Presentation

Working with objects in any Office application can be frustrating, even for seasoned users. For example, moving an object just a hair to the left can end up taking several minutes.
It is not easy moving an object in a PowerPoint slide a very small distance using your mouse. The object usually ends up […]

PowerPoint lets you write on your slides while doing a presentation. For example, when in Slide Show view you can underline a specific point on a slide for more emphasis. You can do this using the Pen on the Pointer Options.
To use the Pen during your slide show:

Open your PowerPoint presentation.

From the View menu, click […]

When you number your slides, the number one automatically appears on the first slide. There might be instances though where you want to start the numbering at a higher number, such as four. You can easily change the starting slide number in PowerPoint 2007 using the steps described below.

On the Design tab, in the Page […]

Have you ever tried to explain how to do something on the computer to someone remotely and wished that you could just show them what they needed to do? There are solutions that exist to actually connect you to someone else’s computer so that you can literally perform the procedure yourself, but another way in […]

One way that you can track when a PowerPoint presentation was created is to add the date and time to the presentation. When the date and time is added, it will appear along the bottom of the slide. You can add the date and time to a single slide or to all slides in a […]

One way you can spice up a presentation is to add a watermark. Watermarks are also a good way of branding presentations. A watermark is simply a very faint image that appears in the background. For example, it may be a company logo or name. You may have seen documents before that have the word […]

Although audio and video are beginning to have more of a presence on the Web, text still seems to be the supreme ruler of content on the Internet. It’s definitely quicker and easier to consume and search through, but even though that may be the case, audio and video can make a particular message more […]