Office 2007 include applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. They’re available as a one-time purchase for use on a single PC. Office 365 plans include premium versions of these applications plus other services that are enabled over the Internet, including online storage with OneDrive and Skype minutes for home use. As you might remember from a previous blog post about themes, you can apply a theme to any Word 2007, Excel 2007, or PowerPoint 2007 document or template from the Themes gallery, which is located on the Design tab in PowerPoint and on the Page Layout tab in Word and Excel. Free background templates for PowerPoint. Newer versions Office 2010 Office 2007. Click the Microsoft Office Button, and then click New. In the New Presentation dialog.
Office 2007 include applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. They’re available as a one-time purchase for use on a single PC.
Office 365 plans include premium versions of these applications plus other services that are enabled over the Internet, including online storage with OneDrive and Skype minutes for home use. With Office 365 you get the full, installed Office experience on PCs, Macs, tablets (including iPad® and Android™ tablet) and phones. Office 365 plans are available as a monthly or annual subscription. Learn more.
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You don’t need to be connected to the Internet to use Office applications, such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, because the applications are fully installed on your computer.
However, Internet access is required to install and activate all the latest releases of Office suites and all Office 365 subscription plans. For Office 365 plans, Internet access is also needed to manage your subscription account, for example to install Office on other PCs or to change billing options. Internet access is also required to access documents stored on OneDrive, unless you install the OneDrive desktop app.
You should also connect to the Internet regularly to keep your version of Office up to date and benefit from automatic upgrades. If you don’t connect to the Internet at least every 31 days, your applications will go into reduced functionality mode, which means that you can view or print your documents but cannot edit the documents or create new ones. To reactivate your Office applications, reconnect to the Internet.
Yes. Documents that you have created belong fully to you. You can choose to store them online on OneDrive or locally on your PC or Mac.
If you cancel your subscription or it expires, you can still access and download all your files by signing in to OneDrive directly using the Microsoft account you used to set up Office 365. You do lose the additional storage that comes with your subscription, so you must save your files elsewhere or buy more OneDrive storage if your OneDrive account exceeds the free storage quota.
If you purchase an auto-renew subscription, your subscription starts when you complete your purchase. You can purchase auto-renew subscriptions from Office365.com, MicrosoftStore.com, iTunes®, and some other retailers. If you purchase a pre-paid subscription, your subscription starts when you activate your subscription and land on your My Account page. You can purchase pre-paid subscriptions from a retailer or reseller, or a Microsoft support agent.
If you have an active Office 365 Home subscription, you can share it with up to four members of your household. Each household member you share your subscription with can use any of your available installs on their PCs, Macs, iPads, Android tablets, Windows tablets, iPhones® or Android phones, get an additional 1 TB of OneDrive storage, and manage their own installs from www.office.com/myaccount.
To add someone to your subscription, visit www.office.com/myaccount and follow the onscreen instructions to add a user. Each person you add will receive an email with the steps they need to follow. Once they have accepted and completed the steps, their information, including the installs they are using, will appear on your My Account page. You can stop sharing your subscription with someone or remove a device they are using at www.office.com/myaccount.
“The cloud” is a friendly way of describing web-based computing services that are hosted outside of your home or organization. When you use cloud-based services, your IT infrastructure resides off your property (off-premises), and is maintained by a third party (hosted), instead of residing on a server at your home or business (on-premises) that you maintain. With Office 365, for example, information storage, computation, and software are located and managed remotely on servers owned by Microsoft. Many services you use every day are a part of the cloud—everything from web-based email to mobile banking and online photo storage. Because this infrastructure is located online or “in the cloud,” you can access it virtually anywhere, from a PC, tablet, smartphone, or other device with an Internet connection.
You can create memorable and attractive presentations by using many of the templates that come with PowerPoint. Use the picture, shape, and graphic effects in these templates to add colorful, elegant, or playful backgrounds to your presentation.
Use a PowerPoint template with backgrounds to start a new presentation
Newer versionsOffice 2010Office 2007
To find a template with background images to begin a new presentation, do the following:
- Click File > New.
- In the search box, do one of the following:
- To browse a wide range of templates with backgrounds, search for 'Backgrounds.'
- For the background images shown above and more, search for the template called 'Backgrounds for PowerPoint slides.'
- For backgrounds specific to a theme, search on a keyword, such as 'mountains.'
- Click a template thumbnail, preview the slides by clicking the forward and back arrows, and then click Create when you find the template you want.
Note: You may want to use only a few of the slides from the template in your presentation. To remove the other slides from your presentation, press and hold CTRL, click the slides that you don't want, and then press DELETE.
For more information on how to apply a template to a new presentation, see the article Use a template to create a presentation quickly.
Powerpoint Templates
To find a template or slide with background images to begin a new presentation, do the following:
- Click File > New.
- In the search box, do one of the following:
- To browse a wide range of templates with backgrounds and individual slide backgrounds, search for 'Backgrounds.'
- For the background images shown above and more, search for the template called 'Backgrounds for PowerPoint slides.'
- For backgrounds specific to a theme, search on a keyword, such as 'mountains.'
- Choose a template or design slide that has the backgrounds you like, and then click Download.
Note: You may want to use only a few of the slides from the template in your presentation. To remove the other slides from your presentation, press and hold CTRL, click the slides that you don't want, and then press DELETE.
Free Templates For Microsoft Office Powerpoint 2007
For more information on how to apply a template to a new presentation, see the article Apply a template to your presentation.
To find a template or slide with background images to begin a new presentation, do the following:
Microsoft Office Templates
- Click the Microsoft Office Button , and then click New.
- In the New Presentation dialog box, in the search box, do one of the following:
- To browse a wide range of templates with backgrounds and individual slide backgrounds, search for 'Backgrounds.'
- For the background images shown above and more, search for the template called 'Backgrounds for PowerPoint slides.'
- For backgrounds specific to a theme, search on a keyword, such as 'mountains.'
- Choose a template or design slide that has the backgrounds you like, and then click OK.
Note: You may want to use only a few of the slides from the template in your presentation. To remove the other slides from your presentation, press and hold CTRL, click the slides that you don't want, and then press DELETE.