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Author: Geetesh Bajaj
Product/Version: PowerPoint
September 03, 2010
This is a guest article by Jamie Garroch. Here's a convention challenging thought. PowerPoint isn't here to create presentations! At least not exclusively anyway. I read a lot of articles talking about the best way to create presentations yet PowerPoint can be used to do so many things, even create applications. To improve your skills and knowledge of PowerPoint, it's often a great idea to give yourself a seemingly impossible task. In this project, I decided to recreate the London Underground (tube/metro) system map entirely in PowerPoint, make it interactive and then link it to an Internet real-time update service.
September 03, 2010
Ellen Finkelstein is a Microsoft PowerPoint MVP and author of several PowerPoint, Flash, and AutoCAD books -- she has just launched a new free webinar series called the Outstanding Presentations Workshop. In this conversation, Ellen talks more about this webinar series.
September 02, 2010
Yesterday, we put up a tutorial on how you can mark a presentation as finalized in PowerPoint 2010. Today we add three more similar tutorials so that you can reverse the finalization and also do these tasks in PowerPoint 2007:
Learn how to apply Mark as Final to a presentation in PowerPoint 2007.
Learn how to remove Mark as Final from a presentation in PowerPoint 2010.
Learn how to remove Mark as Final from a presentation in PowerPoint 2007.
September 01, 2010
Emanuel Zügeris one of the founders of VIOSO GmbH and one of the managing directors together with Benjamin Fritsch. VIOSO offers solutions for projections, enabling an easy way to create stunning projections on complex surfaces as well as dealing with common projector issues. In this conversation, Emanuel discusses VIOSO Presenter, one of the products that VIOSO creates.
September 1, 2010
Once you create a presentation, you may need to share it. PowerPoint 2010 (and PowerPoint 2007) provide the Mark as Final option that makes your file read-only. I need to add that this is just a deterrent and nothing as restrictive as password protecting a PowerPoint presentation. Mark as Final tries to prevent users from typing, editing commands, and proofing -- all editing options are disabled or turned off. However, do remember that Mark as Final is not a security feature and it can be easily reversed.
Learn how to apply Mark as Final to a presentation in PowerPoint 2010.
August 30, 2010
Live Preview first made its debut in PowerPoint 2007, and continues being available in PowerPoint 2010 as well. Unfortunately, PowerPoint 2007 had no Live Previews for Chart Styles and that ability is not made available in PowerPoint 2010. Live Preview allows you to see/preview how an actual change will look on the slide before you decide to accept or decline that change.
Learn more about Live Preview in PowerPoint 2010.
August 27, 2010
Tim James founded SlideDynamic in 2009 and now focuses on product management. Prior to the acquisition of Macromedia by Adobe in 2005, Tim held positions in product marketing and management at Macromedia. Over the past 5 years he has worked in various consulting engagements for global organizations wishing to engage their on line visitors with persuasive and compelling experiences using Adobe Flash and Flex applications. The vision and mission at SlideDynamics is to define and lead the market in real-time PowerPoint experience management by delivering valuable presentation outcomes for PowerPoint presenters and their audiences.
August 27, 2010
For some reason, Slide Numbers cause more confusion and frustration to PowerPoint users than many other, more complicated features! That's probably because controls to tweak slide numbers are scattered all over PowerPoint -- and while the option you want is available in PowerPoint, it might not be where you expected to find it. In this series of tutorials on slide numbers, learn how you can add slide numbers, work with the Masters and Layouts so that slide numbers show up, and also control the actual numbering as well -- for instance, what if you want your slide numbers to start from 31, or if you want your 4th slide to number from 1? That's covered too.
Learn about slide numbers in PowerPoint 2003
Learn about slide numbers in PowerPoint 2007
Learn about slide numbers in PowerPoint 2010
August 27, 2010
There are many, many new users who have upgraded from PowerPoint 2003 to PowerPoint 2010 and encountered the Ribbon for the first time. Although most of them like how it looks, they would like to know more about what controls it offers. In addition, the Quick Access Toolbar offers customization options that can be immensely helpful. Learn about both these interface elements now.
Become familiar with the Ribbon in PowerPoint 2010.
Learn to customize the Quick Access Toolbar in PowerPoint 2010.
August 26, 2010
Harman Singh is the Founder and CEO of two Internet platforms - authorSTREAM and WiZiQ. authorSTREAM.com is a PowerPoint sharing platform striving to make your presentations sharable on the Web - whether they are viewed from desktops, mobile phones or tablets like iPad. authorSTREAM recently surpassed the million count in its membership -- Harman discusses the million members celebrations and more exclusively in this conversation.
August 26, 2010
When you click the File menu and access Backstage view in PowerPoint 2010, you are presented with several options. The simplest options are those that open and close files and exit the program. Yet even these have abilities that are not visible on the surface -- the Open option for instance has as many as 6 variants.
Learn more about PowerPoint 2010's file open options.
August 25, 2010
If you have a new Windows Mobile equipped phone, or if you are considering
buying a new phone -- then you must look at how PowerPoint Mobile
2010 works with the free Presentation Companion add-in for PowerPoint
2007 and 2010. Chances are this factor is powerful enough to influence
your decision!
We bring you all the info you need, from getting
started with Presentation Companion to setting
the actual connections with PowerPoint Mobile 2010 -- finally we show you
how you can control
the presentation itself from PowerPoint Mobile.
Thanks to Rohit Bhatia of Microsoft who helped me with my questions on this feature.
August 25, 2010
Typically you can start your slide numbering with any number -- so yes, your first slide can be numbered fourth. But what if you want the opposite -- maybe you want your fourth slide to be numbered first! This question was asked on Microsoft Answers, and Chirag Dalal of OfficeOne had an awesome answer, excerpted here with his permission.
Learn how you can make your fourth slide behave like your first slide.
August 25, 2010
Just yesterday, Abdelkader Aissaoui provided us with a sample animated slide that demonstrated an Airport Flight Schedule Counter. And now he provides us with a Scratch Card that you can actually scratch inside PowerPoint! This slide mimics how you would scratch a card to reveal some numbers -- either as a pay phone card that he illustrates -- or even as a scratch card that promises a reward.
Please feel free to download this presentation and change your own "scratched message" as required.
August 25, 2010
PowerPoint can save to an amazing number of file types -- but it can also open 23 file types! Although that sounds like a large number of file formats, more than half that number comprise PowerPoint's own formats that Microsoft has created over the years. And of course, they need to make sure with every release that all those formats continue to be accepted! They haven't been that kind to non-Microsoft formats although you can still import WordPerfect outlines (yes, I was surprised to see that too!).
See the entire list of files that PowerPoint 2010 can open.
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