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| 2/3/12 |
Have you ever wanted to be able to run a PowerPoint slideshow in a window?
There is a simple way to do this by adding a button to the Quick Access Toolbar. Here’s how:
- Click the Microsoft Office button
- Click the PowerPoint Options button at the bottom
- Click Customize in the left pane
- Under Choose commands from, select Commands Not in the Ribbon
- Scroll down and select Slide Show in a Window
- Click Add to add this button to the Quick Access Toolbar
- Click OK
To run a slideshow in a window simply click this button on the Quick Access Toolbar  Use cursor arrow keys to move between slides. |
| 12/2/11 |
A Summary Slide
With PowerPoint, you can quickly add a Summary Slide to your presentation. This Summary Slide can be placed at the first of your presentation as an introduction, or it can be moved to the end of your presentation as a conclusion or review slide. The summary slide is created from the titles of the other slides:
- On the View menu, click Slide Sorter.
- Select the slides with the titles you want to use. To select multiple slides, hold down CTRL and click the slides you want. (Be sure to select the slides that will best summarize your presentation.)
- On the Slide Sorter toolbar, click the Summary Slide button (
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- A new slide, titled "Summary Slide," appears in front of the first selected slide.
- Edit this slide and/or move it to the desired location in your slide show.
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| 7/15/11 |
Change Slide Background in PowerPoint 2007
Regardless of which design theme you have chosen, you can also change the background to a variety of options which work with your design.
To change the background:
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Click the Design tab on the Ribbon
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In the Background group, click the arrow next to Background Styles
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Click a new background style
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| 6/10/11 |
Here's how to create duplicate slides in PowerPoint 2007:
- In Normal view or Slide Sorter view make sure the slides you want to duplicate are selected From the Home tab on the Ribbon in the Slides group click the small arrow beside New Slide
- From the drop-down menu select Duplicate Selected Slides
The new slides are inserted after the current slide. If you use Slide Sorter view you can select and duplicate more than one slide at a time.
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| 5/13/11 |
Playing Sounds Across Slides in PowerPoint
One of the most frequently asked questions in my PowerPoint workshops is how to play sounds across slides. Sounds stop playing when you move to the next slide. If you want them to play across multiple slides or even for the entire presentation, try this:
- Choose Insert, Movies and Sounds,
- Click Sound from Clip Organizer (or Sound from File) to insert the sound. If you don't want the sound icon to appear in the slide show, drag it just off the slide.
- Click yes when asked if you want the sound to play automatically. If you are not asked this, don't worry, the next steps will let you set that (or double-check the settings if you were asked and said yes.)
- Right-click the sound's icon and pick Custom Animation from the popup menu. The Custom Animation pane will open and your sound file should be listed.
- Click the arrow directly to the right of the sound icon to pull down the various options.
- Select Effect Options, and on the Effects tab, click the radio button beside Stop Playing after XXX slides. Put 999 in the box so the track will play throughout all your slides, even if you go back and forth among slides. PowerPoint considers each transition a "slide," so you want to put a large number in there.
- Check the settings in the Timing tab. To play automatically, the timing should be set to Start After Previous with a 0-second delay.Click OK to close the dialog box.
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