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An Easy Way to Add Pizazz to your PowerPoint Text
by Jackie Kiadii, PowerPoint Trainer Are you afraid of boring your audience with slide upon slide of text? PowerPoint 2010 provides a quick way for you to jazz up boring text by changing it to smart art. Step 1 – Right-click anywhere within the text box on your slide. Step 2 – Select Convert to …
PowerPoint 2007 / 2010 Tutorial – Create Graphics The Easy Way
Here’s a quick tip for creating graphics with PowerPoint. I often use this quick shortcut to create website buttons and other graphics. Create the graphics on a PowerPoint slide. SmartArt is a good tool for this. Select the items.Hold down your SHIFT key while you select the items, or left-click and drag a box over …
Advanced PowerPoint 2007 Tip: Saving your Background
PowerPoint 2007 Tutorial: Saving your Presentation Backgrounds In a recent class, a student asked this question: “I really like the background picture on this slide. Is there any way I can use it some where else?” Here’s my answer: First, you have to make sure you have the right to use the picture. Once you …
Advanced PowerPoint 2007 Tutorial – Custom Slide Shows
In this post, I shared a tip from my PowerPoint With Pizazz! class. Powerpoint 2003 Version PowerPoint’s Custom Slide Show feature allows you to use the specific slides from a single presentation in a customized presentation. This is a very handy feature. Instead of having to sync several PowerPoint presentations, you keep all of the …
Easily Create Training Manuals Based on your Presentation
MS Powerpoint 2003, MS Word 2003I just received a call from a colleague. She is in the midst of creating a training manual based on her PowerPoint presentation, and she wondered if there’s an easy way to transfer the information.Copying and pasting the information slide by slide was taking all day.Fortuntately, there is.On the File …
MS Office 2003 Tip – Save Time by Adding Buttons to your Toolbar
This tip shows you how to add buttons to any toolbar in the Microsoft Office 2003 suite (Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Publisher, etc.) Why would you use this, may ask? I have found that adding a couple of buttons to the toolbar for frequently used commands speeds up my productivity. A perfect example, from Microsoft …