Today’s tutorial shows you how to Create a Basic Timeline in PowerPoint 2007.

• Go to the Insert Tab
• Choose the SmartArt option

This will open a new window pane called Choose a SmartArt Graphic.

• Select the Process option
• Choose Basic Timeline and hit Ok

Once that is done the Basic Timeline is added to the PowerPoint slide. Located at the left of the Timeline is bullet points. It is these bullets that will represent the different points in the Timeline.

If you were to delete a bullet point, the time line  adjusts by removing that point, as seen below.

If you add a bullet point the timeline adjusts by adding another point, as seen below

Once you have the perfect amount of points just click anywhere else on the slide to remove the configuration window and BAM! you..are…all…done!

Lets begin.

Below shows the current color of the hyperlink in my presentation. In this case the link feels a bit dark and may be difficult for the audience to see. So lets change it to a brighter color so it stands out.

To change this

• Go to the Design Tab located in the Microsoft Office Ribbon

• Choose the Colors button

This will open a drop down menu.

• Click the  Create New Theme Colors option
  

A new window pane will appear. It is in this window that the color of the hyperlink can be changed.

• Scroll down to the Hyperlink option and change the color to the color of your choice. Then hit Save.

Here is a example of the new Hyperlink color. It stands out a more than the previous color.

Done! Let me know if you have any other questions

Go to the Insert Tab located in Microsoft Office Ribbon then choose the SmartArt option

This will open a new window that allows you to choose a variety of SmartArt graphics.

Go to the Relationship section and scroll down until you see the Basic Venn diagram image. Click the image and hit OK

This will add a Venn diagram to the current PowerPoint slide. The content of the Venn diagram can be edited in the window on the left side. The size and positioning of the Diagram can also be altered here .

Adding another bullet point will increase the amount of Venn Diagram circles

Removing a bullet point will remove a Venn diagram circle.

This is pretty much all you need to know to create a Venn Diagram. If you were interested in changing the visual appearance this section allows the user to change the look of the diagram and even preview what the result would look like.

Done!

This PowerPoint 2007 tutorial will show you how to remove the background graphics so that these kind of problems can be avoided.

For those that are not sure what the background graphic is. I have highlighted the graphic in the presentation below.

There are 2 ways to remove this. The first method is to

• Right click anywhere on the slide
• Choose the Format Background option at the bottom of the drop down menu

This will cause a new window pane to appear called Format Background

In the Fill section tick the Hide Background graphics

Ticking this option automatically removes the background graphic of the current slide, however if you want to remove the background image for all the slides. Simply click Apply to All

Below is how the image looks without the background graphic.

The 2nd method for Hiding a PowerPoint Background graphic is

• Go to the Design tab located in the Microsoft Ribbon
• Tick Hide Background Graphics option

Take note. This will only remove the graphic for the currently selected slide and not all the slides. The only way to remove graphics from all slides is to do the first method.

All done!!

“If you are given instructions to resize clip art to a specific size (resize a star to 3 inches by 2.5 inches) how do you do this?”

Once the clip art has been inserted into the slide follow these steps.

Step 1. Double click the Clip Art

Step 2. This will open a new tab that wasn’t available before, go to this tab

Step 3. In the size section, this is where you can specifically change the size of the Clip Art, whether it be by 3 inches by 2.5 inches or even 100 inches by 100 inches.

Hopefully this helps you with your question!

A case in which this would be useful is an instructor that would like the presentation lecture to be available to his/her students.

To do this follow the steps below

• Go Microsoft office button
• Choose the Save As option

This will open a new in window.

Your first step is to name the presentation followed by choosing the file type

There are 2 options for saving the presentation as a web page.

1. Single File Web Page – By using this format, all  sounds, images and animations will be embedded in the web page, and the presentation will be saved as a .MHT file extension.

2. Web Page – Sounds, images and animations will be saved in a separate folder that also must be uploaded to your website. If this folder isn’t uploaded the presentation will not have full functionality. In this case the file extension will be .HTM

The Page title will be the title of your presentation on the web page, so chose a page title that is related to the presentation.

After you have chosen a page title, hit Save and your done!

To do this, follow these steps.

Go to the the insert tab and click the Chart option

This will open a new window that will provide you with a list of options for chart types such as Column, Line, Pie, etc.

After selecting a chart type, the chart will be inserted into the slide. Microsoft Excel will be loaded allowing the user to change the data and thus affecting the chart.

After data is enter/manipulated simply close Microsoft Excel and  your done!

To insert a comment in PowerPoint 2007

Go to the Review tab followed by choose the New Comment option

This will open a new box in which comments can be inserted.

The comments can be dragged and position anywhere on the slide, by clicking on the position labelled above.

Here are some examples of uses of comments.

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To Rotate and/or Flip Objects in PowerPoint 2007. Go to the Home tab located in the PowerPoint ribbon.

Choose the Arrange option located in the drawing section.

This will open a drop down menu. Go to the rotate option located below the Position objections category. It is in this area that the object can be rotated along with being flipped.

The other method for rotating a object to click on the object followed by clicking and holding on the green circle located at the top of the object and rotating .

If your looking for precision, In the arrange drop down menu go to the More Rotate Options.

This will open a new window that will allow the user to precisely put in the degree of rotation for the object.

1. First select all the objects by holding down CTRL and click each object that you would like to be part of the group

2. Go to the Format tab, then click the Group button and select Group.

3. Heres an example of how a group of objects would look like. Notice that instead of having multiple boxes there is simply one.

4. To ungroup objects, select the group box , then go to the Format Tab, click Group and select Ungroup.

5. Another method of grouping and ungrouping is to right-click the selected objects , go to Group and select group/ungroup

On the ribbon go to the Insert Tab and choose the Table option.

This will open a window that allows you to choose the amount of columns and rows that the table will consist of.

After you have selected the size of the table, the table will be added to the slide. The design of the table will be based on the current theme of the presentation.

If however you would like to change the design of the table this can be done in the ribbon under the Design tab.

This tutorial will focus on the PowerPoint Toolbar, but same steps can be applied to other Microsoft Suite programs.

This toolbar  can also be customized  to suit the needs of the user, i.e adding and removing commands. To do this, simply click the downward arrow.  The drop down menu will contain the following commands.

Adding a Quick Access Command

To add a command to the Quick Access Toolbar you would simply click its name. This will cause a check mark to appear to the left confirming that the command is currently added.

Removing a Quick Access Command

Similar to adding a command you would uncheck the command by clicking its name, this will remove the command from the Quick Access Toolbar.

Step 1. Go to the Insert tab

Step 2. Choose Photo Album

This will open a new window. This is the window that will be used to customize and add photos to the album.

Step 3. Click File/Disk

Choose the images that you would like to be added to the PowerPoint photo album.

Step 4. Go to Create

End Result