How to Create a Timeline Effect in PowerPoint
Linda Lor shares a brilliant technique in video to help your create timelines using PowerPoint.
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft PowerPoint is a popular software tool to create and share presentations. You can add audio and video to your presentations or use Office Web Apps to put your slides on the web.
Follow the Line Animation in PowerPoint
Learn how to create a “follow the line” animation effect with PowerPoint. Simple yet impressive!
How to Make Scrolling Credits in PowerPoint
You have seen scrolling credits in most movies, now learn how you can create such a similar effect using Microsoft PowerPoint. The text rolls from bottom to top but you may change both the direction as well as the speed of the scrolling credits. Create Rolling Credits with PowerPoint
How to Edit Photos in PowerPoint
@slhice shares some very interesting photo manipulation techniques that would let you change the colors and backgrounds of photos right inside PowerPoint without requireing Photoshop.
Typewriter Effect in Microsoft PowerPoint
This quick video tutorial explains how you can achieve the famous Typewriter Effect inside your PowerPoint Presentations.
How to Animate Object Movements in PowerPoint
In this video screencast, @tom from Articulate discusses different ways by which you can move objects (and people) around a path inside PowerPoint slides. My favorite animation style is “Flash Once” as it lets you control position and angle of the object at every step.
Sharing One Computer with the Whole Classroom
To help schools get the most out of their limited computing budgets, Microsoft MultiPoint allows multiple students in a classroom to interact with a single computer simultaneously using their own mouse.
Create Pan and Zoom Effect in Microsoft PowerPoint
This video screencast describes how you can create impress pan and zoom effects in your PowerPoint presentations using motion paths.
Create 3D Effects in PowerPoint
Learn how to create eye-catching 3D effects in your PowerPoint slides using the built-in photo editing tools.
Edit Videos with PowerPoint 2010
If you frequently embed video clips in your PowerPoint presentations, you’ll absolutely love PowerPoint 2010 since it includes a built-in video editor. With PowerPoint 2010, you can easily trim unwanted portions of a video clip before inserting it into your presentation. Then you can apply styles like fading edges, 3D rotation, live reflections, etc. to(…)
Embed Web Videos in PowerPoint Presentations
You can directly insert web video into your PowerPoint presentations just the way you embed video in web pages. The video could be on YouTube, Flickr, MySpace, Facebook or any of the other video sharing sites.
Give Live Presentations over the Web with PowerPoint 2010
You can broadcast live presentations over the Internet to a remote audience for free using a built-in feature of PowerPoint 2010. It uses the Office Live Web Apps to host your presentation online.
Convert PowerPoint Presentations into DVD-Quality Video
You can convert PowerPoint presentations into a video for viewing on a large HD display, or for buring to a standard DVD or for watching on your iPod like a podcast.
Use Google Docs as a Batch PDF Converter
Looking for a free batch PDF converter? This article describes how you can convert several Office documents, PowerPoint Presentations and Excel Spreadsheets into the Adobe PDF format online at once using Google Docs.
How to Embed YouTube Videos in PowerPoint
Learn how to Embed YouTube video clips in your PowerPoint presentations that you can also upload on to the web or embed in your blog.
Advertising Inside PowerPoint Presentations
A coffee chain has found an intelligent way to spread their message across a classroom full of students. They are giving away free coffee to the presenter if he agrees to sneak in an ad into the PowerPoint presentation.
Make a Twitter Background Image with PowerPoint or Keynote
Looking to have a nice background for your Twitter profile page. You can easily create one using PowerPoint or Keynote if you work on a Mac.
Add Live Web Pages to your PowerPoint Presentations
Learn how to insert websites into your PowerPoint slides. The web pages will load live at the time of running your slideshow and are completely interactive as if you are running the slideshow in a web browser.
Useful PowerPoint Presentation Tips by Seth Godin
Steve Jobs rarely uses complete sentences in his Keynote presentation slides. Credit: Wired Seth Godin offers some great tips on preparing PowerPoint presentations that will leave an impact on your audience. Favorite picks:
Compress Office Documents with PPT Minimizer – Free Licenses
Office Compression tools come handy in situations when you have to email documents or presentation that are too large for your email program. These tools can reduce file size by optimizing the embedded graphics without affecting quality.