This version no longer has the Common Tasks button at the top. Rather in the Formatting toolbar, it has two choices - Design and New Slide.

Click on New Slide to add a new slide to your presentation.

Style Checker in version 2002 is no longer inthe Tools menu and activated when you select it. It is now part of the Tools - Options dialog box and when checked on, it is activated at all times. To activate it, go to Tools-Options, click on the Spelling and Style tab and then click on the Style Options button.

When style checking is on in a presentation, PowerPoint checks for consistency in punctuation, capitalization, and visual elements such as the minimum point size for text. In this dialog box, you can select what you want to check for. When you enter text and the style checker notices it varies from the set style of the file, it notifies you with a light bulb that appears next to the Microsoft Office Assistant. Click the light bulb, and you’re presented with several options: to conform to the style suggestion; to ignore it in this case; to turn it off (Don’t show me this tip again), or to display the Style Options dialog box, where you can change the style settings.

If you have turned off the Office Assistant, you won’t be notified about style inconsistencies, and they will be ignored.

PowerPoint Lessons Table of Contents

Last updated January 2002. These courses are copyrighted by the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Communications and Information Technology. Contact Lana Johnson at ljohnson1@unl.edu