Microsoft PowerPoint includes several presentation templates you can use for automatic slide backgrounds.
You can change the layout of a PowerPoint slide anytime during the design process. A layout is the basic arrangement of objects (text, chart, title, bulleted list, picture, and so on) on the slide.
A picture can provide more detail at a glance than a text description; it also adds visual oomph. PowerPoint 98/2000 provides an easy way to insert graphics into your presentations.
Bulleted lists work well in slide presentations because they're an efficient way to deliver information in a concise, easy-to-understand manner.
PowerPoint 98/2000 lets you evenly space objects on a slide so that the slide can look balanced. Use the Distribute Horizontally or Distribute Vertically commands to space three or more objects on...
You can use Microsoft Graph in PowerPoint to create several types of charts, including line, column, area and pie charts. You can use Microsoft Organization Chart to create organization charts...
You can crop graphics in PowerPoint 98/2000 to make them fit better on a slide. Cropping is a photographic term. When you crop a photo or graphic, you trim off an unwanted part of the picture to...
You can use Micosoft Graph to create or format a chart in PowerPoint. This built-in program makes working with charts much easier than drawing them by hand.
You may want to change the location or the way a chart legend looks on any of the charts you create in PowerPoint.
PowerPoint provides several ways to move from slide to slide in a presentation.
An agenda slide is especially helpful with large presentations that contain multiple sections. You can divide your presentation into mini slide shows, then create an agenda slide to manage these...
You can view the presentation outline, current slide and notes page in Normal View in Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 for Windows, eliminating laborious toggling between views to see all information for...
Use Microsoft PowerPoint's Outline view to easily change the sequence of slides in your presentation. These instructions work for PowerPoint 97, 98, and 2000.
You can let your PowerPoint 98/2000 slide show run by itself as you narrate. Self-running slide shows require minimal attention and work well at trade shows.
Adding speaker notes to your Microsoft PowerPoint 98 or PowerPoint 2000 presentation helps you smoothly deliver the presentation without worrying about forgetting anything.
PowerPoint 98/2000 lets you globally format the notes pages in the Notes Master. Use this technique to add bullets and page numbers, resize slides or the text placeholders on slides, or change fonts.
People attending presentations often request copies of featured slides; it's easy to oblige with PowerPoint 98/2000. There's even room on the handout pages for audience members to take notes.
Can you tell me how to get ... this kid off my computer? It seems that software is targeting younger and younger users. However, if you want your youngster to have a head start, these programs are...
PDFs can be viewed either after downloading to hard disk, or over the Web. With an Internet connection, you can make a document even richer by embedding Web links in your PDF. To create PDFs...
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