The PowerPoint® Blog

I work with PowerPoint on a daily basis and I am very honored to be a Microsoft PowerPoint MVP. We have a talented team of presentation designers at TLC Creative Services and ThePowerPointBlog is our area to highlight PowerPoint tips, tricks, examples and tutorials. Enjoy! Troy Chollar

Vista Display Driver Updated!

So I have been tempted to reformat my primary computer, which is running Vista Ultimate, and go back to XP (on many occasions). What keeps me from this drastic action? Really it is a lack of time – if I am in front of a computer I am busy working on a project (which almost 24/7 lately) and the thought of taking time to deal with the nusances of Vista just does not make my priority list right now.

One of the major issues has been this fantastic 512MB graphics card having the features of a 10 year old model. In other words, it had no advanced features – Such as Flat Panel Scaling.

Well NVidia has finely come through provided a robust update to its control panel and now I can actually use this computer to run a show if needed (which I generally don’t do – this is my production computer, I have a small fleet of ‘show’ computers for that task). Of course my thought has been that by next year all of the Vista issues I am experiences will be resolved as software catchs up. But for now – one annoyance resolved!

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-11-17T16:21:48-08:00August 20th, 2007|Software/Add-Ins|

Giuliani’s PowerPoint Presentation

Former NY Mayor Rudy Giuliani recently made the news with a link to an PowerPoint presentation used to show the statistics and other information about the current positioning of the political race. If you are interested, click here to read the article (only if you are politically interested in such info).

But the real treat was looking at a ‘professional’ presentation!

Click here to view the presntation.

Now I’m not a big fan of stock templates, but even those would have been a huge help to the aesthetics of this presentation. If anyone knows people in the Giuliani office, feel free to pass along a link to ThePowerPointBlog so they can pick up some design and layout tips.

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-11-17T16:21:17-08:00August 15th, 2007|PowerPoint|

Where’s My .PCB File in Vista?

So your PowerPoint toolbars have exploded and you need to reset them with your backup .pcb file (file that contains your customized toolbar settings). But you have just upgraded to Vista and it is no where to be found!

Here is where you need to go:
C: >> Users >> (Your Name/Account) >> App Data (will need to be able to view hidden folders) >> Roaming >> Microsoft >> PowerPoint

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-11-17T16:20:48-08:00August 13th, 2007|Software/Add-Ins|

Creating the Theme Logo (4)

If you look back at the theme logos created so far, it is obvious how the template would be very different for each. So up to this point I am unable to really start working on the PowerPoint template.

But the goal is to make this event a success, and that begins with the client liking and appreciating the core visual to the whole thing – the theme logo.

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-11-17T16:19:44-08:00August 8th, 2007|Resource/Misc|

Creating the Theme Logo (1)

So on this project I was given the theme text, “The Ride of Your Life”, and the visual direction. From there it was up to me to select color scheme, graphics, etc.

Here are the first two logo concepts:

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-11-17T16:18:30-08:00August 2nd, 2007|Portfolio|

Event Theme Graphic

For me, I cannot really begin working on a presentation for an event until some of the details are figured out – such the theme. Everything needs to coordinate and the theme can influence the color scheme used, the style of graphic treatment and much more. Sometimes the Theme is the starting point of an entire project.

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-11-17T16:18:08-08:00July 31st, 2007|Resource/Misc|

Troy’s Burgers

Nothing to do with PowerPoint, but something I had to share. I was emailed this photo (thanks Dan). I’m not sure where this is, nor am I certain I would frequent it – but they did pick a great name!

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-11-17T16:17:47-08:00July 25th, 2007|Personal|
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