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Communicating Using Technology
Vol. 5 Issue 1 January 10, 2006
Published and Copyright by Dave Paradi
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In this issue:
New York City workshop coming soon
New survey
Chance to see me present today
PowerPoint Tip - Great Images from Microsoft Templates
Web Tutorial Reminder
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Dave is coming to the Big Apple - New York City
Just finalizing the details, but it looks like I'll be doing a one-
day Think Outside The Slide(tm) workshop on March 14th in New York
City. Watch for details on this intensive one day where you will
learn what works with audiences, why it works and how to make it
happen in your presentations. Details soon.
New Survey
I have launched a new survey asking how you deliver your PowerPoint
presentations - projected on a screen, printed and reviewed across a
table, or sent in advance and reviewed remotely. My experience is
that it depends on your role and what industry you are in. But I
want to hear from you. Over 100 people filled out the survey in the
first 24 hours, so please take two minutes to fill out this quick
survey so we can all learn more about the delivery of PowerPoint
presentations. The survey is at:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=863441619931
See me today on the web
This afternoon from 4-5 pm EST, I will be the featured presenter at
the Office Depot Web Cafe. I will be doing a 40 minute web seminar
titled "From Bad to Great: Transforming Your PowerPoint
Presentations". I have included some of my latest "bad" and "good"
examples and show what you do to get from one to the other. Office
Depot offers this at no charge, so sign up at
http://www.officedepot.com/webcafe . If you can't make the live
session, you can watch a recording starting the next day. Feel free
to pass this on to others.
PPT - Search Templates for great images
In two weeks I'll be doing my web tutorial on Using Digital Photos
and one of the topics I'll be covering is where you can find photos
on the web. Microsoft has a large number of photos on their Office
Online web site, but one of the undiscovered spots for great photos
is the templates that they offer. Microsoft has an Office templates
site that offers templates for Word, Excel and PowerPoint. If you
go to the site at
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/default.aspx, you can
search for the word PowerPoint and a term that describes the type of
photo you are looking for, like sales for example. In the results,
you will see a set of PowerPoint templates that contain images that
may be useful for your presentation. To extract the photo, download
the template and save it on your computer. Open it up in
PowerPoint. The images are likely on the Slide Master. Click View
-> Master -> Slide Master. Click on the master that contains the
image you want to use (there may be a title master and a slide
master). On the master slide, click on the image. It is unlikely
that the image is a separate picture, it usually is part of an
overall image that is the entire slide background. So when you
click on the image, it selects the whole background. That's OK.
Close the slide master and go to the slide you want to place the
image on. Paste it and it will likely take up the whole slide or
more - not a problem. Because now you are going to crop the parts
you don't want. Click on the photo and in the Picture toolbar (if
it isn't showing, click View -> Toolbars -> Picture), click on the
cropping toolbar button, which looks like two plus signs (+)
together. The white cirlce resizing handles turn into black bar
cropping handles. Grab one of the cropping handles and drag it to
eliminate the portions of the picture you do not want to use. You
can use any of the handles to crop out parts of the image from
whatever side you need to. Now you have just the image you want.
You can also crop by double clicking on the image and clicking on
the Picture tab and setting the crop from settings to exact
measurements. Sometimes I find it helpful to get the approximate
crop using the cropping handles, then use the exact cropping
measurements to fine tune the crop. The techniques I described
today also work for any background image that contains an image you
want to use.
Web Tutorial Reminder
Don't forget about the Using Digital Photos web tutorial Jan 24th As
I mentioned in the last newsletter, I am holding three web tutorials
early this year. The format is a one hour web session where I will
share my computer screen with you and you can listen to me on your
telephone as I explain exactly how to do what you see me do on the
screen. As a bonus, I am recording each session and if you register
for the live session, you will get the recording on CD after the
session. If you can't make the time of the session, sign up anyway
because you will get the recording and watch it whenever you want.
The three sessions are: Using Digital Photos on Jan 24, Creating
Effective Graphs on Feb 7, and Non-Linear Presentations on Feb 21.
I have the full description of all sessions posted on the web site
at: http://www.thinkoutsidetheslide.com/webtutorials.htm and you can
now register for any or all of them.
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