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We always look for good images. Pictures tell a thousand words, making them ideal additions to blog posts, class projects, presentations, emails, and other social media applications. Fortunately, Microsoft drastically improved their Clip Art galleries in the last several years, adding thousands of high quality photographs.  Using Microsoft’s Clip Art galleries while connected to the [...]

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Several months ago we linked to an article about how to embed a YouTube video in PowerPoint. We still get questions about it pretty regularly, so I though I’d write up some instruction and post them again.
NOTE: When presenting you must have a live internet connection or your embedded YouTube video will not play.
Step by Step Instructions [...]

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Don’t have Photoshop on your computer? Try using PowerPoint!

This is a great e-learning video tutorial made by David Anderson about giving your photos a Polaroid picture effect using the photo and shape editing features available in PowerPoint 2007. It demonstrates some quick picture editing tricks as well as a useful shape free transform feature.
Enjoy!

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If you’ve ever looked at Office 2007, then you know that things have changed significantly.  Most people I talk to are frustrated when they first switch to Office 2007, because they don’t know where to find the tools they used in earlier versions of Office.  Microsoft has put together videos, demos, and interactive guides to help [...]

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When you paste something in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and some of the other Office programs, a Paste Options button will appear.  (It is usually at the bottom of the pasted material, although with something really long, I sometimes see it appear at the top right.)  If you click on this button, you see different options.  [...]

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Last semester a student came to my office with a problem I had not encountered before.  He needed to make PowerPoint handouts, but they had to be included as part of a document that was going to be bound.  Because part of the left side of the page would be hidden by the binding, he needed [...]

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Your document tells people more about you than you think.  No, I’m not talking about when people look for double meanings in your words or calculate the average number of syllables you wrote to decide how smart you are.  There can be hidden information in your documents that a savvy user could access.
Office 2007 has a built-in tool, called the Document [...]

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I couldn’t possibly count the number of times I’ve accidentally typed teh and watched as Word magically rearranged the letters to spell the.  Nor can I count the number of times Word has made up for my inability to apply the i before e rule correctly.  Word is constantly correcting words like receive for me without my [...]

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I can’t tell you how many times I’ve typed a few sentences, then realized that Caps Lock was on.  And then there are all the times I’ve typed a title in a document, then decided that I wanted to capitalize the first letter of every word.  In the past, I would retype the text, or [...]

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In the past, when people have asked me how to embed a YouTube video in PowerPoint, I have hung my head and said that I had not yet found a way to do it.  Then I would tell them about hyperlinking or having someone convert the file type.  Thank goodness those days have passed, and [...]

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