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In the latest version of MS PowerPoint, you are able to view your presentation and edit it at the very same time. This is an extremely useful feature in my estimation. Sometimes you cannot really judge whether a presentation is effective until you ... see it in action. Follow the steps below to learn how to utilize this great 2007 PowerPoint feature: Click on the View tab and depress and hold the Control key as you click the Slideshow button. This will now display the presentation in the top left of the screen, allowing you to move between viewing your presentation and editing it. When you become ... (view more)

Sometimes, even though you have beautiful graphics in your PowerPoint presentation, a voice explaining a principle can be so much better. People learn in different ways. Some folks are more visual than others and some learn better by hearing someone ... explain something to them and others learn best by seeing AND hearing. If you can record it, you can include it in your presentation. To record a single message or unique sound, follow the steps below: Click on Insert | Record Sound. In version 2007, you can find this option in the Sound options drop-down list, found in the Media Clips group on ... (view more)

Have you ever printed out your presentation with your black and white printer only to be very nonplussed about the way it looks? Your beautiful color slides that took you so long to get to perfection now look very blah and nobody warned you about ... that! Well take heart, there is a quick and easy way to view exactly how your slides will look when you print them, thereby saving time and ink by previewing them. To preview your MS PowerPoint presentation in gray scale, follow the steps below: Click on View | Color/Grayscale. Select Grayscale. Your presentation will immediately change to grayscale ... (view more)

PowerPoint gives users the flexible option to add links to their presentation that will open on demand without distracting the audience. Using action links saves time and improves the flow of the entire presentation. Action links can be set up to ... open another presentation, files, programs URLs, or to reference another slide within the current presentation. To add an action link, follow the steps below: Select the text to add a link to. Click on the Insert tab located on the Ribbon. Click on the Action icon under the links heading. A window should appear and give the option for the link to ... (view more)

You want your audience to remember who you are and how to get in touch with you, once your presentation is finished, right? One way to do that is to include your e-mail address in your presentation. Follow the steps below to learn how: Open your ... PowerPoint presentation. Select the object, text or shape to which you wish to assign the e-mail link. Right-click the object and select Action Settings from the menu. The Action Settings dialog box appears. Click Hyperlink to: Select URL... from the drop-down list. Enter your e-mail address into the text box using the format below: mailto: ... (view more)

I'm sure that you have probably noticed at the end of your presentation that PowerPoint displays a black screen with the words "End of slide show, click to exit" at the top. Not everyone is enamored of the black screen. Follow the steps below to rid ... yourself of the black screen at the end of your presentation: PowerPoint 2002 and 2003: Choose Tools | Options. Choose the View tab. Uncheck the box for the option End with black slide. PowerPoint 2007: Click on the Office button. Choose the PowerPoint Options button (at the bottom of the window). Choose Advanced from the left side of the next ... (view more)

To ensure that the formatting of your slides remains static when a presentation is opened by someone else, you should stay with the default fonts that ship with Windows. It is not guaranteed, but usually it is safe to use Arial or Times New Roman ... fonts. Having said that, your presentation stands out from the mundane when you use different fonts. Using one or two different fonts within your presentation makes it more interesting. The only drawback to that is that if your audience doesn't have the fonts that you used installed their system, then PowerPoint will select a font substitution and it ... (view more)

Have you ever received a PowerPoint presentation in an e-mail and you thought to yourself, "boy, would I like to have that picture for my screensaver?" Well now you can. All you have to do is follow these steps (with PowerPoint 2002 and 2003): Open ... your PowerPoint presentation. Click on File | Save As and choose gif or jpg. Choose My Pictures folder to contain what you are saving. Click OK. Accept, when prompted, to export every slide. Close your presentation. Go to your desktop. Right click with your mouse and choose Properties | Screen Saver | My Pictures Slideshow. Browse for the ... (view more)