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Saturday, March 15, 2008 posted by Geetesh 4:00 PM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	Quick PowerPoint Tricks This Quick PowerPoint Tricks webcast was done last month as part of Microsoft India's initiatives -- it's an hour long, and is available for download. Register online, and download the webcast... Categories: powerpoint, tutorials Labels: powerpoint, tutorials 0 comments Links to this post


Tuesday, February 19, 2008 posted by Geetesh 12:49 PM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	Working with Slide Numbers Most of the time, slide numbers are not visible on the slide although many users like to enable them. Learn how to add slide numbers, get to troubleshooting if you can't get to see them -- and learn some tricks. Categories: powerpoint, tutorials Labels: powerpoint, tutorials 0 comments Links to this post


Friday, January 18, 2008 posted by Geetesh 12:45 PM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	Using Excel in PowerPoint Although you can copy and paste an Excel sheet inside a PowerPoint slide, there's so much more you can do to make the entire Excel-in-PowerPoint thing more useful. Microsoft Excel possesses an amazingly intuitive and powerful calculation engine -- and tons of formulae. We would like to leverage these capabilities of Excel while running a PowerPoint slide show. Learn more with Naresh Nichani and Brian Reilly... Categories: powerpoint, tutorials Labels: powerpoint, tutorials 0 comments Links to this post


Thursday, November 29, 2007 posted by Geetesh 12:34 PM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	Puzzle Pictures in PowerPoint This tutorial shows you how you can create a full slide puzzle effect in PowerPoint. Although I use PowerPoint 2007 in this tutorial, the technique works the same way all the way back to PowerPoint 97. Learn here... Categories: powerpoint, tutorials Labels: powerpoint, tutorials 0 comments Links to this post


Thursday, November 15, 2007 posted by Geetesh 12:23 PM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	Picture Spirographs in PowerPoint This tutorial is a variation of the spirograph tutorial that I did earlier. In this tutorial, you'll learn to create fascinating spirograph style graphics with pictures rather than shapes. These slides show picture spirographs created entirely within PowerPoint: Learn here... Categories: tutorials, powerpoint Labels: powerpoint, tutorials 0 comments Links to this post


Wednesday, November 07, 2007 posted by Geetesh 3:06 PM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	Spirographs in PowerPoint While it is possible to create spirographs in any version of PowerPoint, it is much easier and quicker to do so in PowerPoint 2007, thanks to the new Selection and Visibility task pane and the non-modal dialog boxes. These slides show a spirograph created entirely within PowerPoint: Learn here... Categories: tutorials, powerpoint Labels: powerpoint, tutorials 0 comments Links to this post


Monday, November 05, 2007 posted by Geetesh 10:42 AM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	Text with Bites It’s easy to create text with bites in PowerPoint, although it is a little time consuming. That’s not a big issue since you’ll want to use this effect sparingly as a design style for some titles or text boxes only. To make sure that you know what text with bites means, look at the before and after slides in Figures 1 and 2 – this effect is also known as “eaten-up text’”. Figure 1: Before the bites Figure 2: After the bites Although the figures and the steps use PowerPoint 2007, the actual effect can be easily replicated as far back as PowerPoint 97. Learn here... Categories: tutorials, powerpoint Labels: powerpoint, tutorials 0 comments Links to this post


Wednesday, September 05, 2007 posted by Geetesh 7:39 AM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	10 things you can do to make your presentations more effective To advance and succeed in your career, you need more than just technical skills. You also need to be able to present your ideas clearly and persuasively. Here are some suggestions that may help you in that regard. They assume you are in front of a group, using the ubiquitous PowerPoint and a projector. Calvin Sun tells more on the TechRepublic site... Categories: tutorials, powerpoint Labels: powerpoint, tutorials 0 comments Links to this post


Friday, March 02, 2007 posted by Geetesh 10:19 AM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	PowerPoint 2007: Interface Walkthrough Here's a quick walkthrough of the PowerPoint 2007 interface. Explore here... Categories: powerpoint_2007, tutorials Labels: powerpoint_2007, tutorials 0 comments Links to this post


Tuesday, February 27, 2007 posted by Geetesh 10:52 AM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	Interface Walkthrough of PowerPoint 2003 Here's a quick walkthrough of the PowerPoint 2003 interface -- PowerPoint 2002 (XP) looks almost the same. Learn here... Categories: tutorials, powerpoint Labels: powerpoint, tutorials 0 comments Links to this post


Thursday, February 15, 2007 posted by Geetesh 2:55 PM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	Inserting Clip Art in PowerPoint This time, in a continuing series for PowerPoint beginners, I have put up a tutorial on insering clip art in PowerPoint using the Clip Art task pane, found in PowerPoint 2002 and 2003. Check it out here... Categories: powerpoint, clip_media, tutorials Labels: clip_media, powerpoint, tutorials 0 comments Links to this post


Monday, February 12, 2007 posted by Geetesh 12:00 PM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	Insert Movies in PowerPoint This new tutorial on inserting movies in PowerPoint slides complements the earlier tutorial on inseting sounds that we put up last week. Take a look here... Categories: powerpoint, movies, tutorials Labels: movies, powerpoint, tutorials 0 comments Links to this post


Tuesday, February 06, 2007 posted by Geetesh 3:32 PM Comment and PermaLink Subscribe for Email updates Tell A Friend!	Insert Sound in PowerPoint I was doing a review of a collection of music tracks for PowerPoint, and I decided I did not want to explain the entire process of inserting sounds within PowerPoint slides on a review page. So I did the next best thing: a new page in Indezine's Learn section that shows you how you can insert sound within PowerPoint. This covers PowerPoint 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003. Learn here... Categories: powerpoint, sounds, tutorials Labels: powerpoint, sounds, tutorials 5 comments Links to this post