June 2006 - Posts
Reflect Yourself OfficeArt's greatly improved graphics engine has a lot of sweet tricks up its sleeve and one our favorites is the reflection effect. This effect gives any object the appearance that it is sitting on a very shiny surface. Reflections are
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A New Old Feature I’m going to make a wild guess here. You’re probably reading the PowerPoint and Office Art blog because you’re looking for ways to make your presentations and other documents look better. But you may not know that PowerPoint has some
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I thought it might make some sense to introduce some of the new things that we’re doing with picture handling in Office2007. Given that Pictures are found in over 57% of all office documents, it’s our single biggest graphic type and deserves some special
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This weekend the new Jack Black movie Nacho Libre opened everywhere. This movie's very distinctive 3D title graphic is something that you can do directly on title text in PowerPoint 2007 because it uses the new OfficeArt 2.0 text engine. This particular
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Widescreen displays are popping up everywhere. Increasingly it's the default screen format for new products such as HDTV's, laptops and even handheld game systems. Widescreen plasma screens are becoming very popular in boardrooms as a presentation display.
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OfficeArt is the graphics platform for the Office System. This is the first in a series of posts covering OfficeArt's new graphic effects. "Soft Shadows" are realistic shadow effects that simulate the penumbra of a shadow (i.e., the fuzzy part.) These
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My last post had a screen shot of a nice slide in it. In the text of my post I explained how create that slide, but the lack of clear, visual step by step instructions may have obscured just how easy it is to create slides like that in PowerPoint 2007.
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On the PowerPoint and OfficeArt team we've started a new tradition we'd like to share with all of you. It's called "The Smokin' Hot Slide of the Day." Every few days we email out to the product team a cool slide created in PowerPoint 2007. Quite frankly,
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