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One of the best options to create new SmartArt is by converting your existing bulleted text to a SmartArt graphic. Many times though, you might want to do the reverse — that is converting SmartArt into bulleted text. When Microsoft introduced SmartArt in PowerPoint 2007, this reverse conversion was not possible but in PowerPoint 2010, Microsoft added this ability. Follow these steps to do the conversion of SmartArt to bulleted text — do note though that you will be left with just plain text rather than any shapes or visuals.
Learn how to convert a SmartArt graphics to bulleted text in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.
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PowerPoint 2010
Tagged as: PowerPoint 2010, SmartArt, Tutorials
SmartArt is a readymade infographic that typically places common PowerPoint shapes in relation to each other in a particular location. You can of course change those individual shapes within SmartArt, as in changing a square to a circle or anything else — but what many users don’t realize is that you can do much more. You can actually move some shapes around within the SmartArt graphic if you want — this sort of creative freedom lets you adapt existing SmartArt layouts to your liking.
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PowerPoint 2010
Tagged as: PowerPoint 2010, SmartArt, Tutorials
From the last few days, PowerPoint 2003 has started acted a little weird — when I open any presentation or template, a window shows up stating that some of the text, images, or objects on slides within the presentation or the template have become corrupt. Once I click OK in this window, the presentation or the template does open — but some of the slides show blank white placeholders instead of showing up transparently over the background — PowerPoint also seems to behave as if these slides are corrupt.
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PowerPoint 2003
Tagged as: PowerPoint 2003, Troubleshooting, Tutorials
James Theall is CEO of Media Marketing Inc., a Boulder, Colorado-based software and service company that creates SlideManager for PowerPoint. James leveraged his degree in advertising and design with years of experience in providing competitive sales presentations to develop a software solution that automated the selection and management of presentation elements for effective custom presentations. James remains obsessed with automating the model that shifts individuals creating their own presentations (PowerPoint’s original model) to the hub-and-spoke model that moves presentation building out into the field while maintaining knowledge, story points and design standards.
In this conversation, James discusses the new features in SlideManager.
Geetesh: What is SlideManager, and how can it help users manage their presentation slides more effectively?
James: To the presenter, the graphic SlideManager interface means you get just the slides you need for a specific job. 
Out of hundreds, even thousands, of slides, slides shows, and any digital collateral, SlideManager ensures every slide in each presentation is on purpose, on point, in order, on target for your specific audience, and properly branded.
To the organization, SlideManager provides methods and features to implement communication strategy. The more communication expertise you have, and the better you define what you want to say, to whom, in what situations, the more you’ll appreciate SlideManager. You set up library structure and use “story flow” features so presenters can configure a presentation in minutes that supports their specific communication objectives, even for phased presentations needs in sales, account development, and training.
To the administrator, SlideManager provides methods and features to manage communication strategy, not just slides and documents. Library structure methods and “story flow” features enable you to implement strategy and adopt strategy changes. Powerful, highly visual content management features enable you to manage content collaborators, control content access and distribution, manage branding, and manage slides, files, and documents – versions, duplication resolution, archiving. Usage tracking reports help you to streamline the work.
Geetesh: Tell us about the option to create presentations on the Apple iPad, and the other new features in this new release of SlideManager.
James: Oops, wrong slides! If you’re a presenter with an iPad, you need to be able to do more than present. 
You need to be able to add slides, delete slides, change out slides, and build slide presentations. With new release of SlideManager, you can do that from your iPad as well as from an internet browser.
CRM integration with Salesforce.com is built-in within the new release of SlideManager, both technically and in terms of sales processes and workflow. If you imagine the crucial role sales presentations and proposals play in the sales process, you get the basic idea.
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Interviews
Tagged as: Add-in, Interviews, PowerPoint, Slide Management
Suddenly last week, my installation of PowerPoint 2002 (XP) started acting weird — some presentations and templates started showing blank white placeholders instead of showing up transparently over the background — PowerPoint also seemed to behave as if these presentations were corrupt but these same presentations worked without any display problems in newer versions of PowerPoint such as PowerPoint 2007 and 2010.
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PowerPoint 2002
Tagged as: PowerPoint 2002, Troubleshooting, Tutorials
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