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Email your Valentine an animated e-card

Emily Warn — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:25:00 GMT

We're sure you know someone who sits in front of a computer all day--your co-worker, accountant, spouse--who would appreciate being distracted for 10 seconds by an animated Valentine's Day card. We've brought you one courtesy of Sandra Johnson, a MVP PowerPoint genius. Check out theWiz website to see her wizardry for yourself.

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Guy Kawasaki's guide on pitching to venture capitalists

Emily Warn — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:45:00 GMT

Are you the next Mark Zuckerberg? Author and venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki has teamed up with the Office Web Apps team to offer you a step-by-step guide on creating a flawless pitch in PowerPoint, and BTW, the guide is hilarious.

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Free 2012 PowerPoint calendars now available

Erik Jensen — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT

Looking for a 2012 calendar that you can use in PowerPoint? You're in luck.

Just in time for the new year, 2012 calendar templates for PowerPoint are now here. And as always, they're free. Read on to find out how to download yours today.

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Five favorite 2011 PowerPoint blog posts

Erik Jensen — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:23:00 GMT

As we wrap up 2011, we here at the PowerPoint Blog decided to reflect on the year with some of our most popular posts of the past 12 months. Lots of readers Tweeted, shared, and looked at these 5 posts, so in case you missed them the first time, here they are again. Hope you find them useful, either for the first time or once again.

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Announcing STAMP: a new accessibility add-in for PowerPoint 2010

Andrew Howard — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 04:51:00 GMT

PowerPoint 2010's audio and video features are increasingly used in presentations, making it difficult for people with hearing disabilities to fully comprehend them. Today, we're pleased to announce the release of STAMP, a new add-in which lets PowerPoint 2010 users quickly and easily add closed captions to video and audio files, making PowerPoint presentations richer, more understandable experiences for people with hearing disabilities.

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Free holiday e-card from a PowerPoint wizard

Roxanne Kenison — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:30:00 GMT

Every holiday season we roll out a new animated holiday e-card created by Microsoft MVP Sandra Johnson. The card is just one example of how she uses PowerPoint and her design skills to dazzle others.

Read more to learn how Sandra made this card, and for steps on how to make this card your own and share it with your friends.

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Five eye-popping PowerPoint holiday templates

Erik Jensen — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:00:00 GMT

PowerPoint's not just for showing off fancy charts at board room presentations, especially this time of year when the calendar ticks down. Open PowerPoint at your desk (if it's open, you're working, right?) and tick off some holiday tasks. With these holiday templates, you can write that end-of-year newsletter, create an e-card or photo album, or go lunar.

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Lorem ipsum, lorem ipsum, lorem ipsum-add it fast!

Emily Warn — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 23:15:00 GMT

One great thing about my job on the graphics team at Microsoft Office is that I learn something every day from customers who are using our programs. For example, I was reading Geetesh Bajaj's (PowerPoint MVP) latest Indezine article and discovered that PowerPoint can insert random text into a slide--quickly.

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Print white lines in PowerPoint (video)

Erik Jensen — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:00:00 GMT

This is the thirteenth in a series of quick video tips for business managers using PowerPoint by guest blogger Bruce Gabrielle, author of Speaking PowerPoint.

It's 10:57am and you're rushing to print the handouts for that important executive meeting. But what's this? Some of your slides, which looked gorgeous on screen, look awful as printed handouts. The white borders on your tables, and on your images, are coming out as black lines.

This scenario is easy to avoid. Just follow this workaround.

-- Bruce Gabrielle

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Clip, crop, wow: 7 tips on using photos in PowerPoint

Erik Jensen — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 19:28:00 GMT

A PowerPoint presentation whiz in a workshop told you not to use more than three bullet points on a slide. She also said that adding visual images in PowerPoint--especially photographs--will tell your story better than words, charts, or tables. Photographs of people can be neighborly. They can be like a welcoming handshake with your audience. The next time you're putting together a presentation, you try adding one.

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