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Someone asked this question today:
When you put in the auto number thing so that you can see what slide number you are on, can you start that at any number?
Yes, you can! Let us start by showing how you can put in the slide number first. These instructions are for PowerPoint 2003 but should work in previous versions, although things work a little differently in PowerPoint 2007.
Figure 1: Opt to show slide numbers
Now, let us assume you want the slide number to start from 31 instead of 1. Why would you want to do so? There are several reasons, but most of the time, you might want to break up your presentation into 2 or more smaller presentations, and you then want the slide numbers to start from a number other than 1.
Follow these steps to do so:
Figure 2: Renumber your slides from a number other than 1
You can also renumber your slides from “0”, this means your second slide will be numbered “1”.
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PowerPoint 2003
Tagged as: PowerPoint, Slide Numbers, Tutorials
What mediums do you use to teach? Have you any experience working with PowerPoint? What do you expect of this workshop? Probing questions for a 20-strong group of us, who would most probably rather be spending our Saturday afternoon just chilling out after a grinding week commuting between schools and firms in and around Munich.
Instead we have assembled at the city’s Volkshochschule, or adult education centre, to learn more about multi-media teaching presentations, which, if we’re honest, our students probably know more about than we do.
Read more on the Telegraph UK site.
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Case Studies
Tagged as: Case Studies, Death by PowerPoint, Opinion, PowerPoint
Someone asked this question today:
I am researching software to convert PowerPoint presentations to Flash. What do you recommend? I briefly tried Articulate, Camtasia, and PPT2Flash. Only Camtasia converted everything in the original PowerPoint slides. But the file was very large. The other programs left out font characters and had problems with animation. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.
It all depends on your requirements. We haven’t worked with PPT2Flash, but you can choose from one of two approaches:
We do this sort of work all the time in-house in our studio, and every presentation is different. We wish we could say that there is a way with which you can attain one-click nirvana as far as your PowerPoint to Flash conversion needs are concerned. But that’s not the case today.
Articulate does a great job, but as you have discovered they don’t replicate the PowerPoint model entirely. We normally suggest that you do a quick conversion with Articulate Presenter, and then tweak the areas that don’t get converted too well. This normally involves changing some animation styles, and some more fine-tuning. Using Articulate Presenter again after this housekeeping will get you better results.
With Camtasia, try to reduce your computer resolution to 1024 x 768 pixels (or even 800 x 600 pixels) and then do the capture. Since Camtasia has to work with a smaller area, this results in better captures, and files with smaller output sizes. Camtasia 4 does a much better job with the sound capture than earlier versions; this is important if you have narration within your PowerPoint presentation.
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Companion Programs
Tagged as: Articulate, Camtasia, PowerPoint, PowerPoint Flash
Digital Vector Maps provides several hundred maps on their site. Most maps are available in Adobe Illustrator and PDF format; so, you’ll need to resave them in a PowerPoint compatible format if you want to use them in your next presentation.
Shelly from Digital Vector Maps informed me that all of their blank outline state maps for the US are available at no charge. For example, here’s a link to the page for the California state map.
Other maps need to be purchased, and most maps range from $3.95 to $279.
The royalty-free maps are fully editable in Adobe Illustrator 8 or higher, with all major map features residing on intuitively labeled layers to make possible separate editing of such map elements as lines, colors, symbols and text. Such objects as geographic place names, country borders and reference text are provided as separate editable objects.
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Clip Media
Tagged as: Clip Media, Maps, PowerPoint
Microsoft accidentally posted a pre-release update for Office 2004 for the Mac Wednesday, but quickly yanked the security and stability patch once it noticed the mistake.
According to the update description still on the Microsoft website, the unspecified fixes were to vulnerabilities in Office 2004 that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer’s memory with malicious code, as well as a stability patch for PowerPoint and several improvements to Entourage, the suite’s e-mail client.
Read more on the InformationWeek site.
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Microsoft Office
Tagged as: Microsoft Office, Office for Mac, PowerPoint, PowerPoint 2004, Updates
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