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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|

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|

Any Ideas on Creating a Quiz Like This in PowerPoint?

So this is a bit different – I figure with 3-5k views a day I am asking you for advice. A recent project seemed simple enough, develop a kiosk quiz with 4 questions and showed the results, then reset for the next person. No need to capture data or integrate with a data base. I figured easy, I will just develop a set of slides and use one of the conversion apps. Turns out the simple quiz is quite difficult – but if I want to capture data, integrate with a LMS, etc. all is a part of the pre-packaged solutions.

Well I spent a few days researching options and finally coded the project in Flash. Client was happy, end result looked and functioned great, I was just a bit surprised I could not find a PowerPoint solution.

So here is the storyboard of what was needed (created in PPT 2007). Anyone have suggestions on software (add-in or stand alone) that could accomplish this?

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-09-16T10:17:48-07:00May 29th, 2009|PowerPoint|

PowerPoint Contest (by SlideBoom)

SlideBoom, the online presentation sharing site, has announced a new PowerPoint competition!

Here’s what they say:
This contest is a unique opportunity to reveal your creative potential and experience in creating PowerPoint presentation on Business,Education, Career or other interesting subject.

The top three winners will be awarded valuable prizes like SlideBoom Presentation Contest 2009 Winner Cup, a lifetime subscription for PRO account, advanced iSpring Presenter software and Gold Award badge.

Applicants are welcome to submit their works from 18 May to 21 June inclusive. Winners will be announced on 30 June 2009.

Learn more at the official contest page.

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-09-16T10:18:55-07:00May 25th, 2009|PowerPoint, Resource/Misc|

Office 2010 The Movie

Two things:
1. Microsoft is definitely showing they know how to have fun. Check out the movie trailer for the upcoming release of Office 2010 here.

2. Microsoft has officially announced a Technical Preview (aka ‘Beta’) of Office 2010 – so we are getting closer to the release date! It is a limited invitation program…

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-09-16T10:20:46-07:00May 19th, 2009|PowerPoint, Resource/Misc|

Oh My Eyes – Bad Diagram

Here is a slide from a recent show that just made me cringe (presentation was supplied, so I had no editing or design input).

It does show all of the important information. But it does not have a balanced/aligned layout. It is difficult to figure out the message, text is small, and it did not animate to help show the flow. And it was a background slide for over 5 minutes…

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-09-16T10:21:24-07:00May 17th, 2009|PowerPoint, Resource/Misc|

Zero-Day Exploit Patch for PowerPoint

Tuesday Microsoft closed a critical PowerPoint hole that that has been under attack since last month, which seems to have been directed at corporate computers to gain access to data. It did not affect PowerPoint 2007, but the patch is for PowerPoint 2000, XP, 2003, 2007, the PowerPoint Viewer, Office Compatibility Pack and Works. No Mac patch yet.

How big a deal was this? It was only the fourth time in the past 4 years that Microsoft has released just one security bulletin. To patch your computer, Run Windows Update (or you can wait for it to be part of an upcoming Automatic Update).

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-09-16T10:22:57-07:00May 13th, 2009|PowerPoint|

Office 2007 SP2 Released Today

If you are using PowerPoint 2007, or any Office ’07 apps, I highly reccomend checking for Office Updates and installing the just released SP2. It has been a while in the making (announced back in October) and while PowerPoint sees some bugs resolved other applications see features added.

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-09-16T10:28:47-07:00April 28th, 2009|PowerPoint|

One of Our Top Clients Makes the Top of ‘What People Earn’ List!

In Los Angeles this week preparing presentations for one of our larger clients, who just this past week was listed as the top earning woman of the year!

Serious – Lori and I are working for Mattel Toys preparing presentations and this really was in the L.A. times. And her (Barbie) presentations not a list of boring bullet points!

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-09-16T10:29:32-07:00April 22nd, 2009|Personal, PowerPoint|
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