Kama Sutra presentation is malware
It promises a raunchy PowerPoint presentation, but gives you a malware Trojan instead.A nasty email is doing the rounds promising a PowerPoint presentation of the Kama Sutra but includes a program to take control of your computer as well. Sophos is reporting that an infected email is about to tempt PowerPoint users looking to improve […]
Free manuals for Microsoft Office
Free training manuals for Office 2007 and before plus Quick References for Office 2010. Mouse Training in the UK has released their training manuals free for all comers plus some Quick Reference Guides. The Training Manuals are for Office 2007, Office 2003, Office XP (2002) and Office 2000. They cover Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, […]
Making PowerPoint files smaller
Trim down those enormous PPT/PPTX files. While it’s not the problem it was a few years ago, there’s still a need to reduce the file size of a PowerPoint presentation to something more portable for transport or even use on older machines which may have trouble dealing with large file sizes. Here are some tips […]
Print pane in Office 2010
An overview of the Print options in the new Backstage view. In Office 2010 the Print tab is moved to the File menu aka Backstage. Available Printer options, page settings and page preview have all been grouped together in one place and made more obvious. The Print pane is much the same across all Office […]
Blue Beauty – a nice PowerPoint presentation
A nice and informative PowerPoint presentation we made a little smaller and safer. A lovely PowerPoint presentation arrived in our Inbox (thanks Peter!) which we’ve decided to share with Office-Watch.com readers. It’s a series of day and night photos of Earth from space taken by Sunita Williams called ‘Blue Beauty’. Aside from the great photos […]
Manage Audio Clips in PowerPoint 2010
Improved features related to inserting audio clips in PowerPoint 2010. Some of the features related to inserting audio clips have been improved in PowerPoint 2010. You can add an audio clip from files on your computer or the Clip Art task pane. You can also record your own audio to add to the presentation. Inserted […]
More Text Effects in Word 2010
Text effects in Word 2010 have wide range of options like applying shadow, reflection or glow to transform the appearance of text and give it an altogether new look. Text effects in Word 2010 have wide range of options like applying shadow, reflection or glow to transform the appearance of text and give it an […]
Text Effects in Word 2003 and Word 2007
Making ordinary texts look extraordinary has been possible for many versions of Word. Alas, the features can make ordinary text look awful – if you’re not careful. Making ordinary texts look extraordinary has been possible for many versions of Word. Alas, the features can make ordinary text look awful – if you’re not careful. Word […]
Image Correction in Office 2010
Some new image changing options in Office 2010. Generally speaking it’s better to make changes to an image before importing it into an Office document (document, spreadsheet or presentation). There even the Microsoft Picture Manager provided with Office to let you do that, as well as many other photo editing tools. However there are some […]
Editing pictures inside Office
Office 2007 and Office 2010 has tools to edit photos and pictures in your document. Office 2007 and Office 2010 has tools to edit photos and pictures in your document. In olden days (ie 10 years ago) to put an image into a document you had to carefully edit the image file, resize it etc […]
Properties options in Office 2010
There are various places to see and change document properties in Office 2010. In Office 2010 under the File menu is ‘Backstage’ that includes the Info pane. On the right side of the Info pane all the properties pertaining to that particular document will be displayed along with a small thumbnail image of the document. […]
Control Powerpoint from your phone
The PowerPoint Presentation Companion lets you run a slideshow from a phone. Microsoft has released Presentation Companion 1.0 for Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 or Microsoft PowerPoint 2007. This add-in only works if you have a Windows Mobile 6.5 touchscreen phone with Office Mobile 2010. The mobile phone and computer can then be linked via Bluetooth wireless. […]
The final use of PowerPoint
Using PPT to make your final declaration. Had to laugh at this New Yorker cartoon, even though there’s nothing really funny about suicide, it’s just a cartoon. “Sir, he left a suicide deck.” from the 5 April 2010 issue, page 39 or online here. It’s a bit hard to read, On the top row of […]
Master your PowerPoint slides
Make a base for all your slides, then later global changes are easy. We’ve seen too many people making the same change to slide after slide when they could have done it in a few seconds with some preparation. Before you do anything on a presentation – check out the Slide Master to create a […]
PowerPoint 2007 photo albums
The fast way to make a photo album presentation in Powerpoint 2007 and 2010. Last year, Office for Mere Mortals, covered making a photo album in several versions of Powerpoint. In PowerPoint 2007 and PowerPoint 2010 there’s a quicker way – go to the Insert tab and choose Photo Album. Then you’ll see a dialog […]
Security updates – if it suits Microsoft
Producer for Powerpoint 2003 shows that Microsoft will patch security bugs, but not if they can find an excuse, however feeble. In the March 2010 list of security patches from Microsoft was one labeled “Vulnerability in Windows Movie Maker Could Allow Remote Code Execution” but it also affects a Microsoft Office application. That program has […]
