PowerPoint 2007 Presentations TIPS

Review PowerPoint 2007 Presentations

To add review comments to a PowerPoint 2007 presentation slide, select the object or text for which you want to add a comment. To add a comment about the slide as a whole, click anywhere on the slide. On the Review tab, go to the Comments group and click New Comment. In the Comment box that appears on the slide, enter your comments and then click outside the box.

The comment will be saved as a thumbnail on the slide. If you can’t see the thumbnail, go the Review tab, and click Show Markup in the Comments group. To edit a comment, click the thumbnail and add your comments. To delete the comment, go to the Review tab, and click Delete in the Comments group.

To navigate between comments, go to the Comments group in the Review tab, and click Previous or Next.
Write on PowerPoint slides during presentations During a PowerPoint 2007 presentation, you can write on the slides to emphasize a point by circling or underlining it; you can also draw arrows to show connections between pieces of information.

To do this, select Slide Show view (you’ll probably use this view to deliver your presentation). Right-click the slide you want to write on, point the cursor to Pointer Options, and click pen or highlighter options. You can now use the left mouse button as a pen—drag this to write on the slide.
Inserting hyperlinks If you want to insert a Hyperlink in a PowerPoint slide, press Ctrl and K together.

Duplicating a PowerPoint slide While making PowerPoint presentations if you want to duplicate a certain slide then go to the slide in question. Then press Ctrl and D together and you’re ready to go. PowerPoint print Print a presentation without opening PowerPoint: Go to the Start menu and click on Run. Type in POWERPNT.EXE/pfiletoprint.PPT, replacing pfiletoprint.ppt with the name of the presentation you wish to print. Using Add-Ins in PowerPoint Add-Ins are programmes that add some feature to PowerPoint. To use add-ins programs, you first have to install it on your computer and then load it on PowerPoint. PowerPoint add-ins are freely available on the Internet. Microsoft has several add-ins that you can download from its website as well. After choosing the add-in of your choice, install it on your computer and save it to a location you remember. After installation, you just have to load it on PowerPoint. Here’s how. In the Tools menu, select Options and click on Add-In. In the dialog box that appears, click on Add New. Now locate the add-in that you had installed previously. Do remember that PowerPoint add-ins have the file extension .ppa. Select the file and press OK. If a message appears that says that the add-in contains Macros, select Enable macros. Close the add-in dialog box.

Draw on the screen during a presentation To draw on a slide during a presentation, press Ctrl and P together. The cursor will change to a pen. Now use the left mouse button to draw on screen as required. This shortcut is useful when trying to illustrate a point during a presentation. To delete what has been drawn, press E on the keyboard. To remove the pen display, press Ctrl and P again.

Slide effects preview To preview the animation effects of the slide that you are editing, press Ctrl while clicking on the View Slide Show button. This lets you view the effects while editing the slide itself, instead of viewing it during the slide show.

Displaying keyboard shortcuts in tool tip Here’s a handy tip if you don’t want to remember all those keyboard shortcuts. Click on Tools, then on Customize. Now click on the Options tab, and then choose "Show shortcut keys in screen tips".

Subliminal messages animation Here is something to spice up your presentation. Subliminal messages animation lets a selected message to flash quickly and disappear in the presentation. Select the text, then click on the Animation effects button in your toolbar (it looks like a star), then click on the “Flash Once” button.