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Follow these steps to turn one shape that you've used in your presentation into one of many other shapes available in PowerPoint 2007.

You can change the look of your text or WordArt by changing its fill, changing its outline, or adding effects, such as shadows, reflections, glows, or three-dimensional (3-D) rotations or bevels. In Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007, you can also make these changes to text on a slide.

A theme is a quick and easy way to give a professional and modern look to an entire 2007 Microsoft Office system document. A document theme is a set of formatting choices that include a set of theme colors, a set of theme fonts (including heading and body text fonts), and a set of theme effects (including lines and fill effects).

A PowerPoint photo album is a presentation that you can create to display your personal or business photographs. You can add effects that include attention-grabbing slide transitions, colorful backgrounds and themes, specific layouts, and more.

In the 2007 Microsoft Office system, themes simplify the process of creating matching, professional-looking documents not only within one program but across multiple programs.

You can change the formatting defaults associated with a shape, text box, or other object and then make your changes the new defaults for all shapes, text boxes or other objects that you add. For example, you can change the fill color, weight of lines that make up the border of a shape, or the fonts used in a text box.

If you use a Tablet PC, you can review and comment on a Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 presentation by using the pen and ink tools in PowerPoint.

Learn how to add headers or footers, including page numbers, or the date and time, at the top or bottom of a printed worksheet.

Include column headings (A, B, C, etc.) or row headings (1, 2, 3, etc.) on your printed pages.

Help ensure that the data in your worksheet is properly labeled by including row and column headings or labels on every page.

The AutoTab property is useful for specifying if an automatic tab occurs when the last character permitted by a text box control's input mask is entered. Learn more about the AutoTab property setting and find out if setting the focus to move to the next control in a form's tab order would be helful in your database.

Use this process to guard against data loss and protect your investment in your database design.

By following these tips, you can help speed up many of the Access database operations, such as running reports or opening forms that are based on complex queries.

Access and Outlook are both excellent programs for managing your personal and business contacts. As a result, you might find yourself wanting to export contact data from Access to Outlook.

No matter how long you've worked with Access, there are always a few more tips to learn. Read this article to learn more.

Is your data getting harder to manage in an Excel workbook? Hear the experiences of one organization as they moved their data into Access.

Watch this video to learn how you can attach documents to records in your database.

Read about how one Access expert likes to creates charts.

Watch this video on how to change the data type of a table field from the Datasheet view.

Are your chart titles causing spacing problems? Learn how to quickly change their placement.