| Microsoft Office 2003: PowerPoint Basic PowerPoint Tips, Tricks, and Savage Amusement... |
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| [Software Tips] [Microsoft PowerPoint] |
| Re-sizing Pictures in PowerPoint | |||
 Let's Often when you size artwork in PowerPoint, you need to size it so that several elements retain the same size relationship to each other. The best way to accomplish this is to size all those elements at the same time.suppose you have three pictures that need sizing and must retain their size relationship.Click on the first picture then hold down the Shift key and click the other two pictures. Now use the mouse to drag the pictures to their new size. |
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| Justify your Text in PowerPoint | |||
| Justified text is text that is aligned with straight edges down both sides of the
column. If you want to use justified text in PowerPoint, select your text box, by clicking
on it, and from the drop down menus choose Format>Alignment>Justify. PowerPoint will decline to justify a very short sentence. So, you'll never end up with something like: |
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| Move Text & Pictures Together - PowerPoint | |||
| When you have both text and pictures on a PowerPoint slide, you may find that you'd like to move both without changing the relationship between them. You can do this by including the text in a group with the picture. To do this, click on the text to select it. Now hold down the Shift key and click on the picture. Choose "Draw">"Group" and the text and picture will become one. Now you can move them together. To ungroup your objects, select the "grouped" object and choose "Draw">"Ungroup". |
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| Align Objects in PowerPoint | |||
| When you're trying to align ClipArt, or other art objects in PowerPoint, you'll find the "Snap To" option handy. Snap To forces your objects to align themselves based on a grid (which is usually invisible.) To set "Snap To" in PowerPoint, choose Draw and select "Snap, To Grid". |
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| Pasting Bitmaps into PowerPoint | |||
| You may find that when you paste a bitmap file from Word to PowerPoint, the picture is distorted. The reason for this is that Word assumes that the system palette remains constant. So Word places palette information for a Device Dependent Bitmap (DDB) and a Device Independent Bitmap on the Clipboard. The default pasting uses DDB. The way around the problem is to use Paste Special and always choose Device Independent Bitmap when pasting from Word into PowerPoint. |
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| Quick Object copy in PowerPoint | |||
| Do you sometimes want to replicate an object in a PowerPoint presentation? To make a copy of it on the same slide first select the object then hold down the [Ctrl] key while you drag a copy of the selected object to a new position. | |||
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| Insert a new Slide in PowerPoint | |||
| When you're in the middle of developing a slide show, you need all the help you can get to reduce the number of steps it takes to get the job done. When working in PowerPoint, you can save a few steps each time you need to add a new slide. Rather than clicking on the menu to insert a new slide, press [Ctrl]+[M]. |
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| Spell Check those PowerPoint Slides | |||
| Spell checking isn't limited to just word processing programs. When you create slides in PowerPoint, be sure to press [F7] to invoke the spell checker. | |||
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| Resizing Pictures | |||
| You can size pictures in PowerPoint by clicking the picture with the mouse and dragging it to a new size. If you don't want to "stretch" the picture (keeping the horizontal aspect ratio the same) but enlarge it, hold the Crtl key when changing the size. You can also click the corner of the picture and enlarge it and the aspect ratio will remain the same. | |||
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| Displaying the Animations Toolbar | |||
If you are still looking for an Animations toolbar in PowerPoint 97, look no further! To display it:
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