PowerPoint
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Last Updated: March 5th 2009
07/01/2009 11:16 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: Learn PowerPoint: Search Google for PowerPoint Files
Google is a web search engine which indexes all sorts of information on the World Wide Web. Search results on Google typically contain results that consist of web pages, images, information and other types of files. What many users don't know is that Google allows you to restrict your search for a particular file type, such as a PowerPoint presentation! In this tutorial, I'll show you how you can search for PowerPoint presentations only using Google's Advanced Search option.
06/27/2009 01:26 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: PPTools PPT Merge: The Indezine Review
Out of the box, Microsoft builds little or no integration or relationships within PowerPoint to other Microsoft Office applications . To provide a quick example, PowerPoint users have nothing close to the mail merge options in Word or Outlook that can access data from an Excel or database source. And that's sort of sad, since PowerPoint is one application that can act as a glue to all sorts of content -- from text to pictures, and movies to charts! Our review product, PPT Merge does try to cover this vacuum -- does it succeed?
06/25/2009 01:50 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Learn PowerPoint: Password Protecting PowerPoint Presentations in v 2002 and 2003
Why would anyone want to password protect their PowerPoint presentations? There are many reasons, and here are some of them. A presentation with confidential content is safe if it is password protected -- nobody without access to the password can open it. Also, the password protected presentation is more safer to share -- you can provide the password to the person whom you are sharing the presentation with. In addition to providing a password-to-open option, PowerPoint provides a less restrictive password-to-modify option. So your presentation can be opened by anybody, but can't be modified - this makes your content non editable.
06/23/2009 04:55 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Design Shapes: The Circle, Part III
Specifically, my office team was helping me with a review of Artlandia's new SymmetryWorks plug-in for Adobe Illustrator that lets me create organic looking patterns from all shapes. Since we are biased towards circles at this point of time, we decided to create a repeating circular pattern using SymmetryWorks. These patterns were intended as a starting point for PowerPoint backgrounds.
06/20/2009 02:50 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Design Shapes: The Circle, Part II
I shared a few "circle" thoughts with you in the first post in this series: Design Shapes: The Circle, Part I -- and now it's time to look at some more circles. What could be better than an entire book on circles, and my favorite is a book that's entirely filled with color pictures of any sort of circular pattern that you might have seen!
06/19/2009 03:40 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Design Shapes: The Circle, Part I
In this new Design Shape series of posts, I'll look at concepts that are not limited to PowerPoint alone, although you can expect me to relate them to PowerPoint in some way or the other because as you must have guessed it, I am in a circle that revolves around PowerPoint!
06/17/2009 12:39 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: PowerPoint Contests Galore
At last count, I found that there were at least 3 PowerPoint presentation contests happening online.
06/16/2009 02:31 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Selling with PowerPoint: Taking Control of That Critical First Meeting
A prospective customer has invited you to showcase your company's products and services, and the stakes are high. This contract could be huge. Your marketing department and executives have been fretting over the necessary PowerPoint slides for weeks. Every word has to be perfect. Every slide must be in exactly the right order. Your mission is to lay down a faultlessly planned and executed sales strategy that persuades this customer to buy exclusively from you ... but you are worried!
06/05/2009 12:43 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Learn PowerPoint: Changing an Animation
Many times, users just remove an animation and apply another one instead. The need to change an animation may arise for several reasons: You realize that another animation type would work better in a given slide, or you want to make all animations across the entire presentation consistent, or you want to use a more subtle or exciting animation. Whatever your need may be, you need to remove an animation, and then add another one -- PowerPoint's Change animation option makes this a one-click step.
05/28/2009 06:05 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: Tell A Story in 30 Slides: SlideShare Contest
SlideShare announced the very interesting Tell A Story in 30 Slides contest that invites participants to submit a story about themselves, their travels, or something they love. Just tell it with words and pictures and in 30 slides.
05/26/2009 07:49 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: Outstanding Presentations: Workshop by Ellen Finkelstein
Need to learn how to create outstanding presentations, from start to finish? Ellen Finkelstein is offering a 3-day, intensive workshop that covers content, design, and delivery. You’ll get personal attention in a small group. If you live in the U.S. or Canada, I suggest that you check it out here.
05/19/2009 02:58 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Learn PowerPoint: Animating Text
As part of the animation tutorials series, I have showed you how you can add an animation to any slide object in PowerPoint. However, there's more to animating text than just adding an animation since PowerPoint provides specialized options for animating paragraphs and bulleted text. In this tutorial we will learn how you can use these special options to animate text sequentially by words, by letters, and by paragraph levels.
05/16/2009 05:06 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Learn PowerPoint: Animating Charts
In PowerPoint you can animate any slide object, but some objects have extra animation options. These objects include charts and bulleted text, and in this tutorial we will work with chart animation in PowerPoint. Since animation is largely unchanged in PowerPoint versions 2002 through 2007, we'll cover all those versions in this tutorial.
05/16/2009 04:57 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Office Intervention: Learning PowerPoint with Julie Terberg
Julie Terberg who is a Microsoft PowerPoint MVP has been busy doing this cool video with Microsoft Office Online as part of their new Office Intervention series. In this particular video, Julie shows a law student how she can effectively use PowerPoint effectively to create a compelling presentation.
05/16/2009 03:23 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: SlideBoom World Presentation Contest
SlideBoom, a presentation sharing site from the makers of iSpring announced the SlideBoom World Presentation Contest. This contest, open to everyone requires participants to submit any PowerPoint presentation (or another compatible file format) on the SlideBoom site. All participants need to be members of the site, and basic membership is free.
A lot is at stake -- power, money, reputation, future plans, justice. You need to win this case. Your presentation materials surely will play an important role in helping the judge and jury experience the sights, sounds, and details of the case ... or not. The choice is up to you, says one tech-savvy attorney.
The choice is up to you, says one tech-savvy attorney. It all depends upon whether you are willing to push PowerPoint beyond its normal boundaries to maximize its interactive and persuasive potential. This article by Robert Lane and
Bruce A. Olson
provides a better idea of using PowerPoint in court. 
