Tips and Tricks for PowerPoint
 

1.  Soft Shadows.

You can create "soft" shadows for square or round objects that sit on a solid color background. Make a copy of the object, then change its fill to be shaded from black to the background color, with the shading set with black going from the center out to the background color at the edges. Make this object about 150% bigger than the original object, and put it behind the object. This will give you the effect of "soft" shadows.

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2.  Preview Fonts in the Toolbar.

If you'd like to see previews of the actual fonts in the font selection of the formatting toolbar, go to Tools/Customize, click on the Options tab, and click "List font names in their font", click Close.

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3.  Inserting Copyright, Trademark and Registered Symbols. 

To insert the Copyright symbol, type:  (c)                  ©

To insert the Trademark symbol, type (tm)                 ™

To insert the Registered symbol, type (r)                    ®

This works in Word, Excel and PowerPoint.  Please note that the “Replace Text as You Type” Autocorrect option must be turned on for this to work.  (Tools, Autocorrect Options, Replace Text as You Type.)

http://sysdev.uncc.edu//HowTos/Word/Inserting%20Copyright.htm

4.  How to insert an Excel worksheet and chart in PowerPoint.

Position the cursor at the point where you want to place the worksheet

From the Insert menu, click Object

Select the Create from file option, and then click Browse

Navigate to the folder that contains the worksheet you want to insert

In the list of file and folder names, click the file, and then click OK to close the Browse dialog box Go to top

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5. How to setup a self-running slide show.

Open the presentation, and then select the Slide Show menu, click Set Up Show

In the Set Up Show dialog box's Show type area, select the Browsed at a kiosk (full screen) option

Click OK

To test the show, move to Slide 1, and click the Slide Show button

Press the ESC key to stop the slide show

From the File menu, click Save As and navigate to the folder where you wan to store the self-running presentation

Click thr down arrow to the right of the Save as Type box, and click PowerPoint Show in the drop-down list. Go to top

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6.  How to use the pen tool to add marks to a slide. 

Select a slide and then click the Slide Show button

Right-click anywhere on the screen, click Pointer Options on the shortcut menu, click Felt Tip Pen, and then make you mark Go to top

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7.  Shape Up

For straight lines and perfect squares or circles,  hold down the shift key while dragging to create the line or shape.  This works with the line tool, arrow tool, oval tool and rectangle tool. 

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8.  How to save a PowerPoint presentation as a Web Page. 

Select the File menu, click on Save as Web Page

Type in a name for your presentation (remember to include the .html extension)

Select the folder where you want your presentation stored and then click the Publish button.

Select the Complete Presentation option, or you can choose to publish a range of slides, then select the All browsers listed above (create larger files) option.

Clear the Open published Web page in browser check box, if necessary, and then click Publish. Go to top

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9.      When in Slide Show mode, press the Esc key to quickly exit the show.

10.   How to insert a slide from another PowerPoint presentation.

In the open presentation, click where you want to insert the slide from another presentation

From the Insert menu, click Slide from Files

Click the Find Presentation tab, if necessary, and then click Browse.

Navigate to the location of the file to insert, select it, and hen click Open

Select the slides you want to insert

Click Insert

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