PowerPoint 2000 Chinese Version: Getting Started and Advanced Techniques

Author: Xie Zhiming
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Publish Date: 2002-03-01
Features: PowerPoint first completed the transition from disorganized 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 to 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 for learning the Chinese version of PowerPoint 2000, comprehensively introducing the basic operations and usage methods of its components. First, it provides an overview of PowerPoint, then explains basic operations such as editing text, using graphics, and charts, and finally elaborates on further operations such as adding animation effects, beautifying presentations, presenting 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 computer users, the key and often the most troublesome aspect is learning to use software. The vast range of software, rapid updates, numerous function options, and bloated systems often leave people overwhelmed and unsure where to start. Yet, whenever they see professionals effortlessly navigating software, they are inevitably amazed. "Fishing from the edge of a well is no match for weaving a net." There is only one path: to start using it! Choose the software you want to use and a good book, then 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 has a spark of life, and you'll become an excellent navigator, able to sail freely through the sea of software.
The launch of the "Software Introduction and Improvement Series" is designed to give you a navigator to explore the sea of software. It is a set of easy-to-use instructional guides covering currently popular software. It can be learned sequentially or used as a reference on demand, 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 leading in various fields. The series will also closely monitor the release of new software, promptly releasing books for newly launched products and those with a slightly narrower but technologically significant 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 deeply ingrained products their place. For software with both Chinese and Western versions, the Chinese version is prioritized 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 the explanation for each software starts from basic knowledge and operations, allowing new users to easily get started without referring to other books, while experienced users can quickly learn the new features and functions of the latest version and step up to a new level. The "improvement" in the series name reflects 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' difficulties in using software 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 practical 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, clear step-by-step guidance and rich application examples are provided 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 strives for concise text, abundant charts, clear structure, and a vibrant layout. Additionally, special sections are designed to provide readers with guidance 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. By following along, you can not only reproduce the beautiful visuals in the book on your computer but also explore other implementation methods and possible outcomes not detailed in the text. The "Try It" sections are scattered throughout, allowing you to learn by doing and gain insights along the way.
After intensive planning, design, and creation, this series has been launched and has received positive market response. 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, realistic, 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 efforts, errors and shortcomings are inevitable. We sincerely welcome readers' corrections and advice, and we will strive to improve and enhance our work in future 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 catalog.
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3.2 Editing Text in 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 presentations; outline view is suitable for editing the outline of presentations; slide view is suitable for editing individual slides; slide sorter view is suitable for editing the overall effect of presentations; 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 match the appearance of 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 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, Ctrl+Home moves the cursor to the st slide, and Ctrl+End moves it to the st 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, used to display 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] from the menu bar will display the [Toolbars] list. Clicking [Clipboard] in the [Toolbars] list will display the [Clipboard] toolbar, as shown in Figure 3.14. 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 choose the content to paste. Clicking the [Paste All] button pastes all content from the [Clipboard] into the presentation, and clicking the [Clear Clipboard] button clears all content from the [Clipboard].
By default, the [Clipboard] can store the content of up to the st 12 [Copy] and [Cut] commands. If the current [Clipboard] already contains 12 items, a Microsoft Office warning message, as shown in Figure 3.16, will appear, asking whether you want to proceed with the operation.