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November 2004
- How To Create A Powerpoint Template In A Few Steps
Much of the PowerPoint world has no design training and yet people are expected to create presentations that are a combination of aesthetics and content. Luckily, part of that problem can be resolved if you start with a good template. So this article talks about templates. Many people don't know how to create templates, so I'm going to explain how you do it. For this template creation tutorial, I created...
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Geetesh Bajaj -- November 30
- Mind Maps As An Effective Presentation Tool: MindManager
It's an accepted fact that using Microsoft PowerPoint during a meeting immediately lowers the IQ of all present by about 20 points. Average people confronted with a .PPT presentation seem to go simple—with their IQ eventually ending up around room temperature. Recovery takes several hours in a PowerPoint-free environment, at the end of which sufferers are often heard to exclaim, "How did we make such stupid decisions during that meeting?"...
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David Coursey -- November 29
- How To Edit Video Clips Inside Powerpoint With Windows Media Player
There's no reason to fear working with video in Microsoft PowerPoint. Tom Bunzel, a presentation expert contributing to Presentations.com reports that "although this is a complex area of multimedia, improvements in digital-video capture and editing, as well as improvements in PowerPoint, make it easy to insert a video clip into a slideshow. In other words, if you can insert an image into PowerPoint, you can insert a video clip."...
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Presentations.com -- November 28
- Turn AutoShapes into Pictures
Sometimes you want to edit a diagram or AutoShape in a way that PowerPoint doesn't allow. For example, you may want to crop it, scale it along with the text, change the contrast, change the brightness, or create a watermark....
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Ellen Finkelstein -- November 26
- How To Make Text Visible While Editing A Powerpoint Slide Having Dark Backgrounds
The following instructions are for PowerPoint 2002 and 2003. QUESTION: Dear MasterViews, I have several difficulties in reading the content of PowerPoint presentations containing slides with a black or very dark background color everytime I want to edit some text. The text to be edited seems to "disappear" when I click on its textbox to select it. Can you please help? Thanks, Dominique...
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-- November 25
- How To Put PowerPoint Presentations On CD-ROM: Package For CD
I know I wasn't the only one who'd been (im)patiently waiting for an updated PowerPoint Viewer. Two years ago, I received my copy of Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 and was excited to learn about the new animation features and show my colleagues and clients what could be done with the program. Unfortunately, few others upgraded to PowerPoint 2002, and the old PowerPoint 97 Viewer did not support any of the new...
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Julie Terberg -- November 24
- How To Distribute A PowerPoint File On CD-ROM So That Everyone Including People On Macs Can See It
Kara Miller recently asked: QUESTION: I just registered for your site because I am having problems with PowerPoint. I couldn't find a place to post a question so I'll just ask it now. I have made a presentation on a Windows 2000 box using PowerPoint 2000 premium. I want to be able to have it play the same exact way on all machines. I have read multiple articles on using...
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Luigi Canali De Rossi -- November 23
- XHTML To PowerPoint: Browser-based CSS Presentations, S5
S5 is a new way of delivering presentations through a browser instead of through a proprietary application like PowerPoint, by using CSS standard-based technology. In essence S5 is a very flexible, standards-based, lightweight slide-show system. In S5, one XHTML document provides all of the slide show's content while the CSS handles the layout and look of each one of the slides. CSS, or Cascading Style Sheets, are in effect invisible...
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Robin Good -- November 21
- Problems In Applying The Master Slide To All Slides In A Powerpoint Presentation
François asked: QUESTION: Dear Luigi, I have attended one of your excellent Presentation workshops and I was truly impressed with the command you have of the topic and for how simple you have made for us the learning and mastering of so many tools and techniques in a matter of hours. I have had one problem though which I have not been to solve by myself once I have gotten...
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Luigi Canali De Rossi -- November 20
- How To Integrate Animated Screens From Other Applications In A PowerPoint Slide
D. Wesley asked: QUESTION: Dear experts, I'm wanting to use the bars visualization in windows media player during a PowerPoint presentation to demonstrate the visual dimension of three different styles of music. Each piece runs about 3.5 minutes. How do I link the media player into the presentation in order to show the movement of the music?...
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Igor Raznatovic -- November 18
- Concluding A Powerpoint Presentation With An Effective Q&A Session
I 'd like to suggest a great use for hyperlinks. A great application is to use them to support Q&A sessions at the end of a presentation. I mention this in my book, "How to Do Everything with PowerPoint 2002"....
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Ellen Finkelstein -- November 16
- PowerPoint Distribution On CD-ROM
Yesterday, one of my most scrupulous students, Jin, called me and asked me for the easiest way to burn a PowerPoint presentation on a CD-ROM in order to distribute it inside her organization. My answer to Jin was not an easy one to provide. Placing a PowerPoint presentation on a CD-ROM wasn't as simple a task as it should have been. Many items have to be taken into consideration and...
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Robin Good -- November 14
- How To Write Text Live On Top Of A Slide Being Shown
Several people have been asking how to display live text notes on top of a live presentation during its delivery. Can this be done? Are there special tools to do this or do you it with PowerPoint? Don White asked: QUESTION: Hi, I teach French scientists to give talks in English. My training supports are all in PowerPoint and I also help the speakers to prepare their visuals in PowerPoint...
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Robin Good -- November 12
- Hyperlinking Web-based Presentation Files
Linking different files in a PowerPoint presentation that needs to be converted to a Web format, can easily challenge your patience, if you are not an HTML-savvy user. The issue that Rashid encountered is a popular one, but many non-technical people get very discouraged when they need to go and edit code to make things work. Unfortunately sometimes this is the only way out and here is how we solved...
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Robin Good -- November 11
- Eliminate The Black Border Around Slides When Using The PowerPoint Viewer
When running presentations in full screen mode or through other multimedia technologies, like in the Q&A case below, the default black border that PowerPoint generates is not always the most welcome feature. Let's find out how to get around this issue. Dan Putelli asked: QUESTION: Hi there, I wondered if you could help me with a problem I've got? I am calling PowerPoint slides from within a Macromedia Director presentation...
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Robin Good -- November 10
- How To Ensure Sounds And Animation Playback When Accessing Specific Slides
Playing sounds and animation inside a PowerPoint can prove to be a tricky task. Especially when your PowerPoint presentation needs to be transferred to a CD-ROM/DVD strange and unexpected things start to happen. Here is in fact a curious story that reveals a common problem Powerpoint users may have when managing animation and sounds that need to be played each time a specific slide is accessed....
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Robin Good -- November 9
- Most Popular Images Inside The News: 10x10
10x10 is a new visualization tool which showcases the top 100 words in the news and the 100 photos associated to them. The results is a dynamic dashboard that displays in one screen a mosaic of the key news images for that very hour next to an interactive ordered list of all the most popular words appearing in those news stories....
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Robin Good Recommends -- November 8
- PPS Files: How To Open Them Without PowerPoint
PPS files are PowerPoint files which are often distributed in place of the original .ppt files because they open immediately in full screen/presentation mode, and not inside a PowerPoint editing screen. This format makes it easy to send PowerPoint presentations to other people and have the slide show start as soon as they double-click the .pps file. Unfortunately this works fine only if the recipient has PowerPoint installed. What to...
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Robin Good -- November 7
- Troubleshooting Sounds And Animations Playback In A Powerpoint Presentation
Marijke asked the following question: QUESTION: I just made a PowerPoint Presentation concerning a learning program for school children. On the introduction page I made hyperlinks to several slides. All slides have animations and sound files. All slides also have an action button with a hyperlink back to the introduction page. When you first use a hyperlink from the introduction page to a certain slide (let's say slide 4)...
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Robin Good -- November 6
- The Best Portable Recorder For Audio Presenters: Edirol R1
Podcasting is the emerging smarter on-demand broadcasting paradigm emerging from the blogosphere. How do you do it? You simply make an audio recording of an interview, a new track you are working on, a radio show you want to broadcast on the Internet and then you convert into an MP3 file. Next, you make this available as part of an RSS feed, so that your readers (and listeners) can subscribe...
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Robin Good Recommends -- November 5
- Learn How To Edit And Prepare Digital Images Without Photoshop
Picture Perfect! Look Ma No Photoshop A new Robin Good Mini-Guide is out! Devoted to help you tame the preparation and editing of digital images for publication on the Web, inside presentations and in other types of publications, "Look Ma No Photoshop" is a simple to read guide that shows you step-by-step how to prepare digital images without having to purchase and learn difficult and expensive digital image editing softwares...
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Robin Good -- November 5
- Wi-Fi Presentation Projector
If you are looking for a wireless presentation projector for your up-and-coming tour of the world, a few new products have appeared on the market that pack a lot of good stuff in a little box, that is light, portable and usable almost everywhere. NEC's LT265 can connect to an 802.11g wireless network, but getting it set up can be tricky. NEC's LT265 wireless-ready digital DLP projector has a smooth,...
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Robin Good -- November 4
- How To Mix Slides With Different Design Templates In The Same Presentation
PowerPoint lets you mix and match the design templates within the same presentation. First of all let me introduce to you how you can change design templates within the same presentation and keep different slides with different templates working nicely together in the same show. To be able to include different design templates in the same presentation, follow these steps:Select the slide to which you want to apply a new...
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Robin Good -- November 3
- Edward Tufte's Mapped Pictures: A New Draft Chapter Opens More Beautiful Evidence
Here is information design guru, Edward Tufte sharing once again some of the fruits of his writing before converting them into its final book format. Here in fact is a long chapter from the new and upcoming title "Beautiful Evidence". This chapter is entitled: "Mapped Pictures" and it is, as always in Prof Tufte's work, a marvelous exploration of imagery, graphics and historical diagrams viewed with an particularly skilled analytical...
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Robin Good -- November 2
- Convert Presentations Into Web Pages
by Geetesh Bajaj PowerPoint confers the title of 'presentation browser' on Internet Explorer. Yet, to effect a faithful PowerPoint HTML incarnation, one needs to closely understand and apply various configurations hidden within the Web Options dialog box of PowerPoint. Access to these configurations is not as easy or obvious as expected - choose Tools -> Options. This opens the Options dialog box with its various tabs. Choose the General tab,...
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Robin Good -- November 1
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