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PPT 2007 Charts (part 2)

One of the biggest improvements for charts comes in the ability to update them more effortlessly. No need to double-click the chart, right-click the area to format and then work through a series of dialog boxes.

With PPT 2007 just select the chart, go to >> DESIGN tab >> Chart Styles section.

By choosing one of the options the color scheme and style of visual effects are instantly updated!

In using this feature it is helpful to understand how it is designed:
1. The horizontal shows all of the color options. Colors are based on the Theme Colors (think template color scheme).
2. The vertical starts with simple visual layout at the top and progressively adds more visual effects as you go down.

Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-11-17T13:21:00-07:00March 12th, 2008|PowerPoint, Tutorial|

PPT 2007 Charts (part 1)

The visual capabilities of the new Office 2007 are fantastic and when it comes to the mundane chart – the better graphics really help!

PPT2003:
Here I have really worked with the graphic options to create a nice, professional chart.

PPT2007
Here I have the same chart and same data, but with a few clicks I have added some graphic appeal (many of the subtle visual effects are lost in the small image here).

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-11-17T13:21:21-07:00March 10th, 2008|PowerPoint, Tutorial|

Nuclear Fission Slide

So here was my task – take this image (a very low quality .jpg)

and turn it into an animated slide to support the speaker’s analogy (“like nuclear fission, it all starts with one, and from your actions more can be created”!).

First was to recreate the nucleus balls as PPT objects. This was done by filling a circle with a gradient fill (shown in PPT2003).

With two versions of the 3D ball, yellow and blue, they were grouped into clusters.

Here is the animation storyboard:

Click the slide below to download the final slide
(note: TLC logo put in place of client logo).

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-11-17T13:22:18-07:00March 5th, 2008|PowerPoint, Tutorial|

You Need to Find The Selection Pane!

So sometimes the greatest feature is only great if you know it exists. Recently I showed a very talented designer the Selection Pane in PPT 2007 and she could not believe she did not know of it. So you are in the know, here is what the Selection Pane is and how to open it.

1. Here is my sample slide. Note there are 6 elements (visible) on the slide

2. From the HOME tab, choose the SELECT all the way down on the right

3. In the SELECT drop down choose SELECTION PANE

4. The incredible SELECTION AND VISIBILITY pane will open (next to the animation pane)

This powerful tool will let you turn on or off layers (like photoshop) and let you select a buried element! On this sample note that there are (2) visible items, which are seen in the above sample. But there are also (3) not visible items on this slide.

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-11-17T13:23:48-07:00February 27th, 2008|PowerPoint, Tutorial|

Make a “Fake” Website

One of the common requests is to show a website on a slide, or create a mock-up of a website. With this request I first open one of my favorite applications SnagIt.

Then open a blank broswer and use snagit to create a .jpg which can be inserted into the slide. Here is one I like, which I added a drop shadow to for some extra pizzazz.

Then I can capture the needed website or add images to mockup. Here is my slide, note there are 2 images; the browser image and then website image (which I positioned and cropped to fit inside the browser). I can also add the URL with a PPT text box, which makes this clear and easy to read:

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-11-17T13:27:31-07:00February 13th, 2008|PowerPoint, Resource/Misc, Tutorial|

PPT 2007 Compresses Images By Default

Turns out PowerPoint may be trying to be more helpful than you want. I want to control when, and how many times, an image is compressed. The default setting for PPT 2007 is to compress images every time the file is saved. Here is my example slide, which has just one large image:

With the image selected (1) go to the FORMAT tab, then (2) click the COMPRESS PICTURES option

This brings up the basic dialog box, but we want to go into the OPTIONS

Finally, UNCHECK the automatically compress images option so you can control which images, if any need to be compressed by PowerPoint.

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-11-17T13:33:34-07:00February 5th, 2008|PowerPoint, Tutorial|

Change images WITHOUT losing attributes

One of the great features of PPT 2007 is the ‘Change Picture’ tool. From a programming perspective this was not a monumentus task to implement because all inserted images are now automatically an autoshape with a fill effect (in this case filled with an image).

In previous versions if we went through the steps of creating an autoshape, doing the custom fill and being willing to live with some design limitations we could update the fill effects with a new image. The advantage was any animations would remain intact. The disadvantage was a lot of extra clicks.

With PPT 2007 changing out an image is just a matter of Right-Clicking the image and selecting the CHANGE PICTURE command!

Virtually any adjustments made to the original image are maintained. Animations, rotation, dropshadows, bevels, and the new image is automatically scaled to fit in the existing bounding box (which may or may not be exactly what you need).

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-11-17T13:39:51-07:00January 18th, 2008|Tutorial|

Grouped Images in PPT 2007

One of the great productivity updates in PPT 2007 is grouped images. Here is a set of three elements grouped:

The new feautre is that now any of the elements within the group can be selected AND adjusted. It can be moved (the group bounding box adjusts so it is not constrained to current group dimensions) or, rotatated or virtually any other adjustment – all while maintaining the group attributes.

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-11-17T13:41:26-07:00January 14th, 2008|Tutorial|

Image Fun in PPT 2007

So with PPT 2007 we can quickly create fun, and editable, graphics. Using a stock photo and our sample image I quickly created this slide in about 45 seconds.

– I first set the image to appear in an autoshape (thought bubble).
– Then I used the autoshape adjustments to move the thought bubble trail to our characters head.
– I applied a stroke to the autoshape, colored it (dark blue) and made it thicker.
– Last I applied a drop shadow to the thought bubble and the character.

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-11-17T13:42:29-07:00January 11th, 2008|Tutorial|

3D Perspective to Images and Shapes

The ability to add perspective to images, and maintain editability/adjustability adds some great design tools. Here is my sample image with two 3D perspective styles applied.