Oct 04, 2010 Creating PowerPoint Outlines in Microsoft Word 2008 for Mac Learn how to create outlines for presentations in Microsoft Word 2008 for Mac. These are formatted for failsafe import into Microsoft PowerPoint.
Word 2008 for Mac lets you use almost any type of images (pictures) as elements in your documents and then resize those images. You can use clip art from the Office Clip Gallery or image files from your hard disk, or you can drag a photograph from iPhoto into your Word document. To add a logo to your document:
In the figure, the file Bob’s Logo Image is being dragged from a folder on the hard disk to the upper-right corner of the Word document.
If the image is too large or too small, you can resize it by clicking and dragging its handles until it’s the size you want it. If you drag one of the corner handles, the image resizes proportionally. If you grab a handle in the middle of any side, the image resizes in only one direction — horizontally if you grab a side handle or vertically if you grab the top or bottom handle.
Word 2008 for Mac comes with professionally designed templates that you can use to create brochures, calendars, forms, flyers, labels, and more. You can customize these Word templates to make them appear just the way you want. The easiest way to start a project from a template is with the Office Project Gallery, which you open by choosing File→Project Gallery or pressing Command+Shift+P. Here’s how to open and modify a template:
The New tab’s contents appear.
Choosing Word Documents limits your choices to Word templates so that you don’t have to search through a bunch of Excel or PowerPoint templates to find what you need.
Clicking the disclosure triangle reveals several subcategories.
For example, if you want to create an invoice, click the Invoices subcategory.
The other invoice templates you could have used appear on the right side of the window, and all the other template categories appear in the list on the left.
The template you chose opens. When you open the template, switch to Print Layout view (choose View→Print Layout). None of the views, except Print Layout and Publishing Layout, display the graphic images on your page.
You can stop working on customizing your template in midstream and come back to it later, or when you’re finished, save it to reuse this version of the template over and over in the future.
When you tell Word that you want to save a file as a Word Template, it changes the save folder to My Templates so that your template will automatically appear in the Project Gallery from now on.
From now on, you can open this template by selecting it in the My Templates category on the New tab of the Project Gallery.