Here’s a quick tutorial that I did for a friend who wanted to know how to customize clip art characters.

Basically steps

• Select the character
• Ungroup the clip art
• Customize it
• Select all and group to make a single image
• If you like, save the character as a distinct graphic file. EMF = keeps it vector so you can scale.  If you’re using gradient colors, you might want to save as a .PNG.

Clip Art PowerPoint Tutorial

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One of the things I don’t like about the ribbon in PowerPoint 2007 is that I can’t customize it the way I want.  While that’s the case, I can customize the Quick Access Toolbar.

Basic Steps

The tutorial below has a lot more detail, but here are the basic steps:

• Click on the quick access toolbar dropdown menu
• Select or deselect one of the default features
• If you want to add more features, click on More Commands

• Select a feature in either column
• Choose to add or remove it
• Use the arrows to arrange the order of the features

PowerPoint Tutorial

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