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Thoughts and impressions of happenings in the world of PowerPoint and presentations, continuously updated since 2003.
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Out of the box, Microsoft builds little or no integration or relationships within PowerPoint to other Microsoft Office applications. To provide a quick example, PowerPoint users have nothing close to the mail merge options in Word or Outlook that can access data from an Excel or database source. And that’s sort of sad, since PowerPoint is one application that can act as a glue to all sorts of content — from text to pictures, and movies to charts! Our review product, PPT Merge does try to cover this vacuum — does it succeed?
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Why would anyone want to password protect their PowerPoint presentations? There are many reasons, and here are some of them. A presentation with confidential content is safe if it is password protected — nobody without access to the password can open it. Also, the password protected presentation is more safer to share — you can provide the password to the person whom you are sharing the presentation with. In addition to providing a password-to-open option, PowerPoint provides a less restrictive password-to-modify option. So your presentation can be opened by anybody, but can’t be modified – this makes your content non editable.
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PowerPoint 2007 offers two password choices. The first one is a Password to Open option that lets you type a password in the field, and the next time you or anybody else opens the file, PowerPoint will prompt to enter the password. The second is a Password to Modify option that lets you type a password in the field to make the presentation readable and visible, but not editable.
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In the previous tutorial of this PowerPoint to Secure PDF series, I showed you how to set PDF to play in full screen mode. If your PDF is playing full screen, and you want it to look like a presentation, it’s a great idea to add slide transitions so that it mimics a PowerPoint presentation.
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Continuing my discussion on circles (see Circles I and Circles II), this time I look at creating circles in an application outside PowerPoint.
Specifically, my office team was helping me with a review of Artlandia’s new SymmetryWorks plug-in for Adobe Illustrator that lets me create organic looking patterns from all shapes. Since we are biased towards circles at this point of time, we decided to create a repeating circular pattern using SymmetryWorks. These patterns were intended as a starting point for PowerPoint backgrounds.
Look at these patterns here — they are all uploaded to my Flickr account so feel free to click on these thumbnails to see larger previews:
Since this was a fun project, we also made a presentation-full-of-circles with the first pattern — we uploaded this to SlideBoom so that we could embed it within this post:
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So, what do I do with circles next? Wait and watch — or send me your thoughts and feedback.
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