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| Here are some Power Pointers, changes to the default settings found under ‘Preferences’, which will help force PowerPoint to do what you want. Preferences is found under the Apple menu with PowerPoint open, and is located under the Tools menu on a PC. Graphics are Mac screenshots, but ideas also apply to PCs. |
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| To avoid the annoying red and green wiggly lines that appear constantly, go to Prefs>Spelling and deselect ‘Check spelling as you type’. |
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| Under Preferences>View, uncheck ‘Project Gallery at Startup’ and you avoid being asked if you want to make a student planner. | 
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| If that Gallery really is helpful, then close Preferences and click on the ‘Customize’ tab in the Gallery and select exactly what you want to see on PPT start-up. | 
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| Also useful is to end each presentation with a black slide rather than show your desktop |
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Ever create a PPT with sound and lost the sound when you went to present at another computer? Under Prefs>General, set the ‘Link sounds with file size greater than XX KB’ to a large value such as 9999KB. |
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Under the Prefs>general>movie options: set PowerPoint Movie dimensions, add a soundtrack, loop the movie, and even add credits. Now when you save your PowerPoint presentation as a movie, these settings will be in place, the movie will have the new default settings applied. |
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Prefs>general>Web Options allows you to select to add Notes to the Web Page. |
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To avoid losing your work, set Auto recovery for every so many minutes. When your computer crashes, simply restart and open PowerPoint and your last auto save will open (hopefully). |
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In preferences>Web Options>Appearance, set the default view for your presentation saved for Web, choose the colors for text, Navigation buttons, and Button placement. |
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'Intel Inside' used to be a Government warning
on PCs, until the chip appeared inside a Macintosh running OS X. |
The Mac lab now features ten new Intel iMacs ready for workshops on iLife ’06 (April 26, 2006) and Video editing and DVD production (February 27, May 8, 2006). Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Photoshop Elements, Dreamweaver are cross-platform so files can be exchanged easily between Macs and PCs. |
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