Automated GIF

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Quick graphic reinforcement

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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

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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

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Drawing bar objects

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For use on the Web or PowerPoint

• Harry the cat.com
  
  3,000+ Royalty Free Copyrighted Animated Gifs for non-commercial use
  
  
• Fg-a.com
  
  Free Gifs & Animations, also editors, guestbook's, etc.
  
  
• Gifs.net
  
  1,500 FREE Animated Gifs and many other items (gifs, jpgs, letters, buttons, backgrounds, etc.)
  
  
• Web Developer.com
  
  There are more than 300 of them from which to choose.
  

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Thousands of items

"06/17/06 - An F/A-18E Super Hornet aircraft sits at the ready as storm clouds pass overhead aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) in the Philippine Sea June 17, 2006.
(U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Aaron Burden)

All of these files are in the public domain unless otherwise indicated. However, we request you credit the photographer/videographer as indicated or simply "Department of Defense."

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Change clip art

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Install more

A small amount of sample clip art images was included The 2007 Office systems and Office 2003 and is part of the "local collection" that is searched when you do not have Internet access to the Microsoft Office Online Clip Art and Media Web site. Office 2003 no longer included a media content CD with additional clip art. However, the Microsoft Office XP Media Content CD can still be installed locally or on a network share.

The Office XP Media Content CD contains approximately 35,000 clips that are a subset of the clips that are available on the Microsoft Office Online Clip Art and Media Web site. The Office XP Media Content CD was included with Microsoft Office XP Professional, Microsoft Office XP Standard, and Microsoft Publisher 2002 Deluxe Edition.

To install the contents of the Office XP Media Content CD on a computer, follow these steps:

1. Exit all programs that are running
   
   
2. Insert the Office XP Media Content CD into the CD drive or into the DVD drive
   (Hold down the SHIFT key to prevent the program from automatically starting. If Microsoft Windows Installer automatically starts, click Cancel)
   
   
3. Click Start, click Run, type the following command, and then click OK:
   

   msiexec.exe /i CD_drive:\CAG.MSI ADDLOCAL=ALL /qb

(CD_drive is the letter of the drive that contains the Office XP Media Content CD)

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Embed directly

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Colorize without Adobe

" Have you ever wanted to fill a picture with a gradient - or another picture in PowerPoint? Have you wanted to blend two pictures in PowerPoint to create a montage?

Labels: Color, Formats, Graphics, Tips

Make data more moving

"You can add some animation to your chart for dramatic effect. You can animate the chart as a whole or animate elements of the chart."

1. In normal view, display the slide that has the chart you want, and then select the chart.
   
   
2. On the Slide Show menu, click Custom Animation to open the Custom Animation task pane.
   
   
3. In the Custom Animation task pane, click the Add Effect down arrow, point to Entrance, and then click an effect.
   
   
4. In the Custom Animation task pane, select the animation you applied to the chart, click the down arrow, and then click Effect Options.
   
   
5. On the Chart Animation tab, in the Group Chart list, click By element in series.
   
   
6. Click OK.
   
   
7. Now, if you click Slide Show and click through the presentation, you’ll see the animation in real time.

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Remember it the way you want to

"Most communities in the fifties had small town print shops that doubled as printers of local news and advertising papers. These printers could not afford graphic artists so they used stock clipart supplied by large companies who distributed common graphics for use in advertising sections of the papers. They were provided for the printer in lots of categories to meet any advertiser's needs."

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Sprinkle carefully

• Display clip-related toolbars
  
• Customizing your clip art
  
• Cropping
  
• Sizing
  
• Adding text wrapping
  
• Blurring
  
• Rotating and flipping
  
• Adding a drop shadow

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Tutorials and downloads

PowerPak for PowerPoint Demo

the shareware version of PowerPak, an innovative collection of PowerPoint lesson and game templates.

PowerPak for PowerPoint Sampler

a larger file, but includes a fun custom show as well as the shareware.

Control the Heat Mouse Over Template (ppt file)

a PowerPoint template with a thermometer which can raise the temperature by moving the mouse over it.

Time Machine Mouse Over Template

ia PowerPoint template with a clock that can be moved forward and backward in time by moving the mouse over it.

Shadow Techniques

shows some fun techniques with shadows in PowerPoint.

Origins of PowerPoint

the illustrated version of Austin Meyer's irreverent story.

Mouse Over Magic

shows stupid mouse tricks.

Abracadabra.mid

music to go with the stupid mouse tricks.

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Tweak charts

Also see:

Jan's Illustrated Computer Literacy 101:
Advanced PowerPoint: Animate Data

EllenFinkelstein.com:
Animate Tables

Andrew May:
Animating Shapes in PowerPoint

and:
Animation Schemes

Ungroup Charts in PowerPoint 2007

Group or ungroup shapes, pictures, or other objects in PowerPoint 2007



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powerpoint

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"Attachers"

Microsoft Office Online tutorial:
Org charts A to Z

"Use the Microsoft Office diagramming tool to create an organization chart in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003. Build and lay out a chart, style it effectively, and get editing tips that'll help you adapt it."

(Length: 40–50 minutes)

Also:
Draw flowcharts with Word and PowerPoint
Connector information

PPTWorkbench.com:
(Glen Millar Communications)
Connectors and custom anchor points

"Connectors are very important tools in PowerPoint drawing. They attach themselves to PowerPoint shapes, and will move with that shape as it is moved around the slide. This tutorial will show many things:
How to add custom anchor points by:

1. drawing them,
   
2. pasting them as an enhanced metafile,
   
3. using a hidden autoshape."

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Powerful tool

Masterviews International:

Edit Images And Photos Within PowerPoint: Picture Toolbar

"In PowerPoint you can control images using the Picture toolbar which automatically appears whenever you insert a picture in a slide. In case you do not see this toolbar, you can right-click on the image you have just inserted and choose 'Show Picture Toolbar'."

• Change the image to grayscale, black-and-white or watermark, thanks to the Color Control feature.
  
  
• Change the picture's contrast, with the More Contrast and Less Contrast controls.
  
  
• Change the picture's brightness with the More Brightness and Less Brightness controls.
  
  
• Cut off part of the picture with the Crop control.
  
  
• Recolor vector images (not applicable to bitmap images such as JPEG) with the Recolor Picture function.
  
  
• Format the picture with the Format Picture control.
  
  
• Select a color in the image and make it transparent, with the Set Transparent Color function.
  (For 2007 this is under "Recolor" > Adjust . Set Transparent color)
  
  
• Undo all operations that you have applied to the selected images with the Reset Picture control.

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A Bit Better

"A Bit Better Corporation is a small consulting firm helping companies communicate and create products with maximum impact. Partners Cathleen Belleville and Dennis Austin bring over 46 years of high-technology experience.

A Bit Better Corporation is also the creator and publisher of Screen Beans clip art collections"

(Cathleen Belleville managed product planning for the Graphics unit at Microsoft.
Dennis Austin designed the original PowerPoint 1.0 at Forethought, Inc. before Microsoft bought it.)

BitBetter.com:
PowerPoint FAQ
Here are a few of the questions answered:

• Is there a limit to the number of guides you can have?
  
• How do I create additional pre-set color fills?
  
• Can the WMF format be converted to GIF?
  
• What resolution should I scan an image at in order for it to present well in PowerPoint?
  
• Any way to run two different slide shows at once on two different monitors?
  
• Any way to make Right Mouse go backwards in slide show?
  
• Any way to print a catalog of slides with titles and file names?
  
• Any tools for recovering corrupt .PPT files?
  
• Why is my file still big, even after deleting things?

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Where's the doggy?

Here's a Flash tutorial by Sonia Coleman.
(It opens in a pop up window, so you may have to tweak your Google/MSN anti-popper toolbar)
Selecting Objects

Here's a static version:
Selecting Objects



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Templates, Graphics and more

"Very simply, you can download anything on this site for personal or business or educational use. You can share these downloads with others as long as you give it to them and not "sell" it to them.

Tell others where you got the downloads.

Brainy Betty

What you can expect to find on this site:

• Hundreds of free PowerPoint templates
  
• Certificate templates
  
• Free Flash PowerPoint Slides
  
• 3D Graphics
  
• Dingbats
  
• Buttons and lines
  
• An awesome icon collection
  
• Free Flash and Swish
  
• Sound clips
  

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No cost

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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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Get a close up

"Often when doing a presentation, you may want to enlarge an image using Emphasis: Grow.

You probably want to show a clearer view of a photograph. But enlarging with the Grow effect often ends up getting the image blurry/jagged.

Now it looks ugly, you wouldn't want to show others an enlarged but poor quality picture, do you?

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2007 choices

Office 2007 uses OfficeArt to format text boxes, graphics and pictures.

It's available in Word, Excel , and PowerPoint, but it is most active in PowerPoint and Excel.

Here's a description:

Office PPT Art

Also:
Reflections



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powerpoint

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Examples and ideas

"PowerPoint Heaven is a website providing PowerPoint showcase, artworks, PowerPoint games, animation templates, PowerPoint animations and tutorials on animating Microsoft PowerPoint."

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Slim PP Fast

1. Select the graphic.
   
   
2. Right-click and pick "Format Picture".
   
   
3. Click the "Picture" tab and click on the "Compress" button.
   
   
4. Click "Selected pictures" to compress the currently picture. Choose "All pictures in document" to handle all images in the show.
   
   
5. In the "Change resolution" section, choose how your show is going to be presented.
   
   
6. In the "Options" section, check both "Compress pictures" and "Delete cropped areas of pictures."
   
   
7. OK your way out.

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Slim PP Fast

1. Select the graphic.
   
   
2. Right-click and pick "Format Picture".
   
   
3. Click the "Picture" tab and click on the "Compress" button.
   
   
4. Click "Selected pictures" to compress the currently picture. Choose "All pictures in document" to handle all images in the show.
   
   
5. In the "Change resolution" section, choose how your show is going to be presented.
   
   
6. In the "Options" section, check both "Compress pictures" and "Delete cropped areas of pictures."
   
   
7. OK your way out.

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