PowerPoint 2003
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Table of Contents
Introduction 1
How to use this guide 1
Section 1 3
The Basics 3
What is PowerPoint? 4
Launching PowerPoint 5
The PowerPoint Screen 6
Task Pane 8
Using Help 9
Using the Office Assistant 10
Section 2 12
Creating a Presentation 12
Creating presentations 13
Adding New Slides 14
Entering and Editing Text 14
Multi-level Bullets 16
Editing text 17
Changing the Slide Layout 18
Comments 20
Adding Free Form Text 21
Saving a Presentation 22
Name and save a presentation file 22
Subsequent Saves 23
Saving a presentation with a new name 23
Section 3 25
Formatting a Presentation 25
Selecting Placeholders and Text 26
Selecting Placeholders 26
Selecting Text 27
Formatting Text 28
Applying text formatting using the Formatting Toolbar 29
Formatting Backgrounds 30
Formatting Numbered and Bulleted Lists 33
Editing a Bulleted List 33
Editing a Numbered List 34
Master Slides 35
Slide Master 35
The Format Painter 37
Changing Case 38
Smart Tags 39
About smart tags 39
Section 4 42
PowerPoint Views 42
Different ways to view slides 43
The Normal (Tri Pane) View 44
Slide Sorter View 45
Slide Show View 45
View in Black and White 46
Print Preview 47
Section 5 49
Working with Outline View 49
Using Outline View to enter Text 50
The Outline Tab 50
Creating slides in Outline View 51
The Outlining Toolbar 52
Expand or collapse text 53
Decrease or increase text indents in an outline 54
Importing text stored in other formats 55
Creating a Summary Slide 56
Section 6 58
Working with Slide Sorter View 58
Using Slide Sorter view 59
Moving & Copying slides within the same presentation 60
Moving and Copying Between Presentations 61
Section 7 64
Drawing Skills 64
Drawing 65
The Drawing Toolbar 65
Drawing Basic shapes freehand 65
Creating Regular Shapes 66
Drawing perfect squares, circles and straight lines 66
Drawing objects from centre outwards 67
Selecting Objects 68
Formatting objects using the menu 69
Formatting objects using the toolbar 73
Resizing Objects 74
Moving Objects 75
Copying Objects 76
Working with Guides 77
Working with the Visible Grid 79
Aligning and Distributing Objects 81
Rotating/ Flipping Objects 82
The Rotation Handle 82
Ordering (Stacking) objects 83
Grouping Objects 84
Inserting text within an object 85
Formatting Object Text 85
Section 8 89
Working with Clip Art 89
Resizing and Moving Objects 92
Resizing Objects 92
Moving Clip Art 92
Re-Colouring Clip Art 93
The Picture Toolbar 93
Ungrouping Clip Art 95
Cropping Clip Art 96
Using Image Settings 97
Section 9 99
Tables 99
Working with Tables 100
Inserting a Table 100
Adding New Columns and Rows 103
Resizing columns and rows 104
Resizing the entire table 104
Deleting Columns and Rows 104
Formatting Tables 105
Formatting borders 105
Adding shading 107
Formatting Table Text 108
Section 10 111
Charts 111
Charts 112
Inserting a Chart 112
Editing a Chart 113
Editing the Datasheet 114
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