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With these Learn Microsoft® PowerPoint® 2007 lessons you will learn:
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Lesson One Lesson Two Lesson Three
Section 1 - Introduction
Section 2 - The PowerPoint Environment
  • New Ribbon
  • Contextual Tabs
  • Galleries
  • Title Bar
  • Minimize / Maximum / Restore / Close
  • Ribbon Defined
  • Contextual Tabs
  • Galleries
  • Contextual Tabs group together commands
  • Dialog box launchers
  • Galleries
  • Office Button replaces the File menu
  • Open
  • Save/Save As
  • Prepare
  • Publish
  • PowerPoint Options prompt
  • Instant access to tools on the Quick Access Toolbar
  • Customize the Quick Access Toolbar
  • Tool tips
  • Views tab
  • Normal view
  • Slide Sorter
  • Slide Show
  • Zoom Slider options
  • Show/hide option
  • Ruler
  • Opening the Status Bar Configuration menu
    Section 3 - Creating a Presentation
  • Design Theme Templates
  • Online Templates
  • Template Preview feature
  • Change Colors on template
  • Color Scheme Gallery
  • Font Dialog Box
  • Slide Master
    Section 4 - Entering Text
  • Placeholder
  • Bold font icon
  • Shadow Font icon
  • Alignment icon
  • Entering text
  • Default setting for templates
  • Increase/decrease Font Size buttons
  • Change Font Colors
  • Default color scheme for template
  • Word Wrap
  • AutoCorrect tag
  • Automatic Superscript
  • Using PowerPoint Rulers
  • Sizing handles
  • Word Wrap
  • AutoCorrect tag
  • Automatic Superscript
  • Using PowerPoint Rulers
  • Sizing handles
  • Move handles
  • Nudge boxes with arrow keys
  • AutoFit feature
    Section 5 - Saving files - Windows XP
  • When to save a document
  • Save with the Office Button
  • Save Icon
  • Save As Dialog box
  • Moving within the dialog box
  • Up one level icon
  • Previous and Back icons
  • Create New Folder
  • Change files and folders display views
  •  "Save as Type" option box for different formats
  • Changing PowerPoint Options
  • Changing AutoSave options
  • Learning to save often
  • Shortcuts: Control S
  • Auto Recover documents
    Section 6 - Saving files - Windows Vista
  • When to save a document
  • Save with the Office Button
  • Save Icon
  • Save As Dialog box
  • Moving within the dialog box
  • Add an Author option
  • Add a document tag
  • Browse Folders
  • Previous and Back icons
  • Change files and folders display views
  •  "Save as Type" option box for different formats
  • Changing PowerPoint Options
  • Changing AutoSave options
  • Learning to save often
  • Shortcuts: Control S
  • Auto Recover documents
    Section 7 - Formatting and Enhancing Text
  • Outline tab
  • Using the Font dialog box
  • Using preview box
  • Format Painter
  • Change color of font
  • Adding color to color scheme
  • Shape Styles
  • Line Weights
  • Create a new slide
  • Using Shape Fill effects
  • Two colors
  • Gradient
  • Shading styles
  • Variants
  • Gradient defined
  • Using Bullets
  • Indenting
    Section 8 - Using the Outline Pane
  • Exploring outline pane
  • Resizing of outline pane
  • Reorganizing and moving items in a slide
  • Deleting a slide
  • Demoting and promoting slides
  • Add Commands to Quick Access toolbars
  • Move up and move icons on outline pane
  • Change cases of titles
  • Demoting and promoting lists
  • Adjusting alignment using rulers
  • Collapse and expand icons
  • Create a summary slide
  • Show formatting in outline view
    Section 9 - Viewing Your Presentation
  • Review tab
  • Spell check
  • Autocorrect
  • Run slide show
  • Moving through presentation
  • Black ending slide
  • Setting grayscale
  • View presentation without color
  • Go to slide menu
  • Pen command
  • Change pen color and style
  • Draw on slide
  • Erase ink on slide
  • End Show selection
    Section 1 - Introduction
    Section 2 - Using Text Boxes
  • Recent Documents prompt
  • Opening an existing presentation
  • Outline Tab
  • Creating a text box
  • Resizing text box
  • Text Box defined
  • Formatting text boxes
  • Increase/decrease font size icon
    Section 3 - Adding Shapes
  • Shapes defined
  • Opening the Shape gallery
  • Create Shapes
  • Resizing Shapes
  • Color Shapes
  • Shape fill Icon
  • Line Color
  • Font Color
  • Add Text to Shape
  • Overlapping Shapes
  • Reorder layers of Shapes
  • Rotate Shapes
  • Format Shape
  • Line Style gallery
  • Anchoring text
  • Setting margins in text box
  • Add borders
  • Nudge submenu
  • Grouping features
  • Moving grouped objects
    Section 4 - Slide Sorter View
  • Slider sorter defined as a 'light table'
  • Moving slider in the sorter
  • Duplicating slides
  • Delete a slide in the sorter
  • New slide icon
  • Change Layout of new slide
  • Changing sorter view to the outline view
  • Wavy lines under misspelled word
  • Format painter
  • Changing font color
  • Deleting boxes on a slide
    Section 5 - Clip Art and WordArt
  • Add Clip Art to slides
  • Clip Art icon
  • Entering key words
  • Searching clip art images
  • Pull images from the Internet
  • SmartArt Graphic
  • Using the task pane to find clip art
  • Insert clip art onto slide or clipboard
  • Moving clip art to another folder
  • Edit keywords
  • Preview properties of clipart
  • Add clip art to collection
  • Find Similar Styles option
  • Resizing Clip art
  • Visible grid button
  • Copying clip art to another slide
  • Turn off visible grid
  • Recolor and adjust color clip art images
  • Open picture toolbar
  • Saving clip art to the clip organizer
  • Creating a clip art collection folder
  • Adding clip art to a collection folder
  • Edit Keywords
  • WordArt defined
  • Inserting WordArt
  • WordArt gallery
  • Editing WordArt
  • Opening the WordArt toolbar
  • Changing WordArt style
  • Changing WordArt shape
  • Formatting WordArt
  • Changing colors and lines to WordArt
  • Applying fill effects to WordArt
  • Adding gradient and preset colors to WordArt
  • Text outline
  • Adding 3D effect to WordArt
    Section 6 - Checking for Errors
  • Review tab
  • Spell checking slides
  • Exploring spelling options
  • Using the dictionary
  • Using AutoCorrect
  • Thesaurus
  • Find and replace commands
    Section 7 - Notes and Audience Handouts
  • Adding notes to slides
  • Varieties of slide print-outs
  • Page Set
  • Creating custom page print outs
  • Change orientation of slides
  • Printing slides
  • Designating 'Print what' option
  • Designating Print Range area
  • Creating audience handouts
  • Print Preview options
  • Changing number of slides  printed on one page
    Section 1 - Introduction
    Section 2 - Creating Charts
  • Insert chart icon
  • Using the title and chart layout
  • Launching MS graph program
  • Datasheet defined
  • Creating datasheet
  • Deleting a data series
  • Reformatting cells
  • Linking objects
  • Deleting elements from graph
  • Moving around datasheet
  • Updating data and length
  • Chart and graphs reflecting changes
  • Editing data sheet and charts
  • Changing chart styles
  • Preview chart data
    Section 3 - Customizing Charts and Importing Spreadsheets
  • Chart Tools tab
  • Design tab
  • Layout tab
  • Format tab
  • Changing chart options
  • Adding title to chart
  • Adding data labels
  • Adding and removing gridlines
  • Change Chart Wall
  • Editing legends elements and positions
  • Format Axis Title command
  • Change alignment of labels
  • Changing label and title font
  • Editing legend size and font
  • Changing attributes of columns
  • Changing borders and colors of columns
  • Importing Excel chart
  • Inserting Objects onto slides
  • Exploring the Insert Object dialog box
  • Imbedding vs. Linking objects to a slide
    Section 4 - The Presentation's Appearance
  • Changing slide background
  • Background Gallery
  • Using fill effects and textures
  • Hide background graphics
  • Applying same background to all slides
  • Changing color themes
  • Changing color themes in one slide or all slides
  • Edit color themes
  • Customizing individual colors within a theme
  • Saving customized color themes
  • Changing individual elements of a slide
  • Using Design Templates
  • Updating one slide or all slides with a design template
    Section 5 - Using Animation, Narration and Movies
  • Creating custom animations
  • Add effects to animation
  • Entrance
  • Emphasis
  • Exit
  • Motion Paths
  • Previewing animations
  • Adjusting animation speed
  • Clicking to use animations
  • Applying animation to several slides
  • Adding animation to elements only
  • Add animation effects to slide elements
  • Backing up to previous slides
  • Blacking out screen during presentation
  • Adding sound effects
  • Requirements to record and play a narration
  • Requirements to add movies to slides
  • Setting Timing
    Section 6 - The Slide Masters
  • Slide Master defined
  • Globally changing fonts
  • Working with multiple slide masters
  • Using header and footer in Master Slide
  • Adding logo to master slide
  • Lock aspect ratio box
  • Copying logo to multiple master slides
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