Written by Wasim Rana
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Wednesday, 19 September 2007
Category MS PowerPoint 2007 - General.
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Overview
Features not included
Creating a new presentation
The Quick Access Toolbar
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Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 allows users to create attractive and dynamic presentations quickly, by integrating the job stream and ways to share the
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From the user interface redesigned to the new functions of graphs and format, Office PowerPoint 2007 allows great control for the creation of excellent
presentations. |
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| Overview |
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| 1) The first time that opens PowerPoint 2007 you will see that the user interface has changed. In the superior part of the window, there is a new
structure for the PowerPoint commands. This design will help you to look for and to use the functions that you need, as well as to create attractive
presentations. |
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| Illustration 1: PowerPoint Options Tape. Click here to view larger image. |
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| 2) There is no way to delete or replace the Ribbon with the toolbars and menus from the earlier versions of Microsoft Office. |
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| 3) To quickly minimize the Ribbon, double-click the name of the active tab. Double-click a tab again to restore the Ribbon. |
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| 4) Tabs description: |
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| a. Insert Tab: Here are all the elements that can be placed in a slide, from tables, images, diagrams, graphs and pictures to sounds, headers
and footers. |
| b. Design Tab: A complete view for the slides that include design of bottom, sources and combinations of colors. |
| c. Animations Tab: Here you can find all the animation effects. The basic animations for lists or graphs are easiest to add. |
| d. Slide Show Tab: Select a pen color or certain slide to begin the show. Record the narration, configure the slide show. |
| e. Review Tab: Look for here the orthographic corrector and the service Reference. Ask the equipment that for use annotations to review the
presentation and reviews these commentaries soon. |
| f. View: change the presentation view at any time. |
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| 5) The macro recorder, used to automate frequent tasks, is not available in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007. You must use Visual Basic for Applications
(VBA) (Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) to create or edit macros as a set of actions that you can use to automate tasks. |
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| a. On the Developer tab, in the Code group, click Macros. |
| b. You can show the Developer tab if it is not available. |
| c. In the Macro dialog box, in the Macro name box, type a name for the macro. |
| d. In the Macro in list, click on the presentation that you want to store the macro in. |
| e. Write the macro code. |
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| 6) The AutoContent Wizard is not available in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007. Now, you can create your presentation quickly and easily
by using templates. |
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| 7) The Allow fast saves option is not available in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007. Office PowerPoint 2007 scans your entire presentation
each time that you save it . |
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| 8) The Send for Review command is not available in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007. To send your Office PowerPoint 2007 presentation to
reviewers, attach your presentation to an e-mail message. Reviewers can comment on your presentation by using the Comments features. |
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| 9) The title master from PowerPoint 2003 (the slide that stores information from the design template and color schemes) is not available in Microsoft
Office PowerPoint 2007 which uses layouts, that is the arrangement of title and subtitle text, lists, pictures, tables, charts, shapes, and movies, on a
slide to define content formatting and positioning for slides in your presentation. |
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| Creating a new presentation |
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| 10) Click on the Start button. Then select Programs ->> Microsoft Office ->> Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 menu item. |
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| 11) A new blank presentation, Presentation1, will be displayed. |
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| 12) PowerPoint 2007 keeps the new archives in a new format. It can open without problems previous versions presentations and keep them in the new format.
However, the change of the file format affects to the shared use of the presentation between PowerPoint 2007 and previous versions of PowerPoint. |
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