Making a presentation with MS Office PowerPoint 2007

With Powerpoint 2007 we can easily make our presentations.

To make our presentation we add slides; this slides can have different layouts in which we can put text or images. When the slide is created we can choose the layout we need, for example, a title layout or a normal layout, then we add the text or the images into the placeholders which are the boxes that appear on the slide.

Instead of creating a slide we can also import slides from another presentation and modify them or leave them as they come.

If we want our presentation to be nicer, we should choose some theme; with this we obtain an image at the background, the font and color of the text changes, and the placeholders get redistributed.

There are two ways for including pictures or objects into the slides, one manner is by clicking over the icons in a placeholder, this will make that the picture appears in the current selected placesholder; the second way is using the insert tab from the ribbon, here we will find all the commands related to the insertion of images and other things.

At any moment we can watch a preview in fullscreen mode with the slides we have done, and see if they are fine or not. If we want to print the slides, there are two interesting options; one is focused on the public and the other on the speaker, with the first one, the slides will have some lines aside, which are meant to the people to take notes and the second option gives to the speaker a place to put some comments.

Working with Outlook

Outlook also has suffered several changes in this new version. One of the first things we can note is about the navigation pane, now it is collapsible; and also there is a To-Do bar, which contains a calendar and some more useful options.

As in the previous office programms we have seen, in outlook has been implemented the ribbon too, we can see it when we send or receive mails or when we administrate our contacts or dates; we already know the function of this ribbon, it contains all the commands which are separated in appropiated groups.

One special feature of the ribbon is that it changes its tabs according to the task we are doing; for example, if we are sending a mail we will see a tab called "Messege" but if we are working with the calendar, this tab will not appear, instead of this we will have some other tabs related to this task.

The video shows us how easy is to send a mail, using features like adding an image, attaching a file or searching for contacts, all of this with the commands displayed on the ribbon.