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Tis the season to be thankful…below is our thankful PowerPoint 2007 list:

1.  Custom placeholders: Add custom placeholder fields into the slide master: perfect for subtitles.

2. Undo after save: The undo option works after saving the file! You can also undo more than 10 actions!!

3. Edit auto-shape points: Ability to edit points on PowerPoint’s auto shapes.

4. Instant previews: Rollover the desired effect and the selected shape, text, image, or chart will preview the change.

5. Tracking: customize the spacing between text characters.

6. Paste Special Speed Key: Ctrl+Alt+v

7. Edit Grouped Objects: Ability to move an individual object after it has been grouped. 

8. New Effect options: There are more effect options for images and shapes.  You can now add reflections and make objects 3D.

9. Linked Text Columns: Add columns to a text box.

10. Echo Swinford: because she always has the answer

Happy Thanksgiving!

Grouped Objects in PowerPoint 2007

Have you ever grouped together objects, animated them and realized that you have to resize or move one of those objects?  Now you have to ungroup, edit, regroup and then reanimate.

How aggravating and time-consuming!

PowerPoint 2007 has a great new feature that allows us to edit objects that are grouped and animated without ungrouping them.  You can resize, move, and edit your grouped objects individually while grouped.  This is a major time saver and it also prevents errors that can happen when reanimating.  Kudos to Microsoft… now if they can only allow buttons with rollover states…

How to Determine the Length of your Presentation

Do you determine the length of your presentation based on the amount of slides you have in your PowerPoint deck?  Don’t be a slide counter!  A common misconception is that the amount of slides will determine the length of a presentation.  This typically will cause people to cut down on the amount of slides and put too much information on a slide.  Too much information on a slide can make it too cluttered and confusing for your audience, and can even make your presentation longer than expected

It’s time to clean up your slides.  Next time you prepare a presentation, count the amount of clicks, not slides.  The average time a person tends to spend per click is about one minute.  So go ahead add more slides to your presentation.  Your slides will now be clean and more presentable for your audience.