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Available to MembersAvailable to Registered GuestsMac Automation: automating Microsoft PowerPoint 2008 - (Cory Bohon) Welcome to the 3rd Microsoft Office 2008 automation post. Previously we covered automating Excel 2008 and Word 2008, now we shine the spotlight on PowerPoint 2008. In this how-to, I ... [more]

Available to MembersAvailable to Registered GuestsDemo: Leave a good impression; distribute a business presentation on CD - Want to truly impress your customers with a multimedia presentation about your business? You can easily make your Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 presentations more portable by burning them onto... [more]

Available to MembersAvailable to Registered GuestsChange the action settings of a button, picture, or clip art - You can change the action settings if a picture, clip art, or button shape has an action assigned to it (such as move to next slide, move to previous slide, go to the last slide of the show, or g... [more]

Available to MembersAvailable to Registered GuestsWhat's new in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 - To help you produce professional-looking presentations, Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 provides a comprehensive set of features that you can use to create and format your information. You can c... [more]

Available to MembersAvailable to Registered GuestsNuclear Fission Slide - (Troy) So here was my task - take this image (a very low quality .jpg)and turn it into an animated slide to support the speaker's analogy ("like nuclear fission, it all starts with one, and from ... [more]

Available to MembersAvailable to Registered GuestsChange or delete a placeholder - Placeholders are boxes with dotted borders that hold content in its place on a slide layout. You can change a placeholder by resizing it, repositioning it, or changing the font, size, case, color... [more]

Available to MembersAvailable to Registered GuestsCoding in PowerPoint - how to get syntax highlighted code into PowerPoint slides + a hint at future bits  - (Angus Logan) hate seeing code/xml/ any type of markup without highlighting - its nasty and if I wanted to notepad I would.

Available to MembersAvailable to Registered GuestsPowerPoint Tips: Slide and Title Masters - (Helen Bradley) Whatever tools you can find to speed up your day’s work are tools well worth owning. PowerPoint has its share of features that reduce the time it takes to create and format a pres... [more]

Available to MembersAvailable to Registered GuestsDemo: Set the stage for your presentation - The Beyond Bullet Points method is a powerful new presentation strategy that helps you model your Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 presentations as performances. This strategy keeps your message ... [more]

Available to MembersAvailable to Registered GuestsOut Loud - (Rands) It’s the calm before the presentation storm. Over the next three months, I’ve got four different presentations at Webstock and SXSW. I’m also the best man at a wedding in Washington, all ... [more]

Available to MembersAvailable to Registered GuestsHow to Make a Quiz in PowerPoint - (Anthony) Even though we offer very powerful quizmaker software (including Test Pro Developer, and Weblearning), sometimes, using a quizmaker software product is not an option. For example, maybe... [more]

Available to MembersAvailable to Registered GuestsWildPresenter - (Geetesh Bajaj) There are many advantages in converting a PowerPoint presentation into a Flash SWF movie since they tend to be smaller in size, cannot be edited, and can easily be viewed in almos... [more]

Available to MembersAvailable to Registered GuestsTry design variations  - (Ellen Finkelstein) Designers have an excellent sense of color, but even they try out variations to see which looks best. Those of us who are not designers absolutely need to create variations of... [more]

Available to MembersAvailable to Registered GuestsPowerPoint Tip: Making Accessible Slides  - (Dave Paradi) Last year I worked on a project for my publisher, Prentice Hall, that was interesting and highly informative. The topic was how to make PowerPoint presentations accessible to those ... [more]

Available to MembersAvailable to Registered GuestsPowerFinish Templates Volume 6  - (Geetesh Bajaj) Millions of presentations may be created each day, but you may only see a few each week. And even then they all look the same to you. Your newspaper changes their layouts, web sit... [more]

Available to MembersAvailable to Registered GuestsB2B Branding with PowerPoint - (Kevin Levi) Branding is an imperative in business today if you intend to make your company stand out from the crowd. Many businesses (large or entrepreneurial) take this to mean a slick logo or ... [more]

Available to MembersAvailable to Registered GuestsDownload YouTube Videos to Use in PowerPoint Presentations - (Wendy Russell) While it is faster to simply link to a YouTube video that will play in your PowerPoint presentation, the down side of this is that you must have a live internet connection for the... [more]

Available to MembersAvailable to Registered GuestsQuick, Try This: Secrets of the PowerPoint Status Bar - View Switching - (Ric Bretschneider) There's a category of software functionality that, despite the best intention of the designers and developers, somehow never seems to make it into general use.

Available to MembersAvailable to Registered GuestsShadow Presets - (Troy) One of the great decisions on the Microsoft design team was to make most features have a set of presets - the most common ways to use that feature (of course the better would be to allow t... [more]

Available to MembersAvailable to Registered GuestsApply An Animation Scheme to a PowerPoint 2003 Presentation - (Wendy Russell) Select the slide(s) you want to apply the animation scheme to in the Outline / Slides task pane at the left of the screen.

Available to MembersAvailable to Registered GuestsLive Webcast: Top 10 Tips for Effective Online Presentations - Web seminars and other interactive Web events are important channels for sharing useful information and extending your organization's reach. But how do you plan for and execute a successful onlin... [more]

Available to MembersAvailable to Registered GuestsCreate Enhanced Podcast Movies for a Cell Phone with PowerPoint  - (Liz Kolb) Recently I posted about putting PowerPoint slides on Cell phones (see Doug Belshaw's blog, he created a wonderful tutorial). Since then I have been "playing" with the idea and have dev... [more]

Available to MembersAvailable to Registered GuestsModify Text Preset Visual Effects - (Troy) All of the presets are based on the template color scheme. But perhaps you like one effect, but it is not in the needed color - here the subtle gradient and subtle reflection are the effec... [more]

Available to MembersAvailable to Registered GuestsText Heavy Slides Annoy Audiences Survey Says - (Dave Paradi) In the third Annoying PowerPoint Survey that wrapped up a week ago, the major conclusion is that we are suffering through an epidemic of overloaded text slides – and we are not happ... [more]

Available to MembersAvailable to Registered GuestsImage Fills to Text - (Troy) Just like a shape, an image can be used for the fill on text. Here is an example where I selected the text desired and filled with an abstract image that becomes further abstract by being ... [more]

Available to MembersAvailable to Registered GuestsPowerPoint -> PDF (Part 2)  - (Neil Mitchell) After writing a VBA Macro to convert a PowerPoint with animation into a flat PowerPoint without animation (suitable for conversion to PDF), I wrote my talk. After writing my talk ... [more]

Available to MembersAvailable to Registered GuestsCreate a visual menu  - (Ellen Finkelstein) I recently gave to workshop seminars at a conference in Scottsdale, Arizona. Both were on Creating Effective Presentations, but one was called PowerPoint 101, for intermediate... [more]

Available to MembersAvailable to Registered GuestsInstall and run PowerPoint Viewer 2003 - To run a presentation on a computer on which Microsoft Office PowerPoint is not installed, or to distribute a self-contained presentation to an audience that might not have PowerPoint installed, ... [more]

Available to MembersAvailable to Registered GuestsPowerPoint Makeover 7: No Bullets Presentation - (Echo Swinford and Geetesh Bajaj) For this makeover, I used an award-winning presentation created by the team of Scott Schwertly and Cheree Moore at Ethos3 Communications (www.ethos3.com). I wish... [more]

Available to MembersAvailable to Registered GuestsWord Capitalization in Emacs and PowerPoint - (Maverick Woo) One of my favorite keyboard shortcuts in PowerPoint is Shift-F3. It rotates the capitalization of the current word among lowercased, Capitalized and UPPERCASED. Note that you do no... [more]

Available to MembersAvailable to Registered GuestsInserting Sound Files in a PowerPoint Slide - (Peter Weverka) To play sound in a PowerPoint 2007 presentation, you insert a sound file in a slide. How and when the sound is heard is up to you. You can make the sound file play automatically w... [more]

Available to MembersAvailable to Registered GuestsReduce the size of your PowerPoint 2007 images  - (Helen Bradley) When you're emailing PowerPoint presentations or displaying them on a computer screen you don't need or want overly large images. To avoid this, compress the images in your presen... [more]

Available to MembersAvailable to Registered GuestsPowerPoint Tip: Visual Slide Definition  - (Dave Paradi) This past week I created a new definition of a visual slide that captures where my position is different from some others. Here is my definition: "A visual slide is not the absen... [more]

Available to MembersAvailable to Registered GuestsCropping a Non Uniform Shape from a Picture  - People on the PowerPoint NG often ask how to crop a picture in PowerPoint. The crop tool provided will only crop rectangular shapes which is often not what is required.

Available to MembersAvailable to Registered GuestsCreate a library of slides to build presentations from (slide repository) - (Stephen Rindsberg) You've created dozens or hundreds of slides and presentations over the years and now find yourself re-creating slides that you know you've already made already. Sometime or ot... [more]

Available to MembersAvailable to Registered Guests8 Mistakes Made When Presenting With PowerPoint and How to Correct Them  - (Patricia Fripp and Jim Prost) How would you answer this multiple-choice question? Which of the following statements best describes your view about presenting using Power Point?


   



 
 
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