Specifications

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Dear Tempt ress,
To use a piece of clip art (or any
image) as the background in a slide,
you don’t import it (add it) to your
slide as a regular image. You need to
save it to your hard drive and then
add it as a background.
To add a background image
1. First, find the piece of clip art you
want to use and save it to your
hard drive.
2. On the For mat menu, click Back -
ground.
3. Un der Back ground fill, click the
ar row on the right of the box, and
then click Fill Ef fects.
4. Click the Pic ture tab, click Se lect
Pic ture to find the pic ture file that
you saved, click In sert, and then
click OK.
5. If you want to ap ply the back -
ground to se lected slides, click
Ap ply. If you want to ap ply the
back ground to all slides, click Ap -
ply to All.
Now you can save it as a design
template.
While we’re here, I do want to
point out that your problem of
wanting the clip art to be in BACK of
the text instead of in FRONT of it is a
completely different issue. This has
to do with ordering objects.
First, select the object you want to
move. (An object could be a text box,
a piece of clip art, a spreadsheet, a
table, and so on.) Then:
• If you want to bring it to the
front, on the Draw ing toolbar,
click Draw, point to Or der, and
then click Bring to Front.
• If you want to send it to the back
(like you did with the clip art),
on the Draw ing toolbar, click
Draw, point to Or der, and then
click Send to Back.
Print notes: When the
bottom falls out
People use PowerPoint notes for
just about everything: presenting,
printing, and reviewing. And it
appears that some people, like our
next reader, are more wordy than
others.
Q“For one of my slides, the
notes pane has a lot of text. When I
try to print it, the bottom is cut off.”
— Note-Lovin’ Nancy
Dear Nancy,
One thing to remember is that
there is only one notes page per slide.
It’s possible that, although you can
see all your notes on one pane,
you’ve actually run out of room.
Therefore, all your notes won’t print.
First let me make sure you know
about the text AutoFit feature in
PowerPoint 2002: this reduces font
size if there’s text overflow. (To
verify that AutoFit is turned on, on
the Tools menu, click AutoCorrect
Options. On the AutoFormat As
You Type tab, make sure the AutoFit
body text to placeholder check box
is selected.)
A couple of suggestions,
depending upon the type of person
you are:
For those of you who constantly
rearrange the furniture:
On the notes page, make the slide
area smaller by clicking to select the
slide placeholder and dragging it by
the sizing handles. Use the same
procedure to make the notes area
larger.
For SUV drivers who park in
the compact parking spaces:
In the presentation, create an
additional slide after the current one
so that you get another notes page. Or
send the notes to Microsoft Word (on
the File menu, point to Send to, click
Microsoft Word, and then select one
of the notes options), where you can
have as many pages for notes as you
want (note hog).
Thanks for the insights
Thanks for all your letters about
PowerPoint. I’ve learned a lot about
how to use it in ways I never
dreamed. Not that I dream of
PowerPoint on my time off. Not that I
have any time off.
“Nobody ever drowned in his
own sweat” — Ann Landers
(1918-2002)
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