Power Point® All?in?One Desk Reference For Dummies®

Chapter 2. PowerPoint Nuts and Bolts

In This Chapter

• Starting PowerPoint

• Creating a PowerPoint presentation from a template

• Saving presentations

• Saving presentations for earlier versions of PowerPoint

• Opening and closing a presentation

• Entering the document‐property descriptions

• Understanding what XML is

• Undoing and repeating actions

The purpose of this chapter is to launch you deep into PowerPoint Land. This chapter describes tasks that you do almost every time you run the program. It explains how to start PowerPoint and create, save, open, and close presentations. You find out what document properties are and what PowerPoint's new XML format is all about. Throughout this chapter are tips, tricks, and shortcuts for making basic PowerPoint tasks go more smoothly. Finally, I offer some shortcut commands that you will find extremely useful.

Starting PowerPoint

Unless you start the PowerPoint program, you can't construct PowerPoint presentations. Many have tried to construct presentations from mud and paper‐mâché without starting PowerPoint first, but all have failed. Here are the various and sundry ways to start PowerPoint:

• The old‐fashioned way: Click the Start button and choose All Programs⇨Microsoft Office⇨Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007.

• The Start menu: Click Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 on the Start menu, as shown in Figure 2-1 . The Start menu is the menu you see when you click the Start button. By placing a program's name on the Start menu, you can open the program simply by clicking ...