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Communicating Using Technology
Vol. 3 Issue 20 September 28, 2004
Published and Copyright by Dave Paradi
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In this issue:
Public workshop announcement
1. Turning Photos into a PowerPoint show
2. Using the arrow keys
3. AVI video editing software
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Public workshop announcement
If you are in the Greater Toronto area, and are interested in
taking your PowerPoint presentations to the next level, you will
want to mark down November 13 in your calendar. That day, I am
offering my one-day Compelling PowerPoint Presentation Makeover
course through Humber College in Toronto. You come with a
presentation you want to make better and at the end of the day
leave with a clearly structured presentation and the knowledge of
how to effectively design your slides. If you can't make it on
November 13th, I will be doing this workshop again on Jan 15 and
Apr 16, 2005. Here is the registration link (they gave the
course a different title, but it is the same workshop):
http://tinyurl.com/669fg
1. Turning Photos into a PowerPoint show
A subscriber recently asked me if there was a way to easily
create a PowerPoint show of the digital pictures from his
daughter's wedding. PowerPoint is a great way to share photos
from any special occasion. Even funeral homes are starting to
see families create self-running shows to honor a loved one.
PowerPoint 2002 and higher has a feature that makes this very
easy. In a new slide show, click on the Insert menu item, click
on the Picture menu option and click on New Photo Album from the
sub-menu. This will take you to a dialog box where you can
select pictures from your hard disk, set up each picture the way
you like it, and then when you click the Create button, it
creates a slide for each picture. Now you have a PowerPoint show
you can save and send to others or set up to run in a loop at a
family gathering. This is one of the techniques that I will be
including in a new product I am working on this fall. It is a
series of video tutorials on advanced techniques in PowerPoint.
I'd really like to hear what you think of this, so I have posted
the video tutorial for this technique on my web site as a sneak
preview for all of my subscribers. I'd ask that if you have a
moment, you go and view the tutorial, then click on the link on
that page to send me your comments. Go to:
http://www.communicateusingtechnology.com/videopreview.htm
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2. Using the arrow keys
The arrow keys are some of the most useful keys on the keyboard
that many people don't use nearly as much as they could. I was
just doing some consulting with one of my clients last Friday and
this came up again when he saw me use the arrow keys and asked
what I was doing. One use of the arrow keys is for highlighting
text in Word, PowerPoint or just about any program that includes
text. Simply use the arrow keys to navigate to where you want to
go in the document. Press and hold the Shift key down and use
the arrows keys to highlight the text you want. Then you can
apply formatting to the text, copy it, type over it or delete it.
But that's not all you can do with the arrow keys. They are also
very useful when dealing with graphical objects such as clip art,
lines, text boxes or photographs. If you want to move one of
these graphical objects, click on it with your mouse, then use
the arrow keys to move it around. If you want to move the object
pixel by pixel, you can hold the Ctrl key down and use the arrow
keys to move the object a small amount at a time. I use this
regularly in Word and PowerPoint to move a graphic into the exact
spot I want it to be in. But yes, there's more (sorry, do I
sound like a bad infomercial?). The Alt+DownArrow key
combination will drop down a list of options in a drop-down field
in a form, dialog box or web site. When doing data entry in
forms, this can save a lot of time from having to go back to the
mouse each time to drop down the list of options. There you have
it, the amazing things you can do with the arrow keys.
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to make it so compelling that people sit on the edge of their
seats listening to you? If you do, let me help you with my ten
step PowerPoint presentation consulting approach. This is way
more than just slide design, this is professional input on the
structure, design and delivery of your PowerPoint presentation.
One of my consulting clients wrote "I can confidently say my
sales have already increased as a result of this astounding
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3. AVI video editing software
If you use Windows and are starting to explore adding video to
your presentations, you will need to get video editing software
that handles AVI movies (the default video format on Windows).
There are many expensive packages out there, but I have found one
that you may want to check out. While I have not used it, I have
heard good things about it, and for the cost of the download, you
would be wise to consider it. See this site for details:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualdub/
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Would you like me to speak to your professional association
or chapter event? I am always looking for opportunities to
share my information with others and would consider speaking
to your group if you are in or near the following areas:
Rochester, NY, Buffalo NY, Detroit, MI, Cleveland, OH,
Pittsburgh, PA or Toronto, ON. Just e-mail me at:
dave@communicateusingtechnology.com for more info.
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