Office
I’ve been working on a PowerPoint presentation recently and and found the twin monitor set-up we run for CAD a huge help. Being able to run the the application on one screen, editing content/animation/timing, while having the slide-show running continuously on the other to check the results
Cliff Atkinson, author of Beyond Bullet Points, shares awesome PowerPoint advice in this on-line seminar. Watch the video then buy the book! beyond bullets: Seminar recording now online If you'd like to take a look at the online recording of my May 10 web seminar "Transform Your
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10 20 30!The best advice is often the simplest; * Remember three numbers * Apply what they represent * You’ll make better PowerPoint Presentations. Guy Kawasaki tells you how… The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint - Guy Kawasaki (It’s just one of his Top 10 Posts) The 10/20/
Microsoft Office 2007 has been delayed. There are a couple of possible reasons: * Perhaps Microsoft have realised the best Office application isn’t theirs… * They have worked out the official name “2007 Microsoft Office System” will only ever be used by Microsoft Marketing and they are busy changing the branding
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Don Campbell (Office Evangelist) has created a MindManager Map of Office 2007 resources. It’s an excellent reference which also demonstrates how good the map format is for this style of document: * This map has 69 Topics (with 48 Hyperlinks) you can review in a glance. * It generates 5 pages
Graphics
Rick Altman is a Corel & PowerPoint guru. In his February newsletter he shares a tip to achieve animated photos that are easy to change, swap out the image, without losing all the animation effect work. Don’t animate the photo, animate a shape with a photo fill! For details
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I found this neat free PowerPoint utility after seeing someone with the wonderful task of inserting and re-sizing lots of digital photos into a PowerPoint presentation doing it manually. Older versions of PowerPoint (up to 2000) have no way to do this and while later versions (XP onwards) can import
