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

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

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

often hear (and was one of people complaining too) that the styles are different for the PPT 2007 vs. the PPT 2003 table. See if you can make the two tables have an identical style/look using PPT 2007's very helpful Table Styles. 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.

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.

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. 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 I was inspired by this blog post on using PowerPoint as a photo editor instead of Photoshop. It turns out that you can create a rectangle and bend the sides to create a new shape.

With PPT 2003 if you right click the speaker icon and go to EDIT SOUND OBJECT you get this dialog. In PPT 2007, click the speaker icon and the ribbon goes to the SOUND TOOLS ribbon. It gives you a lot of information. Of note the MAX SOUND FILE SIZE (K is now not a hidden dialog (be sure this is set to 50,000).

When you place AutoShapes on the slide master in PowerPoint 2003 and then change the color scheme, those AutoShapes don't change their color. However, in PowerPoint 2007, when you place shapes on the slide master and change the theme colors, those shapes change color. Only AutoShapes that you place on a slide (as opposed to the slide master) change their color. That is, if the colors of the shapes are available from the current theme colors. (I'll

PowerPoint 2003 and then change the color scheme, those AutoShapes don’t change their color. However, in PowerPoint 2007, when you place shapes on When you place AutoShapes on the slide master in Only AutoShapes that you place on a slide (as opposed to

For Powerpoint 2003: [link]  For For Powerpoint 2007: [link]  Or 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