HOW TO USE THIS MANUAL 3
TABLE OF CONTENTS 5
Getting Started 9
Starting PowerPoint 2007 10
GETTING STARTED 10
What’s New In Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007
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How To Start
PowerPoint 2007 15
How To Create A Presentation Using A Template 16
Using The PowerPoint 2007 Ribbon 17
How To Choose A Command 18
How To Use The Contextual Tabs 19
How To Use the Dialog Box Launchers 20
How To Use Live Preview 21
How To Use the Office Button 22
How To Use the Quick Access Toolbar 23
How To Add a Command To The Quick Access Toolbar 23
How To Remove a Command From the Quick Access Toolbar 24
How To Customize the Quick Access Toolbar 25
How To Move the Quick Access Toolbar 26
How To Use the Mini-Toolbar 27
Getting Help And Maintenance 28
How To Search Help 31
How To Use The Help Contents 32
How To Get Help From Office Online 33
How To Get Help On A Command 34
How To Get Help In A Dialog Box 35
How To Get Office Updates From Microsoft Update Site 36
How To Run Microsoft Office Diagnostics 37
How To Repair A Corrupted Presentation Manually 38
How To Set The AutoRecover Options 39
How To Recover A PowerPoint File 41
Using View In PowerPoint 2007 42
How To Switch To Slide Sorter View 44
How To Switch To Normal View 45
How To Display Outlines and Slide Miniatures In Normal View 45
How To Switch To Slide Show View 46
How To Switch To Notes Page View 46
Working With A Presentation 47
How To Move From Slide To Slide In Your Presentation 48
How To Save A Presentation 50
How To Save A Presentation With Different Formats 51
How To Close A Presentation 51
How To Exit PowerPoint 2007 51
How To Open
A Recently Used Presentation 52
Working With Slides And Presentations 53
Creating A Presentation 54
WORKING WITH SLIDES AND PRESENTATIONS 54
How To Create
A New Blank Presentation Within PowerPoint 57
How To Enter The Slide Title And Subtitle 58
How To Insert A New Slide In The Slide Pane 59
How To Select A Layout For The New Slide 60
How To Change The Slide Layout To An Existing Slide 61
How To Enter The Slide Title and Bulleted Text 62
How To Enter A New Line That Does Not Have A Bullet Point 63
Using The Outline Pane in Normal View 64
How To Create
A New Slide
In The Outline Pane 65
How To Enter The Slide Title 66
How To Add Bulleted Text In The Outline Pane 66
How To Demote A Bulleted List 67
How To Promote A Bulleted List 67
How To Rearrange A Bulleted List 68
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Organizing Slides In The Slide Sorter View 69
How To Rearrange The Slides 69
How To Duplicate A Slide 70
How To Delete
A Slide 70
Formatting Presentations 71
Formatting Text 72
FORMATTING PRESENTATIONS 72
How To Change The Font Type 74
How To Change The Font Size 76
How To Apply
Bold Text 76
How To Apply
Italic Text 76
How To Apply Underlined Text 77
How To Change The Text Color 77
How To Copy A Format Using Format Painter 78
How To Indent Text 79
How To Change Character Spacing 80
How To Exactly Change Character Spacing (Kerning) 81
How To Change The Text Direction 82
Formatting Paragraph 83
How To Remove Bullets or Numbering 84
How To Change Line Spacing 85
How To Change Text Alignment Horizontally 86
How To Change Text Alignment Vertically 87
How To
Change The Style Of The Bullets 88
How To Use
Pictures As Bullets 90
How To Convert Text To SmartArt Graphic 91
How To Create Text Columns 92
Formatting Design Themes 93
How To View And Apply A Design Theme 94
How To Apply The Design Theme Only To Selected Slides 95
How To View And Change The Color Scheme 96
How To Create New Theme Colors 97
How To View And Change Theme Fonts 98
How To Choose Theme Effects 99
Formatting Background 100
How To Add A Background Style 101
How To
Choose A Solid Color For The Background 102
How To
Create A Gradient Background 103
How To Add A Texture Background 104
How To Use A Picture As A Slide Background 105
How To Delete A Background 106
Adding Header And Footer 107
How To Add Footers To All Slides 108
How To Add Footers To Only Selected Slide 108
How To Remove Footers From The Title Slide 109
How To Add Header And Footer On Handouts 110
Working With Shapes 111
Utilizing The Drawing Tools 112
How To Draw
A Line 113
How To Draw
A Rectangle 114
How To Draw A Square 114
How To Draw An Oval 115
How To Draw
A Circle 115
How To Insert A
Text Box 116
Formatting Shapes 117
How To
Select An Object 118
How To
Format A Line 119
How To Add Or Change A Shape Fill 121
How To Delete A Shape Fill 122
How To Add Or Change A Shape Effect 123
How To Delete A Shape Effect 124
How To Change A Shape Border 125
How To Remove A Shape Border 126
How To Apply A Quick Style To A Shape 127
Manipulating Graphical Objects 128
How To Resize An Object 128
How To
Move An Object 129
How To Delete An Object 129
How To
Rotate and Flip An Object 130
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How To Group And Ungroup Objects 132
How To Arrange Objects Into Layers 134
How To
Align Objects 136