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!

To insert a slide number in PowerPoint, simply follow these steps.

Step 1. Go to the Insert Tab

Step 2. Click Slide Number

This will open a new window, which is shown below.

Tick Slide Number, once this is selected you have 2 options.

Apply

This adds the slide number only to the currently selected slide.

Apply to All

This adds the slide numbers to all slides in the PowerPoint presentation, including the title slide.

If you would rather the title not have a slide number, tick don’t show on title slide.

Your done!

To insert a footer into a PowerPoint 2007 presentation, follow these steps.

Step 1. Go to the Insert tab

Step 2. Click on the Header & Footer located in the text section

This will open a new window, providing you with a few options.

To add the footer, tick the Footer option and type in the information you would like to appear in the footer.

Apply will add the footer to the currently selected slide and Apply to All will add the footer to all slides in the presentation.

One of the features of PowerPoint is the abilty to create a motion path. A motion path is simply a path an object follows as it goes from Point A to Point B.

First select the object that you would like the PowerPoint motion path to be applied to.

Step 1. Go to the Animations Tab

Step 2. Click Custom Animation

This will open a new section called Custom Animation located at the right side of the PowerPoint presentation.

There are preset motion paths that can be chosen  or a motion path can be completely customized.

After a path selection you will be able to apply that path to the object. Below are some examples of what the path will look like.

Note: The lines will not appear on the slide

Custom Path - Line

Custom Path - Scribble

To see the motion path in action, click play located below the Custom Animation Task pane.

Your done! The PowerPoint motion path is now part of the presentation

If your using PowerPoint 2007, to add multiple slide masters follow these steps:

Step 1. Go to the View tab

Step 2. Click Slide Master

IMPORTANT: Before you do Step 3. be sure to click below the final slide of the current master. If you do not the Step 3. will replace your current master and not add a new one.

Step 3. Choosing Insert Slide Master, adds a Master that has no theme.

Choosing Theme allows you to pick a premade theme for the Master

Close the Master view.

The Master is now added to your PowerPoint presentation, to access it. Go to New slide located under the Home tab. The new slide master will be available there

Step 1. Go to the Design Tab

Step 2. Click on Background styles, located to the right side of PowerPoint.

This will provide you with premade background designs that can be chosen from. To further customize the background click the format background option.

Which will open this window.

After your done, click Apply to all to change the background of all slides, If not the changes will only be applied to the currently selected slide.

Step 1. Go to the newly appeared Options tab, below Sound tools

Step 2. Set the Play sound to Play across slides.

Step 3. This step is incase your presentation runs longer than the sound. If it does the sound will be looped and start from the beginning.

Your all done.

There are 2 ways to hide a slide in PowerPoint 2007.

Method 1

Step 1. In the pane located at the left, Right click the slide you would like to hide

Step 2. Go to the hide slide option

Method 2

First in the task pane to the left, choose the slide you want to hide.

Step 1. Go to the slide show tab

Step 2. Choose hide slide

In both versions when the steps are completed the slide will become grayed out and the number at the left of the slide will be crossed out symbolizing that this slide is hidden. If you would like to undo the hide slide, repeat the steps and the slide will be unhidden

Step 1. Click the image you would like to crop
Step 2. A new tab will appear called Format, go to that tab.
Step 3. Choose Crop

This new border will appear around your image, moving the borders crops the image.

If a mistake is made simply move the border back to its original position and the previously cropped area will be restored. This is because PowerPoint doesn’t actually ‘crop’ the image but rather hides the portion you don’t want seen.

To delete the excess portion of the image, and reduce the overall size of the presentation, crop the image then compress it.

You’re done!

Important: To record a narration, your microphone must be plugged in.

Step 1. Go to the Insert tab

Step 2. Click the Sound icon

Step 3. Choose Record Sound

Step 1. in this step, change the default  name to one of your choosing. When the narration is complete this will be the name it will be saved as.

Step 2. This button activates the recording

Step 3. This step is optional but recommended, this button allows you to preview the recording. When you are satisfied, Hit OK.

A sound icon will appear in the slide, that can be set to play the narration when clicked or automatically.

Currently as you can see we have a presentation slide with 3 images, and we would like to add some custom animations to liven up our presentation. Can we do this? But of course!

First select the object you want to be animated, it can be a text box, chart, image, etc. In this case the object that chosen was the image of the eagle.

Step 1. Select the Animations tab
Step 2. Go to the Animate option and  choose the custom animation

This will open a new section to the right of your presentation that allows you to add various effects to your object, such as its entrance, exit, and motion path. I chose the Fly in entrance option. How do i do this?

Adding an Entrance Effect
Step 1. Go to Effects and choose Entrances
Step 2. Click the Fly in option

Now when this slide appears during the presentation, If a mouse click is performed the eagle image will appear with the Fly In  effect.

You can also choose what direction the object appears from and its animation speed by. I choose Direction: From Top right with a Speed: Medium.

Adding an Exit Effect
Step 1. Go to Effects and choose Exit
Step 2. Click the Fly Out option

Similar to the entrance you can also choose what direction the object appears from and its animation speed by. I choose Direction: to Top left with a Speed: Medium.

This can be done with multiple objects in the same slide. For example I gave the fish the same exit as the eagle, and this was the result when everything was put together.

Step 1. Go to the Insert tab

Step 2. Click Table

Step 3. Choose the Excel worksheet option

After you have done that, the result will look like this.

The result can be edited and modified in the same way that a normal Excel worksheet would.

If you would like to insert an Existing Excel worksheet into PowerPoint, you would first open the Excel file then;

Step 1. Highlight the area you would like to Import/copy

Step 2. Right Click that area and choose Copy.

Step 3. Go back to your PowerPoint presentation and choose the slide you would like the information to be place in. Right Click and  choose Paste. This can also be done with Excel graphs, and charts.

This is the result.

Is there a way around this? Of course there is!

Insert the text box into the slide and format that text box the way you want ALL future text boxes to be formatted . After you’ve done that follow these steps.

Step 1. Right click the border of the text box
Step 2. This will open a new menu. Choose the Set as Default text box option

The properties of this text box will be applied to all text boxes you make in the future, but will not be applied to text boxes already created.

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