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By: 5 PowerPoint Tips That Will Help You Work Faster | How to PowerPoint

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:54:52 +0000

[...] Oct The Rapid Elearning Blog has a great post on five basic PowerPoint tips. They teach you how to work with objects on the screen and offer some time-saving [...]

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These PowerPoint Experts Can Make You a Star » The Rapid eLearning Blog — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:55:31 +0000

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By: Tip of the Week: 5 Must-Know PowerPoint Tips That Will Save You Time « Tech it Out

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:14:27 +0000

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By: Craig Hadden

Craig Hadden — Sat, 30 May 2009 17:08:21 +0000

What a fantastic site! I’m mentoring a trainer in China to become an e-learning developer and I’ll definitely refer her to your blog.

Here are some other PPT (2003) shortcuts that I find very handy:

= To move an object vertically or horizontally, Shift+drag it.
= To duplicate an object and keep it aligned with its original, Ctrl+Shift+drag it.
= To resize a selected object about its centre, Ctrl+drag a handle. (Keeps object centre-aligned with others, or with slide.)
= To resize a selected object and keep its proportions, Shift+drag a corner handle.
= To resize a selected object about its centre and keep its proportions, Ctrl+Shift+drag a corner handle.
= To show or hide the guides, press Alt+F9.
= To open the Grid and Guides dialog box, press Ctrl+G.
= To change the case of selected text (or the current word), press Shift+F3 repeatedly.
= To select a sentence, Ctrl+click in it, then Shift+click elsewhere to select consecutive sentences.

Thanks again, and I hope you and others find some of these tips useful too.

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Web 2.0 no meu Diigo - Semana 11 « Web 2.0 PT — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 18:22:40 +0000

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By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 01:54:27 +0000

I have just discovered the joy and ease of using drawing guide and grids. I have tried saving my presentation as a template to preserve these guide settings for future presenations, however the template files do not seem to preserve the drawing guide settings. I’m using Powerpoint 2003. If you are able to help me understand how Imight do this, i’d be most greateful

Thanks

Mark

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Learners Lounge » 50 Practical Tips & Tricks to Build Better E-Learning — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:45:14 +0000

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By: Judy

Judy — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 01:17:43 +0000

Re my comment about making screen recorders work…I forgot to mention that some of the recorders I tried can publish to .swf, but the ones that only seem to publish to .avi, I have software that converts to .swf…thanks, Tom.

By: Judy

Judy — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 01:13:41 +0000

Tom, great post…I can’t quite make the screen recording function that you explained to Lisa on Sept. 16 work for me, though. How do you “…capture in a size that fits in Articulate Presenter without having to scale down…also lock(ed) the player so it can’t be scaled.” I have downloaded several screen recording tools (freeware…the last one I tried being the free screen recorder from NBXSoft), and when I publish in Articulate, the screen recordings are invariably blurry. Perhaps the free stuff doesn’t have the configuring capacity to do what you suggest?

By: Mark Cruthers

Mark Cruthers — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:42:02 +0000

Have you considered Wiziq’s Virtual Classroom ? Also authorSTREAM offers an excellent web based power point viewing platform.