Making changes to all slides
- Select the View tab.
- Click the Slide Master view command in the Presentation Views group. The Slide Master tab will appear active.
- Select the slide master for all slides, if it is not currently selected.
- Select the text you want to modify, and format it how you want.
Select the group, and then do one of the following:
- To select one object, click the object.
- To select multiple shapes in a group, press and hold Shift or Ctrl while you click the shapes.
Use keyboard shortcuts in the Help window
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| Switch between the Help window and the active program. | ALT+TAB |
| Go back to PowerPoint Help and How-to table of contents. | ALT+HOME |
| Select the next item in the Help window. | TAB |
| Select the previous item in the Help window. | SHIFT+TAB |
Select all of the text in your document or on your screen by holding down the "Ctrl" key and pressing the letter "A". 18 Tech Support Reps Are Online! Microsoft Answers Today: 65. Remember the "Select All" shortcut ("Ctrl+A") by associating the letter "A" with the word "All".
To apply a slide design to only the slide that is currently selected in PowerPoint 2007, follow these steps:
- Select the slide to which you want to apply the design.
- On the Design tab, right-click the design in the Themes group, and then click Apply to Selected Slides.
Press TAB or SHIFT+TAB to select the object that you want. Press SHIFT+F10 for the shortcut menu. Press the DOWN ARROW to select <variable> Object, the ENTER or RIGHT ARROW key to show the secondary menu, and then select Edit.
Restart all the things—and when you re-open PowerPoint you should see your font. Rebuild Office Font Cache. Microsoft keeps its own cache of your fonts, and sometimes this gets out of sync with your system. Delete the cache to force Office to rebuild it.
By default, PowerPoint will automatically adjust the font size of your body text on each slide depending on the amount of text. Under Apply as you type, select or clear the AutoFit body text to placeholder check box.
If you are using fonts that you have downloaded from the Internet or that may not be on the computer you are using for a presentation, you may need to embed the fonts into the PowerPoint file so that your presentation displays as you created it.
Add a font
- Download the font files.
- If the font files are zipped, unzip them by right-clicking the .zip folder and then clicking Extract.
- Right-click the fonts you want, and click Install.
- If you're prompted to allow the program to make changes to your computer, and if you trust the source of the font, click Yes.
- Find the font file that you downloaded, keeping in mind that it may be contained within a . zip file.
- Double-click the font file to open it in the Font Previewer.
- If you're satisfied that this is the font you want, click Install at the top left.
- Close the Font Previewer, and open your Office program.
Font embedding is the inclusion of font files inside an electronic document. Font embedding is controversial because it allows licensed fonts to be freely distributed.
When you run a PowerPoint presentation on a computer that doesn't have the fonts used in the presentation, the computer substitutes what it decides is a similar font, often with unexpected and sometimes disastrous results.
Saving as earlier-version PowerPoint filesPowerPoint 97 (PC) and PowerPoint 98 (Mac) and all later PowerPoint versions compress images. Earlier versions of PowerPoint don't. If you Save As to any format that includes PowerPoint 95 or 4 in the name, your PPT file sizes will get very large if they include images.
Hide the audio icon
- Click the audio clip icon .
- Under Audio Tools, on the Playback tab, in the Audio Options group, select the Hide During Show check box.
On the Insert tab, in the Text group, click Slide Number. In the Header and Footer dialog box, do one of the following: If you want to add slide numbers, click the Slide tab, and then select the Slide number check box.
Click the View tab, and then click the master view (Slide Master, Handout Master, or Notes Master) button with the master you want to change. Click the Slide Size button, and then click Custom Slide Size. Click the Number slides from up or down arrow to set the number you want. Click OK.
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- On the View tab, click Slide Master.
- Click the slide master to change the font on all slides, or click any of the layouts to change the font size on just that layout.
- On the slide master or layout, select the level of placeholder text for which you want to change the font size.
On the Design tab, in the Customize group, click Slide Size, and then click Custom Slide Size. In the Slide Size dialog box, in the Number slides from box, enter the number that you want to show on the first slide in your presentation, and then click OK.
Change the background colorGo to Design > Format Background. Choose a background color for your slide. To remove background formatting, select No Fill. To see more color options, select More Colors.
Show the slide number and total number of slides on every slide
- On the View tab, in the Master Views group, click Slide Master, and then click the slide master thumbnail.
- On the Insert tab, in the Text group, click Text Box, and then drag to draw the text box on the slide master where you want the slide number to appear all slides.
On the View tab, click Slide Master. In Slide Master View, the slide master appears at the top of the thumbnail pane with related layouts beneath it. Click to select the master slide, and then click Master Layout on the Slide Master tab.
Click INSERT > Header & Footer. Click the Slide tab, make the changes you want, and click either Apply to apply the changes to the selected slides, or Apply to All to make the changes to all the slides. If you don't want the footer to appear in the title slide, check the Don't show on title slide box.
If the slide number and/or footer shapes don't appear, make sure they are in the layout of the slides. If they are not, change the layout of the slides and re-insert the “Slide number” and/or “Footer” shapes.
