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• Three ways to make your picture fit your slide

  13 Jun 2012

  (This post was first published in March 2011. We're Today's post on fitting pictures into PowerPoint is part of a series by Bruce Gabrielle, author of Speaking PowerPoint: The New Language of Business , a 12-step process for creating clearer and more convincing PowerPoint presentations for the boardroom...
• A few tricks when prepping for your presentation

  8 Jun 2012

  Over on Microsoft Corporate Citizenship blog, I wrote up some tips when you're planning your presentation . It summarizes a recent talk I gave for non-profits. Luckily, the same points apply if you work at a for-profit company. It includes a walk-through of Presenter View (pictured below). --Doug Thomas
• Kid, you've got what it takes to add a video to PowerPoint

  1 May 2012

  Welcome to Office Tip Classics -- a series of one-minute videos where you'll get to see clips of film classics and learn a tip about Office 2010. In this episode, school tough-guy Marty has a hard time keeping his cool after losing the class presentation contest. His teacher tries to cheer him up, explaining...
• Webinar: Better PowerPoint Presentations

  23 Apr 2012

  In this week’s webinar, we'll show you some nuggets for making better PowerPoint presentations. You can join Office webinars at 9:15 am Pacific on Tuesdays. Go to http://aka.ms/offweb for complete information. What you will learn at Tuesday’s webinar: How PowerPoint is like your resume Using...
• Crop around irregular images

  11 Apr 2012

  This is the sixteenth in a series of quick video tips for business managers using PowerPoint by guest blogger Bruce Gabrielle, author of Speaking PowerPoint . [ Note : In his last video in the series, Bruce Gabrielle showed you how to make an image within an image stand out . Here's the next step.] How...
• Make an image within an image stand out

  4 Apr 2012

  This is the fifteenth in a series of quick video tips for business managers using PowerPoint by guest blogger Bruce Gabrielle, author of Speaking PowerPoint . Five math whizzes from the same city go to Harvard to study business and only one becomes a CEO of his own company. You want to use visuals in...
• PowerPoint 2010: Remove a background

  26 Mar 2012

  (Note: We first published this post in 2010, but since then so many of you have looked it up that we thought we'd share it with you again.) As we noted in the last post about inserting a screenshot , a lot of the work for Office 2010 has been about improving workflow for image insertion and editing....
• Webinar: Working with photos in PowerPoint

  13 Mar 2012

  This webinar has been updated and can be found here at the Office Blog: http://aka.ms/photo123 . Learn about other Office Webinars and how you can join them live at http://aka.ms/offweb . References: 1. Insert a picture with Office 2010 or Office 2007 2. Adjusting an image with Office 2010 or Office...
• 101 PowerPoint tips for business managers

  23 Mar 2011

  Each numbered item below is a link to one in a series of quick how-to videos on creating presentations by Bruce Gabrielle, author of Speaking PowerPoint . As individual tips are posted to the PowerPoint blog , we'll collect them here so you can easily refer to them. Turn clip art into custom icons (video...
• Seasonal themes are here for your PowerPoint slides

  22 Feb 2011

  In this update, we complete our seasonal theme collection for PowerPoint 2010. You can quickly and easily format an entire presentation to give it a professional and modern look by applying a theme. A theme is a set of formatting choices that include a set of theme colors , a set of theme fonts (including...
• New Themes!

  25 Aug 2010

  Our friends over on the Microsoft Office 2010 Engineering blog recently announced some great new features in the Excel, Word, and PowerPoint Web Apps. Among the new goodies are some brand new themes that you’ll find in the Select Theme dialog when you create a new presentation on SkyDrive . We’ve also...
• Broadcast Your Presentation with PowerPoint 2010

  22 Apr 2010

  Broadcast Slide Show enables you to share your presentation quickly with anyone, anywhere – all directly from PowerPoint 2010. Just open a presentation in PowerPoint, start a broadcast, and share the unique link PowerPoint provides with your audience. Anyone listening to your presentation over the phone...
• PowerPoint 2010: Unlimited Windows

  17 Jul 2009

  Keeping secrets It’s one of the hardest things about working on great products. A team of talented, proud engineers must stay mum about what’s underway until very late in the development cycle. But then finally we get to show you that we are, indeed, listening. No surprise that this aspect of our jobs...