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Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 Tutorial—Free & Online

By Denise Etheridge

With Microsoft PowerPoint, you can create exciting slide show presentations. This PowerPoint tutorial will teach you how. Click here to start. If you are using PowerPoint 2002, click here for our PowerPoint 2002 tutorial.

Lesson 1: The PowerPoint Window

PowerPoint is a presentation software package. With PowerPoint, you can easily create slide shows. Trainers and other presenters use slide shows to illustrate their presentations. This tutorial teaches PowerPoint basics. This lesson introduces you to the PowerPoint window. You use the window to interact with PowerPoint.

• The Microsoft Office Button
• The Quick Access Toolbar
• The Title Bar
• The Ribbon
• Rulers
• Slides, Placeholders, and Notes
• Status Bar, Tabs, View Buttons, and More

Lesson 2: Creating Your First PowerPoint Presentation

You create your PowerPoint presentation on slides. You use layouts to organize the content on each slide. PowerPoint has several slide layouts from which to choose. Themes are sets of colors, fonts, and special effects. Backgrounds add a colored background to your slides. You can add themes and backgrounds to your slides. After you complete your slides, you can run your presentation. In this lesson you learn how to create slides, makes changes to slides, apply a theme and run a slide show.

• Create a Title Slide
• Create New Slides
• Make Changes to Your Slides
• Apply a Theme
• Run Your PowerPoint Slide Show

Lesson 3: Animations, Transitions, Spell Check, Outline Tab, Slides Tabs, Sorter View, and Printing

Animations control how objects move onto, off of, and around your slides. Transitions control how your presentation moves from one slide to the next. In this lesson you learn how to create animations and transitions. You also learn how to spell-check your document, how to use the Outline and Slides tabs, how to use Sorter view, and how to print.

• Add Animations
• Add Transitions
• Spell Check
• Use the Outline and Slides Tabs
• Use Slide Sorter View
• Print

Microsoft Word 2007 Tutorial—Free & Online

By Denise Etheridge

You can use this free online tutorial to learn Microsoft Word 2007. Click here to start the tutorial. If you are using an older version of Word, click here for our Word 2003/2002 tutorial or click here for our Word 97 tutorial.

Lesson 1: Getting Familiar with Microsoft Word 2007 for Windows

Microsoft Word is a word processing software package. You can use it to type letters, reports, and other documents. It gives you the ability to use your computer for desktop publishing. This tutorial teaches Microsoft Word 2007 basics. Although this tutorial was created for the computer novice, because Microsoft Word 2007 is so different from previous versions of Microsoft Word, even experienced users may find it useful. This lesson will introduce you to the Word window. You use this window to interact with Word.

• The Microsoft Office Button
• The Quick Access Toolbar
• The Title Bar
• The Ribbon
• The Ruler
• The Text Area
• The Vertical and Horizontal Scroll Bars
• The Status Bar
• Understanding Document Views
• Click
• Understanding Nonprinting Characters
• Create Sample Data and Select Text
• Place the Cursor
• Execute Commands with Keyboard Shortcuts
• Start a New Paragraph
• Exit Word

Lesson 2: Microsoft Word 2007 Basic Features

Lesson 1 familiarized you with the the Microsoft Word window. You are now ready to learn how to create a Word document. This lesson covers typing, using the Backspace key, using the Delete key, inserting text, bolding, underlining, and italicizing.

• Type, Backspace, and Delete
• Insert and Overtype
• Bold, Italicize, and Underline
• Save a File and Close Word

Lesson 3: More Basic Features

The features in Word 2007 can make your work easier, make your documents more attractive, and/or enable you to work more efficiently. This Microsoft Word lesson teaches you how to open a file, cut, copy, paste, use AutoText, use spell check, use Find and Replace, and change fonts. All of these features either make your work easier or make your document more attractive.

• Open a File
• Cut and Paste
• Copy and Paste
• Use the Clipboard
• Create AutoText
• Use Spell Check
• Find and Replace
• Change the Font Size
• Change the Font
• Save Your File

Lesson 4: Formatting Paragraphs and Working with Styles

When you type information into Microsoft Word, each time you press the Enter key Word creates a new paragraph. You can format paragraphs. For example, you can indent the first line of a paragraph, you can set the amount of space that separates paragraphs, and you can align a paragraph left, right, center, or flush with both margins. Styles are a set of formats you can quickly apply to a paragraph. For example, by applying a style, you can set the font, set the font size, and align a paragraph all at once. In this lesson, you will learn about the various formats you can apply to a paragraph and about styles.

• Open a Blank Document
• Add Sample Text
• Add Space Before or After Paragraphs
• Change Line Spacing
• Create a First-Line Indent
• Indent Paragraphs
• Align Paragraphs
• Create a Hanging Indent
• Choose a Style Set
• Apply a Style
• Change Style Sets

Lesson 5: Adding Bullets and Numbers, Undoing and Redoing, Setting Page Layouts and Printing Documents

If you have lists of data, you may want to bullet or number them. When using Microsoft Word, bulleting and numbering are easy. The first part of this lesson teaches you to bullet and number. After you have completed your document, you may want to share it with others. One way to share your document is to print and distribute it. However, before you print you may want to add page numbers and tell Word such things as the page orientation, the paper size, and the margin setting you want to use. In this lesson you will learn how to layout and how to print your documents.

• Add Bullets and Numbers
• Undo and Redo
• Set the Orientation
• Set the Page Size
• Set the Margins
• Add Page Numbers
• Insert Page Breaks
• Preview and Print Documents

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