August 2006 - Posts

Mike Fried's PowerPoint and Development Blog
Published Thu, Aug 31 2006 14:27 | tohlz
Mike Fried is a developer in the PowerPoint Team working on Office 2003 and 2007. He has started blogging recently and would like to share with us some useful information where people (particularly PowerPoint customers) can put it to some good use. You...
Speed Test
Published Wed, Aug 30 2006 18:25 | tohlz
Nothing related to PowerPoint, but a cool looking Bandwidth speed test which you might be interested to try out! http://www.speedtest.net
Survey Shows How to Stop Annoying Audiences
Published Mon, Aug 28 2006 17:12 | tohlz
Came across an article today, which you maybe interested to take a look at: http://www.communicateusingtechnology.com/articles/pptsurvey_article.htm
Scrolling Banner - Tutorial
Published Mon, Aug 28 2006 2:11 | tohlz
Previously, I have posted a sample on how scrolling banner can be achieved in PowerPoint. Today, I will go through the steps: First of all, you will need to create a duplicate of the scrolling banner. To do so, right click on the banner, and click Copy...
Fikree's Projects - Pointer's Way 3 Demo released
Published Sat, Aug 26 2006 6:12 | tohlz
Fikree has released his Pointer's Way 3 Demo. You can download the PowerPoint game here. Take note that it is in .rar format: http://files.filefront.com/Pointers_Way_3_Demo/;5452230;;/fileinfo.html To download the previous PowerPoint games by Fikree,...
OfficeFX Review
Published Thu, Aug 24 2006 18:15 | tohlz
Just finished the review for Instant Effects' OfficeFX. OfficeFX is a third party software by Instant Effects which allows you to transform static PowerPoint slides into dynamic presentations with stunning 3D visual impact. The write-up is also accompanied...
Scrolling Banner
Published Wed, Aug 23 2006 12:38 | tohlz
You have a banner or several images that you want them to scroll across the screen continuously, looping itself until the next slide. In addition, you don't want any gaps in between. This is a question posted in the PowerPoint newsgroup recently. Here...
Circle the keywords
Published Mon, Aug 21 2006 17:21 | tohlz
Lets say you have a slide filled up with a number of points. During the slide show, you want the audience to take note on certain keywords. One way you can do is to draw a ring (a circle without fill color) around the keywords and animate it in such a...
Tile up your background
Published Sun, Aug 20 2006 6:12 | tohlz
In PowerPoint, you can tile up your background so that you will see repeated images filling up your slides. This may look tricky, because there isn't an option where you can choose to tile or stretch your background. So how can this be done? First, click...
Ten worst presentation moments
Published Fri, Aug 18 2006 18:43 | tohlz
What's the ten worst presentation moments? You gonna check out the published article on Microsoft here: http://www.microsoft.com/uk/atwork/work/presentationdisasters.mspx
Insert Slide Number, Date and Time
Published Mon, Aug 14 2006 19:06 | tohlz
If you click Insert > Slide Number, or Insert > Date and Time, PowerPoint will bring up the Header and Footer dialog box. Alternately, clicking View > Header and Footer will also bring up this dialog box. So what does the Insert > Slide Number...
PowerPlugs: Transitions Review
Published Sun, Aug 13 2006 18:03 | tohlz
Sorry for the lack of posting! Been very busy recently, hence you can see me getting lesser time in blogging. Today, I have added a Cool Add-Ins section in Tutorials page at PowerPoint Heaven . I will be looking out for cool add-ins or third party products...