Well, PowerPoint isn't a drawing program or an image editor, but it will do
in a pinch. And I think it can do an acceptable job for you for this
project.
Open PowerPoint. It should open to a new, blank presentation. It will have a
couple of boxes (placeholders) that say "click to add title" and "click to
add subtitle."
Go to Format | Slide Layout. The Slide Layout task pane should appear. Click
the blank slide layout there.
Now look down on the Drawing toolbar. Click the Draw button there. Select
"grid and guides." In the Grid and Guides dialog box, set the grid spacing
you want -- probably 1" or .5" or .25" would be good, but use whatever you
wish. Leave "snap objects to grid" checked. Click the "display grid on
screen" option and click OK to close the dialog box.
Now you have a grid to help guide you. Unfortunately, this won't print when
you print the slide, so you'll need to create lines and arrange your own
"printable grid."
Next, click on the line tool on the Drawing toolbar, then click and drag the
length of the slide to create a horizontal line. You can press the Shift
button while you draw to create a straight line, but since you turned on the
grid and have the "snap to grid" option ticked, you probably won't need to
do that.
Now that you have one line, click it to select it, press Ctrl+C to copy it,
and press Ctrl+V to paste it. Press Ctrl+V to paste as many times as lines
you need. Drag them into place. They should snap to the grid, which should
make placement easy. You can use the align tools if you want (just click the
Draw button on the Drawing toolbar, then select Align or Distribute, and
then click the alignment option you want. If you want, you can drag the
align flyaway menu onto your workspace by clicking the dots at the top of
the flyaway and dropping it on your workspace -- on top of the slide,
basically -- so it's more readily available.) I don't think you'll need to
use the alignment tools, though.
Draw another line for the verticals, select it, copy it, and paste it as
many times as necessary. The drag into place.
Another way to copy/paste lines is to select a line and then press Ctrl and
Shift while you drag the line. The Shift will constrain it into place as the
Ctrl creates the copy. This would be a really fast way to create your copies
and snap them into place on the grid.
If you want to make the lines thicker for some reason, you can click the
"line style" button on the drawing toolbar. (Hover your mouse over the icons
on the toolbar, and the tool's name will show up.) Or you can double-click
the line and use the Colors and Lines dialog if you prefer.
If you want a bigger "page," set that up under File | Page Setup. You'll
want to do that before you create your gridlines, because the grid will
probably change when you change the setup.
Then insert your picture. Insert | Picture | From File, find your picture,
select it, and then click OK. Press Shift and drag a corner to size it. Then
use Draw | Order | Send to Back so you can see your gridlines on top of it.
You can also select all the gridlines and use Draw | Group and then press
Shift and drag a corner to adjust the size of the grid after it's created.
To add another slide so you can add another picture, use Insert | New Slide.
Copy the gridlines from the first slide to the second and insert the new
picture. Or you can duplicate the existing slide and delete the existing
picture. Use View | Slide Sorter to select and copy the slide and then paste
it. Then View | Normal to get back to your workspace.
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Echo [MS PPT MVP]
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Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
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Smookie said:
Yes, I have power point, but have never used it. I would more than
appreciate
any help that you could provide.
Echo S said:
I'd probably use PowerPoint. Do you have it? If so, I can give you some
instructions.
--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
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What's new in PPT 2007?
http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
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Smookie said:
Hi, I took some pictures and want to make an afgan, crochet work, of
the
pictures. The easiest way is to be able to have some type of
transparent
graph to lay over the pictures and then be able to adjust the graph
boxes
to
align the colors.
Does anyone know hoe to do this? Not the crochet work
