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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. But an even bigger cost is the cost of retraining because the user interface is so different between Office 2003 and 2007. MORE
The television network had released an excerpt of her interview on Kobe Bryant with Lisa Leslie which focused on the 2003 rape allegation. As the world (or at least those parts of the population who follow media) knows, Gayle King blasted her employer CBS on a video. MORE
In PowerPoint 2003, choose Slide Show> Slide Transition. In 2003, in the Advance Slide section of the Slide Transition task pane, check Automatically After and enter a number of seconds. A reader asked me how to create a looping ending. MORE
In PowerPoint 2003, choose Slide Show, Custom Animation. In 2003 and 2007, in the Custom Animation task pane, click Add Effect, Entrance, Appear or Fade. Stories are a powerful way to help your audience understand and relate to your message. But how do you illustrate your story? MORE
PowerPoint 2003 doesn’t have a true radial gradient but you can get a similar effect by using a From Center setting in a circle. The gradients are less flexibile in 2003, too. You have to use a trick in 2003 to get a decent result. PowerPoint 2003. MORE
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? Sometimes, one if more appropriate than the other because of the content, but in general, which do you prefer? MORE
A workaround for creating soft shadows in PowerPoint 2003. You probably think of slides as a 2D surface. After all, you project slides on a screen or wall. But you can make them look 3-dimensional using several techniques: Shadows. Bevels. Depth and 3D rotation. MORE
Given the reality of the big big money being in the past, I figure I was blessed when my communications firm tanked in 2003 [ Download Geezerguts.] MORE
In 2003, choose Shadow from the Picture toolbar.) MORE
When you place AutoShapes on the slide master in PowerPoint 2003 and then change the color scheme, those AutoShapes don't change their color. Only AutoShapes that you place on a slide (as opposed to the slide master) change their color. However, in PowerPoint 2007, when you place shapes on the slide master and change the theme colors, those shapes change color. That is, if the colors of the shapes are available from the current theme colors. I'll explain what this means in a minute.) MORE
To remove the border, right-click the rectangle again and choose Format Shape (Format AutoShape in PowerPoint 2003). In PowerPoint 2003, On the Colors and Lines tab of the Format AutoShape dialog box, click the Line Color drop-down list and choose No Line. PowerPoint 2003. MORE
In PowerPoint 2003, choose Slide Show> Custom Animation. With the spreadsheet selected, choose Add Effect in 2003 and 2007. You can insert a live Excel spreadsheet onto a slide so that you can use Excel while in Slide Show view. MORE
Even PowerPoint 2003 lets you rotate objects in 3D, although the controls are not as precise. PowerPoint 2003 can do 3D too! In PowerPoint 2003, select an AutoShape and click the 3-D Style button on the Drawing toolbar at the bottom of your screen. MORE
Sunday, June 27, 2010 Will Ferrells Harvard Commencement Speech OK - So this is from 2003 and I am honestly not sure what you can learn from it, but I had to include it because it is just so funny. (I MORE
Suppose you want to link from Word or Excel to Slide 2 in a PowerPoint 2003, 2007 or 2010 presentation. Hyperlinks Excel hyperlink link PowerPoint 2007 PowerPoint 2010 PowerPont 2003 slide Word MORE
Geetesh’s new 44-page e-book, PowerPoint Keyboard Shortcuts , is the most complete collection of shortcuts I’ve seen for PowerPoint 2003, 2007, and 2010. Ever want to work faster in PowerPoint? Of course you do! MORE
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. MORE
My 2003 Ford Escort had been stolen so I was walking and taking the bus. For two weeks I had been an Accidental Green. I was getting to like it. No worries about my car being stolen, since that had already happened. No worries about my car being banged during the night since there was no more car. Gone forever was fretting about the what-next in car repairs. MORE
In PowerPoint 2003, these are called the color scheme. An important first step in creating a new presentation, one not based on any previous presentation, is to decide on your colors. In PowerPoint 2007, these are called the theme colors MORE
If you’re using Office 2003, why upgrade now? If you go from 2003 to 2010, the learning curve will be huge. Amazon.com has an offer to help you upgrade now. You buy Office 2007 now and you can then upgrade to 2010 for free. MORE
If you know of a way to do this in PowerPoint 2003, please leave a comment! The options in 2003 are only Open and Edit, which don’t open the presentation in Slide Show view. MORE
In PowerPoint 2003, choose Slide Show> Set Up Show. Sometimes you might want to display your presentation in Slide Show view in a way that doesn’t take up the entire screen. For example, let’s say that you are delivering a presentation and want to switch between applications. MORE
For PowerPoint 2003 & 2007. 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005. A subscriber ask me how she could create a printed handout that contains only some of the slides in the presentation. She wanted to create a handout with 3 slides per page. Here are the steps: For PowerPoint 2010. MORE
In PowerPoint 2003 and 2007, you can only embed.wav (WAV) sound files. Here’s how to do so in PowerPoint 2003 and 2007: PowerPoint 2003: Choose Tools> Options and click the General tab. Here’s the procedure: In 2003, choose File> Package for CD. MORE
OpenOffice.org is a Microsoft Office clone, pretty close to Office 2003. The interface looks pretty similar to PowerPoint 2003, although the task panes on the right are a little different. Nevertheless, if you know PowerPoint 2003, you’ll be right at home. MORE
In PowerPoint 2003, click Design on the Formatting toolbar to open the Slide Design task pane. Press Shift and click the Normal View icon at the lower-left (2003) or lower-right (2007/2010) corner of the screen to go into Slide Master view. In PowerPoint 2003, choose File> Save As. MORE
In 2003, I had that moment of clarity: I was in six-figure debt. This explains a lot. The National University of Singapore's Social Service Research Centre conducted research on the cognitive and psychological consequences of debt. What they found was surprising. MORE
Bottoming out has become the 21st-century success formula. Plenty of brilliant theorist and players endorse that road increasingly traveled in this era of multiple career crashes. MORE
Way back in 2003, management expert Tom Peters screamed in his book "Re-imagine!" Few could take it in. But it was out there: The warning that those well-paying corporate jobs were disappearing. " that "White-collar employment as we've known it is dead." " The reasons were a combo platter of the need for organizations to reconfigure how work is done and technology. MORE
In PowerPoint 2003, click Draw> Align or Distribute on the Drawing toolbar.). A common task is to space objects equidistant from each other. You might have a group of rectangles that make up a hyperlinked menu. Another common situation is a diagram with several boxes containing text. MORE
That famous book on my 2003 ordeal is "Geezer Guts," which you can read for free here. However, compared to 2020, now I get it: 2003 was a very good year. But, unlike 2003, I will probably not be the better for it. "Geezer Guts" had more than a million downloads. Around the world other down-and-outs contacted me, saying they too considered merchandising the sale of a kidney. MORE
PowerPoint 2003 and 2007 have an extra option, Felt Tip. (I In PowerPoint 2003, you can right-click and choose Format Ink. You may know that you can draw on your slide while presenting in Slide Show view. MORE
About two weeks ago I switched from PowerPoint 2003 to PowerPoint 2007 when I got a new laptop. I’ve now delivered a few presentations using PowerPoint 2007 and I’ve noticed that the graphs I created in PowerPoint 2003 didn’t look very good when I presented them. I did some tinkering and discovered that PowerPoint 2007 needs to convert your PowerPoint 2003 graphs in order to display them well. MORE
This feature exists in 2003, 2007 and 2010. In 2003, choose Insert> Picture> New Photo Album.). Do you have some business photos that you would like to highlight in a presentation or post on your company’s website as a video? MORE
Covers PowerPoint 2003 and 2007. Ppted.com and I have partnered to offer a great joint product that contains: Green PowerPoint template package. Summer PowerPoint template package. 101 Advanced Techniques Every PowerPoint User Should Know ebook. About the template packages. MORE
How can I insert a large number of photos into an EXISTING PowerPoint 2003 presentation? I also have PowerPoint 2010 if I can insert the images using that version but I find 2003 easier. In PowerPoint 2003, choose Insert, Picture, New Photo Album.) MORE
Herbert Gardner (1934 - 2003) American Cartoonist, Playwright and Screenwriter. “Once you get people laughing, they’re listening and you can tell them almost anything.&# – Hebert Gardner. MORE
In PowerPoint 2003, choose Window> Arrange All. Have you ever wanted to compare two PowerPoint files side-by-side? You’ve probably done it in Microsoft Word many times. You just open the two Word documents and drag one of them to the side. MORE
In PowerPoint 2003, choose Slide Show> Custom Animation to open the Custom Animation task pane. In PowerPoint 2003 and 2007, in the Custom Animation task pane, click Add Effect> Exit> (More Effects, if necessary)> Fade. MORE
His use of Johnson & Johnson drug Risperdal between 2003 and 2008 caused enlarged breasts. The pile-on of expensive jury decisions against Johnson & Johnson continues. That is in addition to the settlements it has recently made in a God's Plenty of litigation against it. MORE
The major issue hovering over the allegations about sexual misconduct is: Can big-time players such as Harvey Weinstein have a comeback? The question isn't absurd. After all, Nixon Administration "dirty tricks" lawyer Chuck Colson had a roaring one. In prison, he discovered spirituality. He went on to became a prominent religious leader, who was revered when he died at age 80. MORE
In it, she mentioned the 2003 sexual assault charge. Oprah doesn't belong in the loop on this one. This "one" is the ongoing dynamics of Gayle King's interview with Lisa Leslie about Kobe Bryant. CBS zeroed in on that excerpt as a promo. MORE
2003 had been a difficult year. Both for me personally and my communications boutique. The health insurance I could still afford covered psychotherapy, with a $40 co-pay. That was the best $40 a week investment I have made in my life. At least, so far. MORE
In PowerPoint 2003, on the Colors and Lines tab, in the Fill section, click the Color drop-down list and choose Fill Effects. In PowerPoint 2003, choose Slide Show> Custom Animation to open the Custom Animation task pane. MORE
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JUNE 14, 2012
Suppose you want to link from Word or Excel to Slide 2 in a PowerPoint 2003, 2007 or 2010 presentation. Hyperlinks Excel hyperlink link PowerPoint 2007 PowerPoint 2010 PowerPont 2003 slide Word
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
MARCH 18, 2020
That famous book on my 2003 ordeal is "Geezer Guts," which you can read for free here. However, compared to 2020, now I get it: 2003 was a very good year. But, unlike 2003, I will probably not be the better for it. "Geezer Guts" had more than a million downloads. Around the world other down-and-outs contacted me, saying they too considered merchandising the sale of a kidney.
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Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
MARCH 30, 2019
In 2003, I had that moment of clarity: I was in six-figure debt. This explains a lot. The National University of Singapore's Social Service Research Centre conducted research on the cognitive and psychological consequences of debt. What they found was surprising.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
JANUARY 13, 2018
2003 had been a difficult year. Both for me personally and my communications boutique. The health insurance I could still afford covered psychotherapy, with a $40 co-pay. That was the best $40 a week investment I have made in my life. At least, so far.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
NOVEMBER 27, 2017
The major issue hovering over the allegations about sexual misconduct is: Can big-time players such as Harvey Weinstein have a comeback? The question isn't absurd. After all, Nixon Administration "dirty tricks" lawyer Chuck Colson had a roaring one. In prison, he discovered spirituality. He went on to became a prominent religious leader, who was revered when he died at age 80.
Dave Paradi's PowerPoint Blog
OCTOBER 3, 2009
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.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
AUGUST 28, 2011
Bottoming out has become the 21st-century success formula. Plenty of brilliant theorist and players endorse that road increasingly traveled in this era of multiple career crashes.
Dave Paradi's PowerPoint Blog
MAY 28, 2010
About two weeks ago I switched from PowerPoint 2003 to PowerPoint 2007 when I got a new laptop. I’ve now delivered a few presentations using PowerPoint 2007 and I’ve noticed that the graphs I created in PowerPoint 2003 didn’t look very good when I presented them. I did some tinkering and discovered that PowerPoint 2007 needs to convert your PowerPoint 2003 graphs in order to display them well.
Dave Paradi's PowerPoint Blog
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. But an even bigger cost is the cost of retraining because the user interface is so different between Office 2003 and 2007.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
JULY 9, 2009
My 2003 Ford Escort had been stolen so I was walking and taking the bus. For two weeks I had been an Accidental Green. I was getting to like it. No worries about my car being stolen, since that had already happened. No worries about my car being banged during the night since there was no more car. Gone forever was fretting about the what-next in car repairs.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
DECEMBER 5, 2009
Way back in 2003, management expert Tom Peters screamed in his book "Re-imagine!" Few could take it in. But it was out there: The warning that those well-paying corporate jobs were disappearing. " that "White-collar employment as we've known it is dead." " The reasons were a combo platter of the need for organizations to reconfigure how work is done and technology.
Green Room Speakers
JUNE 27, 2010
Sunday, June 27, 2010 Will Ferrells Harvard Commencement Speech OK - So this is from 2003 and I am honestly not sure what you can learn from it, but I had to include it because it is just so funny. (I
Manner of Speaking
NOVEMBER 3, 2010
Herbert Gardner (1934 - 2003) American Cartoonist, Playwright and Screenwriter. “Once you get people laughing, they’re listening and you can tell them almost anything.&# – Hebert Gardner.
PowerPoint Tips
APRIL 18, 2009
In PowerPoint 2003, these are called the color scheme. An important first step in creating a new presentation, one not based on any previous presentation, is to decide on your colors. In PowerPoint 2007, these are called the theme colors
PowerPoint Tips
APRIL 15, 2010
If you’re using Office 2003, why upgrade now? If you go from 2003 to 2010, the learning curve will be huge. Amazon.com has an offer to help you upgrade now. You buy Office 2007 now and you can then upgrade to 2010 for free.
PowerPoint Tips
AUGUST 5, 2012
In PowerPoint 2003 and 2007, you can only embed.wav (WAV) sound files. Here’s how to do so in PowerPoint 2003 and 2007: PowerPoint 2003: Choose Tools> Options and click the General tab. Here’s the procedure: In 2003, choose File> Package for CD.
PowerPoint Tips
FEBRUARY 6, 2012
In PowerPoint 2003, choose Slide Show> Custom Animation. With the spreadsheet selected, choose Add Effect in 2003 and 2007. You can insert a live Excel spreadsheet onto a slide so that you can use Excel while in Slide Show view.
PowerPoint Tips
AUGUST 24, 2010
In PowerPoint 2003, on the Colors and Lines tab, in the Fill section, click the Color drop-down list and choose Fill Effects. In PowerPoint 2003, choose Slide Show> Custom Animation to open the Custom Animation task pane.
PowerPoint Tips
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 text lessons? Sometimes, one if more appropriate than the other because of the content, but in general, which do you prefer?
PowerPoint Tips
MAY 7, 2010
In PowerPoint 2003, choose Window> Arrange All. Have you ever wanted to compare two PowerPoint files side-by-side? You’ve probably done it in Microsoft Word many times. You just open the two Word documents and drag one of them to the side.
PowerPoint Tips
JANUARY 7, 2013
In PowerPoint 2003, choose Slide Show, Custom Animation. In 2003 and 2007, in the Custom Animation task pane, click Add Effect, Entrance, Appear or Fade. Stories are a powerful way to help your audience understand and relate to your message. But how do you illustrate your story?
PowerPoint Tips
AUGUST 14, 2011
In PowerPoint 2003, click Design on the Formatting toolbar to open the Slide Design task pane. Press Shift and click the Normal View icon at the lower-left (2003) or lower-right (2007/2010) corner of the screen to go into Slide Master view. In PowerPoint 2003, choose File> Save As.
PowerPoint Tips
MARCH 10, 2011
For PowerPoint 2003 & 2007. 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005. A subscriber ask me how she could create a printed handout that contains only some of the slides in the presentation. She wanted to create a handout with 3 slides per page. Here are the steps: For PowerPoint 2010.
PowerPoint Tips
MARCH 19, 2012
In PowerPoint 2003, choose Slide Show> Slide Transition. In 2003, in the Advance Slide section of the Slide Transition task pane, check Automatically After and enter a number of seconds. A reader asked me how to create a looping ending.
PowerPoint Tips
NOVEMBER 14, 2011
If you know of a way to do this in PowerPoint 2003, please leave a comment! The options in 2003 are only Open and Edit, which don’t open the presentation in Slide Show view.
PowerPoint Tips
MAY 8, 2011
OpenOffice.org is a Microsoft Office clone, pretty close to Office 2003. The interface looks pretty similar to PowerPoint 2003, although the task panes on the right are a little different. Nevertheless, if you know PowerPoint 2003, you’ll be right at home.
PowerPoint Tips
SEPTEMBER 7, 2011
In 2003, choose Shadow from the Picture toolbar.)
PowerPoint Tips
JULY 31, 2011
This feature exists in 2003, 2007 and 2010. In 2003, choose Insert> Picture> New Photo Album.). Do you have some business photos that you would like to highlight in a presentation or post on your company’s website as a video?
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
The television network had released an excerpt of her interview on Kobe Bryant with Lisa Leslie which focused on the 2003 rape allegation. As the world (or at least those parts of the population who follow media) knows, Gayle King blasted her employer CBS on a video.
PowerPoint Tips
JULY 9, 2012
In PowerPoint 2003, choose Slide Show> Set Up Show. Sometimes you might want to display your presentation in Slide Show view in a way that doesn’t take up the entire screen. For example, let’s say that you are delivering a presentation and want to switch between applications.
PowerPoint Tips
SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
PowerPoint 2003 doesn’t have a true radial gradient but you can get a similar effect by using a From Center setting in a circle. The gradients are less flexibile in 2003, too. You have to use a trick in 2003 to get a decent result. PowerPoint 2003.
PowerPoint Tips
DECEMBER 10, 2012
In PowerPoint 2003, click Draw> Align or Distribute on the Drawing toolbar.). A common task is to space objects equidistant from each other. You might have a group of rectangles that make up a hyperlinked menu. Another common situation is a diagram with several boxes containing text.
PowerPoint Tips
JUNE 13, 2011
To remove the border, right-click the rectangle again and choose Format Shape (Format AutoShape in PowerPoint 2003). In PowerPoint 2003, On the Colors and Lines tab of the Format AutoShape dialog box, click the Line Color drop-down list and choose No Line. PowerPoint 2003.
PowerPoint Tips
MAY 23, 2012
A workaround for creating soft shadows in PowerPoint 2003. You probably think of slides as a 2D surface. After all, you project slides on a screen or wall. But you can make them look 3-dimensional using several techniques: Shadows. Bevels. Depth and 3D rotation.
PowerPoint Tips
JUNE 12, 2012
Even PowerPoint 2003 lets you rotate objects in 3D, although the controls are not as precise. PowerPoint 2003 can do 3D too! In PowerPoint 2003, select an AutoShape and click the 3-D Style button on the Drawing toolbar at the bottom of your screen.
PowerPoint Tips
OCTOBER 1, 2012
In PowerPoint 2003, choose Slide Show> Custom Animation to open the Custom Animation task pane. In PowerPoint 2003 and 2007, in the Custom Animation task pane, click Add Effect> Exit> (More Effects, if necessary)> Fade.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
FEBRUARY 8, 2020
In it, she mentioned the 2003 sexual assault charge. Oprah doesn't belong in the loop on this one. This "one" is the ongoing dynamics of Gayle King's interview with Lisa Leslie about Kobe Bryant. CBS zeroed in on that excerpt as a promo.
PowerPoint Tips
JULY 10, 2012
Geetesh’s new 44-page e-book, PowerPoint Keyboard Shortcuts , is the most complete collection of shortcuts I’ve seen for PowerPoint 2003, 2007, and 2010. Ever want to work faster in PowerPoint? Of course you do!
PowerPoint Tips
MARCH 10, 2014
How can I insert a large number of photos into an EXISTING PowerPoint 2003 presentation? I also have PowerPoint 2010 if I can insert the images using that version but I find 2003 easier. In PowerPoint 2003, choose Insert, Picture, New Photo Album.)
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
OCTOBER 8, 2019
His use of Johnson & Johnson drug Risperdal between 2003 and 2008 caused enlarged breasts. The pile-on of expensive jury decisions against Johnson & Johnson continues. That is in addition to the settlements it has recently made in a God's Plenty of litigation against it.
PowerPoint Tips
AUGUST 13, 2011
Covers PowerPoint 2003 and 2007. Ppted.com and I have partnered to offer a great joint product that contains: Green PowerPoint template package. Summer PowerPoint template package. 101 Advanced Techniques Every PowerPoint User Should Know ebook. About the template packages.
PowerPoint Tips
AUGUST 12, 2009
When you place AutoShapes on the slide master in PowerPoint 2003 and then change the color scheme, those AutoShapes don't change their color. Only AutoShapes that you place on a slide (as opposed to the slide master) change their color. However, in PowerPoint 2007, when you place shapes on the slide master and change the theme colors, those shapes change color. That is, if the colors of the shapes are available from the current theme colors. I'll explain what this means in a minute.)
PowerPoint Tips
JUNE 30, 2010
PowerPoint 2003 and 2007 have an extra option, Felt Tip. (I In PowerPoint 2003, you can right-click and choose Format Ink. You may know that you can draw on your slide while presenting in Slide Show view.
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