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  Tuesday, July 01, 2008 – Permalink –

Selecting Objects

Where's the doggy?


Constructing a presentation can involve multiple images or shapes on one slide. Objects are piled on top of each other in the order that they are created.

You can move items forward or back by using Draw>Order on the Drawing toolbar. (Drawing Tools> Format in 2007). However, how can you select an object if it is buried under other graphics?

PowerPoint allows you to cycle through every object on the slide by selecting one object and then using the Tab key to cycle through all of the objects on the slide. Objects can be graphics or text boxes; Shift+Tab cycles backwards through the objects.

Click on any visible object; press the Tab key until you see the selection boxes that indicate which object is selected.

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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  Sunday, June 22, 2008 – Permalink –

Brainy Betty

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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  Wednesday, December 12, 2007 – Permalink –

Images Sources

No cost


After awhile the graphics in Office Clipart or even the ones found on Microsoft's Office online appear the same.

Here is a list of 100 locations for royalty free stock images.




Free stock images



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  Thursday, November 22, 2007 – Permalink –

New Tables in Town

Bigger and better (?)


Pre '07 versions of PowerPoint limited tables to a maximum of 25 rows and columns. You were able to ungroup the table cells before, but that has been taken away.


"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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  Monday, September 03, 2007 – Permalink –

Enlarge and Shrink Picture

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?


PPTHeaven.mvps.org:
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  Tuesday, August 21, 2007 – Permalink –

Office Art

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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  Wednesday, July 11, 2007 – Permalink –

Great Collection

Examples and ideas


The experts show you how they have developed some pretty spectacular animations and designs using PowerPoint out of the box.


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


PPTHeaven.mvps.org



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  Friday, January 12, 2007 – Permalink –

Squeezin' out the pixels

Slim PP Fast


When you insert pictures into a PowerPoint show, the size of the file begins to bloat. There is a built in tool that helps.
  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.


In PowerPoint 2007 select the picture and look at the Picture Tools >Format group.



The PowerPoint & OfficeArt Team Blog
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Squeezin' out the pixels

Slim PP Fast


When you insert pictures into a PowerPoint show, the size of the file begins to bloat. There is a built in tool that helps.
  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.


In PowerPoint 2007 select the picture and look at the Picture Tools >Format group.



The PowerPoint & OfficeArt Team Blog
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