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Communicating Using Technology
Vol. 4 Issue 10 May 17, 2005
Published and Copyright by Dave Paradi
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In this issue:
Announcements
1. PPT - Hyperlinking
2. Forcing a PC to shut down
3. Useful Resource - FinePrint
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The early bird deadline for the public Compelling PowerPoint
seminars in June in Chicago and Washington DC is the end of next
week. I have had inquiries in the last few days about group
registrations for each location, so I expect the spots to
continue filling up quickly. Get the details at
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could benefit from creating and delivering better PowerPoint
presentations. If you can't make the place or dates, you can
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I am travelling quite a bit in the next few months and this is a
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where I will be and the dates: May 30-31 in Ottawa, ON; June 24
in Washington DC; July 7 in Atlanta, GA; August 2-3 in Victoria,
BC; August 5 in Vancouver, BC; August 19-23 in the San Francisco/
San Jose, CA area. If you want to save some money and book some
time with me on one of these dates, just e-mail me at
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1. PPT - Hyperlinking
Sometimes in a PowerPoint presentation you will want to run a
file from another application. This may be a video or a file
from an application like Excel or Word. PowerPoint does allow
you to create hyperlinks from text or other objects, but to
activate them, you usually need to move your mouse to the link
and click on it to start the link. This mouse moving across the
screen is distracting for the audience. I use hyperlinks in my
Compelling PowerPoint seminar to show a few of the Video
Tutorials I created that illustrate a particular point I am
making. I want it to appear seamless when I present, so I
searched for a way to launch the link without using the mouse.
Here's what works for me. Since the video tutorials are Flash
files played from an HTML page, what I really need to do is
launch the HTML page and then the coding on that page will do the
rest. So I have created an Action button (by clicking on Slide
Show->Action Buttons and selecting a button). This action button
is set to hyperlink to the HTML file. Then, when I want to
launch it during the presentation I press the Tab key to select
the action button and press the Enter key to activate the action
button. The audience never sees the button selected because the
Tab key puts a very faint box around the action button to
indicate it is selected. It is a seamless way to launch the
video that really adds to the presentation. When the video is
done, I close the browser by pressing Alt+F4 (which is a key
combination that closes many programs without having to use the
mouse to click on the menus). Consider how you may use this
technique to seamlessly add files from other applications to your
presentation.
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2. Forcing a PC to shut down
It is inevitable that at some point in time your PC will just
hang - stop working in the middle of what you are doing, no error
message, it just freezes. If you have had this happen to you it
is frustrating because you may lose the work you were doing. The
bigger concern is what to do if it happens. The first thing to
try is to press the Ctrl, Alt and Del key at the same time (the
easiest way to do this is to hold down the Ctrl and Alt keys and
then press the Del key). This may allow you to shut down the
problem program and restart the PC. If this does not work, then
you will have to turn the power off. The way to do this on
current PC's is to hold the power button in for 5-10 seconds
until the computer forces the power off and shuts down. Wait 30
seconds before you turn it back on. When the PC restarts, it
will likely want to check the disks to see if any damage was done
- let it do this and repair any problems it finds - rarely will
it find anything. While an episode of freezing may cost you a
few minutes of work, it can be dealt with properly. If you have
these occurrences more than once a month or so, there is probably
something more seriously wrong with your computer. Back up all
data and take it to the repair shop to find out what is wrong.
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3. Useful Resource - FinePrint
One of the features of Word 2002 and above that I use often is
the ability to print multiple pages on one sheet of paper. I
wish more applications had this feature, but many do not. There
is a utility that many have recommended that adds this capability
to all programs. It is called FinePrint and it acts as a printer
driver that you print to. It then does the work of formatting
the multiple pages onto a single sheet. It is free to try and
the banner is removed once you buy it. Check it out at
http://www.fineprint.com.
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more info.
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