By Ryan Johnson, technology training coordinator

Outline View in PowerPoint shows all the text of all slides in the presentation, no graphics are shown. This view is useful for quick reading of your slides and for quick text editing on the slides as well. Simply select the text to edit in this view, make any necessary changes and save your presentation.

Outline View is also a good way to export your data out as a Word document to use as a summary handout or to create a web page with the same content as well.

By Ryan Johnson, technology training coordinator

Follow these simple steps to insert any picture as your background image in PowerPoint:

1.) Click the slide that you want to add a background picture to.

TIP: To select multiple slides, click a slide, and then press and hold CTRL while you click the other slides.

2.) On the Design tab, in the Background group, click Background Styles, and then click Format Background.

3.) Click Fill, and then click Picture or texture fill.

4.) Do one of the following:

· To insert a picture from a file, click File, and then locate and double-click the picture that you want to insert.

· To paste a picture that you copied, click Clipboard.

· To use clip art as a background picture, click Clip Art, and then in the Search text box, type a word or phrase that describes the clip that you want, or type all or part of the file name of the clip.