TLC Tips of the Week:                          from Helen Olberg

This tip applies to PowerPoint 2002.

Have you ever needed to show a document from another application during your PowerPoint presentation? Possibly you’d like to show a whole Word document or Excel spreadsheet at a particular point in the slide show. Here’s how to do it:

1.   Open the PowerPoint file and locate the slide from which you’d like to open the document.

2.   In the menus click Insert>Object>From File, locate the Word or Excel document, highlight it, and click OK.

3.   Check the ‘Display as Icon’ box in the Insert Object dialog box. An icon for your document will appear on the slide. You may move, resize, or hide it as you desire.

4.   When running the slide show you can display the document by double-clicking it.

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