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Introduction
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Designing a presentation
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Use the Slide Master |
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Use a layout grid |
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Use layout guides |
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Use Word |
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The blank presentation |
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New templates from old |
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Set the default text style |
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Displaying keyboard shortcuts |
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Building a show
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Superfast text entry |
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Nifty ways with the Slide View |
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Quick access to the Slide Master … |
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… Quick access to the Title Master |
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Create an instant agenda |
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Hiding slides |
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Custom shows |
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Selective background images
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Change the colour of your textures |
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Start your slideshow where you want
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The mini-slideshow |
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Working with objects
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Measuring distance |
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Use Ctrl-drag to copy |
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Nudging objects |
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Resizing multiple objects - 1 |
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Resizing multiple objects - 2 |
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Selecting small objects |
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Repeat text and graphics formatting |
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Centring a single object |
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Distributing objects |
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Turn Autoshapes into text boxes |
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Add shape to text boxes |
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Text on slides
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Insert specials |
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Quick case change |
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Stop auto-fitting |
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The quick way to invert text |
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The height adjustment workaround |
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Using images
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Ban bitmaps |
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Restore a picture's original proportions |
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Turn pictures into a presentation |
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Instant edits for Photo Albums |
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Using clip art
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Gradients on clip art |
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Quick colour change for clip art |
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Embossed images |
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Create new clip art images |
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Drawing
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Perfect drawing |
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Draw and format |
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Soft shadows |
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Mirrored text |
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Connecting objects |
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Fixing the default fill colour |
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Shape changing |
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Don't distort while resizing |
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Edit AutoShapes |
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Building charts
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Clever labelling |
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Fill effects |
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Running a show
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Quick return to start |
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The opening loop |
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Other uses for links and branches |
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Intermission countdown 1 |
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Intermission countdown 2 |
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Visual cues |
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Don't show PowerPoint! |
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Using the pen |
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Pause during a slideshow |
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Test the timing |
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Instant appointments |
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Lose the pointer |
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Animations and other impact effectss
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From monochrome to colour |
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Animated backgrounds |
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Transparent slide labels |
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Sunrise |
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Cycling past the light |
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The self-assembling image |
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Hiding objects |
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Subliminal messages |
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Darkness to daylight |
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Fast animations |
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Animating individual pie pieces |
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Revealing a slide as a puzzle |
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Rising charts |
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Animating imported charts |
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The phantom typist |
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Left to right |
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Scrolling credits |
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Bouncing balls |
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Handouts and printing
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Printing presentations |
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Identify your printouts |
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Speaker Notes the easy way |
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Printing slides in black and white |
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File management and housekeeping
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Change file locations |
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Protect your presentation |
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Save your fonts with your presentation
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Saving across multiple diskettes |
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Saving your toolbar configurations |
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Tweaking toolbars |
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Performance
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Three tricks to speed up presentation
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Compress graphics |
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Other ways to minimise file size |
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Three ways to speed up your presentations |
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Dodgy laptops |
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The key keyboard shortcuts |
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Bonus box 1: 12 rules for PowerPoint presentations
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| Bonus box 2: PowerPoint Links on the Web |
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Bonus box 3: A test pack for your projector
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