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• Webinar: Tips from the experts: Microsoft MVPs

  18 Feb 2013

  In this week's webinar you’ll learn about nifty tips and timesavers from Microsoft MVPs. These “Most Valuable Professionals” share their real-world technical expertise with the community. We have a few tips and may even have a few stop on by to chat as we broadcast from their annual...
• The PowerPoint Blur Trick

  12 Oct 2011

  I'm very pleased that the PowerPoint Blog team invited me back to share an article, written earlier this year on my personal blog, called The PowerPoint Blur Trick . You can add texture or blur the background of a picture using the Artistic Effects feature in PowerPoint 2010, leaving the foreground crisp...
• Hello, I must be going…

  27 May 2010

  Hello, welcome to the PowerPoint and the Office Art team blog. A different kind of blog, written by several members of the team, about the work we are doing to make better software for you. Has it really been over four years since I wrote that opening to the first PowerPoint team blog entry?  Wow...
• Producer for PowerPoint: Now Official!

  7 May 2010

  It's a pleasure to announce the official release of a great tool for working with PowerPoint files, Microsoft Producer. Microsoft Producer allows you to take an existing presentation file, capture and synchronize video and audio narration, add additional media content, and produce a unified set of content...
• Through the Eyes of a PowerPoint MVP: 2010 Global Summit

  16 Mar 2010

  By: Troy Chollar, PowerPoint MVP My company, TLC Creative Services, is busy, especially at the beginning of the year with clients ramping up 2010 marketing campaigns, corporate meetings and new marketing materials. So what is it about the MVP Summit that pulls me away from my office for an entire week...
• Does this Presentation Make Me Look Flat?

  24 Feb 2010

  All About PowerPoint’s New Picture Presentation feature. It is not unusual to hear the criticism that Microsoft employees just design features for themselves. It’s not true; we spend an incredible amount of time seeking out feedback and concerns, then analyzing it, and finally figuring out the best mix...
• Your PowerPoint Ribbon, Your Way…

  24 Nov 2009

  Office 2007 introduced users to the Ribbon, a menu replacement that made application functionality easier to find and faster to use in Word, Excel and PowerPoint. However, a common user request was for a level of customizability beyond adding commands to the Quick Access Toolbar. The Quick Access Toolbar...
• Free PowerPoint Design Intervention

  2 Nov 2009

  What’s the next best thing to getting someone to critique your PowerPoint presentation for design and effectiveness for free?  Well, watching someone else get that advice may come in as a fairly close second. This video will re-introduce you to Julie Terberg of Terberg Design .  Regular PowerPoint...
• PowerPoint on the Web: A New View of Your Presentation

  11 Oct 2009

  Hopefully by now you’ve heard about the new versions of your favorite Microsoft Office applications that are showing up on the web.  A large part of the effort behind Office 2010 has been to bring Word, Excel, OneNote and PowerPoint functionality to SharePoint and Windows Live, enabling a whole...
• 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...