Category Archives: PowerPoint

How to do a Screen Recording in PowerPoint

If you are doing a PowerPoint presentation you may want to show how something works like a website or some software. You could open the website or software and switch to it during the presentation. However, that can be time … Continue reading

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Embed a YouTube Video into a PowerPoint Presentation

Switching from PowerPoint to a browser in the middle of you presentation to show a YouTube can be messy and time consuming. So wouldn’t it be better if you could just embed the YouTube video into your PowerPoint presentation? It … Continue reading

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The Trick to Moving PowerPoint Presentations from a Mac to a Windows PC

I hear this all to often “I’m not getting a Mac again as I can’t use my PowerPoint presentations on a Windows PC”. Well yes you can and the same applies from Windows to a Mac. I usually hear this … Continue reading

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Add Video to a PowerPoint Presentation

Whenever you go to a presentation it seems that most of the time they are using PowerPoint to help get their message across and adding video can certainly help. Video has certainly become easier to create even using your phone … Continue reading

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Open Favourite Documents Quickly in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access

We all have documents we use regularly and even though they conveniently appear on our recent file list we can make them even more prominent. This can be done by pinning these files in the recent files list. This is … Continue reading

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VBA: Using the IF Statement

The IF statement is one of the most important concepts to use when programming, it is simply used all the time. The IF statement helps the program make decisions based on criteria you have set. So it can decided on … Continue reading

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VBA: Understanding Variables

If you are getting into macros then you need to know about programming in Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) and with that you need to know about variables. VBA is a great tool for automating so many tasks in Microsoft … Continue reading

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Removing Timings from PowerPoint Slides

One of the nice things about PowerPoint is that you can add timings to your slides so that  they can change automatically. This is great if you just want to leave it running or if you have rehearsed your presentation … Continue reading

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How to Use Motion Paths in PowerPoint Including Custom Paths

If you have been using PowerPoint then you have probably added some animations to bullet points at the very least to add a bit of movement to your presentations. Many of us would like to do something a bit different from … Continue reading

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Syncing Office for iPad with Your Mac

If you have got Office for iPad you’ll have soon realised how useful it is and in my opinion better than the other programs that try and use Office files like Word, Excel and PowerPoint. You’ll also have noticed it … Continue reading

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