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January 2005
- How To Align And Distribute Graphic Objects On A PowerPoint Slide
If you have been trying to manually align graphical objects including pictures, clipart, geometric shapes you have drawn in PowerPoint slides, you may have not realized that this is a difficult task. PowerPoint integrates a facility which is dedicated to simplify the process of aligning and even distributing objects on a slide. Often when I am in the classroom, many students ask me how to automatically align objects on a...
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Ikonos New Media -- January 30
- Screen Magnification And Reading Software: Zoomtext
With ZoomText , you’ll discover a new standard in magnification and screen reading that truly empowers the vision-impaired computer user. With innovative and user-friendly features, ZoomText enlarges, enhances and reads aloud everything on the screen, with unmatched quality and performance....
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Robin Good -- January 28
- How To Control The Look Of A PowerPoint Presentation: Slide Master
The Slide Master is a special kind of slide that allows to modify the entire look and the visual features of a PowerPoint presentation. This lets you change the presentation slides globally instead of having to implement them slide by slide. To summarize, the Slide Master is a unique facility that allows global control over all of your slides and specifically by managing: fonts and font styles background image or...
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-- January 26
- Presentation Layout Principles And Framing Content Inside A PowerPoint Slide
Presentation Layout Principles The overall layout of a presentation slide should follow some basic guidelines. These are: Balance the weights By looking at the overall distribution of the elements on the slide, manage an equal and well-balanced layout of all elements....
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Luigi Canali De Rossi -- January 25
- Presentation Production Steps
To create an effective presentation a number of steps are required. From initial conceptual planning to final presentation delivery, the steps to be taken to develop an effective presentation are all equally important and critical in affecting the final overall outcome. In the PowerPoint courses that I have been facilitating I have learnt to share with my students some 8 basic presentation steps to keep as a reference when working...
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Luigi Canali De Rossi -- January 23
- Removing Rehearse Timings In A PowerPoint Slide Show
QUESTION: Dear Masterviews, I have a question relating PowerPoint: the day before a presentation I did various rehearsals, with the Rehearse Timings tool. When I had finished, PowerPoint asked me whether to keep a record of this and I just answered yes without realizing what the implications would be. When I now use the same presentation each slide comes up automatically after a few seconds, while I am still talking...
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Chiara Monetti -- January 21
- PowerPoint Slide Show Settings: Kiosk Setup
Setting up an information booth or kiosk is very simple. Any PowerPoint slide show can be made to run automatically and to loop continuously if desired. To set up a slide show for an information booth or kiosk, with PowerPoint 2002:...
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Luigi Canali De Rossi -- January 19
- Importing Images In The Microsoft Clipart Organizer
The Microsoft ClipArt Organizer is a Microsoft Office facility which allows you to import images, graphics or photos into the main Microsoft ClipArt Gallery. The Microsoft ClipArt Gallery is a large collection of images that is provided as a complement with your Microsoft Office toolkit. The Microsoft ClipArt Gallery is generally used to easily find visual elements that can match ideas, concepts or objects that you are referring to inside...
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-- January 17
- Time-Extended Events Are Coming: X-Events
New media technologies - communication, collaboration, presentation, content delivery and distribution platforms - provide powerful ways to dramatically extend the reach, duration and interaction possibilities of both online and offline events....
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Robin Good -- January 15
- Creating A PowerPoint Presentation With No PowerPoint Knowledge: Autocontent Wizard
Whenever you are without any ideas on how to start and organize a new PowerPoint presentation, consider using the Autocontent Wizard. What is the Autocontent Wizard? The is an easy to follow, "step-by-step" guide which allows you to create the outline of a PowerPoint presentation in a few minutes. The Autocontent Wizard contains a series of content outlines reflecting typical contents which can be used in different presentations. Using the...
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-- January 14
- Creating Presentations Without PowerPoint (Part Two Of Two)
NOTE This article assumes that you have at least a basic knowledge of HTML and XHTML, and are familiar with the basics of Cascading Style Sheets. If you don't already have it installed, you should also download and install the Opera web browser. The good and the bad OperaShow is a great way to create slides. Because the slides are authored in HTML, they can be used on any operating...
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Scott Nesbitt -- January 12
- How To Display The Print Preview In A PowerPoint Presentation
When you need to print a PowerPoint presentation and want to preview it before sending it to the printer, you can use the Print Preview option. The following instructions are valid for PowerPoint 2002. To find this option click on the File Menu and select Print Preview....
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-- January 10
- How To Get Rid Of The Pop-Up Menu Displayed In A PowerPoint Slide Show
QUESTION: Dear Masterviews guys, I am a PowerPoint 2002 user and I have a problem when running a slide show, a small triangle appears at the bottom left of the slide and when you click it, it shows different slide show options. I'd like to know how to get rid of this damn thing. Thanks in advance, Paul K....
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-- January 8
- Custom Slide Show Creation In PowerPoint
The Custom Slide Show is a PowerPoint feature which allows you to select the slides you want to display in the final slide show if you do not want to show all of them. The following instructions are valid for PowerPoint 2002. To use this feature follow the steps below:...
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-- January 6
- How to Extract Images From A Powerpoint Presentation
QUESTION: Dear All, I just received a PowerPoint slide show that contains about 40 pictures that are wonderful. It's a 4 MB file. I would like to retrieve them from the PowerPoint file so that I can use them elsewhere. How do I do that? I used to teach PowerPoint but haven't used it for almost 10 years. Thanks Gene...
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Taj Simmons -- January 4
- Do’s And Don’ts When Preparing A PowerPoint Presentation
To create a truly effective presentation you should follow some general Do's and Don'ts. Learned through actual practice, here are my recommended ones....
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Luigi Canali De Rossi -- January 3
- How To Create A PowerPoint Presentation In Eight Steps
The general process for creating a good presentation should follow some basic and easy rules. These are:...
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Luigi Canali De Rossi -- January 1
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