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This book extract from Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint is an Indezine exclusive with permission from Holy Macro! Books. A recognized expert in teaching Microsoft PowerPoint skills, Kathy Jacobs demonstrates how to design presentations to meet the needs of every audience.
The peskiest PowerPoint problems are investigated-saving to removable media, how to back save, fast saves and other presentation corruptors, the AutoFormat feature, video drivers, hardware acceleration, and missing slide content. Also detailed is how to use PowerPoint for informational kiosks, games, and web sites. Tips for creating reports and graphical essays and for using PowerPoint with other products in the Microsoft Office suite are provided.
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While some users have reported receiving their copies of Office 2004 for several days now, Microsoft Corp.’s Macintosh Business Unit (MacBU) will officially announce availability of the application suite on Wednesday.
Microsoft will eventually offer Office in three configurations and are going ahead with the launch despite the fact their high-end configuration will not be available until Virtual PC 7 is ready later this year.
Read more at the MacCentral site.
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Claudyne Wilder is guest lecturer at conferences, business shows and corporate events. She is the author of two presentation books: The Presentations Kit: 10 Steps For Selling Your Ideas! and Point, Click & Wow! A Quick Guide to Brilliant Laptop Presentations.
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Software giant Microsoft has won apple patent rights – not those of its arch-rival Apple computer – but a special variety of fruit tree. Microsoft’s apparent new horticultural interest came after the US Patent Office mistakenly granted it the rights to the “Burchinal Red Delicious” apple. US Plant Patent 14,757 was supposed to be granted to Robert Burchinal of East Wenatchee, Washington, instead.
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Even though PowerPoint is often associated with corporate presentations, it is increasingly being used in non-conventional areas to create greeting cards, photo slide shows, and even family trees. For these situations, rather than being a distraction, music can the perfect accompaniment to your slide show.
Microsoft realized that users want more fun features in PowerPoint and gave PowerPoint 2003 the ability to play entire media playlists in sequence. These lists can be made up of all sorts of sound and movie formats. When you combine the playlist feature with a cool background ‘skin,’ you really can create a nice semi-jukebox presentation in PowerPoint.
Note: This article is no longer available on the Computor Companion site, but we do have an extended version on Indezine here.
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