Ever want to make your videos look like this? Now you can with new PowerPoint 2010 Video Styles ! First, insert the video from the Insert tab: We embed the video by default , but you can choose to link to the file from the Insert dropdown: Then, select the video and click on the Video Tools | Format tab. Clicking on any of the icons will apply the style to the entire video, not just the poster frame. In the Video Styles gallery, there are three categories of styles: Subtle , Moderate , and Intense...

With the Convert to SmartArt feature available in PowerPoint 2007 and PowerPoint 2010, you can change a plain, bulleted slide into a stunning, professionally-designed SmartArt graphic with the click of a button. Read more to find out how.

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Even your holiday-indifferent friends have got to love the novelty of the year's shortest day. 

December 21, 2010, marks the day of the year with the fewest hours of daylight for those living north of the Tropic of Cancer. Less daylight, naturally, means more time for nightlife! That's something to celebrate, in my book. To commemorate the day, I made a fun, twinkly card to email to my friends. And I'll guide you, step-by-step, to show you how to make it. Here's a video of how it will look when you're done:

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Widescreen (16:9) is the new default aspect ratio in the new PowerPoint. To make your experience with the new dimensions pleasant, we’ve built a brand new set of themes specifically targeting this aspect ratio, and we’ve improved our conversion code so that you can easily make the switch to widescreen from other aspect ratios.

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It's true that you can create PowerPoint presentations without using Slide Masters or even knowing what they are, but they save so much time and effort that we think you'll be glad to know about them. In this week's webinar, we'll show you how to master the Slide Master--a built-in tool that controls the look of your PowerPoint presentation and keeps it consistent throughout.

See the trailer or click "read more" below to the entire webinar.

What you will learn at Tuesday's webinar:

• Stop cutting-and-pasting in PowerPoint
• What a Slide Master does...

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We’ve upgraded the embedding experience in PowerPoint Web App to make it better than ever. The new experience is fully interactive and all your content plays back right in the embedded object. That means all your animations, transitions – even audio and video! Better yet, any presentations you embedded using the old version have automatically been upgraded to the new experience – no work from you required! In this post we’ll walk through how to embed a presentation in your...

Good presenters use PowerPoint to simplify, prioritize, organize, and communicate information, via two important steps of effective communication -- simplifying your information and affecting emotions. Both provide the foundation for creating and using visuals in PowerPoint.

This is the first in a series of occasional posts by Mike Parkinson discussing how you can use PowerPoint in different industries and for diverse audiences. Mike is an internationally recognized visual communication expert and multi-published author, and he operates BizGraphics On Demand (editable PowerPoint graphics for download).

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Thanks for your interest in the Office SmartArt graphics. You've reached an expired content page. Please visit the below links on Office.com for more on how to create and use SmartArt in Office 2013: Create a SmartArt graphic Animate your SmartArt graphic Change the color of a shape, style, shape border, or entire SmartArt graphic Choose a SmartArt graphic Keyboard shortcuts for SmartArt graphics Video: Animate charts and SmartArt

You want to share your presentation with colleagues in other locations -- by publishing it on the Web, or sending it via email or on disc. But you're concerned that what they see won't look the way you want it to.

Relax! Follow this simple procedure to keep your worries at bay and ensure that your slide presentation displays the way you intended it to (even if some of your colleagues don't have PowerPoint installed on their computers), by turning your presentation into a video.

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To draw attention to the important parts of your presentation, in PowerPoint 2010, you can use video bookmarks to trigger animations. Take a look at this short video to find out how to do it.

 

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