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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Most laptop computers require you to turn on the external monitor output in order to send the computer image to the projector.
  
Follow these steps for WINDOWS based laptops:
-Be sure you have a proper cable connected from your laptop's external monitor port directly to the projector or to the classroom podium connectors.
-Press and hold the Fn key on your keyboard (usually located in the lower left).
-Press the specific key for your laptop (F1-F12) that controls your external monitor port.  The key is usually indicated by an external monitor icon or the words "CRT/LCD".  For example, on a Dell laptop the proper keystroke combination is Fn+F8. Other brands may use Fn+F5, Fn+F7 or another combination.  Check your owner's manual if you are unsure.
-Repeat the keystroke combination if the laptop does not project after the first attempt.

ForMAC laptops:
-An adaptor cable is usually necessary to connect a MAC laptop to one of the classroom systems or directly to a projector. There are several different styles that are model dependent.  This cable normally comes with your laptop.  See your owner's manual for more details.
-Hook the adaptor cable directly to the projector or to the classroom podium connectors.
-It is best to turn on your MAC laptop after making the proper cable connections.  The laptop will see the external monitor and set itself up to send an image to it.

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.)

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.

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

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)

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.

Once you have the laptop and projector connected you might find you only see the monitor display or the screen.  On many Dell laptops you hold the Fn key and press F8 to cycle through the various monitor modes.One will be only your monitor, one only the projection, and one both monitor and projection.

Applies To: Faculty, Staff

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

Applies To: Faculty, Staff, Students

The list of articles resulting from a search is displayed in order of relevance (the number of appearances and prominence of your search terms), but can be re-sorted by publication date.

Your search phrase is compared to a list of trivial words, which are dropped.

The remaining words are compared to a list of key words, defined within the KB system.  They are also compared to the list of non-trivial words for each question in the KB database.

A score is calculated using the following equation:

score = 70% * (# matched key words from your search) / (total # key words for that KB question) + 30% * (# matched question words from your search) / (# non-trivial question words in that KB entry)

The matching KB entries are then displayed, sorted in the following order:

1. score, descending
2. # matched key words, descending
3. # matched question words, descending

A user had a view they liked, but the view had been corrupted in their Inbox.  The user went to another folder and clicked on View, then clicked on Apply Current View to Other Mail Folders.

See Related Resources Outlook View for the screen shot.

In Sakai:

1. Go to the My Workspace tab.
2. Click on Worksite Setup.
3. Click New.
4. Choose Project Site (not Portfolio Site)
5. Click Continue
6. Give your site a title.
7. Click Continue
8. Choose the tools that you would like to use in your project site.
9. Click Continue twice
10. Click Create Site

On your Blackberry, if you just want to see the members of a particular folder and not all of your Contacts:

1. In the Address Book > Click on the Blackberry button > Choose "Filter" from the list

2. You should see the Contacts Folder names you've created.

3. If you select to filter on that folder, you will see only the names in that folder.

4. To undo a filter and see all of your Contacts, repeat the process but uncheck the box in front of the folder name.

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

When searching the Global Address List (GAL), click on the Advanced Find link. This allows you to enter search criteria in one or more fields including Department and Title.  

Note that the search has to match starting with the first word. Searching on "Library" in the Department field does not work because the department name is "University Library".

This advanced find capability is not available for personal contact lists/address books. With these, though, in your Contacts view you can display the Department column and sort by that.

Mac Basics: Ports and connectors

This page: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH3672?viewlocale=en_US has information that will help you identify your video ports on your Macintosh.

For more information about your ports and connectors on your Macintosh, click on this link: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2494?viewlocale=en_US

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

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.

Applies To: Faculty, Staff

Applies To: Faculty, Staff

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: Faculty, Staff

If you have a Mobile device connected to W&L email (Outlook)  and it has been lost or stolen  you will need to do the following ASAP:

1. Login to Outlook Web Access (owa.wlu.edu for faculty/staff or mail.wlu.edu for students)
2. Put in your user name and password
3. Go to Options (this is located in the upper right)
4. On the left of page click on Mobile Devices
5. Select the device that you have lost
6. You may choose to wipe the device to remove all of the emails from it remotely
7. Delete the device from the list
8. Click Save

Applies To: Faculty, Staff, Students

Version 40 of Firefox intentionally disables authenticated content embedded in unauthenticated web pages if the page and content are in different domains. 

This can be manually fixed by:

• typing “about:config” in the address bar
• clicking “I’ll be careful, I promise!”
• searching for the Preference Name:  network.auth.allow-subresource-auth
• Click the “1” next to that in the Value column and change to “2”
• click OK. 

Once you refresh the page it will prompt for login. 

From:  DigiTar Support

This is usually caused by the following situation:

1.) The user is logged in as a@b.com.
2.) In the user's inbox there are two digests, one for a@b.com and one for c@b.com.
3.) The user is clicking on a message in the c@b.com digest in their inbox which tries to link them into the Portal directly to that message.
4.) However, since they are logged in as a@b.com, they have no rights to the message.

To remedy the situation they need to examine the subject line of the digest they are clicking on, and log into the Portal as the user specified in the subject of the digest.