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Why Do My Slides Start at Zero?

Had a client call with this situation – which is frustrating if you don’t know where to look.

You look at your slides in Slide Sorter view, or on a printout, and the first slide is not labeled as #1, but as #0.

To “fix” go to FILE >> PAGE SETUP

In the Page Setup Dialog note the NUMBER SLIDES FROM option. Change the “0” to “1” and all is back to normal.

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-11-17T15:31:00-08:00January 16th, 2007|Tutorial|

Side-by-Side Example (with and without cast shadow)

I pulled the images from a recent presentation to show a nifty side-by-side comparison of the same slide with and without some cast shadow elements. This first slide shows all of the photos inserted – because I have dropped out the background around each image and saved as a .png the slide looks nice and clean.

Here is the same image with an oval cast shadow under each element. The cast shadow helps add depth to the slide and make the images pop from the background.

In addition the slide had a dramatic animated entrance, which was accented even more by animating on the cast shadows.

Click here to view movie.

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-11-17T15:30:38-08:00January 14th, 2007|Portfolio|

PPT Brightness & Contrast Buttons

PowerPoint has very, very basic image editing capabilities. But some great effects and adjusts can be created quickly using the Brightness and Contrast toolset. Here is my original image of a chess board added to the slide.

But it is to dark and too much contrast to effectively overlay text on.

Here is my adjusted image:

Instead of opening the image in Photoshop again – adjusting the brightness and contrast – saving out – re-inserting into presentation, I did all of the needed adjustments directly in PowerPoint.

I selected the image, increased the brightness around 8 clicks and decreased the contrast around 10 clicks and now the image is ready for the text box to be added to the slide. Took less than 10 seconds!

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-11-17T15:30:18-08:00January 12th, 2007|Portfolio, Tutorial|

Embed Large .Wav Audio Files

I have covered this before, but it keeps coming up. This week I created this quick tutorial for a client, so here it is in a bit more detail.

1. The only audio format that can be embedded into a PowerPoint presentation is a .wav

2. By default PowerPoint will only embedd a .wav file if it is under 100k (very small – generally less than 10 seconds)

3. You can raise the embeddable file size to 50 MB!

4. Go to TOOLS >> OPTIONS

5. Go to the GENERAL tab

6. Change the 100 to 50000 (do not add a comma)

7. Done!

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-11-17T15:29:56-08:00January 10th, 2007|Tutorial|

Projecting with a Mirror

When space is limited things can get interesting. For this meeting rear projection was required, but there was less than 10′ behind the screen. Enter “the mirror.” This very specialized projector mount allowed the projector to be mounted at a near-vertical angle to shoot up to a large mirror, which then ‘projected’ onto the screen.

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-11-17T15:29:33-08:00January 8th, 2007|Personal, Resource/Misc|

Looking for the (Lorum Ipsum) Words To Say?

When developing a presentaion the real text is often not available for the first proof. So what do you do? I add “greeking” or lorum ipsum text.

Should you need some professional greeking text all you need to do is head over to www.lipsum.com and use the quick wizard to create the amount of text needed. Then just copy and paste into the presentation. And as a bonus you can also read the history of Lorum Ipsum text!

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-11-17T15:29:15-08:00January 6th, 2007|Resource/Misc, Software/Add-Ins|

FareCast – A Must for Purchasing Airline Tickets!

So I recently discovered this new site and its airfare prediction services – very amazing! If you are familiar with the Xcelcius software (adds real-time interactive charts to PowerPoint) that is what this site reminds me of.

Select the airports and needed dates and it provides not only flight information, but a history of prices for the flight and suggestions on if you should buy now or wait for ticket prices to go down!

Check it out at www.farecast.com.

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-11-17T15:28:51-08:00January 4th, 2007|Resource/Misc|

Oh The Beauty of Christmas Lights

After this past weekend I have to spend a few days putting away the holiday decorations once again :(. Things have been great around here, my girls are still at that magical age of believing in Christmas, I have eaten far to much and the whole block goes into decorating overload (which is perfect by me).

I hope 2007 looks bright and full of great things for you! I have no plans to change anything here at ThePowerPointBlog except to have even more content added throughout the year. Have a super week!

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-11-17T15:28:12-08:00January 2nd, 2007|Personal|

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

365 Days ago was the exact same title – the very first post on ThePowerPointBlog! We have made it through 2006. Though things never seemed to slow down, I felt like a great variety and diversity of using PowerPoint occured throughout the year (who would have imagined even a few years ago an entire series dedicated to streaming media – all evolving out of PowerPoint requests!).

In doing a quick check I:
– Made 201 posts.
– Added 256 images
– Had approx. 25,000 unique visitors
– Had a ton of fun!!

Thanks for visiting The PowerPoint Blog – send an email any time (ideas, questions, encouragement, etc.)!

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-11-17T15:27:28-08:00December 31st, 2006|Personal|

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 Keyboard Shortcuts

With the new version of Internet Explorer (which I have been using with no problem for the past 3-5 weeks on 5 computers) comes some new ways to use it. IE7 now features tabbed-browsing (yeah!) and these are the keyboard shortcuts to take full advantage of the new features:

CTRL+click (Open links in a new tab in the background)
CTRL+SHIFT+click (Open links in a new tab in the foreground)
CTRL+T (Open a new tab in the foreground)
ALT+ENTER (Open a new tab from the Address bar)
ALT+ENTER (Open a new tab from the search box)
CTRL+Q (Open Quick Tabs – thumbnail view)
CTRL+TAB/CTRL+SHIFT+TAB (Switch between tabs)
CTRL+n (n can be 1-8) (Switch to a specific tab number)
CTRL+9 (Switch to the last tab)
CTRL+W (Close current tab)
ALT+F4 (Close all tabs)
CTRL+ALT+F4 (Close other tabs)

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-11-17T15:27:09-08:00December 29th, 2006|Resource/Misc|