Unique designs

Labels: Formats, Templates, Tips

Easy tip

Labels: Animation, Instructional, Presentation, Tips, Tutorials

Access additions

Labels: Customize

Techniques

• Presentation
• Creation
• Delivery
• Venue
• Technology
• Products

Labels: General, Performance, Presentation

A covey of notions

"PowerPoint Heaven is a PowerPoint entertainment portal for PowerPoint animations, games, artworks, showcases, animation templates and tutorials. The focus of this site is to maximize the use of Microsoft PowerPoint and go beyond its capability. Our goal is to show users that PowerPoint is not simply a presentation tool, but is also capable on leveraging into other areas such as creating games, artworks and animations."

Labels: General, Tips

2003-2007-2010

Labels: General, Reference, Ribbon

Suggestions

• LINKS TO TIP SHEETS AND ARTICLES
  

  "Instead of telling your users to go out to Microsoft.com and do a search, put hyperlinks to the printer-friendly version of tip sheets and articles on your company’s main portal page. Providing links to information you know they need will help you cover the training bases. And presenting the links on an internal web site they already use will show your users that it’s okay to go outside of their four firewalls to learn something new. Include your favorite hyperlink in your signature line so it goes out in every e-mail you send."

• ONLINE TRAINING
• E-LEARNING
• WEBCASTS
• VIRTUAL TRAINING
• MULTILINGUAL SCREENTIPS AND TRANSLATIONS
• COMMAND REFERENCE GUIDES
• OFFICE ONLINE AT WORK

Labels: Tutorials

A few tips

Labels: General, Instructional, Performance, Presentation, Tips

Find and/change storage spots

Labels: Customize, General, Templates

Start with the end in mind

"Before you even open up PowerPoint, sit down and really think about the day of your presentation. What is the real purpose of your talk? Why is it that you were ask to speak? What does the audience expect? In your opinion, what are the most important parts of your topic for the audience to take away from your, say, 50-minute presentation?


Remember, even if you've been asked to share information, rarely is the mere transfer of information a satisfactory objective from the point of view of the audience. After all, the audience could always just read your book (or article, handout, etc.) if information transfer were the only purpose of the meeting, seminar, or formal presentation."

Labels: General, Instructional, Performance, Presentation, Tips, Tutorials

PPT to SWF

"ANVSOFT Flash Slide Show Maker is a Flash album creator that will help you build animated photo slideshows with SWF file as the output format."

Labels: Addin, Other uses, Presentation

Automated GIF

Labels: Graphics

PowerPoint 2-10

Labels: Animation, Presentation

Finger it out

After completing this course you will be able to:
Accomplish tasks by using sequential shortcut keys, known as Key Tips, shown on the Ribbon.
Navigate around the Ribbon using the TAB key and arrow keys.
Accomplish tasks by using key combinations — keys you press at the same time - exactly as you've done in previous versions of Office.

Labels: Shortcuts, Tips

Import it all

"This macro outline allows the user to use Word's "Send To PowerPoint" feature, then run this macro to get notes from MS Word to PowerPoint as notes. The macro allows you to set the text level you want to become the notes.

Labels: General, Notes, Tips, VBA

Quick graphic reinforcement

Labels: Customize, Fonts, Graphics, Tips

As helpful as No-Doz (almost)

• Is this slide for me or for my audience?
  
  
• Will it really help them better understand my message or just serve as a distraction?
  
  
• How can I remember what I'm going to say without putting the entire text on the slide?
  
  
• What can I do to simplify the slide so that only essential information is displayed?
  
  
• What do I really need to do at this point in the presentation to engage the audience and enhance my message?
  
  
• Is a visual the best way to convey the information or could a story do a better job?
  
  
• Using ideas like this, your talk will be much stronger and your audience will be engaged and awake.

Labels: Presentation

Unencrypted

"Word, Excel, and PowerPoint have been able to password protect documents for several versions by setting the 'password to open'. What we felt could be improved was the ability to enforce password strength rules, similar to what may be required when logging into your computer at work."

Labels: Reference, Tips

Reduce the size of your presentation files

Save the file under a new name

PowerPoint remembers all your actions in a session so that you can undo them. Saving under another name discards this information. For some reason, this works better than closing and opening the same file.

Convert the image file type

The image file type makes a huge difference. In my tests of a photo, JPEG files were the smallest by far. (GIF files are also small, but are not suitable for most photographs because they don't support enough colors.) I took an image and Microsoft Office Picture Manager to convert it.

Labels: Tips, Troubleshoot

No special glasses required

"Many options in PowerPoint are often unseen, until a particular need arises.

The first tutorial shows how to use some of the 3d options in PowerPoint to roll images over into layers.
Roll Images

In the second tutorial, I show how a shape that is drawn as a Bezier curve can be turned into a 3d object.
3d Bezier curves

This effectively means you can draw any sort of shape you like and turn it into a 3d object right within PowerPoint.

The first tutorial will make you clever. The second tutorial may make you famous!"
More 3-D and other effects at Awesome PresentationPictures.com

Labels: Graphics, Tips

Three dozen more

Graphicsland is offering a collection of 36 templates for PowerPoint. The templates are saved as .pot files & are compatible with all versions of PowerPoint. The collection is free of charge & is available now for downloading.
To see a printable preview & to go to the download area:

Labels: Templates

A multidiscipline subject

Labels: Color

How to make it work

To insert a movie into a PowerPoint presentation, use the Movie from File option on the Insert menu. If the presentation is located anywhere in the file path at which the movie file is located, PowerPoint stores the movie file as a relative path in the presentation. If the presentation is not located at the path at which the movie file is stored, PowerPoint stores the movie file as an absolute path in the presentation

When you insert a movie as an object, PowerPoint is not involved in the process. The process occurs in Microsoft Windows Media Player. Windows Media Player has a set of APIs that PowerPoint 2003 uses primarily for movie playback. Windows Media Player keeps its own set of codecs. And, it uses the Windows registry file types to determine which format and codec to use. Windows Media Player looks for a codec signature in the file and then matches the codec that it finds. If Windows Media Player cannot find an appropriate codec, it searches the Web for a valid codec.

By default, when you use the Wmp.ppa add-in to insert a movie file into a PowerPoint presentation, PowerPoint stores the movie file as an absolute path in the presentation. If the movie file is not in the absolute path, the movie does not play. The add-in also contains an option that you can use to copy the movie file into the same folder as the presentation. When you use this option, PowerPoint stores the movie file as a relative path in the presentation. When you play the movie file in the presentation, PowerPoint looks for the presentation in the folder that is defined when the presentation is created. If the movie file is not in that folder, the movie will not play.

We do not recommend that you use this add-in if you are using PowerPoint 2003. PowerPoint 2003 uses Windows Media Player to play most movies.

You can insert a movie file as a package in a PowerPoint presentation. To do this, follow these steps:

1. On the Insert menu, click Object.
2. Click Create new, and then click Package under Object type.

When you insert a movie as a package in a PowerPoint presentation, the movie file is kept inside a package that is embedded in the presentation. If you move the presentation to another location, the package is also moved to this location.

Labels: Instructional, Presentation, Tips, Tutorials

Fast solution

1. Open any module in the Visual Basic Editor (VBE)
   
2. Choose View >Toolbars>Edit from the menu bar to display the Edit toolbar.
   
3. Select the lines of code that you want to turn into comments.
   
4. Click the Comment Block button on the Edit toolbar (it's the sixth button in from the right end of the toolbar).

Labels: VBA

Tutorials and downloads

• The Power Of "Ping"
  
  
• Let The Good Times Roll
  
  
• 4 Picture Animations
  
  
• Master Linking Presentation
  
  
• Formatting Best-Practices
  
  
• Stars Wars Style Credits
  
  
• Animation Sample
  
  
• Scrolling Credits
  
  
• Movie Across Slides
  
  
• "PPTLive" Animation Tutorial
  
  
• Motion Paths

Labels: Tips, Tutorials

Scary trick

Labels: General, Templates, Tips

More symbols and letters

Labels: Reference

Design suggestions

Julie Terberg is a contributing editor for Presentations Magazine.
There are a number of PDF copies of her columns, plus PowerPoint shows that can be downloaded at Terbergdesign.com

Some topics discussed include PNG format, exploring print options, animation tools, and bringing a company logo to life.




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powerpoint

Labels: Presentation, Tips, Tutorials

Do the
Hucklebuck

• Grow/Shrink
  
  
• Jeopardy (exit animations)
  
  
• Text crawling across slide during bulleted list
  
  
• Text crawling across slide continuously
  
  
• PPT 2002/XP vs 2000 (transitions and animations)
  
  
• Modifying animations for just a few slides
  
  
• Animating bulleted text
  
  
• Animating bulleted text individually
  
  
• Star Wars Credits
  
  
• Adding Animation vs Changing Animation
  
  
• Using Triggers

Labels: Animation

A Kansas trick

Have you seen The Wizard of Oz lately? The film starts out in black and white. Then when Dorothy opens the door in Oz, the movie suddenly switches to full color. Why not try the same effect in a presentation?

To see how this would work, run PowerPoint and open a blank slide. Choose Insert>Picture>ClipArt and insert any picture. Now, choose Insert>Duplicate Slide to copy the slide. Go back to the first slide now, and select the picture by clicking it. When the Picture toolbar opens, click the Image Control button (second from the left) and choose Grayscale.

Now, choose Slide Show>View Show. When the first slide appears, click the mouse to move to the second slide. The ClipArt picture remains in place, but suddenly appears in color.

Sue Whitehouse

Labels: Graphics