Buy Microsoft Office 2007 now and get 2010 free later

Amazon.com has an offer to help you upgrade now. You buy Office 2007 now and you can then upgrade to 2010 for free. The reason for this is that 2010 is coming out soon and you would otherwise want to wait.

If you’re using Office 2003, why upgrade now? Using 2007 even for a [...]

Review of my PowerPoint 2007 video course in Toastmaster magazine

Just found out! Great review of my video course PowerPoint 2007: Make the Upgrade Easy! in Toastmaster magazine http://budurl.com/4u62

Ellen Finkelstein can train you or the presenters in your organization to create high-impact, engaging, professional presentations for training, sales, business, or education. For more information, please click here.

April, 2009 background – Turquoise border

This subtle border adds a hint of color without being obtrusive. You can use it on the title and last slides, or on all slides. Insert the PNG file onto the slide or slide master, right-click, and send it to the back (Order> Send to Back, or just Send to Back).

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May, 2009 PowerPoint 2007 Theme – dun-aqua

By request, I’m offering my first PowerPoint 2007 theme. It’s the same look as last month’s background, but it’s a THMX file. There are also custom theme colors, fonts, and effects.

To find out where to save it, open PowerPoint 2007, click the Design tab, and click the More button at the right of [...]

Change a picture in PowerPoint 2007 and 2010

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 [...]

Great new collection of PowerPoint 2007 effects and animations

Julie Terberg is a Microsoft PowerPoint MVP (Most Valuable Professional) and one of the top presentation designers around. She is well-known for her incredible animations and special effects, which look as if they were done in Adobe Flash or a high-end animation program. They’re all done in PowerPoint.

She has created a stunning [...]

Animate an image from color to black & white

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:

 

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New video course! PowerPoint 2007: Make the Upgrade Easy

Are you getting the most for your money? Are you wasting time searching for commands? Are you using a fraction of PowerPoint 2007′s features? This video course teaches you just what you need to know!

This video course is easy to follow. You own it so you can watch it again and again.

Learn [...]

Put a presentation on a CD that runs automatically

You can send potential clients or friends a CD that contains a presentation that runs automatically when they put the CD in their CD-ROM drive. If you add narration, the presentation will start automatically and run from beginning to end by itself.

This technique works well for sales brochures that you create in [...]

Create notes as you deliver in PowerPoint 2003

If you are delivering a presentation and get feedback, ideas, projects to do, and so on, you can immediately enter them into your presentation using the Speaker Notes feature.

Since the Meeting Minder was eliminated in PowerPoint 2003, Speaker Notes is the only way to add to your presentation in Slide Show view.

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