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Communicating Using Technology
Vol. 5 Issue 2 January 24, 2006
Published and Copyright by Dave Paradi
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In this issue: New York Workshop now open for registration PowerPoint Delivery survey open for 1 more week PowerPoint Tip - Vertical Text Books on other Office Programs -------------------------------------------- Privacy Policy: I will never sell or distribute your e-mail or information to anyone. -------------------------------------------- If you like the tips, pass it on! If you have received this as a forward from a friend, sign up for your own copy at: http://www.ThinkOutsideTheSlide.com/newsletter.htm --------------------------------------------
New York City Workshop now open for registration All the details on this intensive one-day workshop are now on the web site at http://www.thinkoutsidetheslide.com/nycmarch06.htm . Check it out and register early because space is limited.
PowerPoint Delivery Survey open until Jan 31st Let us know what format you deliver your slides in at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=863441619931
PowerPoint Tip - Vertical Text Sometimes on a diagram or graph you will need to make text go vertical instead of the default horizontal direction. Let's look at how you can do that. There would be two scenarios that you might have. First, you want to have simple text go vertical instead of horizontal - it can up or down. The easiest way to accomplish this is to first create a text box with your text in it (click Insert -> Text Box and type in the text). Then, you can use the green rotation handle located above the text box to rotate the entire box. Grab it with your mouse and drag it around either direction until the text looks like you want it to. If you want to restrict your rotation to increments of 15 degrees (so you can have it perfectly vertical, or even at a perfect 45 degree angle), hold the Shift key down while you drag the rotation handle. An alternate method is to right-click on the text box and select Format Text Box from the menu that pops up. In the Format Text Box dialog box, click on the Size tab. You can then set the rotation setting to an exact degree of rotation (they measure in a clockwise direction, so text going vertically up is 270 degrees rotated). The second scenario is when you want to rotate text inside a shape. If you want only the text rotated but the shape to stay the same, use the above method to add a separate text box and rotate it outside the shape. Then drag the text on to the shape. If you want the text and shape to rotate together, right-click on the shape and select Add Text from the menu that pops up. This allows you to add text in the shape that is now connected to the shape. Then you can use the green rotation handle for the shape to rotate the combination of text and shape together (same directions as described above).
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What about Office programs like Excel, Word, Access or Outlook? Regularly subscribers ask if I have concise books I have written on some of the other Office programs. I am an expert on PowerPoint and that is my focus, so I haven't spent the time with the other programs to create a simple book. But because I get the questions frequently enough, I have posted links to a series of books that I think do a pretty good job of teaching these other Office programs. You can see the list of links at: http://www.thinkoutsidetheslide.com/msofficebooks.htm
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