PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Learn PowerPoint 2002 for Windows: Remove and Disable Update 2464617

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.

Learn how to remove and disable the 2464617 update that displays errors for any presentation or template that includes a background picture.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2002
Tagged as: PowerPoint 2002, Troubleshooting, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint 2010 for Windows: Resize Shapes Within a SmartArt Graphic in PowerPoint

PowerPoint’s implementation of the SmartArt feature is so good because of the customizations you are allowed to perform. You have already learned that you can change colors of the entire SmartArt graphic, or apply cool SmartArt styles. In addition, you can format individual shapes within the SmartArt graphic — change individual shapes or move the shapes within the SmartArt graphic. In this tutorial, you will explore how you can resize individual shapes within a SmartArt graphic.

Learn how to resize shapes within a SmartArt graphic in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2010
Tagged as: PowerPoint 2010, SmartArt, Tutorials

Brainshark’s Partnership with Blackboard: Conversation with Kate Skelly

Kate Skelly is vice president for corporate and business development at Brainshark, Inc., overseeing strategic partnerships, and the addition and integration of complementary products and services. Brainshark’s cloud-based software enables users to create, share and track online and mobile video presentations, for use in eLearning, sales, marketing and corporate/HR communications. Thousands of companies use Brainshark to improve the reach and results of their business communications, while dramatically reducing communications costs.

In this conversation, Kate discusses Brainshark’s partnership with Blackboard, which the company is announcing today.

Geetesh: Who is Blackboard, and what does Brainshark’s new partnership with them offer?

Kate: Blackboard provides software that improves the educational experience for students and learners around the world. Its solutions address the higher-ed, K-12, government and corporate markets – enabling organizations to extend teaching and learning online.

Through our partnership and interoperability with Blackboard LearnTM, we’re continuing to help users improve their eLearning and mobile learning experiences. Blackboard Learn customers can apply Brainshark’s technology to quickly and easily create eLearning content – using common business tools like PowerPoint and the phone – and deploy it to learners around the globe, for viewing on computers, smartphones and tablets. Blackboard customers can also view completion information and test scores associated with their Brainshark content from within the Blackboard Learn platform.

Geetesh: What benefits does this partnership entail for Brainshark users?

Kate: Blackboard is an esteemed company in the educational technology space, and our users benefit from their deep expertise and complementary technology. The Blackboard Learn platform supports teaching and learning, community engagement, content management and sharing, and measuring learning outcomes.

We’re also looking forward to engaging in educational and joint marketing activities with Blackboard, focusing in particular on the professional education market – spanning government and corporate sectors, and for-profit universities. We’re eager to bring the benefits of Brainshark and Blackboard’s technologies to these groups on an even larger scale, helping them address the need to quickly and cost-effectively create, deliver and track eLearning content.

The views and opinions expressed in this blog post or content are those of the authors or the interviewees and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of any other agency, organization, employer, or company.

Filed Under: Interviews
Tagged as: Brainshark, Interviews, Online Presentations, PowerPoint

TTML XML Files for the STAMP Add-in in PowerPoint

We already showed how you can use the STAMP add-in for PowerPoint to manually add captions for videos right inside PowerPoint. While manually adding captions is a great way to get easily started, professional organizations use TTML files. TTML files are markup files, not too different in structure from the HTML web pages, and typically they have the XML file extension.

Explore the structure of TTML XML files that can be used within the STAMP add-in for PowerPoint.

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Filed Under: Add-ins
Tagged as: Accessibility, Add-in, PowerPoint 2010, STAMP, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint 2010: Change Shapes within a SmartArt Graphic in PowerPoint

Most of the time, SmartArt graphics work great with their default looks — yes, you can change your SmartArt graphics to other layouts and you can also change the Theme colors or apply a SmartArt Style to make your SmartArt appear distinct and unique. What many users don’t realize though is that you can change the actual shapes within a SmartArt graphic — for instance you can change some circles in your SmartArt graphic to squares with a mere click or two!

Learn how to change shapes within a SmartArt graphic in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2010
Tagged as: PowerPoint 2010, SmartArt, Tutorials