PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Learn PowerPoint 2007 for Windows: Chart Elements in PowerPoint 2007

Charts in PowerPoint comprise several elements that we call chart elements. Typical chart elements include series (and this could be one or more series with values), axes (horizontal, vertical, and in some cases a third axis as well), plot area (the active chart area), legend, chart title, and many more. In this tutorial we’ll learn more about these individual chart elements.

Learn more here.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2007
Tagged as: Charting, PowerPoint 2007, Tutorials

Reframe For Windows: The Indezine Review

There are several scenarios in which you might get stuck with video file formats — maybe a video clip is not in the right format to be used within a PowerPoint slide. Or what do you do if you want to create some video for display on a web site or mobile applications — and you don’t want to go into technical terms like frame rates or aspect ratios that most normal mortals don’t understand too well.

Reframe from Miraizon can help.

Filed Under: Reviews
Tagged as: Media Conversion, PowerPoint, Video

Learn PowerPoint: Charts in PowerPoint, Using the Invert if Negative Option

In an ideal world, we would like to have charts that had all positive values — but sometimes growth rates may plummet and you might end up seeing negative values in your charts. Or sometimes, negative values may be something good that you need to highlight. In this tutorial, I teach you how you can highlight negative values in a chart by using the “Invert if Negative” option of a data series in within PowerPoint 2002 or 2003.

Learn more here.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2003
Tagged as: Charting, PowerPoint 2003, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint: Changing Color for Negative Data Series in PowerPoint Charts

By default, PowerPoint 2002 and 2003 use white as the color of any negative series in your charts — I know, this does look very unimaginative and there’s a workaround to get over this issue. You can learn how you can change it to any color you want!

Learn more here.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2003
Tagged as: Charting, PowerPoint 2003, Tutorials

SmartDraw For Dummies: Conversation with Daniel Hoffman

As Vice President of Marketing at SmartDraw, Daniel Hoffman is responsible for the continuous improvement of both the Internet and product customer experience, and for growing the installed base through online and offline marketing efforts. At Microsoft, Mr. Hoffman was a key member of the Microsoft Word and Microsoft Office teams, and is a graduate of Stanford University. In this conversation Daniel discusses his book: SmartDraw For Dummies.

Geetesh: Tell us more about your book, SmartDraw For Dummies.

Daniel: SmartDraw for Dummies was written originally to provide new and potential users of SmartDraw with a solid how-to understanding of the product. It became clear through the process, however, that many people need to learn as much about how and when to use the proper visual to improve their communication skills, as they do “how-to” instructions for creating a specific visual. SmartDraw is an amazingly easy-to-use product for many people, but its breadth and power need to be explored further in some cases. This is why traditional graphics software has had such great difficulty becoming standardized in businesses – it is much too difficult to use for untrained users, and businesspeople have very little understanding why they should take the time to learn in the first place. They just don’t see the benefit for their most common forms of communication (written documents, presentations, email).

Geetesh: Who is this book addressed to, and how can it help them?

Daniel: SmartDraw for Dummies is a book for any business user who wants to improve their communication by using visuals – which we know can be up to 6 times more effective than written text alone. The book can help someone get started very quickly in creating visuals with SmartDraw, or it can also help someone who is already familiar with the product learn about all of the 70 different visuals that they can create, and when and how to apply them to solve real business communication issues.

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: Books, Graphics, Interviews, PowerPoint, SmartDraw