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| Don't tell them I told you how - (Helen Bradley) I am not a big fan of all singing all dancing PowerPoint presentations. However, one of the questions I get a lot is how to make a sound track play across multiple slides in Power... [more]
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| Color Contrast Calculator - (Dave Paradi) This calculator will determine whether two colors you are thinking of using on your slides have enough contrast to be seen clearly by the audience. The calculations are based on in... [more]
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| Quick Before-&-After slide - (Troy) Much of my time is spent interpretting information and creating a visual design that simplifies and makes it look 'nifty'. Here is a quick before-&-after from a recent presnentation.
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| Trouble with Flash Player... - (Troy) So I recently went through some issues installing a PowerPoint add-in. It relies on Flash, but did not recognize it was already installed. In troubleshooting I found a couple of nice tools... [more]
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| Demo: Change the color of hyperlink text - When slides in your presentation contain hyperlinks, you may want to change the color of the hyperlink text because you don't like the color that the theme has applied to it. Or you may want the ... [more]
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| Get Rid of That Mouse - (Troy) Recently while watching a presentation here is one of those little pet peeves that I just experienced. A movie plays on a slide and the computer mouse appears onscreen - usually sitting ri... [more]
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| Apply A Layout To PowerPoint Slides - (Diana Huggins) PowerPoint comes with many different layouts. This can save you a lot of time and effort when it comes to creating a presentation. Once you find a layout that you like, all you ha... [more]
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| What'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]
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| Vector Magic website - (Troy) So I recently discovered a truly amazing online tool - Vector Magic! This web 2.0 app will convert virtually any image to a true vector graphic. It is the result of research by a team at S... [more]
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| SlideManager - (Geetesh Bajaj) There are essentially three PowerPoint related tasks: you either create, give, or archive/share presentations. You know that keeping one or all three of these tasks organized is n... [more]
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| Hand-Drawn Charts in PowerPoint 2007 - (Helen Bradley) When you incorporate charts into a PowerPoint presentation the simplest way to do so is with the software's chart tool. However, sometimes the presentation lends itself to charts ... [more]
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| Grouped Images in PPT 2007 - (Troy) One of the great productivity updates in PPT 2007 is grouped images. Here is a set of three elements grouped:
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| Image Fun in PPT 2007 - (Troy) So with PPT 2007 we can quickly create fun, and editable, graphics. Using a stock photo and our sample image I quickly created this slide in about 45 seconds.
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| 3d bezier curves in 2007 - (Glen Millar) Shows you how to use PowerPoint's drawing and 3d tools to save time and use PowerPoint's own editing and creation tools.
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| Pictures In Autoshapes - (Troy) One of the creative things possible in earlier versions was to fill an autoshape (circle, rectangle, triangle, etc.) with an image. This required:
- creating the autoshape
- go through... [more]
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| The Answer Is Right In Front of You - (TJ Walker) I just spent two days helping a team of corporate executives rehearse major presentations. The company was in the process of trying to sell itself for a bundle of cash to a new group ... [more]
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| Modify 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]
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| End PowerPoint Slide Shows with a Black Slide - (Wendy Russell) How often have you been in the audience for a PowerPoint slide show and suddenly it was over? No indication that the end was here. Just last slide and it's done.
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| In the Blink of an Eye - (TJ Walker) When you stand up to speak you only have a split second, two to be exact, before your audience makes permanent opinions of you. In Malcolm Gladwell’s book, “Blink,” he documents a stu... [more]
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