Over the weekend Microsoft officially pulled the plug on sales (and downloads) of Office 2003. Office 2003 is not really gone, just the current version. The lawsuit against Microsoft about the use of some XML code in Word has ended distribution of it. Bcause Word cannot be distributed and the Office suite has Word - cannot be distributed (only Word is the program in question).

Unfortunately, you can’t do that in PowerPoint 2003 because it does not have the feature of converting a shape to points. So I started playing with the tools that PowerPoint 2003 does have to see if I could achieve the same result. I was inspired by this blog post on using PowerPoint as a photo editor instead of Photoshop. The demo is shown in PowerPoint 2007 and the one aspect of the instructions that I was intrigued about was when he showed how to convert a rectangle to a set of points and then curve the sides.

But the inserted PPT 2003 tables do not have these options active. Select the (PPT 2003) table, activate these options and the 2 tables can easily be updated to look identical for a consistent presentation. - Working from this slide the goal is to give both an identical look/style (file can be downloaded from previous post). The template has a few options for tables preset that the imported tables to not automatically have turned on.

One question I am struggling with is whether to load the 2007 or the 2003 version as my primary Office version. I am currently running Office 2003 as my primary version. Because my surveys show that most corporate clients are running Office 2003 and a number are running even earlier versions, like 2000. I am planning to buy a new laptop next year after the new Core i7 chipset comes to laptops. I

the PPT 2003 table. Here is a problem. You have a presentation where a number of tables are created and the Table Styles (Table Tools >> Design >> Table Styles) are used to make them look consistent and professional. I often hear (and was one of people complaining too) that the styles are different

0160; My 2003 Ford Escort had been stolen so I was walking and taking the bus.  For two weeks I had been an Accidental Green.  0160; I was getting to like it.  0160; No worries about my car being stolen, since that had already happened. 

0160; Way back in 2003, management expert Tom Peters screamed in his book "Re-imagine!" Few could take it in.  0160; But it was out there: The warning that those well-paying corporate jobs were disappearing.  quot; that "White-collar employment as we've known it is dead." 

PowerPoint 2007’s shadows are so much better than 2003’s. In this video lesson, I show you how to use all the settings. And it’s a contest with free prizes! Listen to the video! Do you prefer video lessons to text lessons?

For Powerpoint 2003: After giving a talk last night in which I used a lot of images and very little text, one of the participants emailed me with the following question: “Dear Gavin, I I attended you very helpful presentation at the Basingstoke Country Park Hotel yesterday. 

Although the book updates BBP for PowerPoint 2007, even if you have PowerPoint 2003 you'll still find the book a signficant resource to guide you through the BBP process. I'm pleased to announce that the latest edition of Beyond Bullet Points has just arrived! The new book is a thorough revision of the first edition, including 7 new presentation examples, expanded explanation of key concepts and many new tips and techniques you can apply to your BBP presentations. Weighing in at 350 pages, the book includes a new CD with a bonus chapter, an updated BBP Story Template and Storyboard