Are you an MS PowerPoint user who frequently uses the Slide Master or Handout Master?
What about the Set Up Show dialog box?
Are you tired of all the menu searching you have to do to get where you need to be?
Some of you may have solved your problem by adding more buttons to your already crowded program window. This… Continue reading
Ever open a PowerPoint presentation from someone else only to find yourself looking at way too much information?
You’ve got the thumbnails, the notes and the slide.
Or, maybe you’re looking at the slide and the outline… too bad you don’t like the outline and prefer the thumbnails. So, where are they?
Well, you could go through the hassle of resetting… Continue reading
When you put together your PowerPoint presentations do you find that you’re bored with the same old bulleted list time after time?
Well, if you’re bored then you’ve got to wonder if the audience is tired of seeing information presented that way too…
So, even if it’s to battle our own lack of enthusiasm for the never ending bulleted lists of information… Continue reading
Do you like the Format Painter in MS Word and MS PowerPoint?
Do you find it frustrating that when you forget to double click the button, it shuts off after just one paste?
Or, have you ever tried to interrupt the process of format painting by editing some text, only to find that the program has “forgotten” the formatting you intended to paint once… Continue reading
Ever have a presentation to give and some information you’d like the participants to know as they are coming into the room and settling down? Information maybe along the lines of a welcome, your name, materials to pick up, whatever…
What did you do?
Did you create a slide with a list of information and just
So, you’ve got a great presentation that’s simply perfect. The right information, color scheme, design and animations… too bad you need to get rid of the animations for this go-around.
You’ve got a more limited presentation time so you need to keep things moving at a little faster pace then you would with the animations.
Or, maybe you’ve just got an audience… Continue reading
OK – So I’m well aware that the stores have wanted us to be in the “spirit” since before Halloween… but now with the holidays actually upon us I thought you might like some of the spirit for an upcoming presentation.
You can get free holiday PowerPoint templates like these at Presentation Magazine.
You’ll even find templates… Continue reading
We all know that with an object selected (such as a shape, picture, textbox, etc…) you can use the arrow keys in PowerPoint to nudge them around the slide.
Basically, the amount of movement you get depends upon the grid size setting. The larger the grid spacing is set to be the bigger the nudge the arrow keys will give your object.
But what… Continue reading
Have you ever had a chart in a PowerPoint presentation and wondered if it could be animated?
I’m sure you have and if that’s what you needed you simply applied the animation of your choice, watched the whole chart enter at once and didn’t think about it again.
But, I must ask, did you ever wish that you could animate the chart elements (bars, lines, pie pieces, etc…) in a… Continue reading
If you’re a person who uses PowerPoint for presentations on a regular basis then I’m sure that at some time it’s been necessary to start a show (or restart a show) from a slide that isn’t the first one.
Whether it’s just where this particular discussion should start of it something happened to put you back into the program window instead of the slide show itself… the… Continue reading
