Thursday January 15, 2009
Many people these days work for a company and only actually go to the office on rare occasions. Telecommuting is becoming a very popular way to do business. Employees don't have to travel to work, and companies don't have to provide offices for these employees. It's only natural that presentations are also being made using teleconferencing methods.
Saving your PowerPoint presentation as a webpage has many uses.
- post on the company website for all the world to see
- create a single, small file for emailing purposes for your boss to review
- allows you to extract sound files that were embedded in an existing presentation
See how easy it is to
Save PowerPoint Presentations as Webpages
And for something a little different -
Webpage Design Using PowerPoint
Monday January 12, 2009
Keeping the audience focused when you are making a presentation is always a challenge. If you are using PowerPoint as your visual aid you will likely have several slides that contain
bullet points. Using the dim text feature allows you to keep the current important point front and center while the previous points you have made are still visible on screen.
The Dim Text Feature in PowerPoint is one of many of the custom animation features you can use to make your PowerPoint presentation stand out.
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Friday January 9, 2009
PowerPoint presentations contain photos most of the time. Often, the presenter has inserted a photo directly from the camera, or saved it to his computer and added it "as is" to his presentation. Unbeknownst to him, he has probably just added 7 MB or so to the file size of his presentation, just by inserting this one picture.
My picnic table on a bad day
� Wendy Russell
It is always a good idea to
optimize your photos first, before inserting them into your presentation. However, there is still a safety net provided by PowerPoint since version 2002, if you are one of the many who has never heard of optimizing photos. You can compress an individual photo in your presentation, or all of them at once,
after they have been inserted. Whew!
I did a sample test to see the actual difference in the file size of the end product. I created a
digital photo album, containing 9 photos. Prior to compressing all the photos, the file size was 15 MB. A few quick clicks later, and the file size was down to 2.91 MB. Very impressive.
Find out how to do it -- and it really is simple.
� Compress Photos in PowerPoint 2007
� Compress Photos in PowerPoint
See also ~
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Optimize Photos to Use in Presentations
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9 Tips to Jazz Up Your Digital Photo Albums
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Troubleshoot PowerPoint Photo Albums
Wednesday January 7, 2009
Well it is that time of year again. With 2008 already closed out, we all start thinking about what we will do differently in this new year.
Inevitably, there were already lots of
Top 10 Predictions lists about stating the obvious, which have already come to pass ~
- people overspent on holiday gift giving
- we all overate during the holiday season
- gyms will be booked solid at the beginning of January
- New Year's resolutions will be broken in the first month
Where presentations are concerned, the most obvious prediction I can make, --
with utmost certainty -- is that there will be many millions of bad presentations made during 2009. How do I know this? Well, I've seen dozens of them in the past myself, so why would 2009 be any different?
On any given day, there are over 30 million PowerPoint presentations made ... at least according to Microsoft. And, there are other presentation software titles out there too, so I am sure many bad presentations are made with them as well.
So ... as I didn't want to miss the "Predictions" boat, here are my
Top 10 Most Predictable Presentation Mistakes for 2009.
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