We have to remember that what we show and say during a presentation may not be telling the whole story. Take for example this re-edited movie trailer for the Shining.
I don’t remember the warm-fuzzy family story with the happy ending…
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Things can get confusing working with a presentation that has multiple masters. Especially if the Master Slides are very similiar (eg. One with a primary bullet, one without). The solution is to name the Master Slides to something meaningful. I have added a tutorial on renaming PowerPoint Master Slides here.
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If you have ever printed a presentation that contained a .png image with transparency the results were certainly less than desirable. Here is the printed slide with a number of transparent .png images – not so good…
Note the jagged edges around the 3D spheres, Missing portion of background, solid/jagged dropshadow around the person.
○ The solution is a few easy steps and provides ‘picture’ perfect printouts.
○ Go to SAVE AS and export all slides to .JPG images. It is a good idea to save all of these to a new folder (Note: For higher quality images I use the PPTXtreme Import/Export add-in for this process. I export slides at 1600×1200 pixels for better quality).
○ Create a new presentation
○ Import all of the .jpg images/slides using the Photo Album feature, PPTXtreme’s Import/Export add-in, or Shyam’s Image Importer add-in.
○ Print
Here is a slide that was exported as a .jpg, then placed on a slide and printed
Side Note: If you delete all slides from real presentation, do a SAVE AS, then insert all of the .jpg slide images the master slide, header/footer and properties information will be preserved.
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Microsoft has some great content on their website. Here is a good example that was recently added, a tutorial on using header and footers. https://office.microsoft.com/training/training.aspx?AssetID=RC011217001033
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I recently corresponded with PowerPoint multimedia expert Austin Myers (creator of the highly recommended PFCMedia add-in). He was kind enough to review my quick FAQ on movies and PowerPoint and provide some additional information. I have updated the page with his detailed insights, get it here.
Thanks Austin!
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What has been referred to as “Office 12,” the next version of Office has been officially named. And the new name is: “Office 2007“.
ZDNet has a good article providing the details on what bundles will be, some of the new options and of course the official name. Check it all out here.
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We, the USA, are doing great so far in this winter Olympics. Check here for an up-to-the-minute medal count.
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One step better than yesterday’s post is to actually view the olympic venues through Google Earth. Check out an overview of it here.
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Checkout Google’s map of Turin, Italy with callouts of the Olympic Venues. See it here.
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If you want to know when an Olympic event is happening, check here.
Click on a day to see the details of that day. Then click on the event for a complete detail of it, or click on the ‘scheduled’ link to see who’s competing. A good use of the internet.
PS: Happy Valentines Day!
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