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ZoomIt

ZoomIt is a free utility for Microsoft PowerPoint presentations that helps you to screen zoom and make annotations technical presentations that include application demonstrations.ZoomIt runs unobtrusively in the tray and activates with customizable hotkeys to zoom in on an area of the screen, move around while zoomed, and draw on the zoomed image. The application le...

Create a Checklist PowerPoint Template

Flight checklists are used worldwide in many different fields of study. From business or marketing presentations and managers to business operators or employees who need to organize the work and verify that a given checklist is ok.In PowerPoint you can create tables and use them as checklist, with the proper checklist images for Yes or No, or Done icons you can enha...

How to create a graph paper background in PowerPoint

A graph paper, grid paper or plotting paper background in PowerPoint can be very useful by designers, architects or general users who need a plotting paper background or template system for their presentations. A graph paper can be created in different ways, we can either use a graph paper pattern in PowerPoint or create our own image as background.In Photoshop or a...

How to configure grid and ruler in PowerPoint

PowerPoint can be configured to use a grid system and rulers, however these options have different uses depending on your needs.Rulers are great to keep control about the width and height of the presentation slides as well as placing and keeping control of shapes and objects positions inside the slide. Rulers let you determine and measure where your objects are plac...

Burlesque, Beer and PowerPoint

Recently Mary Mann published this interesting article about the use of PowerPoint in the middle of a beer session. Here is an excerpt and you can read the full entry in the URL at the bottom of the post.On a Tuesday night in February, it’s standing room only to watch a series of PowerPoint presentations. At least a hundred people have gathered at Public Assembly to ...

How to Change Image Color in PowerPoint 2010

Here we will show you how it is possible to replace the color of an image or picture in PowerPoint by using recolor feature in Microsoft PowerPoint 2010.This can be very useful for example if we need to match the picture color with the theme color or corporate identity including the logo and other business elements.In the example below we have added a free map vecto...

Maps for PowerPoint

Sometimes we need to show maps in PowerPoint presentations and we have already commented how to embed real time Maps from Google Maps into PowerPoint presentations, but sometimes it is enough to use a map clipart in our slides. For example, if we are making a global PowerPoint template or virtual teams, it would be desirable to show a world map. Hopefully we can use...

How to Choose a Good Color Scheme for PowerPoint Presentations

Choosing colors can be trivial for many people, but if you are wondering how to choose a good color scheme for PowerPoint presentations then let’s see some ideas here.First, we can use free online tools to generate a color scheme and then you can download the color scheme for your PowerPoint presentations or just copy and paste the color numbers in Hex or any ...

Nokia Belle and PowerPoint

Nokia and Microsoft announced the introduction of some applications for free available for Nokia Belle, a smartphone that earns corporate street-cred with Microsoft Office apps. If you ever wanted to create images and rich documents or notes in your smartphone, then this is the opportunity to explore new ways to do it with Nokia Belle.With Nokia Belle you can also s...

How to make a Hype PowerPoint Template using Shapes

News often seems to develop a life of its own, creating huge news waves on one specific story or topic. The term hype is often used in popular debate about this kind of self-inflating media coverage, but the concept has never made it into the scientific discourse, mainly because of its implicit value judgements. But the concept can become a valuable tool for news re...

Hand Drawn Lines in PowerPoint and Curved Lines

You can draw curved lines in PowerPoint or make a hand drawn effect in PowerPoint using the freeform shape line. This curved line tool let you design really impressive lines and create the effect of a line drawing itself.Splines in PowerPoint let you draw a free curved line or similar to a spline bezier curve that we studied in maths.In order to use it you need to c...

ROI and Media Plan PowerPoint presentations

This is a funny image where the audience of a business presentation ask the presenter why do you get that look every time we ask about the ROI?

Apply animation effects to bullets of text

In order to apply animation effects to bullets of text you can use the animation options available in PowerPoint. Let’s see how we can apply animation in PowerPoint for individual bullets of text in a bullet list.First, we need to create the bullets of text as a list. You are a pro doing this, just add some text in a list and use the right indentation.Then, se...

How to use a checkerboard background in PowerPoint

If you want to fill your PowerPoint background with a checkerboard style then this tutorial is for you. Here we will show you how to create a checker board PowerPoint template just using a checkerboard pattern. You can download free checkerboard pattern from free pattern websites but we have created one here using Photoshop or Paint.NETIn order to create a checkerbo...

How to open PowerPoint presentations in Blackberry Playbook

Blackberry Playbook comes with 1Ghz Dual Core processor, 1GB RAM, 1080p HD video playback and HDMI output. With an amazing 7-inch 1024×600 screen and Crystal clear HD display, Playbook can be a wonderful mobile video-conferencing machine and you can use it to run PowerPoint presentations or meetings online.However PowerPoint files cannot be played directly on t...