AARP PowerPoint 2010 For Dummies (eBook)

Doug Lowe is a veteran author whose more than 40 For Dummies books have over a million copies in print. He's written about everything from Microsoft Office productivity to programming in ASP.NET.

Introduction 1

About This Book 2

How This Book Is Organized 2

Part I: Welcome to PowerPoint 2010 2

Part II: Editing Slides 3

Part III: Show Time! 3

Icons Used in This Book 3

Where to Go from Here 3

Part I: Welcome to PowerPoint 2010 5

What in Sam Hill Is PowerPoint? 6

Introducing PowerPoint Presentations 7

Presentation files 9

What's in a slide? 10

Starting PowerPoint 12

Navigating the PowerPoint Interface 14

Unraveling the Ribbon 18

The View from Here Is Great 19

Taking the Backstage Tour 20

Creating a New Presentation 21

Adding a new slide 24

Moving from slide to slide 25

Choosing a design 26

Displaying Your Presentation 27

Saving Your Work 28

Opening a Presentation 29

Part II: Editing Slides 31

Moving from Slide to Slide 31

Working with Objects 32

Selecting objects 33

Resizing or moving an object 35

Editing a Text Object 38

Selecting Text 39

Using Cut, Copy, and Paste 40

Duplicating an Object 42

Using the Clipboard Task Pane 43

Oops! I Didn't Mean It (The Marvelous Undo Command) 44

Deleting a Slide 45

Duplicating a Slide 46

Finding Text 46

Replacing Text 49

Rearranging Your Slides in Slide Sorter View 51

Part III: Show Time! 55

The Quick Way to Print 55

Printing from Backstage View 56

Starting a Slide Show 57

Setting Up a Slide Show 58