10 Tips About PowerPoint 2007 Graphics

Tips When Using Graphics in PowerPoint 2007

Let's start at the beginning. This short tutorial will show you how to add clip art or photos to your presentation.

If you want your PowerPoint presentation to be different than anyone else's, then you can dress it up yourself by adding your own graphics or picture to the background of all your slides.

If you have already added several graphics to your PowerPoint slide, they might not be lined up just the way you want them. This tutorial will show you how to align PowerPoint graphics in a variety of ways.

Charts can add a little extra punch to your PowerPoint presentation instead of listing bullet points of data. Any chart created in Excel can be copied and pasted into your PowerPoint presentation. The added bonus is that you can have the chart update with any changes made to the Excel data.

Slide shows of old contained mostly facts, usually in bullet form, and today the audience wants more than just lists of items. So, what does a presenter do? He gives them a graphic representation of those old bullet points. This is done using SmartArt, which is the new name for all the diagrams that you can create in PowerPoint.

See Also - Communicate Visually with SmartArt

If you would like to start tracing your family's roots, PowerPoint has the tools to make it easy to create a family tree chart of all the members in your family. You can make it as simple or as complicated as you want. Simply add more pages to extend the family tree to more generations.

See Also - Family Tree Charts in PowerPoint

Watermarks can be as simple as a company logo placed in a corner of the slide to brand it, or can be a large image that is used as the background for the slide. In the case of a large image, the watermark is often faded so that it does not distract the audience from the content of your slides.

Sometimes you want to show your slides with no background graphics. This is often the case for printing purposes. The background graphics will remain with the design theme, but can be hidden from view.

If you need to have the same photo/clip art (such as a company logo) on every slide, the most efficient way is to insert the photo onto the slide master. Each time a new slide is added to the presentation, the graphic will be present.

See Also - 10 Photo Tips for PowerPoint 2007