May 2006 - Posts

Community Server upgrade

Published 31 May 6 1:47 PM | tohlz

http://msmvps.com is currently under upgrade to Community Server 2.0. Since it is still under upgrading, some images in this blog may be missing. Once the upgrading is done, I will start posting more articles. :-)

Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 Public Preview

Published 24 May 6 1:27 PM | tohlz

Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 is now available for public download. With the new interface, Ribbon (The toolbar at the top), SmartArt features, multiple slide masters and etc, be prepared for the complete new look! The link for download is available at...

Shadow Fighter The Movie - 21th May 2006

Published 21 May 6 7:6 PM | tohlz

Shadow Fighter The Movie is out! Check out PowerPoint Heaven for the movie. The main movie lasts for about 1 minutes and 20 seconds, bringing you more excitement! The fight will take you through both land and aerial battle within Shadow Empire. A total...

Shadow Fighter - Shadow and Light

Published 17 May 6 7:42 PM | tohlz

Out of boredom, I did a short animation on Shadow Fighter. I have posted it on PowerPoint Heaven in the animations page under showcase section. Feel free to check it out ;-)

Shadow Fighter The Movie - 14th May 2006

Published 14 May 6 8:37 PM | tohlz

The picture below shows a Liqui-Strike. Liqui-Strike is adapted from the word, Liquid. It is a liquid based airborne attack casted by Shadow Fighter. The Liqui-Strike is executed with liquid and energy by inner strength. The loop at the upper part of...

Shadow Fighter The Movie - 12th May 2006

Published 12 May 6 5:58 PM | tohlz

Scene 1 of Shadow Fighter The Movie has been completed. Scene 1 is the first fight scene that will be taking place. 94 Custom Animations have been used. Of all the animations, motion paths made up the majority. Suprisingly, scene 1 takes up only about...

Shadow Fighter The Movie

Published 10 May 6 8:2 PM | tohlz

The PowerPoint Movie sequel on the original Shadow Fighter, Shadow Fighter The Movie is on work now. If you haven't heard of Shadow Fighter, it is a 30 seconds animated show/movie done in PowerPoint mimicking the style of Arcade Fighting games, which...

Creating a Drop Cap in PowerPoint

Published 8 May 6 6:34 PM | tohlz

Drop Cap, as defined in Wikipedia , is often several lines comprehensive letter with a decorating character at the beginning of a work, a chapter or a paragraph. It is not hard to create a drop cap in PowerPoint as you can simply add an additional textbox...

Mask with PowerPoint: Part V

Published 6 May 6 7:53 PM | tohlz

This will be the last tutorial on Masking. In the first tutorial, we talk about simple masking using white circle. The drawback of this method is that, if you intend to mask a black text with a different background, this method does not work. In addition...

Microsoft Office Excel: Alphabetic Numberings on cells

Published 6 May 6 4:17 AM | tohlz

Let's give Masking a break today. And yes, we will be talking about Microsoft Office Excel today. Just this afternoon, my supervisor requested for a solution on adding alphabetic numbering on a row instead of numbers (e.g. A-Z on row 1). Let's say if...

Mask with PowerPoint: Part IV

Published 3 May 6 5:50 PM | tohlz

Today, we will talk about Static Masking. By static masking, it refers to showing a portion of a picture while having the rest of the portion hidden. Below are two images showing you a sunset before and after masking. Figure 1: Picture of Original Sunset...

Next article coming soon.

Published 2 May 6 7:26 PM | tohlz

After a long break, the next article will be up soon. For the next topic, we will talk about Static Mask. So, stay tuned! Feel free to make a comment if you do have any regarding the topics here. Rants and Raves welcome!