Color Schemes III (Graph)

We occasionally see questions in the newsgroup about how to set default colors for MS Graph. There’s no easy answer for this, so I recommend that you read through this information carefully. By default, MS Graph bases its colors on the color scheme you’ve...

Color Schemes I

Color Schemes I Color Schemes II Color Schemes and MS Graph Color Schemes and PPT 2007 Color Schemes in PPT can be either a help or a hindrance–and sometimes both! The trick to making them more helpful than not is to understand how they work– what colors...

Color Schemes II

Color Schemes II As I mentioned previously, it’s important to understand that whatever objects you set with one of the 8 “default” color swatches (in Fill, Line or Text tools) are actually using colors which have been determined by the Slide Color...

Autorun CD I

Autorun CD (do it yourself) List of third-party autorun CD products Read MSKB Article 173973, How to Run PPT Viewer from a CD Do it yourself with the New Viewer (PPT 2002 and 2003) PPT files can be either easy or difficult to autorun from a CD. If you have a very...

Troubleshooting Video in PPT

If you haven’t already, go read Austin Myers’ excellent tutorials on how PPT handles multimedia. http://www.pfcmedia.com/Tutorial.htm http://www.soniacoleman.com/Tutorials/PowerPoint/multimedia.htm And if you’re really frustrated with your video and...

Switching Among Versions

Here are some Gotchas! that can happen when switching between PPT 2002, 2000 and 97. Okay, so I admit the stuff near the end doesn’t really relate to switching versions, but they’re still things that’ll getcha. Hide After Mouseclick Animation Timings...