PowerPoint 2010
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Last Updated: February 6th 2010
03/15/2010 04:07 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: Learn PowerPoint 2007 and 2010: Recolor Picture Backgrounds
One of the worst things that you can do to your PowerPoint presentation is to add a busy, multi-colored background to your slides. However, people do that all the time and in the process, they compromise the subtlety and contrast of any content on their slides. One option is to recolor your backgrounds to make them more understated, and I do agree that this is a slightly difficult task to accomplish unless you use the new Recolor options available for pictures in both PowerPoint 2007 and 2010.
02/27/2010 01:26 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: oomfo: Conversation with Pallav Nadhani
Pallav Nadhani is the co-founder and CTO of InfoSoft Global. He co-authored a book on combining the power of Flash and .NET called 'Flash.NET' at the age of 17 and has written several technical articles for international journals ever since. An MS in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh, he is the founder and lead developer of FusionCharts, the industry's leading Flash charting component. In this conversaton, Pallav talks about oomfo, an add-in for PowerPoint that adds animated and interactive charts.
02/24/2010 01:47 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: Learn PowerPoint 2007 and 2010: Ungrouping Maps in PowerPoint
In a previous tutorial I showed you how to download vector map files from the Microsoft Office website. In this tutorial you'll learn how to ungroup these files. Our example looks at a map of the United States of America that also shows each individual state -- your map may be different but the principles explained below will be useful. With your downloaded file ready, follow these steps to place the downloaded file in PowerPoint 2007 - 2010 and ungroup it.
02/24/2010 01:41 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: Learn PowerPoint 2007 and 2010: Downloading Maps from the Office.com Site
One of the most frequently asked questions in the PowerPoint forums is about having access to a map of the United States of America on a slide that has each state available as a separate selectable shape. In this tutorial you'll learn how to do just that by first downloading a suitable map clip art file from Microsoft Office.com website.
01/11/2010 03:39 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: PowerPoint 2010 Animation Engine
The PowerPoint 2010 team has put up this new video on their YouTube channel that shows how effective the new hardware accelerated animation engine is compared to what you could expect in PowerPoint 2007. Very cool stuff!
12/11/2009 12:26 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: Poll on PowerPoint 2010
I created this poll for all of us to know how many have tried the new PowerPoint 2010 beta, and if others are considering playing with this new beta version -- so do vote and see what every one is responding with!
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?
11/21/2009 08:14 PM
A PowerPoint Blog: Office 2010 Beta
The Office 2010 Beta is now available for everyone! You can download the Office 2010 Beta applications and run it on your computer, or even try out the online Office Web Apps.
07/15/2009 01:10 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: New Features in PowerPoint 2010
PowerPoint 2010 is so much awaited, and it's great to know that Microsoft has unwrapped some information on what's new in this upcoming release of the world's leading presentation program. The new Office 2010 site has videos that show new features for all of the Office 2010 programs including PowerPoint. PowerPoint 2010 provides cool Artistic Effects for photos with live previews. New transitions have been added, and the Animation Painter option copies animations from one slide object to another, and that's so cool if you have added and fine-tuned your animation sequences and timings for one object and want it repeated on another! There are new video options including reflections for video clips, video trimming capabilities, and new navigation controls. File compression works better and you can save your PowerPoints as video clips.
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