First, Last, First, Last There are many ways to navigate through an MS PowerPoint presentation, but here are a few quick key strokes that can save you some wasted mouse to keyboard time. In the Normal View: To move up one slide, use the Page Up key. To move down one slide, try the Page … Continue reading First, Last, First, Last
See Them Clearly
See Them Clearly How often do you find yourself squinting while using MS PowerPoint's slide sorter view? Those slides can be pretty tiny and if they resemble each other too much, it gets even harder to distinguish one from the other. Looking for an easy way to make the thumbnails in the slide sorter a … Continue reading See Them Clearly
Promotion / Demotion
Promotion / Demotion Do you use a lot of bulleted lists in MS PowerPoint? I bet if you're a big PowerPoint user, they are a part of your daily life, right? I'd even bet that somewhere along the way, you've had a list where individual items had sub-points below them. For those sub-points, we need … Continue reading Promotion / Demotion
Shifty Business in PowerPoint
Shifty Business in PowerPoint Are you an MS PowerPoint user who frequently uses the Slide Master or Handout Master? What about the Set Up Show window? Now, I know you've got to be using that one! Are you tired of all the menu searching you have to do to get where you need to be? … Continue reading Shifty Business in PowerPoint
Current Date and Time
Current Date and Time Not too long ago, I got an e-mail from a reader who needed to know the keyboard shortcuts for the current date and time in MS Word. Since these are always handy tidbits to know, I thought it would make a quick and useful wrap-up to the week! In MS Word: … Continue reading Current Date and Time
Format Copy and Paste
Format Copy and Paste Do you like the Format Painter in MS Word and MS PowerPoint? Do you find it frustrating that when you forget to double click the button, it shuts off after just one paste? Or, have you ever tried to interrupt the process of format painting by editing some text, only to … Continue reading Format Copy and Paste
Emphasize It!
Emphasize It! Have you ever given an MS PowerPoint presentation and found yourself wishing that you had a way to really emphasize a picture, chart, text or whatever? You know, really make it jump off the screen. What if you could find a way to have the object grow before the audience's eyes? That would … Continue reading Emphasize It!
Oh, No You Don't!
Oh, No You Don't! Okay, so you used yesterday's PowerPoint Slide Master tip and put a background graphic in your presentation. Are you sorry you did that now? I hope not! But, do you wish you could have that graphic removed from just a slide or two? Alright, that's no problem. You just have to … Continue reading Oh, No You Don't!
The PowerPoint Master
Do you frequently use MS PowerPoint? Ever wonder what that Slide Master thing is all about? Well, to put it as simply as I can, the Slide Master is a part of your design template and it's meant to store information about font, background colors, graphics, etc. If you set one of these elements in … Continue reading The PowerPoint Master
From Beginning to End and Back Again
From Beginning to End and Back Again Working on a PowerPoint presentation? Need to move quickly from one end to the other? No problem. Provided you do not have the cursor actively in a text box, the Home key will move you to the first slide of the presentation. As you can now guess, the … Continue reading From Beginning to End and Back Again