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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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| Nuclear 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]
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| Change 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]
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| PowerPoint 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]
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| Demo: 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]
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| Out 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]
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| How 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]
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| WildPresenter - (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]
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| Try 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]
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| PowerPoint 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]
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| PowerFinish 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]
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| B2B 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]
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| Shadow 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]
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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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| Text 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]
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| Image 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]
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| PowerPoint -> 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]
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| Create 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]
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| Install 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]
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| PowerPoint 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]
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| Word 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]
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| Inserting 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]
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| Reduce 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]
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| PowerPoint 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]
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