For Trembling Hands (Office 12 Coolness, Part 2)

re: For Trembling Hands (Office 12 Coolness, Part 2)

ChrisC — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 18:19:11 GMT

I was *so* happy to see the "show presentation on" dropdown when I followed you link above.

I've never prepared and done 1 power point... in 1997; but because many people know I'm a programmer I've been dragged up to the front to try to fix (while everyone is watching me) other people's slide shows many times.

Not being able to get it to show on the LCD projector is the #1 thing I'm asked to fix.

re: For Trembling Hands (Office 12 Coolness, Part 2)

Sherrod Segraves — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 18:24:58 GMT

What is that icon, anyway?

Is it supposed to be a portable screen on a stand? For the longest time, I stared at it and all I could see was a toilet tank.

re: For Trembling Hands (Office 12 Coolness, Part 2)

Paul Morriss — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 18:37:04 GMT

I know about F5, but the trouble is it starts at the beginning, which isn't always what you want. Great feature.

re: For Trembling Hands (Office 12 Coolness, Part 2)

Joe — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 19:46:38 GMT

Excellent - The bigger screenshot also shows such goodness as presentation resolution and record narration. Cool.

Probably about 1/2 the people I've observed using PPT don't even know what those little icons do - they always use the Slideshow menu.

I have another Office question though that i'm going to sneak in here (about Excel). Has the Conditional Formatting feature been revamped in Excel 12? It is an awesome feature, but is currently crippled by a useless restriction of 3 limits, a very strange way to delete conditions (a popup with 3 checkboxes? what the hell?), and a confusing, or at the least very non-intuitive, way to enter formula conditions.

re: For Trembling Hands (Office 12 Coolness, Part 2)

Jordan — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 20:26:41 GMT

Joe-

Check out the Excel 12 Blog

http://blogs.msdn.com/excel/default.aspx

It has a bunch of posts about the changes to Conditinal Formatting. Look in the "Post Categories" on the right hand side.

re: For Constantly Trembling Hands

Kim Siever — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 21:01:00 GMT

Not to mention those whose hands tremple all the time.

re: For Trembling Hands (Office 12 Coolness, Part 2)

Andy Cotgreave — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 21:18:36 GMT

Paul,
SHIFT + f5 starts a slideshow at the current slide.

Andy

re: For Trembling Hands (Office 12 Coolness, Part 2)

Abigail — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 21:24:36 GMT

Andy: Really?! That's awesome! I use PowerPoint more than you'd believe for an Access dev and consider it a failure if I have to use the mouse to run or move through a presentation, but I didn't know about that handy feature. Just goes to show that you can always learn somethng new.

re: For Trembling Hands (Office 12 Coolness, Part 2)

Dan McCarty — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 00:17:35 GMT

I've always used F5 or View...Slidesho&w anyway. There's no sense in trying to hit a 16x16 icon, especially on a laptop's trackpad or thumb pointer. As another poster mentioned, though, doing it that way always starts the slideshow from the beginning.

FYI: Shift + F5 isn't a valid keyboard shortcut for Office 2000 and earlier users...

re: For Trembling Hands (Office 12 Coolness, Part 2)

PatriotB — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 01:55:35 GMT

Of course, you *do* have to be on the Slide Show ribbon in order to see those buttons... so it's 2 clicks or 12x12, pick your poision :)

re: For Trembling Hands (Office 12 Coolness, Part 2)

Derek Becker — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 05:42:56 GMT

Sherrod: "What is that icon, anyway?"

Classic! I too have pondered that that same question for ages :)

re: For Trembling Hands (Office 12 Coolness, Part 2)

GB — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 02:29:40 GMT

In slideshow mode, press '?' and see other cool keyboard tricks to do while running the slideshow. My favorite is being able to jump anywhere in the slidedeck by slide #. Just type the number and hit <enter>.

re: For Trembling Hands (Office 12 Coolness, Part 2)

Guess Who — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 02:43:14 GMT

I too use the F5 and other shortcuts, and it always amazes me at how many people don't even know about F5. I am in eighth grade, and I have been promoted to soundboard runner in my sunday school class, just because I know all the shortcuts (Just a little sad).

re: For Trembling Hands (Office 12 Coolness, Part 2)

Calum — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 21:34:59 GMT

Serves you right if you've waited until everyone's seated and glaring at you before you fire up your presentation! First slide with title should be up and running before people even start arriving, so they know they've come to the right place...

re: For Trembling Hands (Office 12 Coolness, Part 2)

Jeff Fisher — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 16:04:57 GMT

A great post! Reminds me of the time 10 years ago when I had to use an obsolete chartware peice of junk from another company to present to 2300 people. The POJ had a file bug that was common; fortunately we knew how to use a binary editor to chop off the last slide and make the pitch work. I'm glad the days of that thing are gone :-)

Nevertheless, I like big audiences and getting the message across (and I still test the pitch on whatever PC I'm going to show it on before I do it - just to make sure)!

Truly a great series! Keep up the great work Jensen!

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