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.

Office Button, is located in top left of your PowerPoint 2007 program. Replacing the File Menu button  found in older versions of PowerPoint.  This button contains the basic commands such as creating a new PowerPoint, opening a file, printing saving and more.

Ribbon, This section will contain everything needed for a user to complete the PowerPoint Presentation. These features range from Inserting an image to formatting your text and objects.

Slide Pane, In this area slides are created and modified.

Slide tab, allows you to preview what the presentation will look like through use of thumbnails. Creating of new slides and changing the order of the slides can also be done here.

Notes Pane, is an area which allows you to enter speaker notes to help you remember key points during the presentation.

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Go to the the Home tab, then choose New Slide.  Clicking the top half of the New Slide icon will create a new slide with the default layout.

To create a new slide and to choose its layout in one swoop.  Click the lower area of the the New Slide icon. This will open a drop-down menu that enables you to choose the layout of the new slide.

In both cases the slide will be create AFTER the currently select slide.

To insert a text box in PowerPoint 2007, select the slide that the text box will be inserted.

Once this has been done. go to the Insert tab , then click the Text Box icon. After you have done this, select the area in which the text box will be inserted by simply clicking and dragging the mouse cursor in that area.

To add text, click anywhere in the text box and begin typing!

To do this go to the Home tab then choose Layout, this will open a drop that menu that allows you to choose various types of layouts.

To Apply this to the current presentation simply click the layout and it will immediately be applied to the CURRENTLY selected slide

This will open a new window that will have blank presentation highlighted, Click Create and this will create a new blank PowerPoint presentation.

The blank presentation will look like this

To change the look of the presentation, click on the Design tab

A list of themes available will be shown here. To select a theme simply click on it and the theme will be immediately applied.

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.

In this section you deal with the position in which you would like the countdown timer to be placed, the font, style and general look of the timer.

For the this tutorial I decided to keep it simple, making it easier to follow

Step 1. Go to the Insert tab

Step 2. Choose Text Box

Step 3. Select the Text Box position

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Step 4. Go to the Animations Tab

Step 5. Choose Custom Animation

Step 6. Choose a Exit effect

I choose the Box effect but it doesn’t matter what is chosen its personal preference

Step 7. Change the time located in the Automatically After section

The amount of time you want to place here is seconds, so for example in this case I put 1second. What this means is every second the slide will switch to a new slide.

Why is this important? You will see as we continue

The next step is to duplicate the original slide 5 times. The reasoning for this is each slide represents one second of the countdown so 5 - 4- 3- 2- 1.

After you have duplicated the slides, make sure the first slide’s text box has the largest number then change the number in the text box for the other slides so that it counts down.

In this case my first slide text box contains 05 and the following has 04, then 03, and so forth.

After youve done this your countdown timer is done. Go ahead give it a try. You can experiment with other backgrounds, transition, etc to see which best fits you.

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

To insert a video in PowerPoint 2007

Step 1. Go to the Insert tab

Step 2. Click the Movie icon

This provides you with 2 options

Insert a Movie from file

The video will be inserted from a file that you have located on your computer

insert a Movie from clip organizer

You will choose from a group of clips that are provided by Microsoft.

After you have chosen the video clip to use, this window will appear

Automatically

The video will play as soon as the slide the video is insert on appears.

When Clicked

When the slide with the video appears, the video will not play until you click on it.

Once you selected, the video is inserted and your are done!