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Mike Niedringhaus and I had a short thread yesterday about whether the PowerPoint Viewer really requires installation. I claimed in my previous post that it didn't. Mike insisted that you had to either install PowerPoint or install the Viewer. Turns out Read More...
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Another question from Superman : Can I view notes while presenting in PowerPoint? Answer: If you have PowerPoint 2002 (a.k.a. PowerPoint XP) or PowerPoint 2003, you can use Presenter View . While all the audience sees if your normal slides, you the presenter Read More...
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Figuring out how PowerPoint plays movies and sounds can be perplexing to say the least. Andrew May has written two new MSDN articles on the subject: The first article talks about how PowerPoint plays your multimedia file. There are some nice flow charts Read More...
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Superman asked me yesterday: In PowerPoint, I have a bunch of slides and I want to apply one font to all their titles and another font to all their body text. How do I do this without having to edit all these slides one by one? The answer is a master Read More...
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You're probably familiar with the three little buttons in the bottom-left corner of PowerPoint that let you switch views: [image] [Normal View] [Slide Sorter View] [Slide Show] Did you know you could press Ctrl or Shift while pressing them to invoke all Read More...
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A big focus of the PowerPoint team for the 2003 release was working on a brand new PowerPoint Viewer . The previous viewer had been written for the PowerPoint 97 release, and was missing a bunch of newer features, most notably: newer animations and slide Read More...
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An ellipsis can be useful to have in a diagram: [diagram picture] I've been asked on several occasions how to make one of these puppies, so I thought I'd publish the steps I saw one of my coworkers use: Launch Word, Excel, or PowerPoint. Get the Drawing Read More...
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PowerPoint is great for creating and presenting a presentation, but you may not feel comfortable organizing your thoughts or writing text there. Although PowerPoint has an outline pane (see the Outline tab in the image below in the upper-left?), I often Read More...
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PowerPoint supports a handful of command-line parameters. Use these to create special Windows shortcuts (right-click the desktop | New | Shortcut ) or to perform PowerPoint tasks quickly from the command prompt. Of course you need to modify the commands Read More...
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PowerPoint has a bunch of shortcut keys you can use while presenting in slideshow mode. A few of my favorites: B blacks out the screen and W turns the screen white. Hit the key again to go back to your slides. I find this useful for hiding slides during Read More...
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I've been on the fence for a few months on whether to start up a new blog. I had one in college as part of my personal web site , but got lazy and only updated it about twice a year. I've decided to give this another shot though. About me... After graduating Read More...
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