Getting Started with Powerpoint

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In this chapter, we will understand how to get started with PowerPoint 2010. We will understand how to start PowerPoint 2010 application in simple steps. To access PowerPoint 2010, you must have Microsoft Office 2010 installed in your PC. Only Office 2010 Home and Student, Home and Business, Standard, Professional and Professional Plus packages have PowerPoint included in them. Other packages may have a viewer, but you cannot create presentations with them.

Step 1 − Click the Start button.

Step 2 − Click All Programs option from the menu.

Step 3 − Search for Microsoft Office from the sub menu and click it.

Step 4 − Search for Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 from the submenu and click it.

This will launch the Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 application and you will see the following presentation window.

Set Watermark

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In this chapter, we will discuss how to set watermark in a Word document. A watermark is a picture that shows up faintly behind the text on a Word document page. When you draft a document, you can watermark the document with Draft Copy stamp, or you can watermark a duplicate document with the Duplicate stamp. Microsoft Word allows you to stamp with watermark using simple steps explained in this chapter.

Set Standard Watermark

The following steps will help you set standard watermark in word document. A standard watermark is the one which is already defined by words and cannot modify their font or color etc.

Step 1 − Open a word document in which you want to add a watermark.

Step 2 − Click the Page Layout tab and then click the Watermark button to display a list of standard watermark options.

Step 3 − You can select any of the available standard watermarks by simply clicking over it. This will be applied to all the pages of the word. Assume we select the Confidential watermark.

Set Custom Watermark

The following steps will help you set custom watermark in word document. A custom watermark is the one which can be modified text and its font, color and size etc.

Step 1 − Open a Word document in which you want to add a watermark.

Step 2 − Click the Page Layout tab and then click the Watermark button to display a list of standard watermark options. At the bottom, you will find the Custom Watermark option.

Step 3 − Click over the Custom Watermark option; this will display the Printed Watermark dialog box.

Step 4 − Now you can set a picture as watermark or you can set predefined text as watermark; you can also type your text in the Text box available at Printed Watermark dialog box. We will set text watermark as DUPLICATEand also set its font color and font size. Once all the parameters are set, click the OK button to set the parameters.

Remove Watermark

The following steps will help you remove an existing watermark from a Word document.

Step 1 − Open a Word document the watermark of which needs to be deleted.

Step 2 − Click the Page Layout tab followed by the Watermark button to display a list of standard watermark options. At the bottom, you will find the Remove Watermark option.

Step 3 − Click Remove Watermark option; this will delete the existing watermark from the document.

Document Security

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Microsoft Word provides a high level of security for your word generated documents. You can set a password for a document to stop unauthorized reading and editing of the document or if you want someone just to read the document then you can set editing restriction on your word document. This chapter will teach you how to make your document password protected and restricted from editing and formatting.

Set Document Password

Once you set a password for a document then you will be able to open the document only if you know the password. If you forget your password, then there is no way to recover it and to open the document. So you need to be careful while setting a password for your important document.

The following steps will help you set a password for a Word document.

Step 1 − Open a Word document for which you want to set a password.

Step 2 − Click the File tab and then click the Info option and finally the Protect Document button which will display a list of options to be selected.

Step 3 − Select the Encrypt with Password option simply by clicking over it. This will display an Encrypt Document dialog box asking for a password to encrypt the document. The same dialog box will appear twice to enter the same password. After entering password each time, click the OK button.

Step 4 − Save the changes, and finally you will have your document password protected. Next time when someone tries to open this document, it will ask for the password before displaying the document content, which confirms that now your document is password protected and you need password to open the document.

Remove Document Password

You can remove a document password only after opening it successfully. The following steps will help you remove password protection from your Word document.

Step 1 − Open a Word document the password of which needs to be removed. You will need the correct password to open the document.

Step 2 − Click the File tab followed by the Info option and finally the Protect Document button which will display a list of options to be selected.

Step 3 − Select the Encrypt with Password option simply by clicking over it. This will display an Encrypt Document dialog box and password which will be in a dotted pattern. You need to remove this dotted pattern from the box and make it clear to remove the password from the document.

Now when you will open your document next time, Word will not ask you for any password because you have removed the password protection from the document.

Set Editing & Formatting Restrictions

The following steps will help you set editing restrictions in a Word document.

Step 1 − Open a Word document for which you want to set editing restrictions.

Step 2 − Click the File tab and then click the Info option and finally the Protect Document button which will display a list of options to be selected.

Step 3 − Select the Restrict Editing option simply by clicking over it. This will open the actual document and it will also give you the option to set editing restrictions in the Restrict Formatting and Editing area. Here you can set formatting as well as editing restrictions on the document.

Step 4 − One you are done with your setting, click the Yes, Start Enforcing Protection button which will display a Start Enforcing Protection dialog box asking for password so that no one else can change the setting. You can enter the password or you can leave it simply blank which means there is no password setting for this protection.

Step 5 − Finally click the OK button and you will find that your document is editing (or formatting if you applied) protected.

Remove Editing & Formatting Restrictions

You can remove the editing restriction from your document using these simple steps.

Step 1 − Open a Word document for which you want to remove the editing restriction.

Step 2 − Click the File tab and then click the Info option and finally the Protect Document button; this will display a list of options to be selected.

Step 3 − Select the Restrict Editing option simply by clicking over it. This will display the Restrict Formatting and Editing area as follows.

Step 4 − Now click the Stop Protection button. If you had set up a password at the time of setting the editing or formatting restrictions, then you will need the same password to remove the editing or formatting restrictions. Word will now ask for the same using the Unprotect Document Dialog box , otherwise it will simply remove the restrictions.

Compare Documents

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In this chapter, we will discuss how to compare documents in Word 2010. Sometime you modify a Microsoft Word document without turning on the Track Changes mode; in such cases, tracking the changes becomes difficult and you will have to compare the original document with the modified document word by word. But you do not need to compare it manually, Microsoft Word provides an option to compare two documents very easily. Let us see how it can be done.

Compare Two Documents

Let us have the following two documents, (a) Original document (b) Modified version of the same document as follows

Original Document

Modified Document

The following steps will help you compare the two documents.

Step 1 − Click the Review tab and then click the Compare button. This will display the two options to be selected.

Step 2 − Select the Compare option simply by clicking over it. This will display a Compare Documents dialog box asking for the two versions of the Word document that need to be compared with each other.

Step 3 − Select the Original Document and the Revised Document and click the OK button to display the differences in two documents. Left column on the screen would show all the changes done over the course of changes and you will see original as well as modified version of the document on the same screen. You can walk through these changes using the Previous & Nextbutton available under the Review tab.

NOTE − While comparing two documents you can use the different settings available at the Compare Documents dialog box under the More button.

Translate Word

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In this chapter, we will discuss how to translate a Word 2010 document. Microsoft Word has an option to translate a complete Word document from one language to another language using simple step. Let us learn how we can translate document content from English to some other language (Spanish).

Translate Document Using Microsoft Translator

The following steps will help you translate a document from one language to another language.

Step 1 − Click the Review tab and then click the Translate button; this will display different options to be selected.

Step 2 − Select the Choose Translation Language option simply by clicking over it. This will display a Translation Language Options dialog box asking for selecting from and to languages. Here From is the source document's language and To is the target document’s language.

Step 3 − After selecting From Language and To Language, click OK. Now again go to Review tab and then click Translate button which will display different options to be selected. Select top option Translate Documentoption from the given options, this will display Translate Whole Documentdialog box asking for your permission to send your document over the internet to be translated by Microsoft Translator.

Step 4 − To translate your document, you can click the Send button. This will send your document over the internet to be translated and you will have your document translated in your target language.

Step 5 − Now you can copy your translated content manually in any other document and save it for final use.

Email Documents

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In this chapter, we will discuss how to email documents using Word 2010. Microsoft Word can be used to send a Word document in an email as an attachment directly at the given email address without opening your email program. This chapter will teach you simple ways of sending email in a variety of formats, including a Word document file (DOC) attachment or a PDF, among others.

Mailing Documents

Following are the simple steps to send a word document as an attachment at the given email address.

Step 1 − Open the document you want to send using e-mail as an attachment.

Step 2 − Click the File tab and then click the Save & Send option from the left most column; this will display a number of options to Save & Send, you will have to select the Send using Email option available in the middle column.

Step 3 − The third column will have various options to send email which allows you to send your document as an attachment in DOC format or you can send your Word document in a PDF format. Click a method to send the document. I'm going to send my document in PDF format.

When you click the Send as PDF option, it displays the following screen where you can type the email address to which you want to send your document, email subject and other additional messages as well. To send email to multiple recipients, separate each e-mail address with a semicolon (;) and a space.

Printing Documents

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In this chapter, we will discuss how to print documents in Word 2010. Consider you are done with previewing and proofing your document and ready for the final printing. This chapter will teach you how to print a part or a complete Microsoft Word document.

Printing Documents

The following steps will help you print your Microsoft Word document.

Step 1 − Open the document for which you want to see the preview. Next click the File tab followed by the Print option which will display a preview of the document in the right column. You can scroll up or scroll down your document to walk through the document using given Scrollbar. The middle column gives various options to be set before you send your document to the printer.

Step 2 − You can set various other printing options available. Select from among the following options, depending on your preferences.

S.No	Option and Description
1	Copies Set the number of copies to be printed; by default, you will have one copy of the document.
2	Print Custom Range This option will be used to print a particular page of the document. Type the number in Pages option, if you want to print all the pages from 7 till 10 then you would have to specify this option as 7-10 and Word will print only 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th pages.
3	Print One Sided By default, you print one side of the page. There is one more option where you will turn up your page manually in case you want to print your page on both sides of the page.
4	Collated By default, multiple copies will print Collated; if you are printing multiple copies and you want the copies uncollated, select the Uncollated option.
5	Orientation By default, page orientation is set to Portrait; if you are printing your document in landscape mode then select the Landscape mode.
6	A4 By default, the page size is A4, but you can select other page sizes available in the dropdown list.
7	Custom Margin Click the Custom Margins dropdown list to choose the document margins you want to use. For instance, if you want to print fewer pages, you can create narrower margins; to print with more white space, create wider margins.
8	1 Page Per Sheet By default, the number of pages per sheet is 1 but you can print multiple pages on a single sheet. Select any option you like from the given dropdown list by clicking over the 1 Page Per Sheet option.

Step 3 − Once you are done with your setting, click on the Print button which will send your document to the printer for final printing.