powerpoint-classes-online - Draw an Action Button Hyperlink on Your PowerPoint 2007 Slide

PowerPoint’s Shape gallery offers 11 action buttons (12 if you count the Custom button). As soon as you draw an action button shape, a dialog box appears to help you direct PowerPoint where to go when the action button is clicked. Select the slide (or master slide) that needs action and follow these steps to adorn it with an action button:

Enlarge 1 On the Home or Insert tab, open the Shapes gallery. The Action Buttons category appears at the bottom of the gallery.	Enlarge 2 Click an action button. The action button is selected.	Enlarge 3 Draw the button on the slide. To do so, drag the pointer in a diagonal fashion. The Action Settings dialog box when you finish drawing your button.
Enlarge 4 (Optional) Select the Mouse Over tab. Choose this if you want users to activate the button by moving the mouse pointer over it, not by clicking it.	Enlarge 5 Select the Hyperlink To option button. Here you can select what to link to.	Enlarge 6 On the Hyperlink To drop-down list, choose the action you want for the button. You can go to the next slide, the previous slide, the first or last slide in a presentation, the last slide you viewed, or a specific slide. To make clicking the action button take users to a specific slide, choose Slide on the list. You see the Hyperlink to Slide dialog box, which lists each slide in your presentation. Select a slide and click OK.
Enlarge 7 To play a sound when your action button is activated, click the Play Sound check box and select a sound on the drop-down list. “Mouse-over” hyperlinks need sound accompaniment so that users understand when they have activated an action button.	Enlarge 8 Click OK in the Actions Settings dialog box. To test your button, switch to Slide Show view and click it.

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PowerPoint classes online - Apply a PowerPoint 2007 Template to an Existing Presentation

If you created a PowerPoint 2007 blank presentation or applied a PowerPoint template and don’t like the results, it’s easy to apply a different PowerPoint template.

1 Select the last slide in your presentation. Starting at the end makes sure the template sticks to the whole presentation.	2 Open the New Slide drop-down list. On the Home tab, open the drop-down menu on the New Slide button and choose Reuse Slides. The Reuse Slides task pane appears.	3 Find the presentation to use. Click the Browse button and choose Browse File on the drop-down list.
4 Open the presentation to use. Locate and select the presentation with the template you want; then click the Open button. Slides from the presentation appear in the Reuse Slides task pane.	5 Choose to keep the source formatting. Click the Keep Source Formatting check box at the bottom of the Reuse Slides task pane.	6 Insert all the slides from the presentation. Right-click a slide in the task pane and choose Insert All Slides on the shortcut menu. All slides from the other presentation arrive in your presentation with their formatting intact.
7 Change the view. Click the View tab.	8 Open the Master Slide view. Click the Slide Master button.	9 Delete the Slide Master. Scroll to the top of the Slides pane, right-click the first slide (the Slide Master), and choose Delete Master on the shortcut menu. All the slides take on the formatting of the new Slide Master.
10 Close the Slide Master view. Click the Close Master View button on the Slide Master tab. You have to delete the slides that arrived along with the template, but that’s a small price to pay for being able to commandeer an entirely new template

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Online-PowerPoint - PowerPoint 2010 Ribbon Commands

PowerPoint 2010 Ribbon Commands

Are you lost in the Ribbon? If you’ve recently upgraded from PowerPoint 2003, using the PowerPoint 2010 Ribbon to perform common PowerPoint operations may be challenging at first. To make your transition easier, here are the PowerPoint 2010 equivalent commands for common PowerPoint 2003 menu commands.

Word 2003 Command	Equivalent PowerPoint 2010 Command
File→New	File→New
File→Save	File→Save
File→Package for CD	File→Save & Send→Package Presentation for CD
File→Page Setup	Design tab, Page Setup group
Edit→Undo	Quick Access toolbar, Undo
View→Master→Slide Master	View tab, Presentation Views group, Slide Master
Insert→Slide	Home tab, Slides group, New Slide
Insert→Picture→Clip Art	Insert tab, Images group, Clip Art
Insert→Picture→From File	Insert tab, Images group, Picture
Format→Font	Home tab, Font group
Format→Paragraph	Home tab, Paragraph group
Slide Show→Slide Transition	Transitions tab, Transition to This Slide group
File→New	File→New
File→Save	File→Save
File→Package for CD	File→Publish→Package for CD
File→Page Setup	Design tab, Page Setup group
Edit→Undo	Quick Access toolbar, Undo
View→Master→Slide Master	View tab, Presentation Views group, Slide Master
Insert→Slide	Home tab, Slides group, Add Slide

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Online-PowerPoint - PowerPoint 2010 Keyboard Shortcuts

PowerPoint 2010 offers a number of helpful keyboard shortcuts for performing tasks quickly. Here are some shortcuts for common PowerPoint formatting, editing, and file and document tasks. Additionally, after you’ve created your masterpiece, you can use a number of shortcuts when running your slideshow.

PowerPoint 2010 Formatting Shortcuts

Command	Shortcut	Ribbon Location
Bold	Ctrl+B	Home tab, Font group
Italic	Ctrl+I	Home tab, Font group
Underline	Ctrl+U	Home tab, Font group
Center	Ctrl+E	Home tab, Paragraph group
Left Align	Ctrl+L	Home tab, Paragraph group
Right Align	Ctrl+R	Home tab, Paragraph group
Justify	Ctrl+J	Home tab, Paragraph group
Normal	Ctrl+spacebar	Home tab, Paragraph group

PowerPoint 2010 Editing Shortcuts

Command	Shortcut	Ribbon Location
Undo	Ctrl+Z	Quick Access toolbar
Cut	Ctrl+X	Home tab, Clipboard group
Copy	Ctrl+C	Home tab, Clipboard group
Paste	Ctrl+V	Home tab, Clipboard group
Select All	Ctrl+A	Home tab, Editing group
Find	Ctrl+F	Home tab, Editing group
Replace	Ctrl+H	Home tab, Editing group

PowerPoint 2010 File and Document Shortcuts

Command	Keys	Ribbon Location
New	Ctrl+N	File tab, New command
Open	Ctrl+O	File tab, Open command
Save	Ctrl+S	File tab, Save command
Print	Ctrl+P	File tab, Print command
Help	F1	Help button at top right of Ribbon
New Slide	Ctrl+M	Home tab, New Slide command

PowerPoint 2010 Slide Show Shortcuts

To Do This . . .	Use This . . .
Start a slide show	F5
Advance to the next slide	N
Perform the next animation	Enter, Page Down, right arrow, down arrow, or spacebar
Go back to the previous slide	P
Repeat the previous animation	Page Up, left arrow, up arrow, or Backspace
Go to a specific slide	Type the slide number and then press Enter
Display a black screen	B
Display a white screen	W
End a slide show	Esc
Go to the next hidden slide	H
Display a pen cursor	Ctrl+P
Display an arrow cursor	Ctrl+A
Hide the cursor	Ctrl+H

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