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By: Troy Chollar, PowerPoint MVP My company, TLC Creative Services, is busy, especially at the beginning of the year with clients ramping up 2010 marketing campaigns, corporate meetings and new marketing materials. So what is it about the MVP Summit that
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All About PowerPoint’s New Picture Presentation feature. It is not unusual to hear the criticism that Microsoft employees just design features for themselves. It’s not true; we spend an incredible amount of time seeking out feedback and concerns, then
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In PowerPoint 2010 there is a new way to align shapes we call Smart Guides . First, a bit of background… Aligning shapes is a very common task. We’ve always had an array of tools to ease this process, such as those found under the Arrange
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PowerPoint has a lot of great preset shapes, but sometimes what you really need is a custom shape tailored-made for your presentation. If you’re looking to go beyond the Freeform Tool to create more complex custom shapes, we’ve created a new feature in
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As one of the newest program managers on the PowerPoint team (and a recovering history major), I’m always fascinated to hear the stories behind features I now can’t imagine living without. And as one of the engineers responsible for Accessibility in PowerPoint,
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Microsoft Office Labs just released a fun new concept test called Ribbon Hero that lets you play games to improve your Office skills. Earn points while using Office, play a challenge to discover new features, or connect with Facebook to compete with your
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Last week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft set up a few booths on the floor to demo Office 2010 informally. I am very happy to hear that we engineers aren’t the only ones excited about the new multimedia features! When I joined
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Many of you spend a lot of time working in PowerPoint. It’s become the top visual communications tool in business and is used to shape perception every day. But PowerPoint is only the instrument, you’re the master musician. Any great musician can tell
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In Office 2007, we significantly improved the rendering quality of static content. Users could quickly and easily enhance shapes, pictures, and other content with effects such as bevels, soft edges, and reflections. For Office 2010, we switched our focus
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It’s exciting times for us here on the PowerPoint Engineering Team! Whiteboard brainstorms that began three years ago are now real live features, which are fully functional and ready for a test drive in the PowerPoint 2010 Beta ! As we pass this
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With all of the attention on the new multimedia, transition, and animations, you might be forgiven for thinking that all we care about is fancy graphics. Not at all – nearly every PowerPoint presentation contains some amount of text, and in fact, we spend
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PowerPoint 2010 has new features that can help bring your stories to life and make your messages more compelling. We’ve even included sample templates to give you ideas, including some tips from Duarte Design. We approached Nancy Duarte after she gave
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…were created entirely in PowerPoint 2010. Many of you have been wondering how this is possible; it must be some kind of joke. Does PowerPoint make video? Allow me to formally introduce our new “Create a Video” feature. With just a couple clicks, anyone
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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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