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PowerPoint Documents

How to open Powerpoint
Opening a powerpoint document
Opening a recently used presentation
Open a presentattion III
Using "Save As"
Saving a document to the desktop
Saving changes to a ppt I (toobar)
Saving changes to a ppt II (main menu)
Saving all open prentations
Closing a document

Saving a slide as a graphic

Create a blank ppt document
Create a new preseantion using the autocontent wizzard
Create a new ppt docuement from a template
Always show full menus

The PowerPoint Environment

Using the vertical scroll bar
Using the horzontal scroll bar

Zoom Settings
Set zoom I (toolbar)
Set zoom II (main menu)
Usig the mouse to zoom

Using the task panel I
How to show the task panel
Create a blank ppt document

Using the Outline/Slide Pane I
How to show the Outline/Slide panel

Using PowerPoint help
How to use the help window
Using online help
How to find the short cut menu

PowerPoint Views

Presentation view
Editing view
Summary view

The Ruler
How to show rulers
How change the ruler scale

The Grid
How to show the grid I
How to show the grid II
How to set the grid size
How to snap objects to the grid

The Drawing Guide
How to show the drawing guide I
How to show the drawing guide II
Adjusting the drawing guide

Using The Slide Pane
Resizing the slide pane I
Resizing the slide pane II

How to add a slide
How to delete a slide
How to select a slide
Selecting multiplespecific slides
Selecting multiple groups slides
Navigating through slides
Navigating through slides II
Hide slides using the slide pane
Previewing a transition animation
Previewing an object animation

Using the Outline View
Showing the outline view
Editing text in the outline view
Drag and drop text in outline view
Cut and paste in outline view
Copy and paste in outline view
Rearrange slides in the outline view
Change presentation font in outline view

Using The Slide Sorter

Switching to slide sorter view
How to add a slide
How to delete a slide
How to select a slide

Cut and paste slides
Drag and drop slides

Previewing a slide transition
Removing a slide transition

Adding presentation notes in the slide sorter view
Creating a summary slide

How to split a slide
How to merge a slide

Working With Text I

Adding text to a slide
Selecting text
Select a word
Select a sentence I (drag)
Select a sentence II
Select all I (drag)
Select all II (main menu)

Formatting text
Making text bold
Making text italic
Making text underlined
Making a text shadow

Setting text size
Increasing text size
Decreasing text size
Set text color
Set text font

Aligning text
Align text left
Align text right
Align text center

Setting tabs
Changing place holder properties
Setting paragraph spacing

Editing Tools

Using Undo
Using Redo

Cut and paste II
Copy and paste II
Paste special
Using the clipboard
Copying a side from another presentation

Using the clipboard

Backgrounds

Adding a background color
Adding a background pattern
Adding a background image
Creating a background gradient
Making text readable on backgrounds

How to add background to all slides
Creating a watermark effect

The Find Tool

The find function
Find and replace a word
Find and replace a phrase

Using the slide finder

Spell Check

Using spell check
Correcting a misspelt word
Changing the language settings
Using the Thesaurus
Finding Synonyms

Using auto correct

Working With Hyperlinks

Automatically creating a hyperlink
Turning off automatic hyperlinkling
Creating an external hyperlink
Creating an internal hyperlink
How to copy and paste a hyperlink
How to remove a hyperlink

hyperlinking to another presentation

Working With Text II

Formatting text as superscript
Formatting text as subscript

Entering symbols into powerpoint

Using the format painter

Using smart tags
Using the paste smart tag
Using the resize smart tag

Working With Lists I
Creating an unordered list
Creating an ordered list
Using roman numerals
customizing bullet points
Creating nested lists
Promoting and demoting list items
Increasing the list indent

Working With Images I

Showing the picture toolbar I
Showing picture toolbar II
Inserting a picture from a file I
Inserting a picture II
Downloading clipart images from the web
How to use the PowerPoint elements

Cropping pictures I (crop tool)
Cropping picture (properties)
Resizing pictures I (drag)
Reszing pictures II (properties)
Scale image I
Rotating pictures I (handle)
Rotating pictures II (toolbar)
Rotate picture III (properties)
Flipping an image

Changing an picture to grey scale
Creating a color washout effect
Setting a color to transparent
Adjusting picure brightness
Adjusting picture contrast

Image Positioning
Positioning pictures in the page

Working With Text Boxes

Add a new text box I (drawing toolbar)
Add new text box II (main menu)
Delete a text box
Rotating a text box

Positioning text boxes
Drag and drop
Using arrows
Nudge an object one pixel at a time

Positioning Objects

Drag and drop an object
Using arrows
Nudge an object one pixel at a time

Align in center
Align left
Align right

Snapping to the grid
Snapping to other objects

Selecting mutliple objects
Deselecting objects

Using The Slide Master

Adding headers to a slide master
Adding footers to a slide master
Adding a watermark using a slide master
Using the notes master
Formating the handout master

Making a custom default slide show
Using multiple slide masters

Transition Effects

Inserting a transition effect
Removing a slide transition

Creating a fade transition effect
Creating a wipe transition effect

Using the Apply to All button
Creating a custom transition effect

Setting transition triggers
Setting animation speed

Clipart

Show clipart toolbar
Inserting clip art I (toolbar)
Inserting clipart II (toolbar)
Inserting clipart III (menu)
Inserting clipart from the web

Editing clipart properties
Resizing clipart I (drag)
Resizing clipart II (properties)
Rescaling clipart I

Ungrouping clipart elements
Editing a clipart element color
Editing clipart element resize
Editing cliaprt element edit points
Deleting a clipart element

Drawing I

Show the drawing toolbar
Drawing arrows
Setting arrow color
Setting arrow style
Drawing an oval

Autoshapes
Drawing an autoshape star
Set autoshape color fill
Set autoshape outline color
Create formatted text box for autoshape

Grouping Objects

How to group objects
How to ungroup objects
Adding an object to a group
Removing an object to a group

Working With Notes

Adding presntation notes

Printing

Printing slides
Printing comments
Printing outlines
Printing in grescale
Printing multiple slides on one page
Using print preview
Printing multiple copies
Canceling a print job

Viewing a presentation in greyscale
Adjusting greyscale settings

Previewing And Testing Your Presentation

Testing a presentation
Bypassing the application window
Moving forward through your presenatation
Moving backward through the presentation
Pausing a presentation
Resuming where you left off
Restarting a presentation a a specific slide