Nov 26 2008

Line Spacing Tips for PowerPoint 2007

How to access the line spacing options in PowerPoint 2007.

If you used PowerPoint 2003 and recently upgraded to PowerPoint 2007, you probably noticed a significant change in how PowerPoint 2007 handles the line spacing of text within your slides. Line spacing in PowerPoint 2007 and Word 2007 are now almost exactly the same. Microsoft obviously wanted to create a unified approach to line spacing across its Microsoft Office suite. However, the simple and straightforward approach in previous versions of PowerPoint is now a little more tricky. Continue reading “Line Spacing Tips for PowerPoint 2007”

Tags: bullet points, bulleted lists, copy, formatting, line spacing, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, paragraphs, PowerPoint 2003, PowerPoint 2007, text, upgrade

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Oct 29 2008

Four Steps to Customizing PowerPoint Clip Art

Have you ever struggled to find just the right clip art for a particular slide in a presentation? You may have searched through PowerPoint’s extensive collection of clip art images and identified some possible options. However, the clip art weren’t exactly what you had in mind due to one of the following reasons:

Image was okay but the colors didn’t match the rest of the images or slide background
Image was close to what you wanted but it had a few extra details in the illustration, which were unnecessary or distracting
Image contained a useful illustration but several background elements made the clip art unusable Continue reading “Four Steps to Customizing PowerPoint Clip Art”

Tags: clip art, customize, diagrams, Graphics, illustrations, images, PowerPoint 2003, PowerPoint 2007, shortcuts, vector images

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Sep 27 2008

PowerPoint Ninja Toolbox: Format Painter

Any aspiring PowerPoint ninja needs to be familiar with a subset of important features within PowerPoint. Through a series of PowerPoint Ninja “toolbox” articles, I will cover some of these key features. Whether you’re using PowerPoint 2003 or 2007, one of my all-time favorites is the Format Painter feature. Continue reading “PowerPoint Ninja Toolbox: Format Painter”

Tags: format painter, formatting, objects, PowerPoint 2003, PowerPoint 2007, ribbon

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Sep 25 2008

PowerPoint Templates: Beware of the Footers!

If you’ve recently upgraded from PowerPoint 2003 to PowerPoint 2007 at your company, you may have noticed something annoying with your corporate template. In some cases, corporate presentations need to have the same text added to all presentation slides. For example, many corporate templates are designed so that copyright and confidentiality statements such as “©2008 PowerPoint Ninja – Confidential and Proprietary” appear at the bottom of each slide. Continue reading “PowerPoint Templates: Beware of the Footers!”

Tags: footers, placeholder, PowerPoint 2003, PowerPoint 2007, slide master, Templates, text boxes

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