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04/10/2008 11:17 PM
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A PowerPoint Blog: Book Excerpts: Advanced PowerPoint 2007
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The book, authored by Wayne Kao and Jeff Huang will help an intermediate PowerPoint user improve their skills to an advanced level. The book goes into deep technical detail about the Office 2007 theme engine and how color schemes, effect schemes, and font
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03/24/2008 03:12 AM
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A PowerPoint Blog: Ric's Podcast: Why You, Too, Should Kiss Your Frog!
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In this podcast, Ric interviews Echo Swinford and Geetesh Bajaj about their new book, Microsoft Office 2007 Complete Makeover Kit. The discussion is essentially an enthusiastic and candid conversation on the state of makeovers today -- and how this book e
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01/21/2008 11:34 PM
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A PowerPoint Blog: NXPowerLite 3.5: Conversation with Tommy Powell
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Tommy Powell (pictured to the left) is from Neuxpower, a software solutions company based in the UK. Neuxpower custom-build both stand-alone applications and add-ins that enhance existing software such as Microsoft Office. Their commercially-available Pow
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01/19/2008 06:31 PM
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A PowerPoint Blog: Tom Bunzel's Review on PowerPoint 2007 Complete Makeover Kit
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Here's a small excerpt from Tom Bunzel's review on PowerPoint 2007 Complete Makeover Kit on InformIT: There are, in my opinion, two different ways to get proficient in a computer, and more important, a professional discipline of some kind. One way is meth
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01/19/2008 12:39 AM
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A PowerPoint Blog: PowerPoint 2007 Complete Makeover Kit: Conversatiom with Echo Swinford
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Echo Swinford (pictured to the right) is a Microsoft PowerPoint MVP (Most Valuable Professional). When she's not working on new media, she is answering almost all the questions on the PowerPoint newsgroup. Echo is also the co-author of Microsoft Office Po
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01/02/2008 01:56 AM
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A PowerPoint Blog: Book Excerpt: Cutting Edge PowerPoint 2007 For Dummies
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Get ready to add punch and pizzazz to your presentations and wow your audience using the latest PowerPoint techniques. This friendly book/CD-ROM combo covers all of the new features of Microsoft PowerPoint 2007, including interface changes, presentation t
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11/29/2007 02:05 AM
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A PowerPoint Blog: Book Excerpt: PowerPoint 2007 Complete Makeover Kit
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This book, authored by Geetesh Bajaj and Echo Swinford is not as much about reading as it is about seeing and doing! That’s why it's called a kit. Full-color pages show you exactly how your slides will look as you follow the makeover steps, and all pres
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11/21/2007 01:31 AM
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PowerPoint Notes: 3D Lists in PowerPoint 2007 with Perspector 4.0
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This quick tutorial was provided with George McCaskill of Visual Exemplars, a UK based company that creates Perspector, a 3D add-in for PowerPoint.
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11/09/2007 09:15 PM
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A PowerPoint Blog: Excerpts from my New Book
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Can you create a PowerPoint presentation without using bullets? This chapter shows how adding visuals and using fewer words can spruce up your presentations. Read this excerpt from my new book PowerPoint 2007 Complete Makeover Kit at InformIT.com...
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10/20/2007 10:08 AM
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A PowerPoint Blog: Wendy Russell Reviews PowerPoint 2007 Book
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Wendy Russell of About.com just posted a fabulous review for my Special Edition: Using Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 book that I co-authored with Patrice-Anne Rutledge and Tom Mucciolo.
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09/13/2007 11:25 PM
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A PowerPoint Blog: Microsoft Offers $60 Microsoft Office to College Students
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Microsoft has announced on Wednesday, a $60 web-based version of the company's Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 software that will be exclusively available to college students. Microsoft dubbed their latest promotion as the "The Ultimate Steal" and will run
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08/01/2007 09:40 PM
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A PowerPoint Blog: Microsoft MacBU releases Open XML File Format Converter Beta
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Microsoft MacBU (Macintosh Business unit) announced a beta release of their Office Open XML Converter. With this update, Microsoft Office X and 2004 users can save to and open the new Office 2007 XML file formats including PowerPoint and Word files.
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07/16/2007 03:30 AM
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A PowerPoint Blog: iFilm Contest: Conversation with Ted Thayer
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Ted Thayer whips up cool PowerPoint presentations with amazing animations. He's 14 years old, but that did not stop him from taking part in iFilm's Best PowerPoint Moment contest and becoming one of the winners.
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07/10/2007 02:22 AM
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A PowerPoint Blog: PowerShrink 2007
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We have reviewed PowerShrink in the past -- so in this review, we will look at the new features that PowerShrink 2007 (aka PowerShrink 3) offers along with a brief walkthrough. PowerShrink 2007 is a PowerPoint, Word, and Excel compression product from Top
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06/29/2007 01:46 AM
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A PowerPoint Blog: iFilm's Best PowerPoint Moment
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There's so much you can do with PowerPoint these days -- and showcasing your best PowerPoint moment is the concept behind a new contest at iFilm.com. Microsoft is sponsoring prizes worth $10,000 for the contest -- and results are less than a day away!
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06/23/2007 02:49 AM
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A PowerPoint Blog: Book Excerpts: How To Do Everything with PowerPoint 2007
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This exclusive book extract from How To Do Everything with PowerPoint 2007 is presented here with permission from McGraw-Hill/Osborne. The book, authored by Ellen Finkelstein is the ideal resource for anyone who wants to create rich presentations with Pow
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06/02/2007 05:56 AM
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A PowerPoint Blog: Book Excerpts: Expanding PowerPoint Functionality
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This exclusive book extract from Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 on Demand is presented here with permission from Pearson Education. The book, authored by Steve Johnson is in full color, and explains common PowerPoint procedures using a series of numbere
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05/18/2007 12:30 AM
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A PowerPoint Blog: Book Excerpts: Working with SmartArt
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This book extract from Special Edition: Using Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 is a full chapter on Working with SmartArt that I authored -- it has been put up on Indezine.com with permission from Pearson Education.
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05/01/2007 04:18 AM
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A PowerPoint Blog: RibbonCustomizer v1.1 Update
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RibbonCustomizer (see screenshots later on this page), the add-in product for Microsoft Office 2007 that allows you to customize the tabs within the Ribbon has now been updated to version 1.1 -- the new update is free for all users.
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04/18/2007 12:38 AM
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A PowerPoint Blog: Classic Menu for Office 2007
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The biggest feature in Microsoft's new Office 2007 suite is most certainly the interface. Gone are the menus and the toolbars -- now all the commands are available in the various tabs of the Ribbon. The Ribbon is much more intuitive -- but for seasoned us
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03/02/2007 09:34 PM
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A PowerPoint Blog: PowerPoint 2007: Interface Walkthrough
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Here's a quick walkthrough of the PowerPoint 2007 interface.
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02/28/2007 02:15 AM
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A PowerPoint Blog: Microsoft Tool Helps Plan Office 2007 Conversions
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Microsoft Corp. last week released the final part of a free tool kit designed to help corporate users convert their existing Office files to Office 2007's new Open XML file format. The new technology, called the Office Migration Planning Manager, combs th
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02/25/2007 11:40 PM
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A PowerPoint Blog: Book Excerpt: Working with SmartArt
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An excerpt rom my new book on PowerPoint -- Special Edition: Using Microsoft Office PowerPoint 207 is now available on the InformIT site.
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02/14/2007 12:23 AM
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A PowerPoint Blog: Using MathType with Office 2007
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If you use MathType with Word or PowerPoint, and then upgrade to Office 2007, you will find that you no longer have the icons or buttons to insert a MathType equation in Word 2007 or PowerPoint 2007.
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01/16/2007 09:26 PM
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A PowerPoint Blog: Perspector 3.0.4 is PowerPoint 2007 Compatible
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Visual Exemplars has released an update of its Perspector 3D add-in for Microsoft PowerPoint that makes it compatible with the new version of PowerPoint, 2007.
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01/07/2007 06:28 PM
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A PowerPoint Blog: New Version of Office Is a Radical Departure
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I don't use the word "radical" lightly. The entire user interface, the way you do things in these familiar old programs, has been thrown out and replaced with something new.
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01/01/2007 11:26 PM
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A PowerPoint Blog: RibbonCustomizer 0.9 Update
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Patrick Schmid's RibbonCustomizer product that allows you to edit Ribbon tabs in Microsoft Office 2007 applications has been updated to version 0.9.
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12/17/2006 08:43 PM
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A PowerPoint Blog: Open Office 2007 Formats in Older Office Versions
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Can I really continue using Office 2003, or some other older version of Microsoft Office on Windows or Mac, and still work with the new Office 2007 file formats?
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12/15/2006 02:50 AM
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A PowerPoint Blog: New Book: Special Edition Using PowerPoint 2007
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My new book Special Edition: Using Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 is released! I just received a copy yesterday, and it feels so good. You can buy it now at the Que site, or pre-order it from Amazon.com
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12/07/2006 09:18 PM
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A PowerPoint Blog: RibbonCustomizer: Conversation with Patrick Schmid
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Patrick Schmid is a Microsoft OneNote MVP who works with several other Microsoft Office programs including PowerPoint. He can be frequently found in the public newsgroups for Microsoft Office products. At other times, he fine tunes and works on his Ribbon
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12/07/2006 09:14 PM
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A PowerPoint Blog: Office 2007 Mac Converters Coming Soon
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Microsoft's Mac Business Unit announced Tuesday that their timetable has them releasing file converters to read Office 2007 file formats in older Mac versions of Office sometime this Spring, probably late March/early April.
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