By Senior Instructor on 3/21/2008 3:49 PM

Got a slide from an old presentation that you'd like to insert into your new show? Open up a new presentation. From the "Insert" drop-down, select "Slides from Files". Browse and find the presentations you've already made and highlight the slides you want. Click “Insert” to add one, or “Insert All” to select all slides.

By Senior Instructor on 3/21/2008 3:47 PM

Keyboard shortcuts help keep you from endlessly searching through menus and their use saves a lot of valuable time. The following are some rather handy shortcuts for common tasks within the program:

 

     CTRL + C                  Copy highlighted text

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By Senior Instructor on 3/21/2008 8:02 AM

Sometimes the templates provided in Microsoft Word will not suit your needs or taste. Creating your own template is a great way to customize your documents.

 

All you have to do is:

 

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By Senior Instructor on 3/21/2008 7:44 AM

Want to get a graphic in just the right spot? Select your graphic or text box and hold down the Ctrl key. While doing so, use the arrow keys to move it around.

By Senior Instructor on 3/21/2008 7:43 AM

Never waste time flipping through pages you don't need to flip through! In the show mode, you can type in the number of any slide you want to view, hit enter, and it will appear on the screen.

By Senior Instructor on 3/10/2008 10:59 AM

To get to the first slide while creating your presentation, press "Ctrl+Home". Quickly jump to the last slide by pressing "Ctrl+End".

By Senior Instructor on 3/10/2008 10:39 AM

Rather than using the spell-check to look over an entire document, you can quickly replace individual mistakes. If a red jagged line appears under a word, right click that word and a drop down menu will appear showing you possible replacements for that misspelling. This trick also works with grammatical errors, which appear with a green jagged underline.

By Senior Instructor on 3/10/2008 10:38 AM

Need to pause the big show?

 

In the show mode, press "B" to take the screen into black-out mode, or "W" to white it out. If you want to go back to the presentation, press "B" or "W" again, and it will take you back the slides! You can also press the period key to black-out, or the comma key to white out.

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By Senior Instructor on 3/5/2008 9:31 AM

There may be certain phrases or paragraphs you use time and time again in documents created over a long period of time. Memorizing these would be good, but creating “scraps” is a lot easier! “Scraps” can be saved on your desktop for easy access and copied for use within your documents. Creating them is and easy two-step process:

 

1)  Highlight the text you want to keep,

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By Senior Instructor on 2/27/2008 3:11 PM

Sometimes an inserted picture needs to be cropped to remove certain unnecessary portions of the picture. Cropping removes these portions and also reduces the size of the picture, so it can fit nicely into your document. Cropping is easy to do this and it can drastically change the look of your document. Here’s how it’s done using the Picture Toolbar:

 

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