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Create Animated Powerpoint Backgrounds
If you are going to create any PowerPoint background, you should specify it on the Slide Master. Animated PowerPoint backgrounds are no exception. You could get away with inserting a video file with your animation directly onto a slide of your presentation, but you would then have to insert the same video on every slide [...]
Full StoryPowerPoint Transparent Text
There are lots of scenarios where you might need transparent text in your PowerPoint presentations. You might have inserted some text on top of a picture to act as a label, and you might like some of the picture to show through the text. Or you might want to go for an effect like this. [...]
Full StoryCreate A Speech Bubble In PowerPoint
PowerPoint 2010 comes with a ready made speech bubble that you can quickly and easily insert into your presentation. Go to the Insert tab and click Shapes (in the Illustrations group) > Oval Callout. The shapes aren’t actually named in the gallery that is displayed, but if you hover over each one a tooltip will tell you what it’s called. The Oval Callout shape looks like the image below.
Full StoryWhat Makes A Good PowerPoint Presentation
When pondering what makes a good PowerPoint presentation, there are basically two areas that the mind is drawn to: the technical use of PowerPoint (how you can present your images in the best way etc), and the practical aspects of delivering that presentation (how big is your audience and can the members at the back see the screen?). The following is an overview that covers both aspects and serves as a good starting point for anyone who has to give a presentation with little previous experience to help them.
Full StoryExtract The Background Image From PowerPoint
How you extract the background image from a PowerPoint presentation depends on how the background was added. There are 3 usual methods: insert an image directly onto a slide format the background of a slide add the image to the slide master using either of the above two options The Image Was Inserted Onto A [...]
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Instead of inserting a sound file and having it appear as an icon, you can assign the sound file to an object. The sound will play when the object is clicked. There is a big drawback to this method. You can only use .wav files.
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Sound and music can make a big difference to the delivery of your PowerPoint presentation to your audience. It can make the impact more dramatic and enhance your message – if used wisely. As with animations, you should not overwhelm your audience with sound! Use only where it will help to get your message across. You can use music and sounds in the following ways:
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The Developer tab in PowerPoint 2010 contains commands that perform the more technical types of tasks in your presentation. It gives you access to things like the Visual Basic editor, the PowerPoint Macro command, and other complicated goodies. Most people won’t meddle with the developer tab, so by default it’s hidden.
Full StoryCompress A PowerPoint Presentation
By far the biggest culprit when it comes to making huge PowerPoint file sizes is multimedia. The addition of a few high resolution images and also audio or video clips can send the size of your presentation through the roof. Not only do large files take up more space on your hard drive or memory stick, they take longer to email and slow down the playback performance of your presentation.
Full StoryPowerPoint 2011 Calendars
If you ever need to include a calendar in your PowerPoint presentation, there are plenty of PowerPoint calendars available for you to use. Microsoft themselves provide a selection of 2011 calendars for PowerPoint, but if you can get that selection to work for you let me know! I found that link on a Microsoft blog and it promised PowerPoint calendars for 2011, but as you can see, they are mostly for Word 2007. If you use the search box at the top and search for PowerPoint calendars, that will get you somewhere.
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