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Power Point

Here is a link to the Power Point Hot Keys (ie: shortcuts)

Many of the tips in Word work in PowerPoint as well and have not been repeated here. To see the tips in Word, click on the Word option in the column on the left

File

You can save your presentation in a variety of formats, including earlier versions of PowerPoint. Caution: Saving to an earlier version may result in the loss of changes made with new PowerPoint '97 features.
If you have designed your presentation on one computer and you want to send it to another computer, use the 'Pack and Go' feature which can be found in the File Menu. Files can be 'packed' to floppy disks, your hard drive or directly to another computer on your network
To print handouts, click File and then Print. At the bottom of the print box, change the Print what: option to Handouts (select either 2,3, or six per page).

Edit

To delete a slide, click on the Edit Menu and choose Delete Slide
To duplicate a slide, click on the Edit Menu and choose Duplicate (Ctrl+D)

View

To get a full size picture of your slide, use the Slide view.
To see an outline of your presentation, use the Outline View. Slide content can be edited in this view, but it does not show pictures and objects.
To rearrange the order of your slides, either cut and paste using the Outline view, or try using the Slide sorter view.
To write notes which supplement each slide, choose the Notes Page view.
You can set master styles for your slides by using the Master Option on the View menu.
To see your presentation in black and white, click the black and white option on the View menu.
To see a miniature of what the slide looks like, click Slide Miniature on the View menu. This is a handy tool if you are working in the Outline view.
To switch between views quickly, use the icons at the bottom left hand side of your screen. Using the Slide Show icon allows you to start your slide show from the active slide.

Insert

To insert a New Slide into a presentation, click Insert and choose the New slide option (Ctrl+Enter) or (Ctrl+M) will do this for you.
To duplicate a slide, choose the duplicate slide option from the insert menu.
To insert Slide Numbers, go to the Insert menu and select Slide Number. Alternatively, use the View menu and choose the Header and Footer option, then tick the Slide Number box.
To insert slides from another presentation into your current presentation, use the Insert menu and choose the Slides from Files menu. If no slides are displayed, click on the Browse button to find the slides. You can then choose to insert either individual slides or the entire slide show. PowerPoint automatically changes the Design style of the slides to the Design Style that your current presentation is in.

Format

If you are a new user, the AutoContent wizard is the quickest way to create a presentation.
PowerPoint provides good-looking easily modified design templates to make your presentation look great. To use a template, click Apply Design on the Format menu.
To modify the colours in a design template, click Slide Colour Scheme on the Format menu. You will then have a choice of choosing an alternate scheme from the Standard menu or creating your own scheme from the Custom Menu. Click Apply to All to apply the new scheme to all of your slides.
To change the font in all of the slides from Times New Roman to different font, use the Format menu and choose the Replace Font option.
To change the the layout of a slide, click on Format and choose Slide Layout.

Tools

To ensure that the style is consitent throughout your presentation, use the Style Checker in the Tools menu. This automatically checks the entire presentation for Spelling, Visual clarity,Case and Punction.
For more hints and tips, visit PowerPoint Central which is accessed through the Tools Menu.

Slide Show

Presentations can be viewed on two screens by running the View on Two Screens from the Slide Show menu.
To insert Action Buttons into a slide, click on Slide Show and choose the Action Buttons option. When you insert these, they will automatically hyperlink to the next or previous slide which means that by clicking on them in a presentation, you can go to the next or previous slide.
To animate your slides, use the Preset animations in the Slide Show menu. First select the item you want to animate (ie: textbox or object) Then click on Preset Animation and select the effect that you want.
To change the animation order or for more effects, click on Custom Animation. If you are working on a chart, use the Chart Effects tab.
To see how your animation looks without having to run the slide show, Choose the Animation Preview from the Slide Show menu.
If you have a slide that you don't want to show this particular audience, you can hide it by choosing the Hide Slide option from the Slide Show menu.

Windows

The options here are similar to those available in Word.