Comments on: PowerPoint (that’s right, PowerPoint) to the Rescue

By: satellite

satellite — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:33:53 +0000

Thanks,very interesting and useful post

By: Lee Potts

Lee Potts — Fri, 30 May 2008 12:59:13 +0000

That’s a great trick. It always amazes me how few people know that one.

My favorite trick is setting a lines height to 0 to make it perfectly horizontal. That’s a good one for everyone stuck fixing up the slides of someone who didn’t know to hold down the Shift key while drawing the line in the first place.

By: Lee Potts

Lee Potts — Fri, 30 May 2008 10:59:13 +0000

@ Daan: I agree that there are a lot of really bad presentations being made out there, but I really believe things are getting better and the business world, in general, is waking up to the fact that it has to do better.

That's a great trick. It always amazes me how few people know that one.

My favorite trick is setting a lines height to 0 to make it perfectly horizontal. That's a good one for everyone stuck fixing up the slides of someone who didn't know to hold down the Shift key while drawing the line in the first place.

By: Daan

Daan — Fri, 30 May 2008 07:57:34 +0000

Powerpoint is being improved. Now how about its users?

Here’s my favourite trick:

Key in a number and hit enter.
You jump straight to the desired slide, without having to sift through the right-click menu, or leaving the presentation altogether.
Of course, this does require you to know which slide has which number, but that you can find out while preparing.

By: Daan

Daan — Fri, 30 May 2008 05:57:34 +0000

Powerpoint is being improved. Now how about its users?

Here's my favourite trick:

Key in a number and hit enter.
You jump straight to the desired slide, without having to sift through the right-click menu, or leaving the presentation altogether.
Of course, this does require you to know which slide has which number, but that you can find out while preparing.