Office 2007 For Dummies®

Chapter 12. Showing Off a Presentation

In This Chapter

• Spell‐checking a presentation

• Adding visual transitions

• Adding hyperlinks on a slide

• Viewing a presentation

• Printing handouts

• Packing a presentation on a CD

The whole point of creating a PowerPoint presentation is to show it off to an audience. So PowerPoint provides some handy Hollywood‐style special effects to make your presentation look more interesting to your eyes and ears.

PowerPoint also provides features for creating handouts for your audience. Because people often want to take notes during an interesting presentation (or just doodle during a really boring presentation), PowerPoint can create handouts that you can print and distribute.

Spell‐Checking Your Presentation

You could have the best presentation in the world, but it will look like the worst presentation in the world if you have misspellings and typos on your slides for everyone to snicker at. To prevent this problem from occurring, PowerPoint can spell‐check your entire presentation.

PowerPoint automatically underlines all misspelled words with a red squiggly line. If you right‐click any word underlined with a red squiggly line, a pop‐up menu appears with a list of correctly spelled alternatives that you can choose.

To spell‐check your entire presentation, follow these steps:

1. Click the Review tab.

2. Click the Spelling icon.

   PowerPoint displays the Spelling dialog box when it finds a misspelled word, as shown in Figure 12-1 .

   Figure 12.1.  Figure 12-1: The Spelling dialog box ...