Apply customizable soft edges to photos and clip-art inside PowerPoint 2010 presentations.
Instead of simply placing a picture inside a Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 presentation, one option for stylistic effect is to apply a soft edge. This makes the picture seem to fade to the background around the edges, a sometimes pleasing effect. See the below screenshot for an example.
1. Select an image to modify….
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Apply customizable soft edges to photos and clip-art inside PowerPoint 2010 presentations.
Instead of simply placing a picture inside a Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 presentation, one option for stylistic effect is to apply a soft edge. This makes the picture seem to fade to the background around the edges, a sometimes pleasing effect. See the below screenshot for an example.
1. Select an image to modify….
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If you’re worried about program crashes and power outages, you may want Publisher 2010 to save AutoRecover information more often to reduce the chances of losing work.
By default, Microsoft Publisher 2010 saves AutoRecover information for open publications every 10 minutes. So, if a program / operating system crash or power failure shuts down Publisher before you forget to save your open files, upon restart of the software you may be able to recover some of your editing.
10 minutes may be too long an interval; a theoretical crash 9 minutes and 59 seconds after the latest save or AutoRecover save can cause you to lose a great deal of work. Reducing this interval may cause less work to be lost due to catastrophic failure. On the other hand, you might find it quite annoying that Publisher pauses so often to save the information and decide to increase this interval….
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If you’re worried about program crashes and power outages, you may want Publisher 2010 to save AutoRecover information more often to reduce the chances of losing work.
By default, Microsoft Publisher 2010 saves AutoRecover information for open publications every 10 minutes. So, if a program / operating system crash or power failure shuts down Publisher before you forget to save your open files, upon restart of the software you may be able to recover some of your editing.
10 minutes may be too long an interval; a theoretical crash 9 minutes and 59 seconds after the latest save or AutoRecover save can cause you to lose a great deal of work. Reducing this interval may cause less work to be lost due to catastrophic failure. On the other hand, you might find it quite annoying that Publisher pauses so often to save the information and decide to increase this interval….
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Force Bing to return not web pages but word processing documents, spreadsheets, presentations, or other types of files.
Instead of searching Bing for web pages, there may be times where you need to find other types of files. Perhaps you are looking for First Aid/CPR presentations, wedding checklists that can be easily printed as PDF files, or amortization tables in the form of Microsoft Excel worksheets.
While performing normal Bing searches may result in other types of files being intermixed with web pages, you can force the results to only contain files of desired types by appending the following to your search query:…
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Merge all Google Chrome windows together into one with multiple tabs, manually or automatically, via JoinTabs.
While browsing the web in Google Chrome for a long period of time, you’re likely to create multiple tabs to browse several sites simultaneously. You may even create new Google Chrome windows, or websites may automatically open in new windows.
If you have several windows open simultaneously and would like to clean up your display by merging everything into one Google Chrome window containing multiple tabs, you can do so by dragging and dropping the tabs onto one main window. However, if you have several windows open with many tabs in each window, this dragging and dropping can be a chore. With the “JoinTabs” extension you can perform this merge with just one click. Plus, you can have JoinTabs automatically merge popups into one window if you’re tired of sites opening up new windows….
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Apply artistic effects to pictures / photos in a PowerPoint 2010 presentation without loading an external image editor.
Artistic effects can help photographs stand out in a presentation, and in some cases when needed, blend in. Instead of editing images using an external editor, Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 comes built-in with a variety of effects.
For example, “Blur” may be useful when trying to place text on top of a picture, making it more readable. “Glow Edges” makes a photo look as if it is lit in neon. “Light Screen” creates a cubist / 8-bit / blocky image. “Paint Brush” may alter some photographs to look instead like paintings. PowerPoint comes built-in with 22 such artistic effects….
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Apply artistic effects to pictures / photos in a PowerPoint 2010 presentation without loading an external image editor.
Artistic effects can help photographs stand out in a presentation, and in some cases when needed, blend in. Instead of editing images using an external editor, Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 comes built-in with a variety of effects.
For example, “Blur” may be useful when trying to place text on top of a picture, making it more readable. “Glow Edges” makes a photo look as if it is lit in neon. “Light Screen” creates a cubist / 8-bit / blocky image. “Paint Brush” may alter some photographs to look instead like paintings. PowerPoint comes built-in with 22 such artistic effects….
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In Word 2010, if there is too much white space between pages when viewing documents in Print Layout View, here’s how to reduce it.
When viewing Microsoft Word 2010 documents in “Print Layout” view, a small amount of space is added between pages, presumably to make the separation between pages more clear-cut onscreen.
If you perform document editing where you need to look at the bottom of one page and the top of the next page, you might find these few pixels a waste of space, especially on smaller monitors. Thus there are a couple of ways you can reduce the space between pages to only a couple of pixels:…
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Apply artistic effects to pictures / photos in a PowerPoint 2010 presentation without loading an external image editor.
Artistic effects can help photographs stand out in a presentation, and in some cases when needed, blend in. Instead of editing images using an external editor, Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 comes built-in with a variety of effects.
For example, “Blur” may be useful when trying to place text on top of a picture, making it more readable. “Glow Edges” makes a photo look as if it is lit in neon. “Light Screen” creates a cubist / 8-bit / blocky image. “Paint Brush” may alter some photographs to look instead like paintings. PowerPoint comes built-in with 22 such artistic effects….
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