Microsoft PowerPoint
1) Start PowerPoint
a) Start button, New Office
Document, Blank Presentations Icon, OK or
b) Start button, New Office
Document, Presentations tab, select the template, OK or
c) Start button, Programs,
Microsoft PowerPoint or
d) Microsoft PowerPoint icon
2) Open existing document
a) Ctrl+O or File menu, Open option or
Open icon (2nd icon – yellow folder)
b) At Look In:, change to the
desired drive and/or directory
c) Select the desired file
d) Open button or double-click the desired file
3) Open a new presentation/document
a) Ctrl+N or File menu, New option, Blank Presentation icon, OK, or New icon (1st icon –
white paper)
4) Save a document
a) Ctrl+S or Shift+F12 or File
menu, Save option or Save icon (3rd
icon – diskette)
b) At Look In:, change to the
desired drive and/or directory
c) Provide the desired file
name
d) Save button
5) Save an existing document
with a new file name
a) F12 or File menu, Save As option
b) At Look In:, change to the
desired drive and/or directory
c) Provide the desired file
name
d) Save button
6) Print a document
a) File menu, Print option, set
options, OK or
b) Ctrl+P, set options or
c) Ctrl+Shift+F12, set options or
d) Print icon (4th
icon – printer) sends entire document to printer automatically
7) Close an open document
a) File menu, Close option or
b) Ctrl+F4 or
c) Ctrl+W or
d) PowerPoint icon on left of
menu bar, Close or
e) Close icon in second set of
icons in top right corner or
f)
Note: You will be prompted to save any unsaved
documents.
8) Exit PowerPoint
a) File menu, Exit option or
b) Alt+F4 or
c) Ctrl+Q or
d) PowerPoint icon on left end of
title bar
e) Close icon in first set of
icons in top right corner
f)
Note: You will be prompted to save any unsaved open
documents.
9) Shortcut Menu
a) Right click on the mouse
10) View/Run Slide Show
a) View menu, Slide Show option
or
b) Slide Show icon on the far left
of horizontal scroll bar or
c) Slide Show menu, View Show
option
11) Selecting AutoLayout
a) From the New Slide dialog
box, select the autolayout, OK button or
b) Format menu, Slide Layout
option, select the autolayout, Apply button
12) Add a New Slide to existing
presentation
a) Ctrl+M or New Slide icon (18th icon) or Insert menu, New Slide option
13) Delete an existing slide
a) Edit menu, Delete Slide
option
14) Duplicate an existing slide
a) View menu, Slide Sorter
option or Slide sorter icon on the far
left of horizontal scroll bar
b) Select side to duplicate,
Edit menu, Duplicate option or Ctrl+D
15) Apply a Design/Background to
all slides
a) Format menu, Apply Design
option, select design
16) Insert Date and/or Time
a) Insert menu, Date and Time
option, select format or Alt+Shift+D or Alt+Shift+T
17) Change Size of Slides
a) File menu, Page Setup option,
set desired size for Height/Width
18) Landscape Orientation
a) File menu, Page Setup option,
set orientation to Landscape
19) Spelling
a) F7 or Spelling icon (6th icon -- ABC[) or Tools menu, Spelling option
b) Select the correction or
Ignore or Ignore All
20) Style Check
a) Tools menu, Syle Checker option
21) Autocorrect
a) Tools menu, Autocorrect
option
22) Alignment – Left, Right,
Center, Full
a) Align Left icon or Align Right icon or Center icon or
b) Format menu, Cells option, Alignment
tab, select desired alignment(s) or
c) Shortcut menu, Format Cells option,
Alignment tab, select desired alignment(s)
23) Change Font
a) Format menu, Font option, or Shortcut menu, Font option
b) Select Font Face, Style (Regular, Bold, Italic, Bold Italic), Size, Color, Underline, Shadow, Emboss, Superscript,
Subscript
c) Note: Formatting toolbar may be used to select the
Font Face (Ctrl+Shift+F) and Size (Ctrl+Shift+P)
d) Change Font by 4 pt: Decrease Font icon and Increase Font icon
e) Note: Keyboard shortcuts
i)
Bold = Ctrl+B
ii) Underline = Ctrl+U
iii) Italics = Ctrl+I
24) Bullets
a) Bullets icon or Format menu, Bullet option, select
Bullet character or Shortcut menu,
Bullet, select Bullet character
25) Change Paragraph/Line
Spacing
a) Format menu, Line Spacing
option or
b) Increase Paragraph Spacing
icon and Decrease Paragraph Spacing icon
26) Add Graphic Images
a) Insert Clip Art icon (17th
icon) or Insert menu, Picture
option, Clip Art option, select image
27) Formatting Graphic Images
a) Shortcut menu, Format Picture,
select appropriate tab (Colors and Lines, Size, Position, Picture, Text Box) and
settings
28) Slide Transition
a) Slide Show menu, Slide
Transition option, select the Effect and Sound, Apply button or Apply to all
button
29) Animation
a) Slide Show menu, Preset
Animation option, select Animation
30) Undo mistakes
a) Undo Typing icon (10th
icon – left pointing arrow) or
b) Edit menu, Undo Typing
option or
c) Ctrl+Z
31) Redo mistakes
a) Redo Typing icon (11th
icon – right pointing arrow) or
b) Edit menu, Repeat Typing
option or
c) Ctrl+Y
32) Copy selected text
a) Ctrl+C or Edit menu, Copy option or
Copy icon (7th icon – 2 white papers) or Shortcut menu, Copy option
33) Cut selected text
a) Ctrl+X or Edit menu, Cut option or
Cut icon (6th icon – scissors)
or Shortcut menu, Cut option
34) Paste text
a) Ctrl+V or Edit menu, Paste option or
Past icon (8th icon – clipboard with white paper) or Shortcut menu, Paste option
35) Moving selected text
a) Cut text from old location,
then Paste text at new location or
36) Find and Replace text
a) Edit menu, Find (Ctrl+F) or Replace (Ctrl+H) option
b) Find tab (finding without
replacing), key in text to find or
c) Replace tab (finding with
replacing), key in text to find and text to replace with
37) Switch between/among
multiple open documents
a) Window menu, select the
numbered open document
38) Slide/Page Numbers
a) View menu, Header/Footer option,
Slide tab, select Slide Number option
39) Switching Views
a) View menu, Slide, Outline,
Slide Sorter, Notes Page, or Slide
Show or
b) Icons on the far left of horizontal
scroll bar
40) Headers and Footers
a) View menu, Header/Footer option,
Slide tab
41) Options
a) Tools menu, Options option,
examine each tab's contents carefully
42) Macros
a) Tools menu, Macro option,
Record New Macro option, enter the key (e.g. R) to be combined with Ctrl+, OK buttion, any action performed at this point will be
recorded as part of the macro -- when finished recording, press the stop record
button on the Macro toolbar
or Tools menu, Macro option, Stop
Recording option
b) To execute the macro, press
the key combination (e.g. Ctrl+R) or Alt+F8 or Tools menu, Macro option, Macros option, select the name of the
macro, Run button
43) View Toolbars
a) View menu, Toolbars option,
select desired toolbar
b) Toolbars may be moved by
clicking 'n dragging the unused gray space on the toolbar
44) Draw a horizontal/vertical
line
a) Drawing Toolbar select the
slanted line icon, click 'n drag the mouse pointer to draw a
horizontal/vertical line
b) Drawing Toolbar may also be
used to draw other shapes
45) Hyperlink
a) Ctrl+K or Insert menu, Hyperlink option, type http://www.abac.edu as the URL or Insert Hyperlink icon (13th icon - globe with
circular link) -- clicking on this link will load the address in Netscape
46) Download Additional ClipArt/Pictures/Sounds/Videos
a) http://www.microsoft.com/clipgallerylive/
b) Cheating: instead of following the correct method to
download, save the downloaded files in
C:\Program Files\Microsoft
Office\ClipArt
c) Go to Windows explorer to C:\Program
Files\Microsoft Office\ClipArt and double-click each downloaded file to have it
added to the
Correct Method for Downloading:
d) Configuring Netscape to
always open CGL files
e) To set Netscape 4.0 to open
CGL files automatically:
i)
On the Edit menu, click Preferences.
ii) Click Navigator, and then
click Applications.
iii) Click New Type.
iv) Type in the description
(Clip Gallery File), and then type in .cil as the file extension.
v) In the MIME Type box, type application/vnd.ms-artgalry.
vi) Browse to find Application
to use and locate artgalry.exe. (The default location for installation is
C:\Program
Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\artgalry\artgarly.exe
vii) Uncheck the Ask before downloading
this type of file box.
viii) Click OK