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PowerPoint 2007 and 2010 have a feature that makes creating similar slides a snap: Change picture. You can duplicate a slide and easily change its picture without deleting the old one or fiddling with the side or placing. This feature is ideal for creating product brochures and facilitates customizing presentations for multiple customers. Here [...] On the popular TV show, NCIS, scenes end with a still shot that starts in color and then becomes black & white. In a discussion on the LinkedIn group, Great Communicators! Effective Presenting & PowerPoint, this technique was suggested as a fun section transition for a presentation. Here’s how the technique looks:
[...] Whether for work or play, quiz games are fun. Jeopardy-like games or just quizzes can teach and entertain at the same time. (Note that “Jeopardy” is a trademark of Sony Pictures, and shouldn’t be used without permission.) You can use exit animation and a trigger to create the quiz so that when you click [...] John Ringold e-mailed me asking how to enlarge part of an image that is encircled within an oval. Here’s a slide with a map on Long Island. The idea is to magnify the section inside the oval. a map on Long Island I came up with two techniques. Contest! If you can [...] PowerPoint can create shadows that follow the contour of objects in an image. Here is an example: sample background Here you see a close-up of the big tulip: close-up Do you see how the shadow is contoured around the shape of the tulip? Did you know that you can do this [...] Mark James Normand has started a new blog, Presentation Design, which includes a very nice technique using a gradient background, 3D placement of objects, and reflections. Here’s the sample slide that he creates: Normand's sample slide The slide incorporates 3 elements: The gradient black/white background The 3D credit cards, which are AutoShapes, [...] In my Putting Flash animation in PowerPoint tip, I explain how to bring a Flash movie into PowerPoint, but how about bringing a PowerPoint presentation into Adobe Flash? You can’t do it directly, but you can save the files in WMF format and import them into Flash. This method does not preserve any [...] A complex presentation may be divided into several sections. In order to help your audience understand where the current slide fits in the whole structure, you can create section markers that appear throughout the presentation. Each slide displays all of the section names, but the current section is bold, or a different color, so [...] |
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