Stick it in Word

Arrange the windows so that both applications can be seen.
(Right-click an empty area of the Task bar and choose "Tile Windows Vertically."

Type your introductory text in the Word document.

Switch to PowerPoint and open the PowerPoint file.

In Slide Sorter View, hold down the Ctrl key and select the slides you want to include.

Drag the selected group of slides onto the Word document.

You will only see the first slide in the document, but if you double-click on the image, the PowerPoint show will run.

It will also work in Excel.

(This, of course assumes that the target machine has PowerPoint or PowerPoint Viewer installed)

[Edited entry from 1/8/2005]




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PowerPoint in Access

"Create a PowerPoint slide presentation from scratch using Access data. In addition, display and control a slide show from within an Access form. Walk through the solution and explore ways to extend the sample for your own applications.

This article looks at two ways of interaction between Access and PowerPoint.

The first sample illustrates how to create a PowerPoint presentation from the data in an Access table using Automation.

The second sample shows how to display and manipulate an existing PowerPoint presentation inside of an Access form, also using Automation."

Here is an MSDN article:
Working with PowerPoint Presentations from Access Using Automation

If you have some knowledge of VBA, you can probably figure it out from the code on the Access Form.



Office 2003 Sample:
Working with PowerPoint 2003 Presentations from Access 2003 Using Automation


[Edited entry from 1/13/2005]




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Make it so

"Here's a Power User column for teachers. Want to involve your students more in a presentation? Set up "triggers" for them to click as they go through the show. Triggers (related to animations) let you add surprise to your slides while inviting your viewer to take part and have fun."

Indezine.com:
Trigger Animations

All 'Bout Computers:
Trigger Happy Animations in PowerPoint

[Edited entry from 12/24/2004]




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Free Holiday templates

Template Ready:
Christmas FREE PowerPoint Template

Microsoft office:
Holiday templates

Presenters University:
(Free login)
Holiday templates

Brainy Betty:
Christmas and Holiday Themed Templates

Sonia Coleman:
Free PowerPoint Templates

[Edited entry from 12/15/2004]




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We're all in this together

PowerPoint Newsgroup:
Discussions in PowerPoint General Questions

WOPR.com:
Lounge - PowerPoint board

TechRepublic.com
Office Questions

TheOfficeExperts.com:
Office Experts - PowerPoint

RDPSlides.com:
How do I join the PowerPoint newsgroup?

Presentation Helper

[Edited entry from 11/5/2004]




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Suggestions

• Writing Skills
  
• Research and Documentation St yles
  
• Grammar and Mechanics
  
• Business/ Professional Writing
  
• Agricultural Economics/Cooperative Extension

Cross-referencing: Using MLA Format

This presentation teaches your students the purposes of MLA documentation, as well as methods for using parenthetical citations and a Works Cited page. This presentation is an important addition for the beginning of a research unit in a humanities course or any assignment that requires MLA documentation. (Writer and Designer: Jennifer Liethen Kunka)

Documenting Sources: Using APA Format

This presentation reviews the purposes of APA documentation, as well as methods for effectively using parenthetical citations and a reference page. This presentation is ideal for the begin ning of a research unit in a science course or any assignment that requires APA documentation. (Writer and Designer: Jennifer Liethen Kunka).

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Choose your own location

Word

you can change the default location by going to Tools>Options. On the "File Locations" tab you can modify the storage location.

Excel

Tools>Options. On the "General" tab change the default location.

PowerPoint

uses Tools>Options and the "Save" tab.

Access

Tools>Options and the "General" tab for Databases and Projects

Publisher

Tools>Options "General".

Outlook

will make you take an underground tour into the Registry to change the location to save e-mail attachments.

FrontPage/Expression Web

appears to require the same sort of spelunking.

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By Cliff Atkinson

About the Author
Cliff Atkinson is a leading authority on how to improve communications across organizations using Microsoft PowerPoint. He is a popular keynote speaker, a writer, and an independent management consultant whose clients include companies ranking in the top five of the Fortune 500. He is president of Sociable Media in Los Angeles.

Cliff teaches at UCLA Extension, is a senior contributor for the MarketingProfs newsletter, and writes the Beyond Bullets weblog, at BeyondBullets.com.
Also see SociableMedia.com

Book Description
PowerPoint owns the presentation world. We've been cocooned by a blue gradient screen with six or more bullet points feeding information.
Or so we've been lulled to believe.
(see Edward Tufte's dissection of the Columbia PowerPoint disaster)

Cliff Atkinson takes a well researched, but almost heretical stand that a presentation is a story and that too much data plastered on the screen, dulls the audience's soul and actually reduces comprehension and retention.

Beyond Bullets walks the reader through the story process and provides tools to structure presentations to have the maximum impact.

The "PowerPoint" part of the process is easy to follow, even for a novice. The story telling sections will help improve the most experienced speaker's show.

Quote

"But what might not be evident in the simplicity of this slide is what happens when the audience experiences it along with your verbal explanation. Because the slide design is simple, the audience can quickly scan the headline and visual and understand the idea. Then their attention turns to the place you want it. — to you, the words you're saying, and the way the information relates to them. Instead of making everything explicit and obvious on the slides, you can leave the slides open to interpretation so the audience is dependent on you, and you on them.

What (the experts are) saying, basically, is that slides filled with bullet points create obstacles between presenters and audiences. You might want to be natural and relaxed when you present, but people say that bullet points make the atmosphere formal and stiff. You might aim to be clear and concise, but people often walk away from these presentations feeling confused and unclear. And you might intend to display the best of your critical thinking on a screen, but people say that bullet points "dumb down" the important discourse that needs to happen for our society to function well.

Somewhere in our collective presentation experience, we're not connecting the dots between presenters and audiences by using the conventional bullet points approach. This issue is of rising concern not only to individuals and audiences - even the major players of large organizations are taking notice of the problem. It seems that in every location where people meet, from small meeting rooms to board rooms to conference halls, people want a change."

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Heresy!

"It was a gamble. And it gave us pause. Could we give a PowerPoint presentation and use NO BULLET POINTS? Could we divorce ourselves from the tried and true - and deadly boring? We decided to try."

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Noise and motion

• Animate text or objects
  
  
• Add sound effects to an animation or hyperlink
  
  
• Use sample animations in your presentation
  

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Repair PowerPoint 2003 charts

"Consider the following scenario:

• You apply a design theme to a presentation in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007.
  
• You insert an embedded Microsoft Office Excel chart object into a slide in the presentation.
  
• You save the presentation in the PowerPoint 97-2003 Presentation (*.ppt) format.

In this scenario, when you open the presentation in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 and then edit the chart, the theme information that is applied to the chart is lost. Instead, the default Microsoft Office color theme is applied to the embedded Excel chart object. Additionally, the text in the chart changes, and the chart shrinks.

Note This problem also occurs if you create a .doc file by using Microsoft Office Word 2007. Then, when you edit the chart object in Microsoft Office Word 2003, you experience these symptoms."

"To work around this problem, use one of the following methods:

• Do not edit the chart in PowerPoint 2003.
  
• If you edit the chart in PowerPoint 2003, remove the chart. Then, use PowerPoint 2007 to reinsert the chart."

Knowledgebase 945002



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Go back

"When you use Windows Explorer or the desktop to create a new 2007 Microsoft Office file, a new Office file is created in an XML file format (.dox or .xlsx). For example, this behavior occurs when you right-click the desktop, you point to New, and then you click Microsoft Office Word Document. By default, files that you create in the 2007 Office system are in XML file formats.

This article is about how to create legacy Office files, such as .doc files, .xls files, .ppt files, or .mdb files in the 2007 Office system. You can create legacy Office files without opening any Office applications. To do this, you must modify some settings. The modified settings will apply to all the users who log on to the computer."

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An easier read

Use named arguments for cleaner VBA code.

Most likely, you use positional arguments when working with VBA functions. For instance, to create a message box, you probably use a statement that adheres to the following syntax:

 MsgBox(prompt[, buttons] [, title] [, helpfile, context])

MsgBox "Hello World!", , "My Message Box"

MsgBox Title:="My Message Box", _
       Prompt:="Hello World!"

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Show suggestions

One spot that has a lot of information and free downloads is
Presenters University

Here's a collection of tips that may help:
15 Minute Guide to Winning Presentations

Microsoft Small Business:
Presenting with PowerPoint: 10 do's and don'ts
By Cherie Kerr

PresentationPointers.com
Summary of Article Sections

Communicating Effectively

Articles and tips - on all aspects of public speaking, formal, informal presentations and meetings; overcoming fear, fielding questions, hostile audiences, effective techniques, using anecdotes, spellbinding speeches, using multimedia for impact.

Building A Presentation

Tips and articles on using powerpoint and other presentation and related programs includes a data base of tips and tech notes from Microsofts Powerpoint related sites. Effective handouts, planning and using projectors.

Planning A Presentation

Articles to assist in the formative stages of creating a great impression. Hiring a speaker, what to include in your presentation, making a presentation memorable.

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How big should you go?

"For example, if you're using a 60 inch screen and have 32 point text on your slides, the furthest someone should be is 57 feet from the screen."

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Hearing and vision enhanced

With PowerPoint presentations becoming more of a standard way to communicate information of all types, we need to keep in mind that our first responsibility is to our audience. We need to use the ideas above to make sure that we make our presentation accessible for everyone.

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A type change

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Connect with other PowerPoint users

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Portable PowerPoint

Here is the download location for the PowerPoint 2003 Viewer:

Microsoft 2003 PowerPoint Viewer

Here's the PowerPoint 2007 viewer:
PP 2007 Viewer

Microsoft:
What happened to Pack and Go?

How to package and copy a presentation to a CD in PowerPoint 2003

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 a CD. By including the new free PowerPoint 2003 presentation viewer on the CD, presentations can be distributed to and viewed by audiences who do not use Microsoft Office."

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Video + Free code

"Learn tips and use sample code for several Office applications. These tips can help you to be more productive and can also be a starting point for developing your own tools, utilities and techniques."

• Update Word Document Statistics in the Title Bar
  
• Create Outlook Rules Programmatically
  
• Delete Repeated Text Throughout a Word Document
  
• Run Macros Based on the Value of One or More Excel Spreadsheet Cells
  
• Disable Related Controls on a PowerPoint Slide After a User Clicks an Input Control
  
• Display Reminder Information When a User Opens an Office Document
  
• Synchronize an Access Main Form to a Subform and Vice Versa
  
• Log Worksheet Changes to an XML File
  
• Merge Body Text from Multiple Outlook E-mail Messages to a Word Document
  
• Use the Office Assistant as an Alternative to Displaying and Retrieving User Input

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Fresh material

Luckily, there are generous folk who supply fresh material.

Sonia Coleman is one of the best.

She presents over 200 templates for download.

Free PowerPoint Templates

Explore the rest of her site including the Gallery section

Also see:

PoweredTemplates.com

[Edited entry from 10/21/2004]


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No cost

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Imbedded videos

"Use this to insert YouTube videos into a PowerPoint slide. All you need to do is to provide the YouTube video URL that appears in the browser address bar, the rest is taken care of by the YTV Wizard.

Note: YouTube videos are streamed so a live internet connection is required to playback the video during the slideshow. Use the free FlashBack add-in to play/rewind the YouTube video automatically."

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Bigger and better (?)

"In this release, we have increased that maximum to 75x75 within the UI.

We were able to do this because we made the decision to move away from the metaphor of a table simply being a group of shapes, as it was in previous versions.
This has been one of the largest enabling factors in our performance gains, and as a result, tables are workable at sizes much greater than that of 25x25.

A tradeoff made in order to obtain these gains in performance was the ability to "ungroup" a table.

While this tradeoff means that there are a set of scenarios no longer present, specifically the ability to ungroup a table to animate individual pieces, we feel that the performance gains (not to mention all the other aspects talked about in this section of the blog) along with the ability to use multiple tables and/or shapes in these scenarios will benefit users in a much greater way."

PowerPoint Tables

It can still be done:

Workaround for animating a table:

1. Right-click the table, choose Save as Picture
   
   
2. Save as EMF (choose EMF from the "save as type dropdown list)
   
   
3. InsertPicture, insert the EMF
   
   
4. Ungroup the EMF twice
   
   
5. Now regroup the parts you need to animate -- rows, columns, or whatever

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Portable hints

There are several potential problem areas:

• Recipients who don't have PowerPoint
  
• PowerPoint version compatibility
  
• Links - to images, sounds, movies and OLE content (graphs, charts, spreadsheets, Word pages etc.)
  
• Sound and movie compatibility
  
• Fonts
  
• Timing/Synchronization
  
• VBA code and Controls
  
• Recipients using assistive technology

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Send outline to PowerPoint

For Microsoft Office 2007

Word 2007 doesn't allow you to publish to PowerPoint 2007 by default.
Here's the solution:

After you are done in Word 2007, save it as a Word document.

Now open PowerPoint 2007.

Click on the Office Button at the top left hand corner.

Click Open.

Under Files of type, select All Outlines.

Now select the Word document and click Open.

Alternately,

In Word 2007, right click on the ribbon.

Select Customize Quick Access Toolbar.

Under "Choose commands from:", select Commands not in the ribbon.

Look for "Send to Microsoft Office PowerPoint".

Click OK.

The command will then be added onto the Quick Access Toolbar (QAT).

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Presentation alternative

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Office Wide

"Automation (formerly known as OLE Automation) is a feature of the Component Object Model (COM), an industry-standard technology that applications use to expose their objects, methods, and properties to development tools, macro languages, and other applications.

For example, a spreadsheet application might expose a worksheet, chart, cell, or range of cells--each as a different type of object. A word processor might expose objects such as an application, document, paragraph, bookmark, or sentence.

When an application supports Automation, the objects that the application exposes can be accessed through Visual Basic. You can use Visual Basic to manipulate the objects by invoking methods or by getting and setting properties of the objects."

Here's an example:

Inserting Data into a Microsoft Word Document

With Automation code, you can open a Microsoft Word document and move to a bookmark location in the document. The following example opens a Microsoft Word document and inserts text after a bookmark.

This example assumes that you have Microsoft Word on your computer, that you have an existing document called C:\My Documents\WordTest.doc, and that the document contains a pre-defined bookmark named City.

Sub FindBMark()

   Dim wordApp As Word.Application
   Dim wordDoc As Word.Document
   Dim wordRange As Word.Range

   Set wordApp = CreateObject("Word.Application")
   Set wordDoc = wordApp.Documents.Open("C:\My Documents\Wordtest.doc")

   wordApp.Visible = True

   ' Go to the bookmark named "City".
   Set wordRange = wordDoc.Goto(What:=wdGoToBookmark, Name:="City")
   wordRange.InsertAfter "Los Angeles"

   ' Print the document.
   wordDoc.PrintOut Background:=False

   ' Save the modified document.
   wordDoc.Save

   ' Quit Word without saving changes to the document.
   wordApp.Quit SaveChanges:=wdDoNotSaveChanges

   Set wordApp = Nothing

End Sub

Microsoft Support provides an entire Help file to assist you. It includes theory and examples.

The file is called XPAutomation.chm.

Download it and then double click on the file to run it. You could also set up a shortcut on the desk top, if it will be used frequently.


Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 302460

This was aimed at Office 2002 but it can be used with later versions:

• Microsoft Access
  
• Microsoft Excel
  
• Microsoft Outlook
  
• Microsoft PowerPoint
  
• Microsoft Word

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It's mouse and keyboard quick!

"At the bottom left hand corner of PowerPoint (bottom right for PowerPoint 2007), you will see 3 mini buttons. They are: Normal View, Slide Sorter View, and Slide Show. Now here's a quick trick:

When you hover over these 3 mini buttons, hold down the Shift key. The mini buttons will now become Slide Master view, Handout Master view, and Set Up Show respectively."

The Setup Show is on the Slide Show tab in the Setup group. The Shift key is a cooler way to bring it up quickly.



The Art of PowerPoint-ing

Thanks to Lucy, an MOS Master Instructor from Australia; aneasiertomorrow.com.au.



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Exchange the future and the past

"Microsoft has added new file formats to Microsoft Office Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007. To help ensure that you can exchange documents between Microsoft Office releases, Microsoft has developed a Compatibility Pack for the Office Word, Office Excel, and Office PowerPoint 2007 File Formats"

Use earlier versions of Excel, PowerPoint, and Word to open and save files from 2007 Office programs

Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007



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Convert PP to Acrobat

How to Create Slide Shows and Self-running Kiosks in Acrobat

"First, make sure you're using the right Acrobat software. With Acrobat Standard, you can add sound to documents but you can't import video clips. To create documents containing both video and sound, you'll need to use Acrobat Professional, which contains all the tools necessary for integrating media in PDF documents.

Acrobat is not a presentation-authoring program, so you'll need to use an application like PowerPoint to create your presentation. Some people use page-layout software to create presentations, but for animated effects, PowerPoint is the easiest tool for adding motion to both text and objects.

Add your desired animation and motion effects in PowerPoint before exporting to PDF. The visuals you create in PowerPoint display in an Acrobat viewer after PDF creation as long as you follow a few rules."

PlanetPDF offers other Acrobat tricks.

There is also:
Acrobat Reader Slideshow.pdf

PDFzone.com

[Edited entry from 10/5/2004]



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Animate charts

Here's one take from PPTWorkBench.com:
Complex Animations

This tutorial is an example of making PowerPoint do things that can't normally be done. In this case, we will tweak some chart animations that don't exist under normal circumstances.

1. Create a chart with data,
   
2. Ungroup the chart into individual pieces,
   
3. Insert pictures that relate to the data,
   
4. Do some grouping + animation.

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Geek fame

"You probably have a document you use over and over again, something you created to solve a particular problem. You may even find yourself occasionally sending the document to others in e-mail because it's so useful. Now you can share your clever solution with everyone who uses the 2007 Microsoft Office system!

People like you all over the world are allowing others to download and use their document templates on Office Online. Some of these templates have tens of thousands of downloads. They were submitted by people who either wanted to help others or show their great solutions. You can, too.

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How to disable hyperlink warning messages in 2007 Office programs

Opening "path/filename".
Hyperlinks can be harmful to your computer and data. To protect your computer, click only those hyperlinks from trusted sources.
Do you want to continue?

1. Click Start, and then click Run.
   
   
2. In the Open dialog box, type regedit, and then click OK.
   
   
3. In Registry Editor, locate one of the following registry subkeys:
   

   HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Common 

   
   

   HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Common

   
   Note You only have to modify one of these registry subkeys. You do not have to modify both of them.
   
   
4. Click the registry subkey, point to New on the Edit menu, and then click Key.
   
   
5. Type Security, and then press ENTER to name the key.
   
   
6. On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.
   
   
7. Type DisableHyperlinkWarning, and then press ENTER to name the entry.
   
   
8. In the right pane, right-click DisableHyperlinkWarning, and then click Modify.
   
   
9. In the Edit DWORD Value dialog box, click Decimal, and then type 1 under Value data.
   
   Note A value of 0 enables the hyperlink warning message. A value of 1 disables the hyperlink warning message.
   
   
10. Click OK.
    
    
11. Exit Registry Editor.

How to disable hyperlink warning messages

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