learn more How easy is it? Look for these symbols marking the difficulty of each task. * Demonstrates a new spin on a common task * Introduces a new skill or a new task * Combines multiple skills requiring in-depth knowledge * Requires extensive skill and may involve other technologies

Author Biography

Paul McFedries is the president of Logophilia Limited, a technical writing company. While now primarily a writer, Paul has worked as a Programmer, consultant, and Web site developer. Paul has written nearly 50 books that have sold over three million copies worldwide. These books include the Wiley titles the Unofficial Guide to Microsoft Office 2007, Teach Yourself VISUALLY Windows Vista, Windows Vista: Top 100 Simplified Tips and Tricks and Teach Yourself VISUALLY Computers. Paul also runs Word Spy, a web site dedicated to tracking new words and phrases (see www.wordspy.com).

Table of Contents

Customize Powerpoint Options to Suit Your Needs

Change the Default View of Your Presentation

Add a Shortcut to the Favorite Links

Customize the Quick Access Toolbar for Easier

Customize PowerPoint's Most Popular Options

Customize How PowerPoint Saves Your Presentations

Modify the Display and Slide Show Options

Change the Editing Settings

Work with the Print Options

Change the AutoFormat Settings

Give Your Presentation the Look You Want

Customize a Layout by Removing Placeholders

Change Layouts When You Create Your Own Masters

Add a Watermark to Your Slides

Place Slide Numbers on All Slides

Replace All Instances of a Font in Your Presentation

Make a Document Theme the Default for New Presentations

Create Unique Bullets from Your Own Custom Graphics

Change the Layout of an Existing Slide

Add Emphasis by Inserting a Custom Background Image

Display Content in Different Languages

Create a Custom Color Scheme

Add Impact with Graphics

Communicate Information with a SmartArt Graphic

Add Connector Lines to Objects

Emphasize Images with Borders

Crop Images to Attract Attention

Compress Graphics to Make Presentations Load Faster

Display Pictures in a Photo Album

Blend Graphics into the Background

Add text to Your Shapes

Use 3-D Effects to Make Graphics Stand Out

Align Graphics Perfectly Using the Grid and Guidelines

Using Timesaving Tools

Paste Slides from One Presentation to Another

Turn a World Outline into a Power Point Presentation

Copy Formatting from One Slide to Another

Publish Slides to a Slide Library

Reuse Slides fro a Slide Library

Send Slides from a Slide Library to PowerPoint

Translate Worlds from within PowerPoint

Turn Your Presentation into a PowerPoint Template

Configure Security Settings to Run Your Macros

Create a Macro in the Visual Basic Editor

Run a Macro to Automate our Functions

Add Sizzle to You Rpresentation with Effects

Highlight Graphics when You Use Custom Shadows

Create a Link to Go Elsewhere in the Presentation

Open a Document with the click of a Button

Add Motion to Illustrate Your Content

Make an Entrance with Custom Animations

Orchestrate an Exit with Custom Animations

Choreograph Effects to Make a Multimedia Presentation

Give Your Presentation a Profession Look with Transition Effects

Enhance a Transition with a Sound Effect

Communicate wiht Audio and Video

Add a Button to Play Your Video Clip

Embed Video to turn Your Slide into a Movie

Add Sound from a File

Loop an Audio File

Boost Your Presentation with Audio from a CD

Insert an Audio Button in your Slides

Hover Your Mouse to Play a Sound

Record Narrations for Your Slides

Create a Narrated Slide Show

Produce a Professional Presentation When You Synchronize Effects

Enhance Your Presentations with Custom Content

Link to the Web from you Presentations

Add a link to an E-mail Address

Explain It Better with Equations

Type Specialized Characters and Symbols

Add an Excel Spreadsheet to Leverage Data

Add an Excel Spreadsheet to Calculate Data

Tell your Story with Illustrated Charts

Make a Point When You Connect Graphics

Show Relationships with Organizational Charts

Get Your Presentation Notice

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