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Office 2007 introduced users to the Ribbon, a menu replacement that made application functionality easier to find and faster to use in Word, Excel and PowerPoint. However, a common user request was for a level of customizability beyond adding commands
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Today, we are announcing the availability of the PowerPoint 2010 Beta. It is a public download that anyone can try for free. What can you do with PowerPoint 2010? Collaborate more effectively with Co-Authoring Bring your ideas to life with Video
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Your task: create a presentation. There are lots of ways to approach this depending on what you’re trying to convey to your audience, and there are many things to consider: the message, content, flow, slide design, aesthetics, and a variety of other factors
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Now that you’ve learned about PowerPoint Web App’s Reading View – designed for quickly reading presentations that have been published on the web -- we’d like to introduce you to Edit View . Edit View is, unsurprisingly, the place where you go to make
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What’s the next best thing to getting someone to critique your PowerPoint presentation for design and effectiveness for free? Well, watching someone else get that advice may come in as a fairly close second. This video will re-introduce you to Julie
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As Nick just posted on the Office Web Apps blog, we’re expanding access to the technical preview! For a limited time, you can sign-up for a Technical Preview account here: http://skydrive.live.com/acceptpreview.aspx/.documents?aobrp=browse . Note: if
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Thanks to advancements in application virtualization technology, you’ll have the option to run the full version of Microsoft Office 2010 without the need to wait for installation, even if you have previous versions of Microsoft Office already installed.
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Hopefully by now you’ve heard about the new versions of your favorite Microsoft Office applications that are showing up on the web. A large part of the effort behind Office 2010 has been to bring Word, Excel, OneNote and PowerPoint functionality
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In today’s world, you often need to communicate with people in different locations who can’t get together in the same room. When you’re presenting, you want everyone to see your slide show at the same time -- whether they’re sitting next to you or joining
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Last week, the online presentation hosting site SlideShare announced the winners of their annual “World’s Best Presentation Contest.” On their website, you’ll find thousands entries for your viewing pleasure . What a great place to search for design inspiration.
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You’re on the way out the door. You need to shut down your computer first, and there are 15 different applications open. You press the power button, and a couple of the open applications remind you that your work hasn’t been saved yet. You have the option
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Microsoft PowerPoint now has its very own fan page on Facebook, which means you now have an easy way to get free tips about your favorite program, share ideas about the ways you use PowerPoint, and get answers to PowerPoint-related questions that you’ve
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As noted in Brian’s post on the Windows Live blog: Today is a real milestone for people who use Microsoft Office or Windows Live. Starting today, a select group of SkyDrive customers will be invited to try out a technical preview of the online versions
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Have you ever tried to paste some Excel data into PowerPoint presentation? If you just press the paste button or Ctrl+V, PowerPoint will apply theme formatting to the table. Sometimes, however, you just want the table to look the same as it did in the
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Like Microsoft Word , PowerPoint has made a significant investment in document co-authoring for the Office 2010 release. What is co-authoring? This is the capability for multiple users to open the same presentation file and to simultaneously edit and
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