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This week: Adding Sound to Your PowerPoint Presentations.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, why would anyone want to add spoken words to a presentation of images? Seems like overkill, doesn’t it? Well, maybe not. (more…)
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Welcome back to the podcast!
This week’s edition: Photo Album Slide Shows in PowerPoint
The problem: Too many pictures to insert into a presentation one at a time.
The Solution (for PowerPoint 2002 – 2007):
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Charts are everywhere in daily life; from news commentary, to stocks, to web polls, right down to entertaining sites like www.graphjam.com.
Who really knows which one to use? We all understand the old phrase, “A picture is worth a thousand words,” but which picture (or, in this case, which chart) gets me closer to that thousand instead of 3?
Today we are going to cover some basic chart types and what picture they draw. So, like Prometheus giving fire back to man, I now give the knowledge of Redmond back to the masses.
The four most commonly used chart types are Column, Bar, Line, and Pie. These are not the only chart types, but they cover what most mere mortals like you and I can probably get the most out of. (more…)
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Welcome back to the podcast!
This week’s episode: “Organizing Your Mail and Contacts”.
You know, nothing’s more honest than a 7 year old kid. He tells me things he likes, he tells me things that he doesn’t like, but one of his favorite likes happens to be organizing and arranging things, or just searching through one of those “Where’s Waldo?” books. You know, it can actually be fun looking for one thing in the midst of others. Heck, there’s even a game on the Nintendo Wii where you can sort and organize your Miis. (more…)
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If you’re in business, you will either be the victim of a bad PowerPoint presentation or possibly be the perpetrator who exposes others. I know one of my worst experiences was going to see a computer company who presented a show that had different colors of text and backgrounds on every slide. Not only was it distracting from what they were trying to present, but it was tiring just to watch. I happened to see the same presentation done at a later date via a webinar where, because of the colors and high resolution, images looked horrible and cheapened the message they were attempting to present.
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How to find what you need to get the job done!
Ask my wife sometime and you’ll probably find out that my short term memory has a lot to be desired, and is in fact practically non-existent. I could easily have four drinking glasses lying around the house at any given time and never even realize it. Her number one response when I ask where I put something is invariably, “Where did you have it last?” I typically respond to this with something akin to, “If I knew where that was, I wouldn’t be asking.”
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Often my wife, co-workers, and friends say that I have a really strange way of thinking and it is extremely difficult to follow the logic on the train wreck of thoughts running through my head. In fact, the most common expression I hear from people tends to be, “How did you get that when we started out with this?” To which I reply, “Do you really want to know how I started at A, then went to Z, then back to Y, on to 3 through 12, and finish on B and C?” Inevitably, after they ask the first time, they usually don’t ask again.
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Every winter, I tell myself I am going to buy one of those remote car starters — you know, those things where I can stay toasty warm in the confines of my own home while de-icing my car. But then summer comes, there is no more need, and I forget.
Here are a few tips to make saving your file easier.
While checking some of our followers on Twitter we received a good tip from @DarrenWray tweets:
Ctrl+F1 in office 2007 hides/shows ribbon menu. Saves scrolling.
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