Powerpoint Books for Dummies

Pop into any australian furniture shop  , electronic shop  or Household  ( Furniture bazaar , Harvey Norman , Myer’s etc) goods shops nowadays  and you have the option to buy now and pay later. Now  this can be quite a good option if you are  low on the $$ at the moment but  you will be able to mend all that in the short time and repay the amount. But if not beware it could be instead : "Buy now , pain later" . You would notice most shops wither give you the GE credit card option or the Hsbc Credit card option. The other good option would be  to get a normal aussie  credit card  like  ——————- and just make use of the interest free terms  and pay back the amounts immediately within the interest free period.

Me and my partner recently  got some furniture from osborne park, perth   on a GE credit card ( interest free for a year as told by the salesman)  and happily   assumed that   we could use the credit card  we got  towards interest free purchases  for a whole year towards the max amount of $5000 which was available on the credit card. we had used up $3000 towards that furniture purchase and still had  limit of $2000.

Like it or not when you sign up for this interest free term " they have sold you a credit card for that company"

Before we  rushed  to  get that new flat Screen TV we thought we should check out the  details of the credit card. Turns out  the  credit card company   would not  give interest free terms if the shop you buying  the furniture from does not have the GE interest free term  purchase scheme available with them.

The useful and usable good information we got out of that ( which is rare) is  that if the shop has that interest free terms  , then we would get the interest free term charged from the date we bought  that goods from that shop and not the previous date our card was activated ( but do check with the provider to be doubly sure ).

Now all this is good ..but remember don’t get caught in the debt cycle. i do remember a time when i very happily used my credit card to fund a overseas holiday  and ended up paying  upto $30 to 50 regularly on a monthly basis to the bank as interest which  added up to quite a bit  when i did the maths and was totally not worth it. i went  on baked beans and bread , eased out of those $3.50   take away coffees and  tightened the belt  and ultimately  paid off in 2 lump sums  and doing much better now. 

Word to the wise : "if you getting a credit card , its best to keep a close eye on it – not closed eye"

Sometimes it is difficult to keep a secret – this is one of those items I was excited about when I previewed them (yeah!) and then was told not to talk about them until Microsoft posted them (ohhh…). Well this week Microsoft Office Online has officially posted a series of PPT 2007 visual elements templates.

These really great ‘presentations’ are a series of incredible visual elements, animations and layouts – all created with PPT 2007 tools. As example one of the template decks shows how to make this graphic entirely within PowerPoint 2007!

Julie Terberg is the designer responsible for all of these effects (also a MS PowerPoint MVP). Check back as each day next week I highlight a different template deck (there are 8 in total).

- Troy @ TLC

Supposedly you are a person who works in the governmental company. And supposedly you are going to make a presentation or a seminar related to the company you are working in. you need to make a proper presentation design by using the power point software. This meant to be the best way to gain the audiences’ attention.

Supposedly – again – you are working in the Ohio state government company. And supposedly – again – you are going to use the government powerpoint slides as the media you can do the presentation. So, you will have to use the right government ppt themes to make the audiences sure about the validity of the company in where you are working in.

You can choose to use the Ohio states ppt themes as the supporting media tool of your presentation design. These themes are provided by Microsoft power point for government section. You can choose the slideshows background themes according to the state government company in where you are working in. this, once again, will serve your audiences warranty of the real existence of your company. So, what are you waiting for? Pick the right themes up, and let the audiences pay so many attentions to your presentation. Ph yeah, you may also love this Travel Powerpoint Themes, make sure take a look before you download this

Download HERE

Working on a recent project I thought this was a good example of the progression of a slide. The original speaker notes called for a slide that basically said they are ahead of the competition. Here is the slide they came up with:

During a slide review we moved to making this in to a visual that the speaker could use for an analogy. A football scoreboard was the solution. Here is what they came up with (‘they’ being the clients internal staff).

When I received the presentation to go through and clean up all slides here is the visual developed:

- All of numbers on the scoreboard were PPT WordArt (using PPT 2003) overlaid, so client can easily change to match analogy.
- Top of scoreboard was branded with client name (here I branded with TLC Creative)
- Hard to see here, but even the mascott is branded with the company initials on his hat (with TLC here)

The final slide ended up being animated with the numbers on the scoreboard (quater, score, time remaining until new product launch, etc.) changing as a quick history/timeline was presented!

- Troy @ TLC

Well, everybody knows that a presentation or a seminar aims to get the attention from the customers or the audiences for some certain company’s products or services. It is the media by which the marketing process will be operated well and done to get the successful business expansion.

But one thing that not everybody knows is that to make a proper presentation or seminar, we have to have a good design of the slideshow, especially when we use the special supporting tools of viewing the presentation’s materials. The slideshows are usually using the background themes as the looks’ supporting materials. And in certain seminar or presentation occasions, we can use the games power point templates to show the audiences our fantastic imagination.

We can try to use the Halo 3 powerpoint background as the supporting tool. We can put the Halo 3 background design in our slideshows and let the audiences stunned by it. Halo 3 ppt slides will certainly make the audiences pay their attention to what we are talking about in front of them because the slides have the ability to do so. So, what are you waiting for? Use these templates and win your audiences’ attention using them. Check also the Free Powerpoint Gif to spice up your presentation!

Download HERE

If you need some sound effect (fx) for a presentation, a great, FREE, online resource is soundsnap.com. You do need to register and then 5 downloads per month are free.

There are a lot of sound fx here and the collection seems to be continuously growing. All are free to download and royalty free for use. One of the best features is you can download almost any audio file in either .mp3 or .wav format (I prefer .wav as it can be embedded into PowerPoint).

The marketing process can be done in so many ways that are available for us to choose. And one of the ways is by doing the presentation or a seminar. By doing so, you will be able to directly transfer the information and other kinds of details right into the audiences. This will be so much efficient than other ways.

Supposedly you are a person who works in such airlines company. So you will have to do some presentation to the party you want to ask for a partnership by holding a company presentation. In order to get the proper attention from the audiences, you need to show a well designed slideshow. And this can be gained by using the right airplane power point templates.

There are so many types of vehicle powerpoint themes you can search by the internet. You can have yourself several links to get the free ppt presentation and certainly put it into the slideshows you have planned. Once you already have airplane ppt free download, everything will be just fine for you in order to have the message delivered to the audiences. So what else in the earth would stop you from having such a great design of power point presentation?

Download airlane templates here

The previous post showed how to find the security level settings in PPT 2007. Not to make things difficult, but all of the descriptions and names have changed.

In addition to the name changes, some are virtually the same and some don’t quite match up.

The HIGH and LOW settings from PPT 2003 have PPT 2007 settings that match up and accomplish the same thing:

The VERY HIGH PPT 2003 setting has been split into 2 settings in PPT 2007:

Finally the MEDIUM setting from PPT 2003 really has no equivalent in PPT 2007… And because here on ThePowerPointBlog and in PPT training programs I recommend changing the Macro Security to Medium, what do I recomend now?

I have setup all of the TLC computers and recommend (though it is not based on the same knowledge, understanding and confidence of Medium in PPT 2003) to use the 2nd setting – Disable All Macros With Notification.

- Troy @ TLC

In the business life it is usual for certain entrepreneurs to do some presentations or seminars in order to meet the needs of introducing their company’s products or services. Such meetings are also hold the role of being the way they can gather so many attention from their soon-to-be partner. So that, the parties whom will be the partner of one company can be ensured about using the products or services offered to them.

And in order to make the presentation looks great, they need to make a great attractive slideshows as well since they will be very useful in gathering the audiences’ attention. No need to be over in using so many features, just use the simple power points templates. This aims to prevent the confusions that might be able to come to the audiences. You can use the money power point templates for this purpose since the business life is very close to money.

The currency ppt themes are the simplest themes to be used as the supporting tool for your slideshows. You decide which one to use. Whether you want to pick the Dollar ppt, or customize your slideshows with the Euro money templates. Or you just like the poundsterling background for your slideshows, once again, you choose yourself.

Download HERE

When installing add-ins in PowerPoint, the macro security settings need to be lowered from the default setting of HIGH to MEDIUM or LOW. But how do you do this in PowerPoint 2007?

First the names have changed and second the where you find them is a bit difficult if you are not familiar with the new Ribbon layout.

1. Click the circle Office button in the upper left corner.
2. Click on POWERPOINT OPTIONS.

3. Go to TRUST CENTER in the left column.
4. Click on TRUST CENTER SETTINGS.

5. Adjust to needed setting, click OK and exit PowerPoint to save setting.

- Troy @ TLC