by Echo Swinford | May 30, 2014 | Editing and Formatting, Handouts, PowerPoint 2013, PPT 2002-2003, PPT 2007, PPT 2010, Send to Word, Tutorials
PowerPoint handouts leave a lot to be desired. You can print slide thumbnails 3 per page. You can even print notes pages – which have one slide per page plus its notes. But if you want to print multiple slide thumbnails per page and include the speaker notes, you’re...
by Echo Swinford | Apr 9, 2011 | PPT 2002-2003, Uncategorized
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances targets PowerPoint 2003 and prior. It won’t help you learn PowerPoint per se, but it will definitely help make it less annoying.
by Echo Swinford | Jan 1, 2011 | PPT 2002-2003, PPT 2007, PPT 2010
Clients and others occasionally ask how to open an Excel file by clicking on it from within a presentation. Of course, they can always open the Excel file in the background and use Alt+Tab to switch to it. Or they can add a hyperlink to the Excel file and click the...
by Echo Swinford | Jan 1, 2005 | PPT 2002-2003
Using Multiple Design Templates #1 (PPT 2002) Using Multiple Design Templates #2 (PPT 2002) Creating Multiple Masters (PPT 2002/2003) Multiple Design Templates (PPT 2000 and 97) Workaround #1: Link Presentations Workaround #2: Embed Template Workaround #3: Embed...
by Echo Swinford | Jan 1, 2005 | PPT 2002-2003
Triggers are very cool, very useful features in PPT 2002 and 2003. Basically, triggers are what you use if you need something to happen (text to appear, a picture to disappear, etc.) when you click on it or something else. This will be just a simple example, but it...
by Echo Swinford | Jan 1, 2005 | Animation, PPT 2002-2003
Jeopardy (Exit Animations) We’ve had a rash of questions lately on the newsgroup about creating “Jeopardy” and “Family Feud” games with PPT, so I slapped this little demo together. This demo file is designed for PPT 2002/XP–it...