Tag: 2004

1. PowerPoint keys during Slide Show I had an e-mail and phone chat with a new subscriber recently discussing how to use some keys during the delivery of a PowerPoint presentation. You can get a full list by pressing the F1 key while in slide show mode, but here are a few of my favorites:…

1. Resizing Graphics in PowerPoint In previous issues of the newsletter I have discussed how you can resize and resample graphics (especially digital photographs) before you insert them on a slide. The advantage of using a graphics utility like IrfanView is that the file you insert on your slide is much smaller and this makes…

1. Uses for the Slide Sorter view in PowerPoint Most people use the default view in PowerPoint, known as the Slide view or Normal view, which allows you to easily edit your slides. And for most purposes, it is the best view to work in. But if you haven’t done so yet, I encourage you…

1. Text formatting in PowerPoint The default formatting for the body of a slide in PowerPoint is to have bullet points for each idea. While this is usually a good idea, in this tip I want to share some ideas on how you can have a little more control over the formatting of the text…

1. Resetting PowerPoint Slide Design I am sure many of you have had (or will have) this experience with PowerPoint. You get handed someone else’s file to “fix up and put into the company template”. You look at it and it is the dog’s breakfast – text boxes not properly positioned, titles not where they…

1. Fix to PowerPoint Custom Shows bug In previous issues of this newsletter you have read how I think that the Custom Shows feature of PowerPoint is one of the most useful features because it saves a lot of time when you present slightly different versions of a presentation. To recap, the Custom Shows feature…

1. Aligning objects in PowerPoint When I have more than one text or graphic object on a slide, I always find it hard to line them up perfectly. I just can’t seem to do it by hand, and I am never really sure whether they are perfectly aligned. I was just trying to do this…

1. Spicing up PowerPoint Charts An article I saw recently at PC Magazine talked about how to make Excel charts look more fun by adding graphics (such as a picture of a hamburger) as the fill color for bar charts. This allows you for example to show a stack of burgers the height of which…

1. Making Smaller PowerPoint files Recently I have been working with a couple of clients to prepare better PowerPoint presentations and in both cases they were including graphics. What happens far too often is that including graphic files, such as digital photographs or scanned art, will increase the PowerPoint file size dramatically because the graphic…

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…