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Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 – Stop Asking to Save Ink Annotations!

06 Aug

Prevent PowerPoint 2010 from even asking to save ink annotations after a presentation.

When you give presentations with Microsoft PowerPoint 2010, you might choose to use the Pen or Highlighter tools. These can draw attention to a portion of a slide, draw shapes, write text, etc.

After exiting a presentation, PowerPoint 2010 asks if you want to save these ink annotations. However, if you give the same presentation to multiple audiences, the annotations may only be for the benefit of one group of people and do not need to be kept. So why have PowerPoint ask you this when you can configure an option that automatically discards them?…

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Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 – Change Default AutoRecover and Presentation File Locations

20 May

Change the default directory where PowerPoint 2010 presentations are saved as well as where AutoRecover files are kept.

By default, as with other Office 2010 applications, Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 defaults to the user Documents directory to save presentations. AutoRecover files, useful if PowerPoint 2010 or your system crashes before a document is saved, are placed in the user’s AppData directory. For example, on standard Windows 7 installations, documents default to the C:\ Users\ YOUR_USER_NAME\ Documents folder, and AutoRecover files are stored at C:\ Users\ YOUR_USER_NAME\ AppData\ Roaming\ Microsoft\ PowerPoint.

If you have multiple hard drives and/or partitions, you may have one designated to keep data files and documents separate from programs and your operating system. Thus, moving these default locations to the other hard drive or partition might prove quite useful. And here’s how to do so:…

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Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 – Force All Documents to Open in a Particular View

28 Jan

If you open many PowerPoint 2010 documents daily and every author saves them with their own view, force PowerPoint to start on one particular view.

If you work in an office environment requiring the opening of many Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 presentations from a variety of authors, you may have noticed that presentations get saved with a variety of views. Perhaps one person was working on Notes when they saved their presentation, another likes using the Outline View, and yet another forgoes notes and displays slides along with thumbnails.

Instead of opening every presentation in the view saved inside the file, you can force PowerPoint 2010 to open every presentation in the view you desire….

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Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 – Backtrack Your Mistakes by Allowing More Undos

30 Oct

If PowerPoint 2010’s Undo feature doesn’t remember enough edits, force it to remember up to 150.

While frantically putting together a presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 at the last minute, you’re bound to make some mistakes. Don’t worry – you can easily undo edits by pressing Ctrl + Z. In fact, PowerPoint by default remembers up to your last 20 edits, so if you make a mess of things you should be able to recover. (Of course, you should still save your work often, and perhaps create backup copies at different stages of your presentation editing.)

For many people 20 edits is enough. However, if you need PowerPoint to remember even more edits (up to 150), the following tweak should help:…

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Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 – Shrink or Expand Text Spacing

30 Oct

Expand text spacing in a PowerPoint 2010 presentation for effect, or fit more on one line by reducing white space.

While designing a Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 presentation, have you ever wanted to fit more text on a line, yet reducing the font size just won’t do? You can cram a little more text together by reducing the white space between characters.

Conversely, you can accentuate a block of text by increasing the space between its letters, forcing it to fill more of the screen horizontally….

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Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 – The Text, It Glows!

16 Oct

Make text glow in a PowerPoint 2010 presentation in a variety of colors and sizes.

Still looking for more ways to make text stand out in an otherwise-drab Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 presentation? How about making it glow?

With a few clicks you can make text appear to glow in a variety of predefined colors or sizes. Or, go one step further and tweak to your heart’s content by adjusting the glow color, size, and transparency….

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Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 – Stop Ending Slide Shows with a Black, Blank Slide

02 Oct

Remove the black, blank slide that PowerPoint 2010 adds to the end of slideshows.

After displaying a slide show, Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 ends with a black, blank slide with the text “End of slide show, click to exit”. Presumably, the reason for this is that slide shows may be shown on a projector or larger monitor. After a slide show is finished, you can use the black slide to “cut the feed” so participants will not see the raw slides in PowerPoint as well as your Desktop, Taskbar, etc.

If you do not care about your participants seeing these things, you might find this ending slide annoying and wish to just exit straight from a slide show back into the PowerPoint application. To remove this ending slide, do the following:…

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Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 – Equalize Text Height for a Cartoonish Effect

26 Aug

Need another way for text to stand out in a PowerPoint 2007 slide show?

Picture this scenario – you need to perform a quick calculation in Windows but your Desktop is full and you don’t want to open a new window. Plus, you can’t find a calculator anywhere next to your computer desk / table. What do you do?

Desktop Calculator, an older application, may be what you need. This program adds a simple calculator directly on the Windows Taskbar that can perform basic math functions. It also handles percentages, square roots, inverses, flipping between negative and positive numbers, and can perform decimal to hexadecimal conversion….

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Posts Tagged ‘PowerPoint’

Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 – Stop Asking to Save Ink Annotations!

Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 – Change Default AutoRecover and Presentation File Locations

Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 – Force All Documents to Open in a Particular View

Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 – Backtrack Your Mistakes by Allowing More Undos

Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 – Shrink or Expand Text Spacing

Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 – The Text, It Glows!

Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 – Stop Ending Slide Shows with a Black, Blank Slide

Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 – Equalize Text Height for a Cartoonish Effect

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