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Let’s have a Distraction Summit!

As reported in the August 24, 2009 issue of Time magazine, new research indicates that talking on a cell phone while driving, even using hands-free technology, can be dangerous.

In July, a previously-buried 2003 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration study was released and it identified the cell phone as a serious safety hazard.

Yes, [...]

Export all presentation text

Have you ever wanted to export all of the text in a presentation? There are several reasons for doing this:

* To repurpose the text to a report or other document * To give a presentation a makeover, starting with just the text * To use as notes during delivery

If all of your [...]

Export the text in a presentation

Sometimes you need to reformat your presentation as a Word document or restructure it for a printed brochure. How do you get just the text out of PowerPoint? If your text is in text placeholders, you can easily accomplish this.

In PowerPoint 2003, choose File>Send To>Microsoft Office Word. In PowerPoint 2007, choose [...]

Emphasize a section of text or an image

Sometimes you want to discuss a small section of text, but first show it in the context of its entire paragraph. This is a great way to introduce quotes. For example, in this quote, you may want to discuss the phrase, “Our own brain, our own heart is our temple.” But it’s a [...]

Animate Text on Top of Text

Sometimes, you just have too much information to display on a slide, but you don’t need all of it there at one time. An interesting use of the Hide on Next Mouse Click feature, one of the After Animation options, is to display text, hide it, and then display new text in the same [...]

Import text from Word or Notepad

Recently, a friend told me he sometimes copied and pasted text from a Microsoft Office Word document into PowerPoint and then changed the size, color, and so on on every slide.

You should never have to do that.

You can import text from Word or even Notepad (or any text editor) to create [...]

Expand one slide into two

If you can’t make text fit properly on one slide without squeezing it in too tightly, split the text into two slides. If the text is in a text placeholder, this is easily done using the Outline toolbar. To display the Outline toolbar, right-click any toolbar and choose Outline.

Place the cursor in [...]

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