PowerPoint Solutions

A Guide to Guides
All about custom shows
Animation: Here is a collection of articles written by Andrew may for MSDN and his own blog.
Comparing Ways to Control Animation in PowerPoint 2002 and PowerPoint 2003
Creating Animation Sequences in PowerPoint 2002 and PowerPoint 2003 (Part 1)
Creating Animation Sequences in PowerPoint 2002 and PowerPoint 2003 (Part 2)
Also:
Animating Shapes in PowerPoint 2000 and 97 (Part 1)
Animating Shapes in PowerPoint 2000 and 97 (Part 2 of 4)
Animating Shapes in PowerPoint 2000 and 97 (Part 3 of 4)
Animating Shapes in PowerPoint 2000 and 97 (Part 4 of 4)
Animation Schemes in PowerPoint
Art of Communicating Effectively, The: Tips about all aspects of pulling off a successful presentation!
Automate PowerPoint and insert an image on the slide
Awesome Backgrounds: Hints, tips and resources

Brainy Betty: Hundreds of FREE PowerPoint backgrounds and templates, tutorials, business and education resources

Check transitions in Slide Sorter View
Color Schemes
Come Back to First Slide in Slide Show Mode
Countdown presentation: It often helps to indicate to the audience that you are ready to begin or ready to continue with the presentation. Having a countdown slide is one such way. This is an example which does not use VBA. Hence it is a visual simulation of a countdown and not a precise one.
Copy-Move Slides From One Presentation to Another
Create Countdown Slide Without VBA
Create multiple slides from a single slide
Create PowerPoint Slides From A Word Outline
Creative Presentations Archive: Terberg Design specializes in creating unique presentations. Julie Terberg is a contributing editor to Presentations magazine.

Determine the current slide (Slide View mode)
Difference between SlideIndex property and SlideNumber property
Disable power saving mode during a Show
Disable the "Update links" dialog box
Display a black (or white) screen during a presentation
Double Monitor Display: See notes on your PC and show slides at the same time.

FaceID browser (Excel/PowerPoint/Word/COM Add-in)
FlashBack for PowerPoint
Flowcharts based on London Underground: Includes PowerPoint template
Also Underground Animals

Gettysburg Address
Glenn Millar Communications: Sophisticated graphics and other PowerPoint tricks
Graphics: Bitmaps, Scanning & Digital Cameras for On-Screen presentations - Or how to make your Graphics just the right size and color quality- Complete with FREE downloadable files

Happiest Thing About PowerPoint: Perfect is Easier than Close Enough How to create Fade In/Fade Out effect
How to Create Slide Shows and Self-running Kiosks in Acrobat
How To Open .ppz Files

Insert Slides From Multiple Presentation Files Into A Single New Presentation File

Linking: presentations together seamlessly- Complete with FREE downloadable files
Looping: presentations together - but not all of them- Complete with FREE downloadable files

Office Tips: Examples of the enhanced functionality available through the VBA & Win32 API when applied to MS Word, MS PowerPoint & MS Excel.
OfficerOne: This site includes tips, tricks and examples of the features available in Microsoft Office Products through VBA and Win32 API

Powerful PowerPoint for Educators:: Using Visual Basic for Application to Make PowerPoint Interactive
Also -David Marcovitz interview
PowerPoint Add-in FAQ
PowerPoint And Video: Also from Indezine: Links for video
PowerPoint Answers.com
PowerPoint Association Search (powered by Atomz)
PowerPoint Resources
PowerPoint tips
PowerPoint Workbench: PowerPoint's greatest feature is its ease of use. This also causes the most problems. Over-used text and other faults are no longer acceptable. How are you placed in the new PowerPoint world?
PowerPointed: Related to Indezine
Presentations.com
Print Custom Show print Add-in Version 1.7.1

Text FX: animation effects with text - Or how to get people to say "that was not done in PowerPoint!"; - Complete with FREE downloadable files
Tic-Tac-Toe PowerPoint demo using VBA
Toggle images on every click on the shape

Last edited 17 June, 2005

Links verified 21 July, 2004