PowerPoint 2003
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Last Updated: February 6th 2010
10/06/2011 10:07 PM
Learn PowerPoint 2003: Notes Master
PowerPoint allows you to print Notes pages -- these contain the notes that you may have saved within the Notes pane for all your individual slides. Unless you modify the Notes Master, your printed Notes pages may look basic. The Notes Master is one of the four Masters within PowerPoint 2003 -- this Master enables you modify the appearance of your Notes pages -- especially how they will look when you print them. Do note though that these changes do not affect how the notes within the Notes pane of your slides in Normal View appear.
09/27/2011 10:08 PM
Learn PowerPoint 2003: Handout Master
Handouts are presentation accompaniments that are almost always intended for print. It is a good idea to distribute handouts before your PowerPoint presentation's delivery so that the audience follow along the presentation. You can control the look of your handouts by formatting the Handout Master. This can be useful if you want to include a graphic such as a logo on each page of your handout. Customizing the Handout Master is easy, and you can thereafter print your presentation handouts with one, two, three, four, six, or nine slides on a page.
09/25/2011 09:18 PM
Learn PowerPoint 2003: Title Master
When PowerPoint 2003 is launched -- or when you create a new presentation -- you typically see the first slide of the presentation. This slide is known as the Title slide -- it contains placeholders for the slide title and the slide subtitle. Note that this layout is different from other slides which typically have a title placeholder with another placeholder for bulleted text (or a chart, graphic, etc.). All these other slides are influenced by the Slide Master, which governs their appearance and layout. The appearance and look of the Title Slide is influenced by the Title Master -- this is a separate Master that is a subset of the Slide Master.
09/22/2011 05:49 AM
Learn PowerPoint 2003: Slide Master
Even if you are not aware, every presentation you create has its own Slide Master. This Master governs the default attributes like slide background, font choices, colors, and even the positioning of the placeholders in your slide. Thus if you end up with a 50 slide presentation that uses center aligned titles that you want changed to left aligned titles in a larger font size -- then you need to make this change only once within the Slide Master, and all 50 slides update at once with your new Title formatting! Also, the icing on the cake is that you do not have to format individual slides – this saves you loads of time, and you also end up with slides that are consistent in look.
09/21/2011 05:00 AM
Learn PowerPoint 2003: Using Masters
Every slide that you see in PowerPoint has its own unique look -- it has a slide background, and the same fonts typically are used on all slides. You really don't have to do anything other than adding new slides and typing in your text -- all the formatting is taken care of by some magical behind-the-scenes intelligence within PowerPoint. Also if you print notes pages or handouts from PowerPoint, you will find that these are also formatted to synchronize with the look of your slides. Ever wonder how you can control all this intelligence? Well, the answer is the Masters that are contained within every PowerPoint presentation.
08/30/2011 09:50 PM
Learn PowerPoint 2003: Recolor Pictures
When you insert a drawing or illustration in PowerPoint 2003, it may not always match the look and feel of the other slide objects such as text color or other visuals -- or it may not look good against a particular slide background. Fortunately, the Recolor Picture option can help.
08/10/2011 09:36 PM
Learn PowerPoint 2003: Reapplying Slide Layouts
Do any of these scenarios sound familiar? The title placeholders in your PowerPoint slide may move to another position due to your mouse slipping off your fingers, and you did not realize that until you had already saved the presentation. Or you may have received a presentation from a colleague who has made some changes to text -- for example, 6 pt Algerian font face in light yellow color over a white background. While you can manually correct all these discrepancies, it goes without saying that you will be spending a huge amount of time making these corrections -- and that's entirely unrequired for since we will show you how you can get over this problem with just a friendly click or two.
08/09/2011 09:55 PM
Learn PowerPoint 2003: Applying Slide Layouts
Slide Layouts in PowerPoint 2003 are a collection of various placeholders laid out in a fixed arrangement on the slide. You cannot create your own Slide Layouts in PowerPoint 2003 (you can create Slide Layouts in later versions), but you can certainly choose from the several great Slide Layouts that PowerPoint 2003 provides. Let's first show you what exactly a Slide Layout is, and then explore applying Slide Layouts.
04/23/2011 02:53 AM
Learn PowerPoint 2003: Remove and Disable Update 2464588
From the last few days, PowerPoint 2003 has started acted a little weird -- when I open any presentation or template, a window shows up stating that some of the text, images, or objects on slides within the presentation or the template have become corrupt. Once I click OK in this window, the presentation or the template does open -- but some of the slides show blank white placeholders instead of showing up transparently over the background -- PowerPoint also seems to behave as if these slides are corrupt.
11/09/2010 08:49 PM
PowerPoint Notes: PowerPoint: Sounds from the Clip Art pane do not play!
I inserted a sound from the Clip Art task pane onto the slide and the sound icon shows up but it won't play the sound when I am on that slide while playing the whole presentation. Please help!