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Quickly move extra text onto its own slide in PowerPoint
Crowded slides are guaranteed to send your audience scrambling for the exits. Luckily, PowerPoint makes it easy to scoot excess text onto a new slide. by Susan Harkins
Tags: Toolbar, Slide, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Susan Harkins
Blog posts 2008-07-22
Easily change PowerPoint's default bullets
Bullets are easy to insert in all Office applications, but the default bullet might not make the right impression in a PowerPoint presentation. Change bullets quickly and easily. by Susan Harkins
Tags: Bullet, Microsoft PowerPoint, Default Bullet, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Susan Harkins
Blog posts 2008-07-07
Seven keyboard shortcuts to help make your PowerPoint slide shows glitch-free
You don't need to get distracted by the mechanics of presenting a slide show. Learn just a few shortcuts and you can focus on your audience and your message instead. by Jody Gilbert
Tags: Slideshow, Microsoft PowerPoint, Keyboard Shortcut, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals, Jody Gilbert
Blog posts 2008-07-07
PowerPoint guidelines at a click
PowerPoint guidelines help you measure distances between objects so you can position them in an orderly fashion on your slides, but there are only two by default. Learn how to get more. by Susan Harkins
Tags: Microsoft PowerPoint, Guide, Guides, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Susan Harkins
Blog posts 2008-06-13
How to add descriptive text to a PowerPoint slide
Slides highlight or emphasize information that the presenter elaborates on during the actual presentation. After all, you can't put everything on slides. When you want to provide additional information, but you don't want to include it in the actual slide show, use notes. In Normal view, you can enter notes...
Tags: IBM Lotus Notes, Note, Microsoft PowerPoint, E-mail Servers, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, Groupware, Word Processors, Enterprise Software, Software, Office Suites, Susan Harkins
Blog posts 2008-05-19
How do I... Spice up a list in a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation?
Most of us use bullets or numbers to introduce specific ideas or points. There's nothing wrong with them, but they are rather ordinary. In a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation, you might want to forgo the ordinary and go with something a bit more novel, and certainly unexpected. The...
Tags: Item, Arrow, Slide, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Corp., Figure D, Figure J, Figure K, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Susan Harkins
Blog posts 2008-05-13
Energy Camp trades PowerPoints for user discussions to explore Green IT
On Monday, the day before the main events of Interop Las Vegas 2008 officially kicked off, a group of about 70 professionals from the technology industry huddled up for an unconference called Energy Camp, which used a free-wheeling, user-driven format to explore the issues of energy efficiency and Green IT....
Tags: Idea, Green IT, Microsoft PowerPoint, Attendee, Conference, Data Centers, Corporate Governance, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Jason Hiner
Blog posts 2008-04-30
How to trim down the size of your PowerPoint presentation
PowerPoint presentation files can grow quickly. Graphics files, music, and all those custom instructions really add up. There are a few things you can do to reduce the file's size: Reduce all graphics files to 96 dpi if you don't need to print them directly from...
Tags: Microsoft PowerPoint, File, PowerPoint Presentation, Gif, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Susan Harkins
Blog posts 2008-04-14
How do I... Add music and narration to a PowerPoint presentation?
The best presentations engage the audience using a number of creative tools. Sound effects, such as music and voice recordings can mean the difference between a good presentation and an outstanding presentation. You can energize your audience with a quick tempo, play your company's latest jingle, or add narration to...
Tags: Microsoft PowerPoint, Icon, File, PowerPoint Presentation, Music, Option, Presentation, Insert, OK, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Susan Harkins
Blog posts 2008-03-04
How do I... Share a PowerPoint presentation for comments and changes?
Most of us don't have the creative expertise to put together a professional presentation without a little help. In fact, many people within your organization may view your presentation before it gets a final stamp of approval. You could meet with colleagues in a conference room so everyone can comment...
Tags: Author, Microsoft PowerPoint, PowerPoint Presentation, News, Presentation, Send, Review, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Susan Harkins
Blog posts 2008-02-27
How do I... Create and manage PowerPoint table data?
Tables are great for communicating and organizing data in a meaningful way. They're also efficient. You can substitute several lists with a single table and your viewers will spend less time pursuing a table than several single column lists. In Microsoft PowerPoint, tables can be a bit...
Tags: Data, Row, Column, Microsoft PowerPoint, Cell, Table, Figure D, Center Tool, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Susan Harkins
Blog posts 2008-02-12
10 keyboard shortcuts for working with PowerPoint slides
Creating a PowerPoint presentation means juggling a lot of pieces -- moving, formatting, and editing objects such as AutoShapes, pictures, text boxes, and the slides themselves. It's not always immediately apparent how to select one of these items or how to navigate within it. Here are a few indispensable keyboard...
Tags: Box, Microsoft PowerPoint, Keyboard Shortcut, Object, Ctrl, Keyboards, Microsoft Office, Hardware, Peripherals, Office Suites, Software, Jody Gilbert
Blog posts 2008-02-05
How to avoid a potential problem with disappearing hyperlinks in PowerPoint 2007
PowerPoint controls the way a hyperlink looks, but it's easy to work around that limitation by covering the hyperlink text with an AutoShape, adding the hyperlink to the AutoShape, and then making the AutoShape disappear. The original text that you meant to hyperlink is all the user sees. You can...
Tags: Hyperlink, Microsoft PowerPoint, AutoShape, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Susan Harkins
Blog posts 2008-01-22
How to select small or covered objects in PowerPoint
Even the best of us can lose an object or two in PowerPoint. Sometimes, you purposely stack objects to hide something. Other times, objects are just small and hard to find. When an object seems to have gone astray, you can quickly find it by first pressing Esc to make...
Tags: Microsoft PowerPoint, Object, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Susan Harkins
Blog posts 2008-01-11
How to display a graphic on every slide, or not, in a PowerPoint presentation
Great tip - another solutionI think this tip will work well with some of my presentations, but the question at the end of the article said there was no way to choose just one graphic if there were multiples on the master.A solution to this issue would be to create...
Tags: Merlirin, Microsoft PowerPoint
Discussion threads 2007-11-21
Powerpoint Files from Office 2007
My daughter at college is sending Powerpoint 2007 files to others in school and i told her to save them as office 97-2003 so others could open. The word docs are fine but not the powerpoints. Any suggestions?thanks for any helpre: Powerpoint 2007 filesTo ensure others can view the files,...
Tags: Microsoft Office, clf4man@..., Microsoft PowerPoint, PowerPoint 2007, Microsoft Office 2007
Discussion threads 2007-11-17
10 tricks for working more effectively in PowerPoint
What is 'effectively'?I couldn't quite make up my mind whether 'effectively' in the title was meant to belong more to 'working' or 'PowerPoint' as representing the continuum of activity from design to presentation.I concluded from the tips that it was probably the former, although these wouldn't all have made my...
Tags: steve.hards@..., Microsoft PowerPoint, presentation delivery
Discussion threads 2007-11-13
Powerpoint Install issue
Fellow IT professionals, TechRepublic members, and forum moderators, I work for a commercial contracting and design firm known as Kustom inc. I do general contracting, CAD work, research, and presentations. I use powerpoint to incorporate and present the CAD drawings that I export in wmf format. ...
Tags: CAD, Microsoft Office, zach@..., Microsoft PowerPoint
Discussion threads 2007-11-01
PowerPoint programming
I have 3 objects (1 square, 1 triangle and 1 circle) in my powerpoint slide. Can anyone tell me how to create a program that can identify what the user click. Let's say if the user click on square it will display a message "You just selected the square".I appreciate...
Tags: KuyaAnton, user click, Microsoft PowerPoint, programming
Discussion threads 2007-10-27
Powerpoint
I am wondering why I cannot custom animate a linked chart in Powerpoint. I would like to understand the reasoning for this?
Tags: Microsoft Office, w0025716@..., Microsoft PowerPoint
Discussion threads 2007-10-18


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