My Home-Away-From-Home, Backstage
Here is a quick photo of my backstage graphics setup from a recent meeting. Always great to head to Florida during the Winter months for a week!
It’s even better when your wife is working with you!
– Troy @ TLC
#15 – Presentation Info (in BackStage)
Lots of attention seems to have been given to the administrative functions of PowerPoint (print, save, etc.). Everything is now clustered in the ‘backoffice’ and there is lots to talk about. But one item I like is the ease of finding the details about the presentation you are working on.
Simply go to the backoffice and info.
The right side window gives all of the presentation vitals, which were almost all available in previous versions – if you knew where to look.
1. Path to file
2. Thumbnail of presentation
3. All vital statistics of presentation (ranging from # slides to author information)
– Troy @ TLC
#14 – Customizable Ribbon
One item that really kept me from moving to PPT 2007 was the inability to customize the Ribbon. The QAT was the best offering and I have made good use of it. With PPT 2010 the main Ribbon becomes customizable!
When you look in the PowerPoint options, next to ‘Quick Access Toolbar’ is a new item “Customize Ribbon” – Yeah!
When open it uses the same interface as the QAT customization dialog.
But it has an easy to see drill down navigation that goes from Tab to Section to Button. Here I have gone into the Insert tab and added a new section.
The new section can easily be renamed, which I have called “Page”
Within my new ‘Page’ section I have added the ‘New Slide’ button (funny how the Insert tab does not have ‘insert new slide’ on it…).
I then moved the position of the Section to be the first item – or far left on the Ribbon.
Here is my custom Ribbon. The Insert tab has the ‘New Slide’ button on it – right where I would expect it to be.
– Troy @ TLC