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Wednesday, July 8, 2009
How do I insert photos in a PowerPoint presentation and yet keep the file size down? For Powerpoint 2003:
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Or Tags: PowerPoint Tips Presentation Skills compression pictures powerpoin 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,
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Monday, December 21, 2009
The PowerPoint Revolution continues! don’t believe that there is anything inherently wrong with PowerPoint, but it has undoubtedly become the software program everyone loves to hate.
For instance, American-born statistician and Yale Professor Edward Tufte wrote a popular essay denouncing PowerPoint’s ability to provide quality analytics. Every few months another contender appears in the marketplace, attempting to poke a hole in the thick skin of the 800 lb slideware-gorilla that dominates meeting rooms across the globe. I
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009
On the Road: My Experience Teaching PowerPoint
This is a guest post from Kirk Mossing, PowerPoint™ Consultant and Trainer.
What do Audiences REALLY Think About PowerPoint?
Travelling across the nation and working with clients like Google and Stanford University, I routinely ask my students one key question: “As an And 100% of the time I hear: “There are too many words on a slide.” Followed up with: “I can’t read it.”
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Friday, January 8, 2010
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
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Sunday, January 10, 2010
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. Tags: PowerPoin 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).
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
And when using PowerPoint, sometimes the small tips make the biggest impact. These tips are ways to use PowerPoint that, once you discover them, you see how valuable they will be to you. If you want to preview your slide show from the current slide in a small preview window in the top right hand corner of your screen, hold the Ctrl key down and click on the Slide Show button at the bottom of the PowerPoint window (It looks like a screen and in PowerPoint 2003 it is in the lower left corner; in PowerPoint It is usually the little things in life that can make the biggest difference.
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Thursday, December 24, 2009
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.
- Tags: PowerPoin 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.
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Saturday, October 3, 2009
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. 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. It turns out that you can create a rectangle
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Have you ever received a greeting card created in PowerPoint? I used PowerPoint 2010’s background remover to do this. In 2003, go to the Drawing toolbar>Draw> Group. If you’re using PowerPoint shapes, you can make the upside-down image invisible by removing the outline and fill, or making the fill 100% transparent. Maybe I receive more of these than most people, but I get them several times a year.
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
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
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