Bullet Lists in PowerPoint

Do you want to jazz up your bulleted lists in your PowerPoint presentations with special icons or pictures? It's easy! You can insert clip art or a scanned photo that you import from other programs.

If you are about to start a bulleted list, place cursor where you want to format with picture bullets. On the Format menu, click Bullets and Numbering, and then click the Bulleted tab. Click Picture, and then click the Pictures tab. Select a picture, and click OK to apply the picture as your bullet.

To import a clip or picture from your files, click on Import Clip. Choose the image from your file and click Import. Click OK. To resize the picture, click on it; place cursor over a corner guide; left click; hold and drag image to size desired.

Type your bulleted list and the image or icon you choose will automatically appear in place of the standard bullet.

Fast Save Versus a Full Save in PowerPoint

You can save some development time when working on your PowerPoint presentations by setting the save feature. If you select the Allow fast saves check box on the Save tab in the Options dialog box (Tools menu), PowerPoint saves only the changes to a presentation.

Saving only the changes takes less time than a full save, in which PowerPoint saves the complete, revised presentation. A full save, however, requires less disk space than a fast save. You should do a full save when you finish working in a presentation, saving it for the last time.

Make PowerPoint Web Presentations Accessible To The Greatest Number of Students

To make a PowerPoint web presentation accessible (the presentation can only contain text and graphics and no animation) to the greatest number of students save the presentation slides as JPG or GIF images and save the outline in Rich Text Format (RTF file extension).

Add each slide image to a different web page and insert navigation to take students from slide to slide. Add an alternative text description to each image so that students who are viewing your pages with text readers can hear or see a description of the slide contents. Import the text from the RTF file into a web page. This will be the text form of your presentation.

Place a link on each web page that contains a slide image to this text form of the presentation.

Link to a PowerPoint Presentation in Presentation View

If you would like to link to a PowerPoint presentation on the web and have it come up in presentation view in Internet Explorer (this doesn't seem to work in Netscape), save the PowerPoint presentation as a PowerPoint Show (.pps file extension) and link to that file.