Author: Dave Paradi

1. Restoring PowerPoint Slide Layout Have you ever copied a slide from one PowerPoint presentation to another and then found it doesn’t look like the other slides you created? It is not aligned quite like the others and now you have to manually try to correct it. Last year I had a client that ran…

1. Split text across slides in PowerPoint One of the biggest problems identified in the “What Annoys People About Bad PowerPoint” survey was too much text on a slide. I suggest you observe the six by six guideline, which states that there should be no more than six words in each bullet point and no…

1. High-Speed Internet at Hotels – part 3 We have looked at the type of service you will get at hotels and how to connect, now let’s see what things we have to keep in mind when using the service. Depending on what service they use, you may or may not have a true IP…

1. High-Speed Internet at Hotels – part 2 Last issue we looked at how to tell what type of service you will get, this time we will look at how to connect when you get to your room. When you get to the room, they will likely have one of two ways to connect to…

1. Removing Spyware If you have had your web browsing suddenly slow down or you have noticed that strange things happen when browsing, you may have run into a problem I had last fall – spyware. Spyware is a term referring to programs that are usually installed without us realizing it. It may be installed…

1. Insert Slides in PowerPoint Do you ever wish there was an easy way to combine slides from different PowerPoint presentations into one file? Many of us want to reuse a slide or many slides from one presentation in a new presentation and this tip will show you an easy way to do it. First…

1. Sounds Alike Find in Word I don’t know if this happens to you, but it does to me. I am working in Word and I want to find a name or word in the document but I can’t remember exactly how to spell it (happens to me with names a lot). I try different…

1. Negative Cropping of Graphics I ran into a situation earlier this year where I was working with graphic files (diagrams of equipment) supplied by someone else. Whenever I inserted them into a document, the tops of the titles were cut off just a bit. It looked odd and it appeared that the entire word…

1. Access to desktop from TaskBar Many times I will be working on something and need to access an application on my desktop to look something up. Then I have to minimize all my open windows to get to the desktop. I thought there must be an easier way, and it turns out there is.…

1. Best Fit for columns If you need to resize a word table column or an Excel column, here is a quick tip on how to set the column width to fit the longest text in the column. Place your mouse on the right column border and the cursor will change into a double arrow,…