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If your question is about Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007, and not about the content of this Microsoft Press book, your first recourse is the PowerPoint Help system. This system is a combination of tools and files stored on your computer when you installed the 2007 Microsoft Office system and, if your computer is connected to the Internet, information available from Microsoft Office Online. There are several ways to find general or specific Help information:
To find out about an item on the screen, you can display a ScreenTip. For example, to display a ScreenTip for a button, point to the button without clicking it. The ScreenTip gives the button’s name, the associated keyboard shortcut if there is one, and unless you specify otherwise, a description of what the button does when you click it.
In the PowerPoint program window, you can click the Microsoft Office PowerPoint Help button (a question mark in a blue circle) at the right end of the Ribbon to display the PowerPoint Help window.
After opening a dialog box, you can click the Help button (also a question mark) at the right end of the dialog box title bar to display the PowerPoint Help window with topics related to the functions of that dialog box already identified.
To practice getting help, you can work through the following exercise.
At the right end of the Ribbon, click the Microsoft Office PowerPoint Help button.
The PowerPoint Help window opens.
In the list of topics in the PowerPoint Help window, click Activating PowerPoint.
PowerPoint Help displays a list of topics related to activating Microsoft Office system programs.
You can click any topic to display the corresponding information.
On the toolbar, click the Show Table of Contents button.
The Table Of Contents appears in the left pane, organized by category, like the table of contents in a book.
Clicking any category (represented by a book icon) displays that category’s topics (represented by help icons) as well as any available online training (represented by training icons).
If you’re connected to the Internet, PowerPoint displays topics and training available from the Office Online Web site as well as topics stored on your computer.
In the Table of Contents, click a few categories and topics, then click the Back and Forward buttons to move among the topics you have already viewed.
At the right end of the Table of Contents title bar, click the Close button.
At the top of the PowerPoint Help window, click the Type word to search for box, type Help window, and then press the
key.The PowerPoint Help window displays topics related to the words you typed.
In the results list, click Print a Help topic.
The selected topic appears in the PowerPoint Help window, explaining that you can click the Print button on the toolbar to print any topic.
Below the title at the top of the topic, click Show All.
PowerPoint displays any hidden auxiliary information available in the topic and changes the Show All button to Hide All. You can display or hide an individual item by clicking it. When you click the Print button, PowerPoint will print all displayed information.
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