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Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 Online Training

The New Ribbon for Microsoft PowerPoint 2007

With the new Ribbon installed on Microsoft PowerPoint 2007, many of the options have different locations than the previous versions of the program. Within these tabs, the user can still access the old Microsoft PowerPoint dialog boxes by clicking on the boxed arrow located at the bottom right of each tab option box.

Tab Contents for Microsoft PowerPoint 2007

Home
•Clipboard- includes cut, copy and paste
•Slides- insert new slide, select layout of slide, and reset or delete slides
•Font- select the font style for your presentation
•Paragraph- select bullet or number styles and select text alignment
•Drawing- choose and edit shapes to add into your presentation
•Editing- Editing- find, replace, and select

Insert
•Tables- insert and design tables for your presentation
•Illustrations- select pictures from file, clip art or NEW Smart Art
•Links- insert hyperlinks or create an action for an object to perform when clicked upon
•Text- create text box, header, footer, word art, etc.
•Media Clips- insert movies or sounds

Design
•Page Setup- select size and orientation (portrait or landscape) of your slides
•Themes- select from many professionally designed themes for your slides
•Background- format the background of one or all of your slides

Animations
•Preview- ensure that the animations and transitions you put in place work correctly
•Animations- customize your animations or select from installed animations for your slides
•Transitions- insert transitions from slide to slide

Slide Show
•Start Slide Show - view your show in progression from beginning or from selected slide
•Set Up- edit advanced options for your slide show for rehearsal
•Monitors- edit resolution and try NEW presenter view with dual monitors

Review
•Proofing- use spell check, research, thesaurus, etc.
•Comments- Add new, edit and delete comments for slides
•Protect- allow for restricted or unrestricted access of your presentation

View
•Presentation Views- select from many different viewing formats
•Show/Hide- Ruler around slides and Gridlines on slide
•Zoom- in and out
•Color/Grayscale- view original color form or black and white form of your slides
•Windows- Add more windows to compare changes to slides
•Macros- record new and view already existing macros

New Microsoft PowerPoint Features

Smart Art
The new version of Microsoft PowerPoint is all about organization and visual appeal. With new Smart Art options, any user can achieve exactly what they want when attempting to display and present information. To access the Smart Art options, click on the Insert tab and select the Smart Art icon.

Presenter View
The new Microsoft PowerPoint offers a new Presenter View, in which the presenter can view his or her notes on one monitor while the audience views the presentation through the normal slide show view. As a result, presenting becomes extremely easy and the PowerPoint note fields become very useful. In order to use Presenter View, you must have an external monitor attached to your computer.

To access Presenter View, click on the Slide Show tab, and under the Monitor options check off Use Presenter View
Note: Make sure that your note fields are filled in for each slide previously before entering the Presenter View.