Instant PowerPoint Presentations Using The PhotoAlbum Feature

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by Andrew Whiteman

PowerPoint presentations are a great way of communicating and influencing your clients, work colleagues or audience. One of the most important components within presentations are images. This article will show you how to take a group of images and turn them, as if by magic, into a PowerPoint presentation.

You can use the techniques described in this article whenever you have a group of images whose content are at the core of the presentation you need to create. One example might be giving a presentation to introduce a new range of products based around a series of product photos.

To get started you need to bring up the New Presentation task pane. To do this, choose File - New. Next, click on “Photo Album” in the New Presentation task pane window.

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From PowerPoint to DVD – PPT2DVD Review

How to get a PowerPoint presentation onto a DVD is a question that we’ve received in our mailbox more than once. And now that Wondershare just released PPT2DVD 5.1.5 is seems like the perfect time to write a review about this nifty piece of software.

There are two versions of Wondershare PPT2DVD, a normal and a Lite version. The difference is, as the name suggest, the Lite is a basic version but is powerful enough for the average user. We’ve used for this PPT2DVD Review the full version.

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How to Insert or Type a Degree Symbol.

There are more than one ways to insert a Degree ° Symbol into your document. The Tips and keyboard shortcuts shown below will work in practically all the Microsoft Office programs (Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Project, Publisher, Visio, FrontPage, InfoPath, OneNote). In this article we’ll show you four ways to Insert a degree Symbol.

1) This is the keyboard shortcut for the Degree Symbol.

The first way is probably the easiest because you only have to press and hold the ALT key while typing 0176. “ALT+0176”

2) You can also retrieve the Degree Symbol via the Symbol Command.

Go to the Insert tab.
And select Symbol

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Use the Full Screen Mode in Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Today’s Tip and Trick is a pretty cool one. It’s a simple but very useful one. I know it works in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint and I know for sure that it doesn’t work in OneNote. I haven’t tested it in other Office programs.

I personally think the new layout of the 2007 office suite is pretty cool. One of the negative things about the new lay-out could be that the new ribbon or tabs are much bigger than in the previous versions. Because of this you have less (work) screen to look at. But this can be solved pretty easy.

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The shortcuts to work in a Full Screen Mode.

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9 PowerPoint Tips for a Great Presentation.

Create some variation.

Picture after picture and bullet list after bullet list will be boring. Try to keep it exciting.

Use a nice quality theme.

Same here; your audience has seen the standard a million times.

Don’t use over the top charts.

If you use a pie chart; don’t a have it split up in 40 categories.

Pick your colours.

Colours bring emotion into your presentation, do some research on the net and choose them wisely.

Keep it simple.

You are telling the story and don’t let you audience be distracted by what they see on the monitor.

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Insert a (YouTube) Video in Your PowerPoint Presentation.

This PowerPoint Tip and Trick is sent in by a great guy called Alexander Smith and he’s from ppt-to-video.com and it is pretty cool Tip and Trick.

In fact there are two tricks; the first is a very simple way to download a YouTube Video and how to convert this YouTube video in all kinds of formats and the second real PowerPoint Tip and Trick is how you can insert this YouTube video download into your PowerPoint presentation.

There are two steps for inserting a YouTube Video into your PowerPoint presentation.

The first step is to download the video from YouTube.

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Pause Your Presentation With a Black or White Screen.

This morning I gave a PowerPoint presentation to a customer of Promedia Blogging and I thought it would be nice to fit this one in as a second tip of the day. So I hope you’ll enjoy this PowerPoint Tip and Trick.

During a presentation it frequently happens that you are hindered in your presentation. This can be by a phone call or because of question by your audience. This isn’t a problem but you have to be prepared. If you are interrupted than you’ll need to start from an earlier “chapter” before you can continue your presentation.

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