Presentation Templates Powerpoint comes with many professionally designed templates on which to base your new presentation. A common approach is to find the template that provides the closest match to the design you need and then amend it. Templates use the .potx extension and provides a specific look consisting of layouts, themes and slide masters. [...] Read more »

Understanding Powerpoint Views Powerpoint provides you with three different views to help you develop your presentation: Normal, Slide Sorter and Slide Show. To switch from one view to another, click on the appropriate view button on the status bar in the bottom right of the work space. Hovering over each one will display a tooltip [...] Read more »

The Evolution Of Powerpoint Themes In Powerpoint 2003 and previous versions of Powerpoint, design templates defined the colours and styles used in a presentation. These styles included such elements as the background design, fill colour schemes, the font used and its size etc. In a nutshell, design templates have been replaced by Powerpoint Themes in [...] Read more »

People often confuse master slides with slide masters. A slide master is just one type of master slide and there are two others: handout masters and notes masters. They control how each slide in your presentation looks and define things like themes and layouts Slide Master The slide master stores information about the theme and [...] Read more »

Powerpoint Download The following links have been assembled to enable you to download Microsoft Powerpoint 2007 and other supporting software. Download Microsoft Powerpoint 2007 Trial This is the download for the whole Microsoft Office 2007 Trial. See why over one million people have downloaded this Free Trial! Download Get-Started Training If you’re new to the [...] Read more »

Change Your Powerpoint Backgrounds With Background Styles A background style is a background fill comprising different combinations of colours and/or pictures. Changing the presentation theme changes the background style to maintain consistency with the new theme’s colours. As in other Microsoft Office 2007 applications, hovering over a thumbnail of the background style provides a live [...] Read more »

Left A Bit, Left A Bit, To Me Once you’ve created a slide and added objects to it (e.g. text boxes, charts etc) you can modify those objects. To manipulate objects, you’ll need to be using normal view. Before you can perform any modifications to an object, you need to first select it. Selecting An [...] Read more »

Powerpoint 2007 Text Effects If you are familiar with the text formatting commands available in Word 2007, you have a head start when formatting text in Powerpoint 2007. The same methods used to change the font, colour, size etc. of text are used here. Also on offer are some other pretty impressive effects. The first [...] Read more »

Starting Your Presentation From Scratch When creating a presentation you can either base it on a predefined template or you can create it from scratch. Creating from scratch is useful if you aren’t sure how you want your presentation to look, and that’s the method we’re going to investigate now. When you open Powerpoint a [...] Read more »

Powerpoint Animations Animating text can spice up an otherwise boring presentation and captivate your audience. If your presentation is self running, you might consider adding more animation than if you were presenting it yourself, but you shouldn’t use so much animation that it detracts from the content. The following kinds of animations are available to [...] Read more »