PowerPoint 2007
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Last Updated: February 6th 2010
01/14/2010 08:48 PM
PowerPoint Notes: Open PPTX in PowerPoint 2004 for Mac
Geetesh, I hope it is OK if I ask you a question about PowerPoint. You seem like the expert that can help me. I have a Mac with PowerPoint 2004 installed on it. My daughter created a PowerPoint at school on a 2007 version and can't make it work on our 2004. Should we buy the new 2008 version of Microsoft Office for the Mac. If we do, is that compatible with the the 2007 version. I want her to be able to take her work from school and be able to work on it at home. What do you think? Thanks for your time.
11/30/2009 09:14 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Learn PowerPoint 2007: Text Placeholders vs. Text Boxes
I already covered this concept using PowerPoint 2003, and now will be exploring the relationship between text boxes and text placeholders in PowerPoint 2007. But maybe someone just said stop, and asked me these questions: Aren't text boxes and text placeholders the same? Are they really different? And why should I bother even if they are different?
11/26/2009 07:13 PM
PowerPoint Notes: Multiple Versions of PowerPoint on the Same Machine?
This questions has been asked often, and with PowerPoint 2010 coming up, it's been asked more frequently. The question is about having multiple versions of PowerPoint installed on the same machine, and if that can cause any problems?
10/01/2009 01:06 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: Learn PowerPoint 2007: Adding New Shapes to Existing SmartArt Graphics
As you work with SmartArt within PowerPoint, you'll find that you need to add some more components to your SmartArt graphics -- maybe there's a change required in an organization chart, or you need to add a new shape within your diagram to reflect some other change. Fortunately, SmartArt lets you maintain the changes happening in the world around with just a click or two! This is normally achieved by adding extra shapes to your existing SmartArt graphics.
09/26/2009 02:22 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: Learn PowerPoint 2007: Text Pane For SmartArt Graphics
Although SmartArt contains text, it is not too easy to edit, add, or delete text contained within a shape inside a SmartArt graphic. Thankfully, the Text Pane available to edit text in a SmartArt graphic makes it a whole lot more intuitive! This page explores options for working with the Text Pane for SmartArt graphics in PowerPoint 2007.
09/24/2009 10:34 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Learn PowerPoint 2007: Convert Bulleted Text to SmartArt
In a previous tutorial, I showed you how you can insert SmartArt in PowerPoint 2007. However that works only when you are creating a new slides. Many times you may alraedy have your slides that contain bulleted text. This tutorial shows how you can convert such bulleted text to a SmartArt graphic in a jiffy within PowerPoint 2007. Follow these steps to convert existing bulleted text on a slide to a SmartArt graphic in PowerPoint 2007.
09/24/2009 02:49 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: Learn PowerPoint 2007: Inserting SmartArt
SmartArt is the name of the new diagram component within PowerPoint 2007. This tutorial shows you how you can insert SmartArt graphics within PowerPoint 2007. If you are new to this, do take a look at the What is SmartArt? and SmartArt Samples pages.
09/23/2009 11:49 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Learn PowerPoint 2007: Some SmartArt Samples
On this page you can see some samples of SmartArt created within PowerPoint 2007. Each sample has a caption that tells you the name of that particular SmartArt graphic variant.
09/23/2009 10:27 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Learn PowerPoint 2007: What is SmartArt?
SmartArt is a new component within PowerPoint 2007, and replaces the diagram options in previous versions of PowerPoint. Other than that, SmartArt also allows you to replace boring bullet points with info-graphic content using text-within-shapes that's more logical to view and present.
09/13/2009 10:01 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Learn PowerPoint 2007: Half Circle in PowerPoint 2007
We already explored creating these three circles next to each other in PowerPoint 2003, and now we'll do the same thing in a much easier way in PowerPoint 2007: The first circle should be filled-in full (entirely), the second circle should be half full, and the third and last circle should have no fill (empty). The first and third circles are easy -- all you need to do is ensure that the first circle has both an outline and a solid fill, and that the third circle has only an outline with no fill. The second circle though is an easy challenge that I'll teach you in this one page tutorial using PowerPoint 2007.
09/10/2009 10:49 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Learn PowerPoint 2007: Creating Semi-Circles in PowerPoint 2007
PowerPoint 2007 makes it easier to draw a semi-circle than in previous versions, but it still isn't as intuitive. However, the steps in this tutorial will make it easy for you.
09/08/2009 01:21 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: Learn PowerPoint 2007: Ungroup Tables in PowerPoint 2007
Tables can be animated within PowerPoint 2007 too -- but either the entire table can be animated -- or nothing! Yes, that's a case of extremes -- either you have it all or don't have it. To get over this problem, the workaround is to ungroup the table so that your table gets converted to a collection of shapes. And although this does not work as well as it does in PowerPoint 2003, you still can animate every individual shape as you want.
07/17/2009 04:48 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: authorSTREAM Desktop: Conversation with Umesh Sharma
Umesh Sharma is the Product Head at authorSTREAM, an online slide sharing site integrated with social media. Based in Chandigarh, India -- Umesh's profiles includes developing product roadmaps and managing media interactions. In this conversation, Umesh discusses the new authorSTREAM Desktop product.
07/02/2009 01:42 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: Learn PowerPoint 2007: Using Adobe's PDF Print Driver
In an earlier tutorial of this PowerPoint to PDF series, I have shown you how to use the Office 2007's Save as PDF option, which is an easy way to convert a PowerPoint presentation to a PDF. But this option does have some limitations -- primarily you can only save your slides as PDFs. You cannot save your handouts as PDFs, or print multiple slides on a single PDF page. For that, you'll need to use Adobe's PDF Print Driver.
07/01/2009 03:49 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: Learn PowerPoint: Password Protecting Adobe Acrobat PDFs
This is the final part of the PowerPoint to Secure PDF series in which I show you how to do more than just create a secure PDF from your PowerPoint slides. You learned how you could create PDFs that played full screen and also had transitions! Now, it's time to make your PDF entirely secure with password access.
