When thinking about creating a presentation, the most common application that comes to mind is MS PowerPoint. However, PowerPoint is not compatible with a wide range of platforms and it can be hard to share slides made from a PowerPoint presentation with people using smartphones or tablets. Perhaps the least likely candidate for creating visually …
Creating a Maze can be helpful to explain how to find solutions to common or complex problems. In some presentations we may want to present an idea to solve a problem with different approaches. The terms maze and labyrinth are synonymous. Sometimes, the term labyrinth is used for unicursal patterns with a single unbranching path …
If you work with OpenOffice instead of PowerPoint but once you finish the presentation you need to save your work as a PowerPoint file then we will explain how. To save an Impress presentation as a PowerPoint .ppt file you will need to go to File > Save As from the menu bar on Impress. …
If you get a file from someone in PowerPoint format (usually .ppt or .pptx) and you need to open or edit it in LibreOffice or OpenOffice Impress, then here is how to do it. In OpenOffice.org, choose File > Open from the menu bar. Under File type, choose All files (*.*) or Presentations or Microsoft …
PowerPoint and other MS Office programs are great to be used in the office or home but you need to purchase a license in order to use them in your computer. However, if you want to try PowerPoint and other MS Office programs then you can download free PowerPoint trial versions that usually are limited …
When you install and enable OneNote, you will see a new button under Review tab in PowerPoint 2010. Linked Notes lets you link your PowerPoint presentation with a OneNotes document. This can be a great tool for collaboration and review documents in PowerPoint with other members of your team or students if you are a …
Adding elaborate diagrams to a PowerPoint presentation can help better explain the dynamics of a project, as well as make the presentation more visually appealing. SimpleDiagrams is a great application that enables designing awesome hand drawn diagrams for PowerPoint presentations. Simple Diagrams is an Adobe AIR application and therefore you can install it on multiple …
Send PowerPoint handouts to Word for printing. In PowerPoint 2003, 2007 and 2010 you can send PowerPoint Handouts to Word. You can use Send to Word to make thumbnails or your slides or to copy the speaker notes or blank lines to a processing document like Word. Then you can modify as necessary to provide a customized …
Prototyping in PowerPoint may not be the preferred way for many UX designers at a glance, but why now? PowerPoint is a great and very popular tool for presentations that can be used also to make prototypes. Think about this: PowerPoint contains a useful design tools like auto shapes, PowerPoint graphics, cliparts, templates, etc. making it …
This is a very simple tip on how to make a semicircle shape in PowerPoint. If you look at the list of available shapes in PowerPoint you will notice that there is no semicircle at a glance. But you can create a semicircle shape by using some other geometrical shapes available in PowerPoint. To make …
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