Welcome to the PowerPoint on
how to use PowerPoint 2007
Neil Hecht
Instructional Technology Facilitator
Onslow County Schools
Main Menu
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Make a cover slide
Create a new slide, different layout
Type in a text box
Go over the ‘ribbon’ (top of PPTX 2007)
Add a hyperlink to the text
Add links to go from one page to the next
Add a ‘Home’ link
When you first open a ‘New’ PowerPoint, this is the layout for your
cover slide.
Highly recommended to use this format
Add a title
Add info
-your info
-very basic
-class info
Add a ‘New Slide
Type in a ‘text box’
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3.
This is my text box
The Ribbon
Home Tab
Parts of the Home Tab
Still on the Home Tab
Final part of ‘Home’ tab
-find words
-replace
-select
Add Hyperlink
Click ‘Insert’ tab
Click ‘Hyperlink’ icon
To other file
or web page
Link to
place in
this
document
To link your email
Add Hyperlink
Hyperlink to place in your presentation
Page text to be link
to in your document
Hyperlink to web page
Highlight text you wish to hyperlink
Click
Type in
URL
(website)
Click
‘OK’
To go from one page to the next use,
Action Buttons
Click on down
arrow for action
buttons
Action buttons
Main action buttons
Action Buttons
Previous
Home
Next page
Beginning
Last
Left click on ‘action button’
Next; on the slide hold left click
down and drag mouse for size of
button. –or – right click then resize
action shape
Action Settings
Use to ‘hyperlink’ to-
Insert a HOME link
Previous
Home
Next page
Beginning
1. Click on ‘Home’ icon
Last
3. Link window appears
Choose First Slide
Or choose specific slide
2. Left click and hold to draw size of home icon.
If HOME slide is not the first slide