Awaz Apni

Echo Swinford, who’s a PowerPoint MVP (Most Valuable Professional) has written up a  list (65 of them) of the new features of PowerPoint 2010. It's a great list with short and easy-to-understand descriptions of each. Read the list!

I'm lazy. Some prefer the term "efficient" but either way, I want to get it done the easiest way possible. There are many times I already have a PowerPoint presentation with one or more slides I'd like to reuse. Yes, I can go into Slide Sorter view and copy/paste from one presentation to the other, but there is an easier way. Open the presentation that you want to add a slide to. In the navigation pane that contains the Outline and Slides tabs, click Slides , and then click where you want to add a slide. On the Home tab, in the Slides group, click New Slide , and then select Reuse Slides . In the Reuse Slides pane, click Open a PowerPoint File . In the Browse dialog box, locate and click the presentation file that contains the slide that you want, and then click Open . In the Reuse Slides pane, do one of the following: To add a single slide, click the slide. To add all of the slides, right-click any slide, and then click Insert All Slides ...

by   tomkuhlmann

When InDesign upgraded to CS4, one thing I noticed is that when you have two items that get close to each other, these guides magically appear to assist you in aligning the objects. What a cool idea! I loved it. Now, PowerPoint 2010 has added this feature, calling it SmartGuides . Yes, very smart indeed.

Did you know you can create professional slides and animation effects using just PowerPoint? Better yet, you don't have to do it all from scratch. You know by now that I'm a fan of re-purposing everything. Here are some templates from Office. Microsoft.com that you can use and customize for your self. Not sold on this idea just yet? Watch this. Picture effects 15 templates Combined picture and text effects 23 templates Animated picture effects 20 templates Static text effects 18 templates 3-D shapes and objects 25 templates Animated text effects 20 templates Animated charts and graphics with SmartArt 25 templates Backgrounds for PowerPoint slides 11 templates

There are so many holidays in February. Groundhog day (2/2), Chinese New Year (2/14, year of the Tiger), Valentine's Day (2/14), Presidents' Day (2/15), Mardi Gras (2/16), My birthday (2/17) and Hoodie-Hoo day (2/20). With so many holidays, it can be expensive to buy cards for everyone. That is why I prefer to make my own cards in PowerPoint. Attached is a simple template for a one-sided card, folded in fourths. You can customize all your own. (All clip art is courtesy of Microsoft.) The steps are easy. Create a new presentation, one slide, blank layout. Use the grids to set up the fold lines and margins. Insert text and images, rotating them to layout. Simple! Card Template -

Someone shared this with me on Twitter, and I thought it was a great example. Enjoy!

This week Microsoft released a new concept test prototype for Office called Ribbon Hero . It's a new approach to Office training that’s designed to deliver a fun, engaging experience to help people explore the features available in Office…whether it’s to help you learn how to do things faster, or uncover features you never knew existed. Unlike traditional training, Ribbon Hero presents a game-like environment for learning and lets people compare their scores and feature usage on Facebook. It currently works with Excel, PowerPoint and Word. Download it here .