Did you know that bullets are boring? When people see bullets, they already picture you talking for hours with little or no interest coming from the slides themselves. So what can you put on your slides to replace bulleted text?
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What if you had to export the entire text of a PowerPoint presentation to a text-document? What would you do if you didn't want to spend lots of money on a specific software solution like Adobe Acrobat to do this?
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These days making a presentation can go well beyond standing up in front of a room with a PowerPoint deck to help you. In the age of democratic media, many of us are called on to make podcasts and vodcasts as part of our work or ...
When you're putting together PowerPoint presentations the most important things are to keep it simple, and keep it visual. But the finer details can really make or break the impact of your slides. By letting certain things slide, such as maintaining the aspect ratio of your ...
In this step-by-step tutorial, PowerPoint expert and author of the brand new How to Do Everything with Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 Ellen Finkelstein talks you through the process of recording your presentation to tape, and transferring it back to your PowerPoint presentation. This is a great ...
Nonetheless PowerPoint presentations provide an easy means to disseminate and showcase information in a visual format, most presenters have yet to come a long way to become aware of the visual communication components that can make or break a slide show.
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Have you ever wanted to easily convert your PowerPoint presentation into a Word document so that you could pass it on to contacts who don't use PowerPoint?
Here in a 40-second mini video tutorial, you can see exactly how to go about it.
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Karen e-mailed me the following question:
"Is there a way to run a presentation at a specific time?
For example at 11:00 am and 2:00 pm for PowerPoint to automatically show the presentation without the presenter."
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At the time, I responded that the Windows ...
OPMLworkstation is a Web-based tool for securely creating, editing, hosting and publishing OPML files in your own private work area. Unlike other OPML tools, OPMLworkstation can convert PowerPoint files into OPML files and allow users to edit them in the tool's OPML Writer.
Converting your presentation to ...
I recently made an MPEG movie of a PowerPoint presentation using a video conversion utility. When I played it in Windows Media Player (version 10), the sound played, but the video did not.
This little problem sent me delving into the world of video codecs; perhaps ...
