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Module 6
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Contents

 USING THE APPLICATION......................................................................................................................1

OPENING / CLOSING MS POWERPOINT & PRESENTATIONS.......................................................................................1
CREATING A NEW PRESENTATION..........................................................................................................................3
SAVING A PRESENTATION.....................................................................................................................................4
SAVING A PRESENTATION AS ANOTHER FILE TYPE....................................................................................................5
SWITCHING BETWEEN OPEN PRESENTATIONS...........................................................................................................5
MODIFYING USER PREFERENCES............................................................................................................................5
USING HELP.......................................................................................................................................................6
MAGNIFICATION & ZOOM TOOLS..........................................................................................................................7
BUILT-IN TOOLBARS............................................................................................................................................7
 DEVELOPING A PRESENTATION.........................................................................................................9
CHANGING BETWEEN PRESENTATION VIEW MODES..................................................................................................9
CHANGING THE SLIDE LAYOUT.............................................................................................................................9
USING DESIGN TEMPLATES.................................................................................................................................10
CHANGING THE BACKGROUND COLOUR................................................................................................................10
INSERTING NEW SLIDES.....................................................................................................................................11
COPYING / MOVING SLIDES................................................................................................................................11
DELETING SLIDES..............................................................................................................................................12
INSERTING A GRAPHICAL OBJECT INTO THE MASTER SLIDE.....................................................................................13
ADDING FOOTERS..............................................................................................................................................14
 TEXT............................................................................................................................................................16
ADDING, EDITING & DELETING TEXT..................................................................................................................16
MOVING & COPYING TEXT................................................................................................................................16
USING UNDO/REDO COMMAND...........................................................................................................................17
CHANGING FONT TYPES & SIZES........................................................................................................................17
TYPESTYLES: BOLD, ITALICS, UNDERLINE & SHADOW...........................................................................................18
CHANGING TEXT COLOUR..................................................................................................................................18
APPLYING CASE CHANGES TO TEXT....................................................................................................................19
ALIGNING TEXT................................................................................................................................................19
APPLYING / REMOVING INDENTATIONS.................................................................................................................20
ADJUSTING LINE SPACING..................................................................................................................................20
APPLYING / CHANGING BULLET & NUMBER STYLES ............................................................................................21
ENTERING / EDITING TEXT IN TABLE SLIDE..........................................................................................................24
SELECTING ROWS, COLUMNS & ENTIRE TABLE....................................................................................................24
INSERTING / DELETING ROWS & COLUMNS..........................................................................................................24
MODIFYING COLUMN WIDTHS & ROW HEIGHTS...................................................................................................25
 CHARTS......................................................................................................................................................26
CREATING CHARTS............................................................................................................................................26
SELECTING A CHART..........................................................................................................................................27
CHANGING THE CHART TYPE..............................................................................................................................27
ADDING, REMOVING & EDITING A CHART TITLE..................................................................................................28
ADDING DATA LABELS......................................................................................................................................28
CHANGING COLOUR IN A CHART.........................................................................................................................29
CREATING AN ORGANISATION CHART...................................................................................................................29
ADDING / REMOVING CO-WORKERS & SUBORDINATES...........................................................................................30
 GRAPHICAL OBJECTS...........................................................................................................................31
SELECTING A GRAPHICAL OBJECT........................................................................................................................31
COPYING / MOVING GRAPHICAL OBJECTS............................................................................................................32
RESIZING / DELETING GRAPHICAL OBJECTS..........................................................................................................32
ROTATING / FLIPPING A GRAPHICAL OBJECT.........................................................................................................33
ALIGNING A GRAPHICAL OBJECT.........................................................................................................................34
INSERTING DRAWN OBJECTS...............................................................................................................................34

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 ADDING TEXT TO A DRAWN OBJECT...................................................................................................................36
FORMATTING DRAWN OBJECTS...........................................................................................................................36
CHANGING THE ARROW START / FINISH STYLE.....................................................................................................36
APPLYING SHADOW TO A SHAPE..........................................................................................................................37
GROUPING / UNGROUPING DRAWN OBJECTS.........................................................................................................37
BRINGING AN OBJECT TO THE FRONT OR SENDING IT TO THE BACK..........................................................................38
 PREPARING OUTPUTS...........................................................................................................................39
ADDING / REMOVING TRANSITION EFFECTS..........................................................................................................39
ADDING / REMOVING PRESET ANIMATIONS...........................................................................................................39
ADDING PRESENTER’S NOTES.............................................................................................................................40
SELECTING AN OUTPUT FORMAT.........................................................................................................................41
HIDING / SHOWING SLIDES.................................................................................................................................41
SPELL CHECKING A PRESENTATION......................................................................................................................42
PRINTING.........................................................................................................................................................43
RUNNING THE SLIDE SHOW................................................................................................................................45

Courseware compiled by
James Cilia
2009

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 USING THE APPLICATION

Presentation software is a program designed for the production and display of
computer text and graphics, usually for presentation to a group. It is intended
primarily to replace the functions typically associated with a slide or an overhead
projector. Besides presentation software, you will need additional hardware – the data
projector – to project your presentations on a display surface (e.g. whiteboard,
screen).

MS PowerPoint comes in a variety of versions. Over the years the program has been
updated, making it more powerful and easier to use. These course notes are based on
MS PowerPoint 2003.

Opening / Closing MS PowerPoint & Presentations

To open MS PowerPoint:
1. Click Start button.
2. Select All Programs.
3. Click Microsoft PowerPoint.

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MS PowerPoint opens in the Normal view.

 The title bar shows the name of the presentation. PowerPoint assigns your
presentation a temporary name (e.g. Presentation1) until you save it with the
name you choose.

 The menu bar is used to choose all commands while working in PowerPoint.
 The toolbars provide quick access to some of PowerPoint’s commands
without having to use a pull-down menu.
 The slide pane displays a large view of the current slide.

 The notes pane is the area where you type notes that you want to
accompany a slide.

 The status bar, located at the bottom of the screen displays the slide
number and the name of the slide design.

Basic Terms

A presentation is a collection of slides, audience handouts, and speaker’s notes all in

one file.

Slides are the individual ‘pages’ or overhead transparencies of the presentation.

Slides can have titles, text, charts, drawn objects and clip arts. They can be
presented on a screen or as black-and-white transparencies or as colour overhead
transparencies or 35mm slides.

A Slide show is a group of slides organised in a specific order or with a specific choice
of paths from one slide to the next.

To close MS PowerPoint:
1. Click File menu.
2. Click Exit.

Note that:
 You can close MS PowerPoint using the shortcut key combination: ALT+F4
keys.

To open an existing presentation:

1. Click Open button.
2. Click the drop-down arrow in the Look in: field and select the drive and/or
folder that contain the presentation to open.
3. Double-click the presentation you want to open.

Note that:
 You can open a recently used presentation using the File menu. By
default, the File menu displays a list of 4 recently used presentations.

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 You can also open a recently used presentation using the New
Presentation task pane. In the Open a presentation section, click the name
of the presentation to open. If the Task Pane is not visible, click View menu
and Task Pane.

 You can open a presentation workbook using the shortcut key

combination: CTRL+O keys.
To open other existing presentations repeat steps 1-3.

To close an existing presentation:

1. Save your work.
2. Click File menu
3. Click Close command.

Note that:
 You can close a presentation using the shortcut key combination: CTRL+F4
keys.

Creating a New Presentation

By default all new presentations are created on a standard (or default) template:
Click New button.

Note that:
 You also open a new presentation based on the default
template using the New Presentation task pane. In the
New section, click Blank Presentation.

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  You can open a new workbook using the shortcut key combination: CTRL+N
keys.

Saving a Presentation

It is important to save your work from time to time whilst typing. When you save a
presentation for the first time, you need to give it a name. Presentation names can
have up to 255 characters including spaces. File names cannot include any of the
following characters: forward slash (/), backslash (\), greater than sign (>), less than
sign (<), asterisk (*), period (.), question mark (?), quotation mark ("), pipe symbol
(|), colon (:), or semicolon (;).

To save a presentation to a location or drive:

1. Click Save button.

2. Click the drop-down arrow in the Save in: field and select the disk and/or
folder where the presentation will be saved. By default, the file will be saved
on Drive C: in the My Documents folder.
3. Type a name for your presentation in the File name: field.
4. Click Save button.

Note that:
 After you save a file for the first time, the filename appears in the title bar.
 When you save the file the second, third, fourth time etc. the computer will
not ask you to input all this information again but will only update the file with
the changes made up to that moment.
 You can save a presentation using the shortcut key combination: CTRL+S
keys.

To save an open presentation under another name:

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1. Click File menu.

2. Click Save As… The Save As dialog box will be displayed.
3. Repeat steps 2-4 as above.
Saving a Presentation as another File Type

You can save a presentation as another file type: Rich Text Format, template, show,
image file format and version number.

1. Click File menu.

2. Click Save As… The Save As dialog box will be displayed.
3. Click the drop-down arrow in the Save in: field and select the disk and/or
folder where the presentation will be saved.
4. Type a name for your presentation in the File name: field.
5. Click the Save as type drop down arrow.

6. Click the file format that you want the file saved in e.g. PowerPoint 95 (*.ppt)
7. Click Save button.

Note that:
 The facility to save a presentation to another format can be useful so that this
can be read by previous versions of MS PowerPoint.

Switching between Open Presentations

You can switch between two or more open presentations by:

4. Click Window menu.
5. Click the name of the presentation to display.

Note that:
 To switch between open presentations you can click on the presentation
file button on the task bar (running horizontally across the bottom of the MS
Windows screen).

Modifying User Preferences

You can modify the author’s name attached to every workbook generated in MS
PowerPoint as follows:
1. Click Tools menu.
2. Click Options… The Options dialog box will be displayed.
3. In the General tab card type in the appropriate information in the Name: field
4. Click OK button.

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1. Repeat steps 1-2 as for modifying the user name.
2. In the Save tab card, in the Default file location: field, type in the drive/folder
where the presentations will be saved.
3. Click OK button.

Using Help
1. Click Help menu.
2. Click Microsoft PowerPoint Help. The office assistant is displayed.
3. Type a keyword or question in the Answer Wizard box.
4. Click Search button.
5. Click the topic to display.

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Magnification & Zoom Tools

The zoom feature allows you to enlarge or reduce the view of a page on
the screen. MS PowerPoint offers two ways of zooming – the zoom tool
on the standard toolbar and the zoom dialog box in the View menu.

1. Click Zoom control button.

2. Select the appropriate option. At 100%, the text and images
are the same size they will be when you print them. Below
100% they are smaller. Above 100%, they are bigger.

Note that:
 You can also type in any percentage value in the zoom textbox.

Built-in Toolbars

A toolbar is a row/column of buttons/icons. These buttons are used to accomplish

tasks quickly without opening menus. By default, MS PowerPoint displays three
toolbars - the Standard, Formatting and Drawing toolbars. The Standard and
Formatting toolbars are displayed on a single row.

To display the Standard and Formatting toolbars on two separate rows:

1. Click Tools menu.
2. Click Customize… The Customize dialog box will be displayed.
3. In the Options tab card, tick the option Show Standard and Formatting
Toolbars on two rows.
4. Click Close button.

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To display additional toolbars:
1. Click View menu.
2. Select Toolbars.
3. Click on the toolbar to put one display. The selected toolbar is displayed on
the screen

Toolbars are not fixed to any part of the MS PowerPoint screen – they can float.
Accordingly, you can move toolbars to any part of the screen by dragging them.

To move a floating toolbar:

1. Position the pointer anywhere on the title-bar of toolbar.
2. Drag the toolbar to any part of the screen.
3. Release the mouse button when the toolbar is at the desired location.

To turn a fixed toolbar into a floating toolbar:

1. Position the mouse pointer on an empty part i.e. an area without any buttons
of the toolbar to detach.
2. Double-click the mouse.

To re-attach a floating toolbar:

1. Position the pointer anywhere on the title-bar of toolbar.
2. Double-click the mouse.
The toolbar moves to its home port at the top or bottom of the screen.

To hide a toolbar:
1. Click View menu.
2. Point to Toolbars. A sub-menu displaying available toolbars will be displayed.
The toolbars which are currently displayed in MS PowerPoint will have a check
mark.
3. Click the check marked toolbar to hide the toolbar.

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 DEVELOPING A PRESENTATION

Changing between Presentation View Modes

You can view MS PowerPoint Presentations in different page display modes.
1. Click View menu.
2. Select Normal, Slide Sorter, Notes Pages or Slide Show view.

Depending on the task at hand, some views are better than others.

Option To Do This
Normal Contains three panes: the outline pane, the slide pane, and the notes pane. These
panes let you work on all aspects of your presentation in one place. You can adjust
the size of the different panes by dragging the pane borders.
Slide Sorter Displays a miniature version of all the slides in your presentation. You can use this
to check the consistency of the layout and colour scheme. You change the order of
slides, delete slides, add timings, and select animated transitions for moving from
slide to slide.
Notes Pages Used to add the speaker’s or presenter’s notes or information to be shared with the
audience.
Slide Show Used to view slides full-screen (without any menu bars), exactly as they would
appear projected. To exit from Slide Show view, press the ESC key.

Note that:
 You can also switch to different views using the view buttons at the bottom
left corner of the PowerPoint screen:
Slide Sorter
View

Normal View Slide Show

Changing the Slide Layout

During this course you will be using the following slide layouts:

Title Slide Title & Text Title & 2 Column Title Only
Text

Title & Chart Title & Table Text & Clip art Organisation

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To change the layout of a slide:
1. Click Format menu.
2. Click Slide Layout…The Slide Layout task pane will be displayed.
3. On the Slides tab in normal view, select the slide/s you want to apply a layout
to.
4. In the Slide Layout task pane, point to the layout you want, and then click it.

Note that:
 If you skip step 3, the formatting will be applied to the current slide.

Using Design Templates

You don’t need to be a professional graphic designer to enhance the presentation of

your slides. MS PowerPoint comes with many artist-created templates. A template is
a presentation in which the masters and the colours have been especially designed for
a particular ‘look’. Templates define what your text will look like and where it will
appear, and they offer a complete colour scheme.

Using the Slide Design task pane, you can preview and apply a design template to
your presentation. The template can be applied to all slides or selected slides, and you
can apply more than one type of design template in a single presentation.

To apply a design template to a presentation:

1. Click Slide Design button on the Formatting toolbar. The Slide
Design task pane will be displayed.
2. Click Design Templates in the Slide Design task pane.
3. Click the template you want to apply to all the slides.

Note that:
 To apply a template to a single slide, select the thumbnail on the Slides tab; in
the task pane, point to the template and click the arrow, and then click Apply
to Selected Slides.
 To apply a template to multiple selected slides, select the thumbnails on the
Slides tab, and in the task pane, click the template.
 The design templates you have applied appear below the Recently Used list in
the Slide Design. All available design templates appear under Available for
use.
 To change between available templates repeat steps 1-3 as above.

Changing the Background Colour

You can change the background color of a specific slide or all the slides in the
presentation. Changing the background is useful if you want to change the background
to emphasize sections of a presentation. Besides changing the color, you can add
shading, a pattern, a texture, or a picture.

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To change the slide background colour:

1. Click Format menu.
2. Click Background... The Background dialog
box will be displayed.
3. Under Background fill, click the arrow on
the right of the box, and then select the
appropriate option.
4. Click Apply button or Apply to All button.

Note that:
 If you click the Apply button, the background will be applied only to the active
slide or selected slides.

Inserting New Slides

Each time you insert a new slide you will choose a speicific layout depending on the
content of the slide. Layout refers to the way content is arranged in a slide. A layout
contains placeholders, which in turn hold text such as titles and bulleted lists and slide
content such as tables, charts, pictures, shapes, and clip art.

By default the Title Slide layout will be displayed when you open a new presentation
file. This layout contains two placeholders – the main title and the subtitle placeholder.

To insert a new blank slide, do either of the following:

1. On the Formatting toolbar, click New Slide button.
2. In the Slide Layout task pane, click the layout you want.

Note that:
 If the insertion point is in the Outline or Slides
tab, you can insert a new slide, by pressing
Enter key.
 You can also insert a new slide from the Slide
Layout task pane: point to a layout, click the
arrow, and then click Insert New Slide.
 If you want to keep the Slide Layout task pane
from displaying each time you click New Slide
clear the Show when inserting new slides
check box at the bottom of the pane.

Copying / Moving Slides

You can copy an entire slide within the same presentation file:

1. Click View menu.

2. Click Slide Sorter.
3. Click the slide to copy. A blue frame will be displayed around the selected
slide.
4. Click Copy button.

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6. Click Paste button.

Note that:
 You can also switch to the Slide Sorter View by clicking the Slide Sorter
View button.

You can also copy a slide to a different presentation file:

1. Repeat steps 1-4 as for above.
2. Open the other presentation file.
3. Switch to Slide Sorter view by clicking Slide Sorter View button.
4. Repeat steps 5-6 as above.

You can move / re-order slides in a presentation.

1. Switch to Slide Sorter view by clicking Slide Sorter View button.
2. Click the slide to move.
3. Drag the slide to the new position.

You can move slides to another presentation file:

1. In the first presentation file, switch to Slide Sorter view by clicking Slide
Sorter View button.
2. Right-click the slide to move.
3. Click Cut button.
4. In the second presentation file, switch to Slide Sorter view and click at the
location where the slide will be copied.
5. Click Paste button.

Note that:

 If you want to select more than one slide, click on the first slide, press and
hold CTRL key and click on the next slide/s.

Deleting Slides

1. On the Outline tab or Slides tab in normal view, select the slide/s you want to
delete.
2. Click the Edit menu.
3. Click Delete Slide.

Note that:
 If you want to select slides in order, press and hold SHIFT key as you click.
 If you want to select slides that are not in order, press and hold CTRL key as
you click.
 Instead of step 2 and 3 above, you can press the DELETE key to delete slides.

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Inserting a Graphical Object into the Master Slide

The Slide Master is the slide that holds the format for all slides in the presentation. It
enables you to add background items that you want to appear on every slide in a
presentation. If you make a change to the Slide Master (e.g. choosing a special font
for the text, italicising the slide title or changing the bullet styles), the change affects
all slides in your presentation that follow the master. You can also add a logo or page
number to a slide.

To display the Slide Master:

1. Click View menu.
2. Point to Master.
3. Click Slide Master. MS PowerPoint will display a slide similar to the following.
Also the Slide Master View toolbar will be displayed.

4. To return to the normal view, click Close Master View button in the Slide
Master View toolbar.

To insert a picture from the clip art gallery in the Slide Master:
1. Repeat steps 1-3 as above.
2. Click Insert menu.
3. Point to Picture.
4. Click Clip Art… The Insert Clip Art task pane will be displayed.
5. In the Search text box, type a word or phrase that describes the clip you
want or type in all or some of the file name of the clip.
6. Click Search button.
7. Click the graphic to insert.

Note that:
 You can resize and re-position the picture as necessary. Read further down for
more details.
 To clear the search criteria fields and begin a new search, below the Results
box, click Modify.

To insert an image in the Slide Master:

1. Click View menu.
2. Point to Master.
3. Click Slide Master.
4. Click Insert menu.

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6. Click From File… The Insert Picture dialog box will be displayed.
7. Browse to the disk/folder where the image file is located.
8. Click Insert button. The picture will be inserted.

To insert a drawn object in the Slide Master:

1. Repeat steps 1-3 as above.
2. On the Drawing toolbar click AutoShapes button.
3. Point to a category and click the shape you want.

To delete the clip art, image or drawn object in the Slide Master:
1. Click the clip art, image or drawn object to delete.
2. Press Delete key.

Adding Footers

Footers consist of text, slide numbers, and a date at the bottom of your slides. To add
text, slide numbers and a date at the bottom of your slide/s:
1. Click View menu.
2. Click Header and Footer…

3. Select or enter the appropriate options.

4. Click Apply to All or Apply button.

Note that:
 If you don't want the information to appear on the title slide, select the Don't
show on title slide check box.

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Option To Do This
Date and Time
Update Displays and updates the current date and time in the slide footer.
automatically Click the date and time format you want in the Update automatically
list. This option is unavailable unless the Date and time check box is
selected
Fixed Displays the date and time in the slide footer. Type the date and
time you want in the Fixed box.
Slide number Adds the slide number to the slide footer.
Footer Adds the text you type in the Footer box to the bottom of the slide.

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 TEXT

Adding, Editing & Deleting Text

To add or edit text in a slide:
1. Click in a text placeholder. Sizing handles will be displayed at the edges of the
placeholder.
2. Type in or edit text as necessary.
3. Click outside the placeholder to deselect it.

Note that:
 If your text exceeds the size of the placeholder, MS PowerPoint reduces the
font size and line spacing incrementally as you type, to make the text fit.

You can also insert text in the Outline view:

1. In the Normal view, click the Outline tab.
2. Position the pointer at the appropriate
location and add/edit text as necessary.

Note that:
 As a good practice you should avoid long
sentences or paragraphs in a slide. Keep
your text short (concise). Use bullet points
and numbered lists for your text as appropriate.

To delete text:
1. Select the text to delete.
2. Press DELETE key.

Moving & Copying Text

You can move text from one slide to another within the same presentation:
1. Select the text to move.
2. Click Cut button.
3. Move to the slide where the text will be inserted.
4. Click in the appropriate text placeholder.
5. Click Paste button.

You can also move text from one slide to another in a different presentation file:
1. Repeat steps 1-2 as for above.
2. Open the other presentation file.
3. Repeat steps 3-5 as above.

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You can copy text from one slide to another within the same presentation:
1. Select the text graphic to copy.
2. Click Copy button.
3. Move to the slide where the text will be inserted.
4. Click in the appropriate text placeholder.
5. Click Paste button.

You can also copy text from one slide to another in a different presentation file:
1. Repeat steps 1-2 as for above.
2. Open the other presentation file.
3. Repeat steps 3-5 as above.

Using Undo/Redo Command

There are different types of actions that you can undo: actions you make yourself,
such as typing a word, or actions that MS PowerPoint makes automatically using the
AutoCorrect feature, such as automatically capitalizing the first letter of a sentence.

To undo or redo your most recent actions:

On the Standard toolbar, click Undo or Redo button. This
will undo or redo the last action.

Note that:
 To undo or redo your most recent action (or actions), click the arrow next to
Undo or Redo, select the actions you want to undo or redo, and click.

Changing Font Types & Sizes

A font is a collection of characters (letters, numerals, symbols and punctuation marks)

that have a particular design. The font size determines the size of the selected
characters. The height of a character is expressed in points (1 point = 1/72”). The
larger the number, the larger the character.

To change the font style of text:

1. Select the text or the placeholder containing the text you want to change its
font style.
2. Click the Font Style drop-down arrow.
3. Click the appropriate font style to apply.

Note that:
 To change the font for all the text in a placeholder, either drag to select all the
text, or select the placeholder containing the text. To select the placeholder,
first click the text. The placeholder border becomes hatchmarked. Point to the
border and click. The border changes to a thick, dotted border, and it's now
selected.

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1. Select the text or the placeholder containing the text you want to change its
font size.
2. Click the Font Size drop-down arrow.
3. Click the appropriate size to apply.

Note that:
 You can also increase the font size using the Increase Font Size button.
You can decrease the font size using the Decrease Font Size button.

Typestyles: Bold, Italics, Underline & Shadow

Typestyles are applied to text to emphasise it. There are several ways of emphasising
text, using either or a combination of the following typestyles:

Typestyle Button Effect Shortcut Key

Bold to make the characters look darker CTRL+B

Italics to slant the characters to the right CTRL+I

Underline to underline characters CTRL+U

Shadow to apply a shadow effect to characters n/a

To apply typestyles:
1. Select the text or the placeholder containing the text you want to apply
typestyles to.
2. Click the appropriate typestyle/s button/s required.

To remove typestyles from text:

1. Select the text or the placeholder containing the text you want to remove its
typestyles.
2. Click the appropriate typestyle/s button/s to remove.

Changing Text Colour

To apply a different colour to text:

1. Select the text or the placeholder containing the text you want to apply colour
to.
2. Click Font Colour button drop-down arrow on the Formatting toolbar.

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Applying Case Changes to Text

You can change the case of a text to uppercase, lower case, title case, sentence case
etc.

1. Select the text or the placeholder containing the text you want to change its
case.
2. Click Format menu.
3. Click Change Case…

4. Click the appropriate case option.

5. Click OK button.

Option To Do This

Sentence case. Capitalises the first letter of the first word in the selected sentences.
lowercase Changes all selected text to lowercase letters.
UPPERCASE Changes all selected text to capital letters.
Title Case Capitalises the first letter of each word in the selection.
tOGGLE cASE Changes all uppercase letters to lowercase in the selection and vice versa.

Aligning Text

This facility is important to change the position of text in relation to the left and right
edges of the placeholder.

There are four different alignment options:

This is left-aligned text.

This is centered text.
This is right-aligned text.

This is justified text. If this text is on a line that is shorter than the paragraph width, it will
remain aligned left.

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Left Aligns each line of the paragraph with the left edge of the placeholder, leaving a
ragged right edge which means that there is no alignment on the right side.
Centered Aligns each line of the paragraph between the left and right edges of the
placeholder.
Right Aligns each line of the paragraph with the right edge of the placeholder leaving a
ragged left edge, which means that there is no alignment on the left side.
Justified Aligns paragraph text so that both the left and right margins have a straight
edge, creating blocks.

1. Select the text or the placeholder containing the text you want to align.
2. Click:

Alignment option Button Shortcut Key

Align Left button CTRL+L

Center button CTRL+E

Align Right button CTRL+R

Justify button CTRL+J

Note that:
 The Justify button can be accessed through the Alignment option in the
Format menu.

Applying / Removing Indentations

You can indent bulleted text in a slide:

1. Highlight the bulleted text or position the cursor in the bullet text to indent.
2. Click Increase Indent button

To remove indent from bulleted text:

1. Highlight the bulleted text or position the cursor in the bullet text to indent.
2. Click Decrease Indent button

Adjusting Line Spacing

There is no limit to the amount of text you can add to a slide. However avoid the use
of long sentences. Suitably spaced short text is more effective to convey your
message.

1. Select the text or the placeholder containing the text you want to adjust its
spacing.
2. Click Format menu.

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3. Click Line Spacing...

4. Enter the appropriate adjustments.

5. Click OK button.

The new spacing will be applied to the selected paragraphs or paragraph containing
the insertion point.

Option To Do This
Line Spacing Sets the amount of space you want between lines of selected text.
Before Paragraph Sets the amount of space you want to leave before the first line of each
selected paragraph.
After Paragraph Sets the amount of space you want to leave after each selected
paragraph.

Applying / Changing Bullet & Number Styles

To apply bullets to text:

1. Select the text or the placeholder containing the text you want to apply
bullets to.
2. Click Format menu.
3. Click Bullets and Numbering... The Bullets and Numbering dialog box will
be displayed.
4. Click Bulleted tab.
5. Click any one of the 7 bullet styles.
6. Click OK button.

Note that:
 You can also apply bullets by highlighting the text and clicking the Bullets
button. However, this method does not allow you to choose from the
different bullet styles available in MS PowerPoint.

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To remove bullet lists:
1. Repeat steps 1-4 as for above.
2. Click None
3. Click OK Button.

Note that:
 You can also remove bullets by highlighting the text and clicking the Bullets
button.

To modify bullet style:

1. Select the text or the placeholder containing the text you want to change its
bullet style.
2. Click Format menu.
3. Click Bullets and Numbering... The Bullets and Numbering dialog box will
be displayed.
4. Select the appropriate bullet style or click the Character... button.
5. Select one of the Bullet styles available.
6. Click OK button.

To apply numbering to a list of text:

1. Select the text or the placeholder containing the text you want to apply
numbering to.
2. Click Format menu.
3. Click Bullets and Numbering... The Bullets and Numbering dialog box will
be displayed.
4. Click Numbered tab.
5. Click any one of the 7 bullet styles.
6. Click OK button.

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Note that:
 You can also apply numbering highlighting the text and clicking the
Numbering button. However, this method does not allow you to choose
from the different numbering styles available in MS PowerPoint.

To remove numbering:
1. Repeat steps 1-4 as for above.
2. Click None
3. Click OK Button.

Note that:
 You can also remove numbering by highlighting the text and clicking the
Numbering button.

To modify the numbering style:

1. Select the text or the placeholder containing the text you want to change its
numbering style.
2. Click Format menu.
3. Click Bullets and Numbering... The Bullets and Numbering dialog box will
be displayed.
4. Select the appropriate numbering style.
5. Click OK button.

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Entering / Editing Text in Table Slide

To create a table in a slide:

1. Apply a Table slide layout.
2. Double-click the icon in the middle of the slide to
add the table.
3. Set the number of columns and rows needed for
the table.
4. Click OK button.

To insert text in the table:

1. Click in the cell where you want to insert the table.
2. Type the text.

Note that:
 To move from one cell to the next press TAB key.

Selecting Rows, Columns & Entire Table

To highlight a row, column or the entire table:

Highlight Action
Row Drag the mouse across the row.
Column Drag the mouse down the column.
Table Drag the mouse from the top left to the bottom right of the table.

Inserting / Deleting Rows & Columns

To insert a row:
1. Highlight the row where the new row will be inserted.

2. Right-click the highlighted row.

3. Click Insert Rows.

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To insert a column:
1. Highlight the column where the new column will be inserted.

2. Right-click the highlighted column.

3. Click Insert Columns.

To delete a row:
1. Highlight the row to delete.
2. Right-click the highlighted row.
3. Click Delete Rows.

To delete a column:
1. Highlight the column to delete.
2. Right-click the highlighted column.
3. Click Delete Columns.

Modifying Column Widths & Row Heights

You can change the width/height of selected columns and rows by dragging the
column/row borders

To modify the column width:

1. Rest the pointer on the column boundary you want to move until it
becomes
2. Drag the the boundary to the left or right until the column is at the width you
want.

To modify the row height:

1. Rest the pointer on the row boundary you want to move until it
becomes
2. Drag the the boundary up or down until the row is at the height you want.

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 CHARTS

Creating Charts

MS PowerPoint gives you the ability to insert charts or graphs directly in your
presentation. These become particularly important when you want your audience to
visualise numeric data. Different charts may be used depending on what the numeric
data represents:
 Pie charts are used for figures representing percentages.
 Line charts are used to demonstrate a trend in numeric data.
 Bar charts are used to compare different sets of numbers.

To insert a graph in a slide:

1. Click Format menu.
2. Click Slide Layout…
3. Select Title & Chart Layout from the Slide Layout task
pane.
4. Click OK button.
5. Double-click the graph placeholder.

Note that:
 MS PowerPoint displays a table containing data (a miniature spreadsheet)
known as datasheet, and immediately below this a bar graph based on the
table data.
 If you click outside the graph, the datasheet will disappear. Double-click the
chart to re-display the datasheet.

A datasheet looks like a spreadsheet. Information is entered in cells, which are formed
by the intersection of rows and columns. For most types of charts each column
represents a category of data, while each row is a data series, and is marked with a
symbol – for example, a small 3-D bar – to indicate what type of chart you are
creating.

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To edit data in the datasheet window:

1. Click the cell at the top left corner. All cells will be highlighted.
2. Press Delete key. All the data will be removed from the datasheet.
3. Type the new data.

As new data is entered in the datasheet, the graph is created.

Selecting a Chart

Double-click the chart to select. The datasheet will also be displayed.

Changing the Chart Type

By default, MS PowerPoint displays a bar chart. You can change the sample chart
inserted as follows:
1. Click Chart menu.
2. Click Chart Type. The Chart Type dialog box will be displayed.
3. In the Chart Type category, select the chart to use.
4. Select the Chart sub-type: (on the right). The chart sub-type name appears
in the message area below the chart sub-types.
5. Press and hold the mouse on the Press and Hold to View Sample button.
6. Click OK button to apply the new chart type.

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Adding, Removing & Editing a Chart Title

1. Double-click the chart to add a title to.

2. Click Chart menu.
3. Click Chart Options…

4. In the Titles tab, click in the Chart title field:

5. Type, edit or remove the title.
6. Click OK button.

Adding Data Labels

1. Double-click the chart to add a title to.

2. Click Chart menu.
3. Click Chart Options…

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4. Tick Value to add values or numbers. If you are working on a pie-chart, you
can tick Percentage.
5. Click OK button.

Changing Colour in a Chart

You can modify the colours of the chart area, plot area and data series:
1. Click anywhere on the chart area (outside the plot area), plot area or data
series.
2. Click Format menu.
3. Click Selected Chart Area…, Selected Walls… or Selected Data Series.
The Format Chart Area or Walls or Data Series dialog box will be displayed.
4. Click Patterns tab.
5. Select the appropriate colours for the Border and Area.
6. Click OK button.

Creating an Organisation Chart

To insert an organisation chart in a slide:
1. Click Format menu.
2. Click Slide Layout…
3. Select Organisation Chart Layout from the
Slide Layout task pane.
4. Click OK button.
5. Double-click the organisation chart placeholder. The Diagram Gallery will be
displayed.
6. Select organisation chart below Select a diagram type:
7. Click OK button.

Note that:
 MS PowerPoint displays an organisation chart template and the organisation
chart toolbar.

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To enter text:
1. Click the box you want to type in.
2. Begin typing in the first line.
3. Press Enter key and type in the
second line.
4. Click outside the text box when
you are ready – the data entered
in the current box will be
retained.

Note that:
 To edit the content of a text box, click in the text box and enter your typing.

Adding / Removing Co-workers & Subordinates

To add managers, co-workers and sub-ordinates:

1. Click the appropriate text box.
2. Click Insert Shape drop-down arrow button in the Organisation Chart
toolbar.
3. Click Subordinate, Co-worker or Assistant.

To delete co-workers and sub-ordinates:

1. Click the appropriate text box.
2. Press Delete key.

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 GRAPHICAL OBJECTS

To insert a picture from the clip art gallery in a slide:

1. Click Insert menu.
2. Point to Picture.
3. Click Clip Art… The Insert Clip Art task pane will be displayed.
4. In the Search text box, type a word or phrase that describes the clip you want
or type in all or some of the file name of the clip.
5. Click Search button.
6. Click the graphic to insert.

Note that:
 You can resize and re-position the picture as necessary. Read further down for
more details.
 To clear the search criteria fields and begin a new search, below the Results
box, click Modify.

To insert an image in a slide:

1. Click Insert menu.
2. Point to Picture.
3. Click From File… The Insert Picture dialog box will be displayed.
4. Browse to the disk/folder where the image file is located.
5. Click Insert button. The picture will be inserted.

To insert a drawn object:

1. Click AutoShapes button on the Drawing toolbar.
2. Highlight Basic Shapes.
3. Click the shape to add.
4. Draw the shape on the slide.

Selecting a Graphical Object

To select a clipart, image or drawn object:

1. Click the graphical object.
2. The boundary of the graphical object displays 6 sizing handles.

To deselect a clipart, image or drawn object:

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You can copy graphics from one slide to another within the same presentation:
1. Highlight the graphic to copy.
2. Click Copy button.
3. Move to the slide where the graphic will be inserted.
4. Click in the appropriate graphic placeholder.
5. Click Paste button.

You can also copy graphics from one slide to another in a different presentation file:
1. Repeat steps 1-2 as for above.
2. Open the other presentation file.
3. Repeat steps 3-5 as above.

You can move graphics from one slide to another within the same presentation:
1. Highlight the image to move.
2. Click Cut button.
3. Move to the slide where the graphic will be inserted.
4. Click in the appropriate graphic placeholder.
5. Click Paste button.

You can also move images from one slide to another in a different presentation file:
1. Repeat steps 1-2 as for above.
2. Open the other presentation file.
3. Repeat steps 3-5 as above.

Resizing / Deleting Graphical Objects

You can resize graphics manually:

1. Click the graphic to resize. Sizing handles appear on the border of the graphic.
2. Position the mouse pointer over one of the sizing handles. The pointer changes
to a double-headed arrow.
3. To increase or decrease the size in one or more directions, drag the mouse
away from or toward the centre.
4. Release the mouse.

Note that:
 To keep the centre of an object in the same place, hold down CTRL key while
dragging the mouse.
 To maintain the object's proportions, hold down SHIFT key while dragging the
mouse.
 To maintain the proportions while keeping the centre in the same place, hold
down CTRL + SHIFT key while dragging the mouse.

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You can resize a graphic to an exact height and width:

1. Click the graphic to resize. Sizing handles appear on the border of the graphic.
2. Click Format menu.
3. Click Picture… The Format Picture dialog box will be displayed.
4. Click Size tab.
5. Enter measurements for the height and width of the object.
6. Click OK button.

Note that:
 If the Lock aspect ratio box is checked, the height and width settings change
in relation to one another.

To delete a graphical object:

1. Highlight the graphic to delete.
2. Press Backspace or Delete key.

Rotating / Flipping a Graphical Object

To rotate a graphic:
1. Click the graphic to rotate.
2. Click Draw button on the Drawing toolbar.
3. Point to Rotate or Flip. The sizing handles are replaced by green circles known
as rotate handles.
4. Drag the rotate handle on the object in the direction you want to rotate it.
5. Click outside the object to set the rotation.

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 You can limit the object’s rotation to 15° steps by holding down SHIFT key
whilst dragging the mouse.
 You can also rotate an object 90° to the left or to the right by repeating steps
1-3 as above and clicking Rotate Left or Rotate Right.

To flip a graphic:
1. Click the graphic.
2. Click Draw button.
3. Point to Rotate or Flip.
4. Choose Flip Horizontal or Flip
Vertical.

Aligning a Graphical Object

You can align an object to the left, centre, right, top and bottom of a slide:
1. Click the drawn object.
2. Click Draw button.
3. Point to Align or Distribute.
4. Click the option Relative to Slide.
5. Repeat step 3.
6. Click the appropriate option.

Inserting Drawn Objects

The Drawing toolbar includes a number of tools for drawing simple objects, including
lines, free drawn lines, arrows, rectangles, squares, circles, text boxes and other
shapes. You will use the Drawing toolbar to draw shapes in your documents.

To draw a line:
1. Click Line button on the Drawing toolbar.
2. The mouse pointer changes to a cross hair.
3. Place the cursor where you want the line to begin.
4. Click and drag to where you want the line to end.
5. Release the mouse button.

Note that:
 If the Drawing toolbar is not visible, click View menu, point to Toolbars
and click Drawings.
 To constrain the line to draw at 15-degree angles from its starting point, hold
down SHIFT key as you drag.
 To lengthen the line in opposite directions from the first end point, hold down
CTRL key as you drag.

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To draw a free form line:

1. Click AutoShapes button.
2. Point to Lines.
3. Click Freeform button.
4. Place the cursor where you want the line to begin.
5. Click and drag to draw the line.
6. Release the mouse button when ready.

To draw an arrow:
1. Click Arrow button on the Drawing toolbar.
2. The mouse pointer changes to a cross hair.
3. Place the cursor where you want the arrow to begin.
4. Click and drag to where you want the arrow to end.
5. Release the mouse button.

Note that:
 To change the arrow start/end style click the Arrow Style button on the
Drawing toolbar. Select the appropriate option.

To draw a rectangle/square:
1. Click Rectangle button.
2. Place the cursor where you want one corner of the rectangle.
3. Click and drag diagonally to where you want the opposite corner of the
rectangle.
4. Release the mouse button.

Note that:
 To draw a square, hold down SHIFT key as you drag the mouse.

To draw an oval/circle:
1. Click Oval button.
2. Place the cursor where you want the shape to begin.
3. Click and drag until the shape is the size you want.
4. Release the mouse button.

Note that:
 To draw a circle, hold down SHIFT key as you drag the mouse.

A text box is a rectangular area where you can insert text. To draw a text box:
1. Click Text Box button.
2. Place the cursor where you want to type.
3. Click the cursor.
4. Start typing.

Note that:
 You can resize the text box by clicking on this, position the pointer on one of
the sizing handles and drag.

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2. Select the appropriate category of shapes.
3. Draw the shape.

Adding Text to a Drawn Object

You can add text into a text box, block arrow, rectangle, square, oval and circle:
1. Right click the drawn object.
2. Click Add Text. The drawn object displays a cursor.
3. Type the text.

Formatting Drawn Objects

To change the background colour of a drawn object:

1. Click the drawn object.
2. Click Fill Colour button.
3. Select the appropriate background colour for the drawn object.

To change the line colour of a drawn object:

1. Select the line to modify.
2. Click Line Colour button.
3. Select the colour to apply.

To change the line style & weight of a drawn object:

1. Select the line to modify its style. Sizing handles appear at the left and right
edge of the line.
2. Click Line Style button.
3. Select the appropriate line style and weight (thickness)

Changing the Arrow Start / Finish Style

To change the arrow start style and finish style:

1. Double-click the drawn arrow in the slide.
2. Choose the appropriate Begin style: and / or End style:
3. Click OK button.

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Applying Shadow to a Shape

1. Click the drawn object.

2. Click Shadow button. A menu containing different shadow styles
appear.
3. Click the appropriate shadow option.

Note that:
 When you apply a shadow to a text box, all text and attributes of the text box
take on the shadow effect.

Grouping / Ungrouping Drawn Objects

Before you can group two or more objects you need to select these:
1. Click the first drawn object.
2. Press and hold CTRL key.
3. Click the next drawn object/s.
4. Release the mouse button.
5. Release the CTRL key.

To group drawn objects:

1. Select the objects you want to group.
2. On the Drawing toolbar click Draw button.
3. Click Group.

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1. Select the group you want to ungroup.
2. On the Drawing toolbar click Draw button.
3. Click Ungroup.

Bringing an Object to the Front or Sending it to the Back

1. Click the object to bring to front or send to back.

2. Click Draw button on the Drawing toolbar.
3. Point to Order.
4. Click the appropriate option.

Option To Do This
Bring to Front To bring an object to the front.
Send to Back To send an object to the back
Bring Forward To bring an object one step closer to the front.
Send Backward To send an object one step toward the back

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 PREPARING OUTPUTS

Adding / Removing Transition Effects

Transitions are the visual special effects you see when you go from one slide to the
next in an electronic slide show.

To add the same transition effect to all the slides:

1. Click Slide Show menu.
2. Click Slide Transition... The Slide Transition task pane will be displayed.
3. Click the transition effect to apply.
4. Click Apply to All Slides button.

To add different transitions between slides:

1. On the Slides tab in normal view, select the slides you want to add a
transition to.
2. Repeat steps 1-2 as above.
3. In the list, click the transition effect you want.

Note that:
 Repeat the following process for each slide you
want to add a different transition to.

Adding / Removing Preset Animations

You can animate text, graphics, sounds, movies, and

other objects on your slides so you can focus on
important points, control the flow of information, and
add interest to your presentation.

You can have each main bullet point appear

independently of others, or you can have objects appear
progressively, one after another. You can set up the
way you want each bullet point or object to appear on
your slide to fly in from the left, for example, and
whether you want other bullets or objects to dim or
change colour when you add a new element.

You can apply a preset animation scheme:

1. Click Slide Show menu.
2. Click Animation Schemes… The Slide Design
task pane will be displayed.
3. Under Apply to selected slides, click an
animation scheme in the list.

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 If you want to apply the scheme to all slides, click the Apply to All Slides
button.
 To preview animations for a slide click Play button in the Slide Design task
pane.
 To preview how the set animations will be displayed, click Slide Show
button in the Slide Design task pane.
 To change a preset animation repeat steps 1-3 as above.
 To remove a preset animation repeat step 1-2 as above and click No
Animation under Apply to selected slides.

Adding Presenter’s Notes

You can add speaker’s notes for any or all of the slides in your presentation.
Normally, these notes are used as a quick reference for key points you want to make
during a presentation. You can print the notes for your reference during the
presentation.

You can add presenter’s notes using the Normal view or the Notes Page view.

To add presenter notes using the Normal view:

1. Click the notes pane.
2. Type your notes for the current slide.

Note that:
 To see more of the notes pane, point to the top border of the notes pane
until the pointer becomes a double-headed arrow, and then drag until the
pane is the size you want.
 To move to other slides (to add notes) use the Slide/Outline tab.

To add presenter notes using the Notes Page view:

1. Click View menu.
2. Click Notes Pages. The Notes Page that corresponds to the slide you are
working on appears. An image of the current slide appears at the top of the
Notes Page.
3. Click the notes box below the slide.
4. Type your notes in the box below the slide image.

Note that:
 To enlarge the Notes Page view, click the Zoom Control button on the
Standard toolbar.
 If you want to provide pages on which your audience can make notes, then
print notes pages but leave the notes area blank. If you plan to make some
notes by hand below the slide, try putting some lines in the notes box.

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Selecting an Output Format

You can select an appropriate output format for the slide presentation such as:
overhead, handout, 35mm slides and on-screen show. You can also change the slide
orientation (portrait or landscape) and paper size.

1. Click File menu.

2. Click Page Setup…

3. Click the drop-down arrow below Slides sized for:

4. Select the appropriate option.
5. Click OK button.

Hiding / Showing Slides

You may wish to hide a slide from being displayed during your presentation. To hide a
slide:
1. On the Slides tab in normal view, select the slide you want to hide.
2. Click Slide Show menu.
3. Click Hide Slide.

Note that:
 The hidden slide icon appears with the slide number inside, next to the
slide you have hidden.
 The slide remains in your file, even though it is hidden when you run the
presentation.

To reset a hidden slide to be viewed in a slide show:

1. On the Slides tab in normal view, select the hidden slide you want to make
visible again.
2. Repeat steps 2-3 as above.

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Spell Checking a Presentation

By default, MS PowerPoint checks the spelling of the text in your slides and
presenter’s notes. Every single word in each slide and notes is compared to a built-in
dictionary available in MS Office. A wavy red line appears beneath words that are not
found in the dictionary.

However, at times a word can be spelled correctly yet MS PowerPoint does not find it
in its dictionary. Proper nouns (Rita), specialised terms (phototranspiration), acronyms
and abbreviations (UOM) etc. are not likely to be in the MS Office dictionary. If you do
not want MS PowerPoint to question such words during spell checks, you can add
them to a custom dictionary. In addition to spelling mistakes, MS PowerPoint also
alerts you to repeated words - for example “the the” - and words that have an unusual
pattern of capitalisation, such as “PLay”.

To use the automatic spelling check:

1. Right-click the mouse over the word having a wavy red underline.
2. A pop-up menu appears listing any suggestions Word may have about the
correct spelling or grammar, as well as the following choices: Ignore, Delete
repeated word, Add, and Spelling. Click any suggestion and the appropriate
option.

You can also resolve errors without using the pop-up menu by simply editing the text.
MS PowerPoint checks the spelling of the word again as soon as you move your cursor
away from it, and if the word is now spelled correctly, the red line disappears.

To run the spelling and grammar check:

1. Click Spelling and Grammar button.
2. Click the appropriate options (refer to the following table).
3. Click OK button when MS PowerPoint displays a message that it has checked
all text in the document.

Option To Do This
Not In Displays a possible error, such as an incorrectly spelled word, a duplicate
Dictionary word, a grammar error, or incorrect capitalization. Edit the text in this box to
correct it, and then click Change, or click the correct word in the Suggestions
box and then click Change.
Suggestions Lists a number of words close to the incorrectly spelled word. Click the
appropriate suggestion to choose it.
Ignore Leaves the word unchanged and continues with the checking. The spell
checker stops if the same word is encountered within the same document.
This button changes to Resume if you click in the document to edit the
document.

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Option To Do This
Ignore All Leaves the word unchanged and skips any occurrences of the same word
within the entire document throughout the rest of the current MS PowerPoint
session.
Add Adds the word in the Not In Dictionary box to the custom dictionary.
Change Replaces the incorrectly spelled word with the highlighted word/phrase in the
Suggestions: box. When the selected error is a repeated word, this button
changes to Delete so you can easily remove the second instance of the word.
Change All Replaces all occurrences of the same incorrectly spelled word with the
word/phrase in the Suggestions: box.
Autocorrect Adds a word to the AutoCorrect list so that Word can correct any incorrect
spelling of it automatically as you type.

Note that:
 If the insertion point or selection was not at the beginning of your document
when you begin checking spelling, MS PowerPoint asks if you want to continue
checking from the beginning of the document.
 MS PowerPoint doesn't check the spelling in embedded objects such as charts
or in inserted objects such as MS Word documents.
 If the insertion point is in the notes pane or slide pane, the spelling check
alternates checking between the two. If the insertion point is on the Outline
tab, all the slides are checked first, then all the notes.

Printing

Like all other computer application programs, MS PowerPoint has its printing features.
These are somewhat different from MS Word, because you can print different
components of your presentation. You can print slides, outlines, notes pages, and
handouts.

1. Click File menu.

2. Click Print... The Print dialog box will be displayed.
3. Select the range of slides or notes pages to be printed.
4. In the Copies box, type the number of copies you want to print.
5. Select what you want to print in the Print what: box. (refer to the table)
6. Choose any additional print options (refer to the table).
7. Click OK button.

Option To Do This

All Prints all the slides in the presentation.

Current Slide Prints the current slide or notes page.
Selection Prints all the slides that are currently selected.
Slides Prints the range of slides or notes pages you specify. If you type only
a beginning number, all slides or notes pages from that slide or notes
page will be printed. If you want to print only one slide or notes page,
type that slide's number in both boxes.
Handouts (2 slides Prints two slide images per page (use for the largest images and the
per page) greatest amount of detail).

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Handouts (3 slides Prints three slide images per page (use when you want space for notes
per page) on one side of the page).
Handouts (6 slides Prints six slide images per page.
per page)
Notes Pages Prints the presenter’s notes pages that correspond to the slide
numbers you request.
Outline View Prints your outline according to how your outline appears on-screen in
Outline view. An outline can be formatted or unformatted (plain text)
and expanded or collapsed (titles only). Also, the type size depends on
the view scale in which you are working.
Scale To Fit Paper Scales slides automatically to fit the paper loaded in your printer.
Frame Slides Adds a thin frame around the border of printed slides, handouts, and
notes pages.
Include comment Prints pages containing comments for all slides that contain
pages comments. When printing slides, all comments for a slide are printed
on one page. When printing handouts, a comment page contains
comments from all the slides on a handout page.
Print Hidden Slides Prints all hidden slides. Otherwise, slides marked as hidden aren't
printed.
Pure Black & Turns all colours fills to white, all text and lines to black, adds outlines
White or borders to all filled objects, and renders pictures in greyscale. This
option is useful when you want to print draft copies on a colour printer
or when you want to print very readable speaker's notes and
handouts.
Black & White Turns all fills to white (or black and white, if patterned). Unbordered
objects that have no text appear with a thin black frame.

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Option To Do This
Preview Displays your slides, handouts, notes, or outline as they will look when
printed.

Running the Slide Show

In Slide Show view, you see your slides as an electronic presentation on your
computer. Each slide fills the screen.

You can start a slide show so that the entire presentation will be displayed starting
from the first slide:
1. Click Slide Show menu.
2. Click View Show.

Note that:
 To start a slide show on the current slide click Slide show (from current
slide) button.

During the Slide Show you can navigate from one slide to the next or to a specific
slide as indicated here:

To Do This
Advance to the next slide. Mouse click, SPACEBAR, N, RIGHT ARROW, DOWN ARROW
or PAGE DOWN.
Return to the previous slide. Right click mouse, BACKSPACE, P, LEFT ARROW, UP
ARROW or PAGE UP.
Go to a specific slide. Press number key followed by ENTER key.

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