In this video we’ll take a brief tour of PowerPoint 2007. PowerPoint 2007 has always been an easy application to use with very little training allowing you to create professional presentations.
New Features Include:
• Slide Themes – Slide Themes give you a consistent look across your presentation and can be accessed by the Design tab.
• More than 20 preset Color Schemes
• Nearly two dozen preset Font Themes
• Dozens of Styles for controlling the look of text, graphics, charts, and shapes
• Formatting Tools that offer effects such as drop shadow, reflections, glow colors, and more.
The Ribbon
PowerPoint 2007 is another application the uses the Ribbon to quickly access PowerPoint commands. For an overview of the Ribbon watch the videos Roaming Around The Word 2007 Ribbon and Exploring Excel 2007.
Tabs, Groups and Controls
To recap, the Ribbon has Tabs which have Groups that contain controls or commands that allow you to manipulate your PowerPoint presentations. There just happens to be seven tabs in PowerPoint, Excel and Word. Four of which have the same name – Home, Insert, Review, and View.
Just like the applications mentioned above the Ribbon contains extra tabs that are referred to as “Contextual Tabs”. These tabs appear when working with specific functions in PowerPoint like working with pictures.
In the lower right-hand corner of each group is a small button that is referred to as the Dialog Launcher. The Dialog Launcher allow you to open up a specific group that displays more commands or controls for that group.
Galleries
Galleries allow you to preview various effects and how they will look in your presentations. By hovering your mouse over the effect you want, the preview immediately displays the effect. This allows you to select the effect or try a different effect without applying it to the presentation you are working on.
Don’t forget the Quick Access Toolbar that also appears in Word 2007 and Excel 2007 next to the Microsoft Office Button. The Quick Access Toolbar allows you to add your favorite commands to the toolbar for – quick access.
Keyboard Shortcuts
The Alt key allows you to access commands by keyboard shortcuts. By pressing the Alt key ”badges“ will be displayed indicating keyboard shortcuts to the commands you can use in PowerPoint 2007.
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