Monthly Archives: June 2009

Ungroup SmartArt!!

With Office 2007’s SP2 installed SmartArt has become a lot more usable/smarter. Now you can use the great diagram templates in SmartArt and ungroup them if needed. Why ungroup? For fine tuning, modifying to meet the slides exact needs, or animating would be a few of my top reasons.

1. Insert SmartArt

2. Ungroup

3. Result is a single box of grouped autoshapes (and the smartart programming for updating text is removed)

4. Ungroup one more time and you have all individual elements

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-09-16T10:12:29-07:00June 9th, 2009|PowerPoint, Tutorial|

“Create A Spark” PPT Contest

The folks over at Microsoft Office Online are hosting a PowerPoint contest!

“Create a Spark” is for PPT 2007 entries of short presentations (10 slides max). Submissions due by June 26 and win global fame on the internet!

Find all the details here.

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-09-16T10:13:05-07:00June 7th, 2009|Resource/Misc|

Check Out the PowerPoint “Office Intervention” Episode

I do not know the full background on the ‘Office Intervention’ clips, but they are well done and entertaining. Courtney is a real person who really is a law student with a real report (so the show premise is real). My friend Julie Terberg, a PowerPoint MVP, was called in as the expert for this episode.

Here is the link to the episode on Channel 10.

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-09-16T10:14:09-07:00June 5th, 2009|PowerPoint, Resource/Misc|

Even Easier -How Do You Know If SP2 Is Installed?

This is a follow-up to Monday’s post, which is one of the comments submitted to that post (thanks Adam!). We can eliminate 1 step and get the answer to what Service Pack is installed even faster!

1. Office Button >> PowerPoint Options

2. Resources >> About

I overlooked it, but the answer is right here in the About window – even easier!

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-09-16T10:14:30-07:00June 3rd, 2009|Tutorial|

Bing!

Microsoft unvieled it’s new search engine that has received some high praise within the industry. And yesterday it was released to the world early!

Bing has a lot of new features and technology for a search engine. Two of my favorites are type in a company name and it gives all the standard results, but also a customer service phone number. The other is great thing is ThePowerPointBlog remaining #1 when searching “powerpoint blog”! (actually 1st result is an ad for MS Office, it is MS’s search engine…)

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-09-16T10:15:48-07:00June 2nd, 2009|Resource/Misc|

How Do You Know If SP2 Is Installed?

Service Pack 2 (SP2) was released for MS Office just a short while ago. For PowerPoint it definitely fixes a number of design annoyances. But I am getting the question how to know if it is installed. Here is the process:

1. Office Button >> PowerPoint Options

2. Resources >> About

3. Top line, near end

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-09-16T10:16:12-07:00June 1st, 2009|Tutorial|
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