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Microsoft® PowerPoint® 2007: Getting Started With PowerPoint With Lots of Tips and Tricks Lesson 2: Enhancing a Presentation

In Lesson 2, you will learn how open an existing presentation and then edit it by deleting, reorganizing, and inserting slides using the Slides tab; and inserting, formatting, and spell checking text using the Outline tab.

You will learn to create and format a PowerPoint table and a PowerPoint chart. Next, you will insert objects – shapes, text boxes, clip art, diagrams, and sound clips – on a slide. Finally, you will add animation and transition effects.

Along the way you run the slide show several times to review your changes.

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Objectives

  1. delete, reorganize, and insert slides using the Slides tab
  2. insert, format and spell check text using the Outline tab
  3. create and format tables and charts
  4. insert slide objects
  5. add animation and transition effects.

Key Terms

Insert Table command button

Insert Table dialog box

Insert Table icon

legend

New Slide command

pie chart

Quick Style

rotation handle

row

Select Table command button

shape

Shapes command button

SmartArt

SmartArt Tools Design tab

SmartArt Tools Format tab

sound clip

Sound command button

Sound from Clip Organizer command

Spelling command button

table

Table Tools Design tab

Table Tools Layout tab

text box

Text Box command button

Title Only layout

transition effects

Animate command button

animation effects

cell

Change Chart type command

chart

chart area

chart layout

chart title

Chart Tools Design tab

Chart Tools Format tab

Chart Tools Layout tab

Choose a SmartArt Graphic dialog box

clip art

Clip Art command button

Clip Art task pane

column

Custom Animation command button

data labels

data series

Delete command

Delete Slide command button

drawing gridlines

drawing guides

Insert Chart command button

Insert Insert Chart icon

Insert SmartArt Graphic command button

Insert SmartArt Graphic icon