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We hope that you will enjoy our PowerPoint Formatting tutorials. Feel free to contact us if you would like to be a tutorial hero and contribute your own PowerPoint Formatting tutorial to our site. Thank you !
By the time you finish reading this tutorial, you will know what creating a PowerPoint presentation entails.
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This tutorial describes tasks that you do almost every time you run the program. It explains how to start PowerPoint and create, save, open, and close presentations.
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In this video tutorial you learn how to change the theme of your presentation and how to download new themes for powerpoint 2007.
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In this tutorial, I’ll show you a way to create your own customized calendar and prepare it for print.
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In this tutorial, we’re going to add a table to our presentation, edit it and add an excel spreadsheet as well.
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This tutorial explains how to change the appearance of text, create text boxes, and create text box shapes. We solve the riddle of what to do when text does not fit in a text box or text placeholder frame. You also discover how to align text, handle bulleted and numbered lists, and put a footer on all or some of the slides in your presentation.
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In this tutorial, you will learn how to work with some of the basic text tools that Office PowerPoint 2007 provides. Specifically, you will learn how you can use and manipulate text within PowerPoint 2007 presentations for maximum audience impact.
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This tutorial shows you how to use PowerPoint's Search and Replace feature to find words and phrases buried in long presentations and change (or delete) them quickly. And if spelling's not your speciality, PowerPoint can help you check it.
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Learn how to use themes, changing backgrounds, adding graphics, showing movies on a slide and adding sounds to a presentation.
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Discover a plug-in that extends WebSphere Business Modeler's import capability to enable import of PowerPoint slides, focusing on converting PowerPoint process diagrams to WebSphere Business Modeler process definitions. A pre-defined set of mappings form the basis for transformation between the two formats.
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Frequently, many people puzzles about what pixel should be made a picture file for PowerPoint file. Here I would like to tell you that mostly images don’t need to be much larger than 1024x768 pixels (See What resolution should I make my images for PowerPoint slide shows? ) to learn why). If your images are larger than this, your PowerPoint files are probably larger than they should be...
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Have you ever thought of adding any videos to your PowerPoint presentation to make it more attractive? Since there are abundant of online flash videos in many websites, many of which are funny and full of demonstrative element and so proper to be shown, is it possible to play these flash video in PowerPoint?
Yes. If the flash video can be played on your computer It is absolutely possible. And only with an ActiveX Control- Shockwave Flash Object, you can play youtube video in your presentation with great ease.
Please make sure your computer can play flash video
If not, you need to download an Adobe Flash-player freely from http://www.adobe.com. If you have downloaded an old one, it is strongly recommended to download the newest one, uninstall the old one first then install the new one. This is because if you installed the Adobe Flash-player, the ActiveX Control Shockwave Flash Object would be installed automatically.
Steps of tutorial:
Step 1: Get URL of youtube video
Step 2: Insert the ActiveX Control Shockwave Flash Object to your PowerPoint
Step 3: Add the youtube video link to your PowerPoint
Step 4: Fine tune YouTube video in your Powerpoint file
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On internet, there are always some people ask questions like: How can I burn powerpoint to DVD with DVD menu? How can I burn powerpoint to DVD so that I can play it on DVD player? How can I burn powerpoint to DVD so that I can send it to my family and friend as gift?
Here, I will a tutorial to answer those questions.
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Frequently, many people puzzles about what pixel should be made a picture file for PowerPoint file. Here I would like to tell you that mostly images don’t need to be much larger than 1024x768 pixels. If your images are larger than this, your PowerPoint files are probably larger than they should be.
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Problem
You doubleclick a document file and the wrong program opens, or the file opens in an incorrect mode (ie, a PowerPoint Show file opens in PowerPoint Edit mode), or your PowerPoint files have the wrong icon. Or you get a message explaining something about how Windows doesn't know what to do with this type of file.
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Problems viewing PPT/PPS files in Outlook/Outlook Express
If you're trying to view a PPT or PPS file you received as an email attachment in Outlook or Outlook Express AND you have the free PowerPoint 2003 Viewer (but not PowerPoint) installed AND you have Windows XP SP2 (or higher) and see a message like
"This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this
action. Create an association in the Folder Options control panel."
This can occur if you're using Outlook Express under Windows XP Service Pack 2 and have only the free PowerPoint Viewer (not PowerPoint itself) installed.
Problems viewing/opening PPT/PPS files in PowerPoint
Try "re-registering" PowerPoint.
Quit PowerPoint if it's running.
Choose Start, Run
Type the full path to your Powerpnt.EXE file (surrounded by quotation marks) followed by /regserver -- usually this will look like
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\Powerpnt.exe" /regserver
PowerPoint will start and re-register itself, including resetting the correct file associations
Hint: if you don't know the exact path, click Browse, then navigate to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office and look for Powerpnt.exe there; select it and click Open; the full path is automatically added to the Run box for you. If you can't find Powerpnt.exe there, use Windows Explorer to Search for it.
If you have PowerPoint 2000 or later, you can run Detect and Repair instead of messing with file paths. It takes a bit longer but does a more thorough job of repairing broken file associations. Start PowerPoint and choose Help, Detect and Repair from the main menu. Follow the instructions from there.
If you run Windows Vista, you have to turn off UAC before running "PowerPnt.exe /regserver". These PowerPoint versions will not be able to modify the registry to set the file associations straight if UAC is on. Turning UAC off allows them to modify the registry. Don't forget to reset UAC to your desired settings afterwards.
Manually repairing file associations
Manually repairing file associations
You'll need to be able to view file extensons in Windows Explorer to follow the instructions below. If you don't see file extensions, do the steps in Improving the view in Windows Explorer then come on back here for the rest.
First, start Windows Explorer (right-click Start, click Explore)
Browse to locate a file of the type you're having problems with.
The next steps will depend on the version of Windows you have.
Windows XP/XP Home:
Right click on the file and select "Open With" from the pop-up menu
Select "Choose Program"
Locate the program you want Windows to use to open files of this type and select it
Put a checkmark next to "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file".
Click OK
Other Windows versions:
Click on the file to select it.
Hold down the SHIFT key while you right-click the same file.
Choose Open With from the pop-up menu.
In the Open With dialog box, locate the program you want Windows to use to open files of this type and select it.
Put a checkmark next to "Always use this program to open files of this type"
Click OK
You can also get to the root of the problem by editing the Open action for the file association directly:
Use Windows Explorer to locate a PowerPoint PPT file. Click once to highlight it.
From the menu bar, choose Tools, Folder Options
In the Options dialog box, click the File Types tab
Scroll through the Registered File Types list to Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation and double-click it (or if using Windows 2000, click it then click Advanced in the area below).
In the resulting Edit File Type dialog box, double-click Open in the Actions list.
In the text box labeled Application used to perform action, you should see
"X:\abc\def\PowerPnt.EXE" "%1"
where X:\abc\def\ represents the full path to the folder where PowerPnt.EXE is located. If you don't know the exact path, use the Browse button and locate PowerPnt.EXE.
The quote marks should be entered exactly as shown. One set of quotes around the path to PowerPnt.EXE, another set around "%1"
Click OK and/or Close until you're back in Windows Explorer.
Now try doubleclicking the problem PowerPoint file again.
Notes:
You may want to perform the same steps for PPS as well as PPT files.
If you're having problems with some other application's files, substitute the appropriate file type and application names above.
You can also set Print and sometimes other actions here. If the Open action setting was incorrect, the others may be as well. It's particularly important to have the %1 surrounded by quote marks.
Problem
Windows uses the file's extension (the .XXX part at the end of the file name) to determine what type of file it is. For example, .PPT files are PowerPoint presentations, .PDFs are Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format files and so on.
Windows also uses the file's extension to determine what program to open when you doubleclick a file of that type.
The combination of Extension + File Type + Program to use when opening a file type is called an association. Windows "associates" a file of a certain extension with a program.
Sometimes other programs "hijack" your file associations. By following the steps above, you re-associate the file type with the program you want Windows to use to open it.
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