Here's a link to a great little 1 minute vidoe from Brainstorm Inc. that explains it all.

Microsoft video on saving presentations in PowerPoint 2007

After watching this 5 minute video from Microsoft Online, you’ll be creating your first PowerPoint 2007 presentation.

Microsoft video

1.  Open the presentation

2.  Click the Office button and choose convert on the drop-down list.

     A dialogue box appears to let you know what a conversion is.

3.  Click OK.

To apply a theme:

1.  Open or create a new presentation in PowerPoint

2.  In the Ribbon / Toolbar, click the Design tab.  In the Themes group, choose  your desired theme.  Hover your mouse over any theme to get a preview. Themes will affect the formatting of colors and fonts of your slides

3.  To see more themes, click the More button.

4.  When you apply a theme to a single blank slide in a new presentation, the theme for a title slide is applied.  Add additional slides by clicking the Home tab in the Ribbon/Toolbar.

1.       Open a PowerPoint presentation

2.       Click Review in the ribbon

3.       Click spelling to open the spelling dialog box

    (it’s very similar to spell check in MS word.)

In Office PowerPoint 2007, animate text or an object by doing the following:

1. Select the text or object that you wish to animate.
2. On the Animations tab at the top, in the Animations group, select the animation effect that you want from the Animate list.

 To apply a custom animation do the following:

1. Select the text or object that you want to animate.
2. On the Animations tab, in the Animations group, click Custom Animation.
3. In the Custom Animation task pane, click Add Effect, and then do one or more of the following:
   • To make the text or object enter with an effect, point to Entrance, and then click an effect.
   • To add an effect, such as a spin effect, to text or an object that is already visible on the slide, point to Emphasis, and then click an effect.
   • To add an effect that makes text or an object leave the slide at some point, point to Exit, and then click an effect.
   • To add an effect that makes text or an object move in a specified pattern, point to Motion Paths, and then click a path.
4. To specify how the effect is applied to your text or object, right-click the custom animation effect in the Custom Animation list, and then click Effect Options on the shortcut menu.
5. Do one of the following:
   • To specify settings for text, on the Effect, Timing, and Text Animation tabs, click the options that you want to use to animate the text.
   • To specify settings for an object, on the Effect and Timing tabs, click the options that you want to use to animate the object.

** Effects appear in the Custom Animation list in the order that you add them.

To test your animation: at the bottom of the Custom Animation task pane, click Play

In Office PowerPoint 2007, add transitions to slides by doing the following:

1. On the left side of the slide window, in the pane that contains the Outline and Slides tabs, click the Slides tab.
2. Select the slide thumbnail of the first slide in the presentation.
3. Click On the Animations tab at the top, then look for the the Transition To This Slide group, click a slide transition effect that you like.
   

   To see more transition effects, in the Quick Styles list, scroll down.There are several to choose from.

4. To change the slide transition speed between the current slide and the next slide, in the Transition To This Slide group, click the arrow next to Transition Speed, and then select the speed that you like.
5. In the Transition To This Slide group, click Apply to All.

In PowerPoint 2007 , click insert, then click on PhotoAlbum, click insert picture from file/disk, browse to the folder with your pictures, hold the control key and select the pictures you want in your presentation then press insert, under album layout: be sure that "Fit to Slide" is checked, then click Create! If some of your pictures have been cropped and don't fit the slide exactly, you can manually select the individual slide image and manually pull the edges out.

Left click VIEW at the top and select Normal. You need to be in normal view to add notes

1. Move to the slide in which you want to add notes.

2. Look at the bottom for the words “click to add notes”

     Click and drag the notes pane border up for more viewable area

3. Click in the “click to add notes” text box.

4. Enter the notes

5. Press Enter to create new paragraphs if needed.

1.  Create a new blank slide or use an existing slide

2.  Click the Insert tab on the toolbar / ribbon

3.  Click the Shapes drop-down arrow to select shapes or type of line

4.  Select a line style from the Lines group

5.  Click the cursor on the slide or page you want to add the line or shape hold the mouse button down and drag the mouse to create the line or shape

In PowerPoint 2007, right-click on the background area of the slide, choose Format Background, click on the icon with the paint bucket and pick a delightful color.

To loop a PowerPoint Slide Show in PowerPoint 2007

1. Click the Slide Show tab at the top
2. Click the Set Up Slide Show button.
3. When the Slide Show dialog box opens, look under the Show options section and check the box beside Loop continuously until 'Esc'
4. Click OK.

1. Choose the print command from the Office button menu.

2. In the “Print What” list box choose the “Notes Pages” option.

3. Select the “Print Hidden Slides” check box to print note pages for

    hidden slides if you have hidden slides

4. Click OK or press Enter.

Log into Atomic Learning and under PowerPoint 2010 Advanced click on Section E Adding Audio.

1.  Click the picture that you want to change the resolution (the fineness of detail in an image or text produced by a monitor or printer) for. 

2.  Under Picture Tools, on the Format tab, in the Adjust group, click Compress Pictures.  (CHECK RELATED RESOURCES FOR SCREEN SHOT)

Note   If you do not see the PictureTools and Format tabs, make sure that you selected a picture. You may have to double-click the picture to select it and open the Format tab. If you see the Drawing Tools tab, rather than the Picture Tools tab, see When I click a picture, the Drawing Tools tab rather than the Picture Tools tab appears.

3. To change the resolution for the selected picture only and not all of the pictures in the document, select the Apply to selected pictures only check box.

4. Click Options, and then under Target Output, click the resolution that you want. (CHECK RELATED RESOURCES FOR SCREEN SHOT)

1.   In a PowerPoint presentation, click View (at the top of your screen in the middle) and then click the Slide Sorter button (at the top left of your screen).

2.   Under the View tab click Zoom to open the Zoom dialog box and then select an amount to zoom to, 100% is the highest.

3.   Click a slide thumbnail and drag it to a location between two slides.  When you move the slide between two slides or to the far right or far left of a slide on a row, you’ll see a vertical line.  Once you release the mouse button, the slide will simply drop into the location of the vertical line.

4.   Click Normal view (top left of your screen) to return to the normal slide view.

With PowerPoint 2010, when you have the QuickTime player installed on your computer, you can insert an Apple QuickTime movie (.mov, .mp4) file.

The PowerPoint 2010 64-bit version is not compatible with 32-bit versions of QuickTime or Flash. You must install a 64-bit version of QuickTime or Flash, or a 32-bit version of PowerPoint 2010.

To embed or link to a QuickTime video from your PowerPoint presentation, see Embed a video in your presentation.

Log into Atomic Learning and under PowerPoint 2010 Advanced click on Section G Animation Effects and Transitions.

On PowerPoint 2007, Presenter View is an option under the Slide Show menu. Check the "Use Presenter View" box to enable it.

Presenter View expects your computer to be connected to a projector (or external monitor) where the projector is enabled as an extended desktop. This mode doesn't work if the external display mirrors the laptop display. When giving a presentation, the laptop/tablet's screen shows a small window of the slide content, navigation controls, and notes. The external or projected screen shows the full slide without the notes or navigation.

Enabled in PowerPoint 2007 is a button to ink on the current slide and have the results displayed on the external projector. However, when I tried this it kept advancing to the next slide after inking a stroke. I finally figured out how to work around this problem - select all the slides under "Animations", and disable "On Mouse Click" under "Advance Slide." Of course you can no longer click to advance, but that's not relevant when you have the navigation controls of Presenter View. One other hint: I have to click "apply to all slides" after unchecking "advance on mouse click" in order to get it to stop.

Unfortunately, Presenter View doesn't show mouse movements, so I would have to actually highlight the thing I'm referring to or draw a line to it or something.

Article: http://www.math.uaa.alaska.edu/~afkjm/techteach/?q=node/38

Applies To: Faculty, Staff, Students

• Press 1 to record and send an answer to the message sender OR
• Press 70 to call the person who sent you the message OR
• Press 9 to forward the message to another extension OR
• Press # to continue to the next message

Applies To: Faculty, Staff

Microsoft Office 2007 includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access.

One of the reasons may be a printer setting.  Open up the selected printer to see if the PRINT TO FILE box has become checked on the selected printer.  If it has uncheck that setting.

In Outlook 2007 you need to click on calendar to activate your calendar.
Right click on the calendar you were sharing and Change Sharing.
Click the name you want to remove and click remove.  Repeat if you share will multiple people.

Be aware that this is a calendar by calendar corrrection if you have multiple calendars.

Applies To: Faculty, Staff

Students: If you are using Apple's "Pages" to create your documents,

you need to save as a Word document before you turn in your work.

Here's how:

1. In Pages, go to File > Save as

2. Click the down arrow by the Save As box.

3. Check the box, "Save Copy as: Word Document"

You can also go to: http://www.wlu.edu/x49936.xml and download

Office 2008 for the Macintosh. (W&L has a site license for Microsoft

Office for all university computers and for all student computers so

that everyone has access to a common software set.)

Applies To: Students

To Create an envelope:

From the Ribbon, select the Mailings tab.
In the Create section, select the Envelopes button.
Under the Envelopes tab, enter the information for the Delivery address.
Enter the information for the Return adress if necessary.
Click Print to print your envelope.

Print will send your envelope to your default printer.
If you have a laser jet the bypass tray will have a diagram of how to place your envelope.
If you have a BizHub the envelope is loaded in the bypass tray with the side to be printed on facing down and the top towards you.

Applies To: Faculty, Staff

The Office 2007 Suite is located on the American Paint and the American Saddlebred, and the Morgan images in the Stable.

• Good Reader
• iAnnotate PDF

Applies To: Students

1. Create the new calendar in sharepoint, and link it to your Outlook
2. Open the source Outlook calendar (either from exchange or as a PST, however you have it).
3. Go to folder view and open the source calendar
4. With the source calendar open, go to view menu, current view, and select all appointments.
5. Hit CTRL-A to select all the appointments, or just get the ones you want.
6. Drag-and-drop the selected calendar Items to the linked sharepoint calendar

Turn Off Alerts

1. On the Tools menu, click Options.

2. On the Preferences tab, click E-mail Options, and then click Advanced E-mail Options.

3. Under When new items arrive in my Inbox, clear the Display a New Mail Desktop Alert (default Inbox only) check box.

Note To suppress other notifications such as playing sounds, changing the mouse pointer, or displaying an envelope icon in the notification area, clear the Play a sound, Briefly change the mouse cursor, or Show an envelope icon in the notification area check box, respectively.

Applies To: Faculty, Staff

There are two ways to share a Distribution List in Outlook 2007:

METHOD #1:

1.       Open the Distribution List.

2.       Right-click on the name of the distribution list.

3.       Click on Send Full Contact.

4.    Choose In Outlook Format

METHOD #2 :

1.       Open the distribution list.

2.       In the menu across the top, choose Send > In Outlook Format.

Applies To: Faculty, Staff

Applies To: Students

How to Save a File from Email to the Dropbox with iAnnotate

1. On your PC or Macintosh desktop computer, download the Dropbox program from www.dropbox.com

a. As part of the installation process, Dropbox will create a file in your "My Documents" folder. Anything that you save to that folder will viewable from your iPad.

2. Create a Dropbox account for yourself; remember the password because you'll have to enter it every time you access the account from your iPad. It can be the same or different from your University password.

a. You should now have a Dropbox account with 2 GB of free storage.

b. Drag a file into that folder for testing purposes.

3. Download the Dropbox application on your iPad.

a. Log into the dropbox once it's installed.

b. You should see the file you dragged to the Dropbox.

4. You can upload any photos or video files from your iPad to your Dropbox, but not any documents or PDFs. This is where iAnnotate comes in...it communicates between your email and your dropbox, being the 3^rd party.

5. Download the iAnnotate application on your iPad.

6. You should now be able to send a PDF from email to iAnnotate, and from iAnnotate to the Dropbox, all from the iPad.

Classroom PCs and ITS laptops are referred to as "frozen" since data you save to the C:\ drive will be deleted when the computer is rebooted.  

These computers have a T:\ drive where data can be saved and not overwritten during a reboot.  The T:\ drive is limited to a maximum size of 2GB.  This drive is labeled "SAVE LOCAL DATA HERE".

You may also use a memory stick connected to the USB port on the computer to save your data.

See image below for graphic details:

Send an email to help@wlu.edu providing the details--the name of the app and how you'd like to use it in your workflow. We'll review the app to see if it meets security requirements and get back to you.