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 Application button> Publish> […]
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 good idea […]
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 location. […]
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 the Outline […]