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December 2004
- How To Change Bullet Colors In A PowerPoint Presentation
Question: Dear Masterviews, I have a bulleted list and would like the first word (key word) to be a different color (let’s say dark green) than the bullet and remaining text (in black). Then I would like bullets to be a different color (Dark blue, for instance). How do I do that? Thank you, Doreen...
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Robin Good -- December 29
- How To Scale Objects Automatically In A Powerpoint Presentation
In PowerPoint the Scale command allows you to enlarge or reduce an object (ClipArt, autoshapes, images, photos) very precisely, while keeping its original proportions. To automatically scale any object placed on a PowerPoint slide, follow these steps:...
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Chiara Monetti -- December 28
- Configuring Slide Numbers Displayed In A PowerPoint Presentation
QUESTION: Dear Masterviews, I would like to put in my presentation the total number of slides, next slide numbers. For example: slide 2 of 15. How do I do that? Thank you for your help! Elsa...
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Chiara Monetti -- December 26
- How To Provide Visual, Intuitive And Interactive Access To Large Online Product Catalogs: IOKIO FeatureFinder
Iokio FeatureFinder is an upcoming breakthrough online solution that will allow any presenter/publisher to provide intuitive, direct, interactive access to large catalogues of products where users need to refine multiple variables to identify their product of choice. The FeatureFinder demo available online shows without doubt how powerful this approach can be for many types of applications. click here to enlarge...
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Robin Good -- December 26
- How To Change Charts Default Line Colors
QUESTION: Hi, I would like to know how to change the default line colours used for a line chart in PowerPoint. Any help or ideas would be really appreciated. Many thanks Chris...
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-- December 24
- Creating Presentations Without Powerpoint (Part One Of Two)
When you think about making presentation slides, the first piece of software that probably comes to mind is PowerPoint. While Microsoft's presentation software is immensely popular, it's not without flaws. Aside from the arguments that it's easy to make ugly slides with PowerPoint, or that PowerPoint is evil, PowerPoint slides just aren't very portable. It's hard to move slides from operating system to operating system, and if the computer to...
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Scott Nesbitt -- December 22
- How To Prepare Multimedia Presentations: Impress
IMPRESS is a free tool to prepare multimedia presentations. IMPRESS is part of OpenOffice.org, which is a free productivity suite compatible with all major office suites. Using IMPRESS you can:...
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-- December 20
- Focusing On What Counts When Organizing Presentation Contents
When training students on how to use PowerPoint, it is really easy to get lost in the use of the tool and forget that there will be someone watching what you are creating. When you are the expert (and you wouldn’t be presenting if someone didn’t think you were the expert), you have to let go of what you want to do and think about what your audience wants you...
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Kathy Jacobs -- December 18
- How To Compress PowerPoint Presentations
NXPowerLite is a small program which optimizes and reduces the size of your your Microsoft PowerPoint presentations. It's fast and very easy to use. Just run NXPowerLite, drop your PowerPoint file in it and click on the 'Optimize' button. You may also choose among different compression levels....
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-- December 17
- Distributing A Powerpoint Presentation: Output Alternatives
Several alternatives are available to presenters to deliver their PowerPoint presentations to different and varied audiences. New media technologies allow us to ”export” a PowerPoint presentation to the following media formats:...
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Robin Good -- December 16
- CD-ROM-based Search Tools For Powerpoint Presentations
QUESTIONS: Dear Masterviews, I have placed a great number of files, including web pages, presentations and Word documents on a CD-ROM to be distributed to all of my trainers in different parts of the world. How can I add a search engine on the CD-ROM that would allow final users to easily search and access all of the contents available on the CD-ROM? Thanks, Jake...
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Robin Good -- December 14
- Low-Cost Portable Audio Speaker For Presenters
The Omnivox is different from other speaker systems – in fact it’s not a speaker by itself in the first place. Omnivox is actually a small round device that turns any glass or wooden surface into a speaker merely by being in contact with it. Place a connected Omnivox device on a boardroom table and you have one large speaker that produces smooth and even sound. Omnivox, based in the...
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-- December 12
- From PowerPoint To Rich-Media Showcase: Articulate Presenter Does It
If you have been looking for a tool that can enable the creation of effective rich-media presentations, while providing a smooth and satisfying user experience I strongly suggest you give a good look at Articulate Presenter....
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Robin Good -- December 11
- Embedding Audio File Formats Into A Powerpoint Presentation
QUESTION: Dear Luigi, I broadcast public-school distance learning out of a studio. Just for the sake of preventing problems, I would like to know what you think about a concern I have. My PowerPoint files are getting larger as I include more .wav files. Is there necessarily any difference between a 30MB file and a 70MB file as far as operational problems might be expected? And if I use something...
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-- December 10
- Remote Start For PowerPoint Presentations
Whenever you need to send a PowerPoint presentation to a specific computer in your network and start the show automatically, you can use a free PowerPoint add-on which will allow you to do all this. Take-off ShowPoint is a free Microsoft PowerPoint add-on that enables you to start a selected presentation remotely....
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-- December 8
- How To Show Presentation Progress: Thermometer For PowerPoint
If you want to know and show how much of a presentation has been completed and how much is left, there is a freeware PowerPoint add-on especially created for this purpose. This add-on is the Thermometer for PowerPoint and will make it easier for presenters to divide their time across slides. It will also make audience aware of the amount of time left for the presentation to complete. This product...
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-- December 7
- Create Custom Diagrams For PowerPoint Presentations
You already spent hours putting together your presentations. Today I'll teach you a few shortcuts to speed up the process and make your presentations look even more professional. Create a custom diagram . You can use rectangles, arrows, and images to create a quick flowchart that shows a process or activity. Select the rectangle on the drawing toolbar. Drag out the rectangle or hold the Shift key to create a...
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Tom Bunzel -- December 6
- Synchronize Audio Video Clips With PowerPoint Presentations: sofTV.Presenter Interactive Learning Pack
sofTV.net, a division of XStream Software Inc. that provides software solutions for advanced media presentation authoring, has released the sofTV.Presenter Interactive Learning Pack, a feature-rich product bundle that combines sofTV.Presenter v3.1 with XStream Software’s RapidExam v2.5 Deluxe exam/assessment authoring technology. sofTV.Presenter v3.1 allows users to create Live and On-Demand web-based streaming video/audio presentations....
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Robin Good -- December 4
- Outline View In PowerPoint: What Is It Good For?
Most of PowerPoint users often spend lots of their precious time in inputting the textdraw content directly into the final visual slides. This creates a cumbersome process because they never see all of their content at once like when they work at preparing a report, or an outline, or a summary for a speech. Although inputting text into individual slides is the spontaneous approach that most users take, due to...
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Robin Good -- December 3
- Video Production Software For Powerpoint Presentations
Find out the most popular video production tools that you can use in conjunction with your PowerPoint presentations. Geetesh Bajaj takes you to an information-rich journey across all the best video editing and production tools available out there....
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Robin Good -- December 2
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