Number 250 - March 2004

Class Preparation Yields Useful PowerPoint Tip
by Bob Thomson, Tacoma Open Group for Microcomputers
There is an old adage that goes something like "If you wish to learn a subject, teach it." Well, as most of you know, as part of our group's outreach program Bob Henkel and your editor are teaching or tutoring in various areas of computing at the new Puyallup library. Your editor is teaching beginners how to use Google to Search the Net and to use PowerPoint to to create their own slide show presentations. Researching material for these classes we found this great tip on an Australian High School website. Here it is:    "An excellent shortcut if you have written and organized your text in WORD - Go into View/Outline and enter the hierarchy of headings and text. Then click on File/Send to/Microsoft PowerPoint This will automatically format your notes into a set of PowerPoint slides! The Level 1 headings become titles on the slides."	In WORD clicking on View/Outline selects Heading 1 as the text category. After entering the Header1 Slide Title You can continue adding Slide Titles, or by pressing the Tab key you can enter the Header 2 mode and type in the bulleted contents of the slide. Another way tochange from Header 1 to Header 2, is to click on the down arrow beside the screen title bar box containing the word "Header 1". You can select Header 2, from the drop-down menu.    When you send the resulting WORD document to PowerPoint, it will open automatically as a PowerPoint presentation to be edited further. This,of course, is for the text portion only - not images.
Number 250 - March 2004