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Tuesday, August 19, 2008 10:17 PM

Summer Interns: Luiz Pereira

We wind up up in our series of posts by PowerPoint's summer interns with Software Development Engineer Luiz Pereira.  But check back in a bit for one final intern surprise. My name is Luiz Pereira and I’m nearing the end of my internship as
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Monday, August 04, 2008 10:32 PM

Summer Interns: Mike Rodgers

Next up in our series of posts by PowerPoint's summer interns is Software Development Engineer Mike Rodgers. Hi there, I’m Mike Rodgers, and I’m mid-way through my twelve-week internship as a Software Development Engineer (or Dev for short)
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Sunday, August 03, 2008 8:32 PM

Summer Interns: Trevor Florence

Next up in our series of posts by PowerPoint's summer interns is Software Development Engineer Trevor Florence. Hi! My name is Trevor Florence and I’m a Software Developer Engineer intern here in PowerPoint. I’m from a smallish town near Ventura
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Sunday, July 27, 2008 6:13 PM

Summer Interns: Jesse Harvey

Next up in our series of posts by PowerPoint's summer interns is Software Design Engineer Jesse Harvey.   Hello All, My name is Jesse Harvey and I am in my seventh week as a Software Design Engineer in Test (SDET) intern with the PowerPoint team.
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Thursday, July 24, 2008 8:54 PM

Summer Interns: Nirav Sanghani

First in our series of posts by PowerPoint's summer interns is Program Manager Nirav Sanghani. Hi, I’m Nirav Sanghani, a Program Manager intern on PowerPoint for the summer. I can’t talk about exactly what I’m doing at PowerPoint (top secret!) but I’d
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Thursday, July 24, 2008 8:39 PM

PowerPoint Team: Introducing the 2008 Summer Interns

  Trevor Florence, Nirav Sanghani, Mike Rodgers, Jesse Harvey, Luiz Franca Pereira Filho The next few posts will introduce you to a select group of individuals, with a special relationship with PowerPoint.  Each year, the PowerPoint program
Posted by RicB | 5 Comments
Monday, July 14, 2008 2:50 PM

Smooth Sailing Postscript

If you haven't read the first " Smooth Sailing " post, you'll probably want to go back and read it now.  A quick summary: the article reviews the effect PowerPoint's Snap to Grid feature has on your editing experience, and goes over the
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Tuesday, July 08, 2008 8:40 AM

Quick Try This: Smooth Sailing

I talk to a lot of people who spend significant portions of their lives in PowerPoint. And when those people run into the same problems over and over, well, it means we made a mistake in the design of the product.  Worse, if they're looking for something
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Thursday, June 12, 2008 8:39 AM

Good News for Producer Fans

There was a little confusion in the earlier posting about the recently announced Producer 2007 update. Although the name says "For Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007" it still supports earlier versions of PowerPoint. To be clear, this is still a beta and
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008 9:48 AM

Zen Strikes Twice

Last week the Microsoft Silicon Valley Campus was fortunate to host Presentation Zen blogger and author Garr Reynolds.   Garr presented on the origins of the Presentation Zen philosophy and style; how to bring Zen simplicity and clarity to your communications.
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008 12:36 PM

Happy One Year Anniversary Meine Freunde

The German PowerPoint 2007 Blog just celebrated it's one year anniversary! Their 100th entry was published on Sunday and the 101st entry was entered the same day German PowerPoint MVP Pia Bork! Check them out at http://www.ppt-user.de/blogger . 
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Friday, June 06, 2008 8:24 AM

The Return of Producer for PowerPoint!

It's a pleasure to announce the return of a great tool for working with PowerPoint files, Microsoft Producer. Originally created by the Microsoft Windows Media team, and available as a free download, Microsoft Producer allows you to take an existing presentation
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Sunday, April 06, 2008 1:23 PM

Quick Try This: It's a Multi-Screen World

There are an increasing number of people out there with multiple monitors attached to their computers.  And many of them are PowerPoint users who think this new configuration should be more useful to them than it is.  They're right, and today
Posted by RicB | 4 Comments
Sunday, March 23, 2008 2:36 PM

Quick Try this: Presentations 2 Go

Today PowerPoint Program Manager Andrew Hewatt will show you how to get presentations "under your thumb!"  Ouch, OK, sorry for the pun. Really this is a useful technique for any presentation you may need to present without assurances that
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Monday, March 10, 2008 3:27 PM

Random Questions and Answers

It's unavoidable. When people find out we work on PowerPoint, we get questions. Sometimes they're new, but many are repeaters. We take all questions seriously, especially the repeaters, as those sponsor changes we need to make to the product. Our goal
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