PowerPoint 2000 Chinese Version: Getting Started and Advanced Techniques

Author: Xie Zhiming
Editor-in-Chief: Hu Xianfu
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: PowerPoint first completed the transition from disorganized and scattered slides to the concept of a presentation. PowerPoint 2000 is the new version released by Microsoft, which adds features such as software sharing, network applications, and normal views, making the creation and editing of presentations easier and more intuitive. PowerPoint 2000 Chinese version is a component of Office 2000 Chinese version. Compared with previous versions, PowerPoint 2000 has become more powerful in multimedia and dynamic presentations, especially in network applications. This book serves as an introductory and advanced guide to learning the Chinese version of PowerPoint 2000, comprehensively introducing the basic operations and usage methods of its various components. It begins with an overview of PowerPoint, then explains basic operations such as editing text, using graphics, and charts, and finally elaborates on advanced operations such as adding animation effects, enhancing presentations, displaying presentations, and applying them on the Internet. The book is rich in examples, detailed in content, and clear in operations, making it an excellent choice for beginners and intermediate users of PowerPoint.
Detailed Introduction: For ordinary users, the key to using computers is often a headache. The vast range of software, rapid updates, numerous function options, and bloated systems can be overwhelming, leaving one lost and unsure where to start. Yet, when watching professionals effortlessly navigate software, one can only admire their skills. "Fishing from the edge of a well is no match for tying a net." There is only one path: to start using it! Choose the software you want and a good book, sit in front of your computer, turn it on, install it, and follow the book's instructions to use and test it. Soon, you'll find your computer becomes more responsive, and you'll become a skilled navigator, effortlessly maneuvering through the sea of software.
The launch of the "Software Introduction and Improvement Series" is designed to provide you with a navigator to explore the sea of software. It is a set of easy-to-use guides for popular software today. You can learn step by step or refer to it as needed, ensuring you have a solid foundation and clear direction to quickly and efficiently master software operations and programming techniques, solving practical problems with ease. Let's take a look at the features of this series.
Software Selection: The software selected in this series are renowned products from well-known domestic and international software companies, widely used in China, and outstanding in various fields. The series will closely monitor the release of new software, promptly releasing books for new products and those with a slightly narrower but technologically important application scope.
Version Selection: The principle for selecting software versions in this series is to keep pace with software updates, focusing on the latest versions released in the past six months and those to be released in the next six months, ensuring the technical advancement of the books. It also considers classic mainstream software, giving well-loved and widely recognized products their place. For software with both Chinese and English versions, the Chinese version is preferred to fully meet the needs of Chinese users.
Target Audience: The series is clearly aimed at beginners and intermediate users. Whether you have used the software covered in this series before or not, it is suitable for you. The "introductory" in the series name means that each software explanation starts with basic knowledge and operations, allowing new users to easily get started without referring to other books. Experienced users can also quickly learn the new features and functions of the latest version and smoothly transition to the next level. As for "improvement," it embodies the focus of the book's content. Based on our experience, software functions are becoming increasingly complex, and without reaching a certain depth and breadth, it is difficult to handle them effectively in practice. Therefore, after helping readers quickly get started, the series uses numerous clear operational steps and typical application examples to teach readers how to use software techniques and application skills more comprehensively, enabling them to truly master and skillfully apply the software they learn.
Content Design: The strategy for designing the content of this series is based on a careful analysis of users' software usage challenges and the current state of the computer book market. In short, it is practical, clear, and thorough. It is neither a comprehensive "user manual" nor a detailed "function guide," but rather a highly effective operational and programming guide. All content is chosen based on users' actual needs, allowing readers to "avoid the and focus on the" when facing complex software systems, directly addressing their goals. For each function explanation, it strives to provide clear step-by-step guidance and rich application examples to accurately indicate how to proceed. As long as readers follow the book's instructions and methods, they can not only master the operations but also apply them flexibly, achieving solid progress with ease.
Style and Features: The series aims for concise text, abundant charts, clear structure, and a lively layout. Additionally, it includes special-designed sections to guide readers beyond the main text. These sections include:
- Note – Alerts potential problems and common mistakes, as well as how to avoid them, helping you avoid embarrassing moments and rescue calls.
- Tip – Suggests further chapters for reference and detailed information on specific content, allowing you to delve deeper or skim as needed.
- Skill – Points out shortcuts and advanced techniques, helping you achieve twice the results with half the effort and surpass others in skill.
- Try It – Carefully designed operational exercises. Just follow along, and you'll not only display the beautiful scenes from the book on your computer but also discover other implementation methods and possible results not detailed in the text. The frequent "Try It" sections allow you to learn by doing, gaining insights and understanding along the way.
After a period of intense planning, design, and creation, this series has been launched and has received positive market feedback. Many books have been reprinted within two months of release, and since its debut, the series has sold nearly a million copies. In numerous reader feedback cards and letters, we have received many valuable suggestions, which have been immensely helpful to us. Rigorous, pragmatic, high-quality, and high-standard—these have always been the traditions of Tsinghua University Press books, and they remain our pursuit in planning and creation. Despite our dedication and effort, errors and shortcomings are inevitable. We sincerely welcome readers' corrections and suggestions, and we will strive to improve and enhance our work in subsequent efforts.
During the creation of this series, we received strong support from the Product Department of Microsoft China. We sincerely thank them for their assistance in providing software and technical materials, as well as reviewing the relevant catalogs.
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3.2 Editing Text Using Slide View
When creating and modifying presentations in outline view, you can focus on the text part, but you cannot observe the overall effect of a single slide. In this case, you can use slide view, which allows you to easily modify a single slide.
3.2.1 Slide View
In Chapter 1, we introduced slide view, where most of the window is used to display a single slide. In PowerPoint 2000, the windows for normal view, outline view, and slide view are essentially the same, except that their sizes differ. You can change the size by dragging the borders of each view window.
PowerPoint offers so many views to make it easier for users to create and edit presentations, using different views to edit different parts of the presentation. As the name suggests, normal view is suitable for general editing of the presentation; outline view is suitable for editing the outline of the presentation; slide view is suitable for editing a single slide; slide sorter view is suitable for editing the overall effect of the presentation; and slide show view allows you to preview the presentation.
Try It – Drag the borders of the outline view and slide view windows to change their size so that they are exactly the same as the normal view.
3.2.2 Editing a Single Slide
When editing presentation text in slide view, you can use the same editing methods and techniques as in outline view. However, note the following two points:
- In slide view, pressing Ctrl+T or Ctrl+↓ moves the cursor to the previous or next paragraph, whereas in outline view, it moves the cursor to the previous or next topic.
- In slide view, pressing Ctrl+Home or Ctrl+End moves the cursor to the beginning or end of the current text object (i.e., all the text within a single placeholder), whereas in outline view, it moves the cursor to the beginning or end of the entire presentation outline. However, if no placeholder is active, pressing Ctrl+Home moves the cursor to the first slide, and pressing Ctrl+End moves it to the last slide.
After positioning the cursor, you can enter text. Similarly, pressing the Backspace key deletes characters to the left of the cursor, and pressing the Delete key deletes characters to the right of the cursor.
3.2.3 Moving, Copying, and Deleting Slides
In the slide view of PowerPoint 97, you cannot move or copy slides, only delete individual slides. However, in the slide view of PowerPoint 2000, you can not only delete slides but also move and copy them easily.
Most of the slide view window in PowerPoint 2000 is used to display a single slide, but there is also a small outline view window on the left side of the screen, which displays the presentation's topics (each topic represents a slide). Therefore, in slide view, you can move and copy slides just as easily as in outline view, except that if you need to move or copy subheadings, you must enlarge the outline view window on the left side of the screen (at this point, the slide view and outline view are essentially the same).
Additionally, the Clipboard toolbar can be used in normal view, outline view, and slide sorter view. Right-clicking any toolbar or selecting View > Toolbars in the menu bar will display the Toolbars list. Click Clipboard in the list to reveal the Clipboard toolbar. By default, the Clipboard toolbar is floating, and you can drag it to dock below the Format toolbar using the method described in Chapter 1.
The Clipboard toolbar allows you to easily perform the Paste command and select its content. Click the Paste All button to paste all content from the Clipboard into the presentation, and click the Clear Clipboard button to clear all content from the Clipboard.
By default, the Clipboard can store the content of up to the last 12 Copy and Cut commands. If the current Clipboard already contains 12 items, a Microsoft Office warning message will appear, asking whether you want to proceed with the operation, as shown in Figure 3.16.