Have you ever gotten one of those email attachments that are PowerPoint presentations full of glorious photos? The presentation plays automatically, but you would love to keep a few of the photos to print out for your own use. The question is -- how do you get the pictures off the slides?

See how easy it is to Create Pictures from PowerPoint Slides

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Keeping the audience focused when you are making a presentation is always a challenge. If you are using PowerPoint as your visual aid you will likely have several slides that contain bullet points. Using the dim text feature allows you to keep the current important point front and center while the previous points you have made are still visible on screen.

The Dim Text Feature in PowerPoint is one of many of the custom animation features you can use to make your PowerPoint presentation stand out.

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Transitions are the movements as one slide changes to another. PowerPoint offers a whole range of transitions from subtle to very animated. Choose your transitions so that they are the same on every slide, or each slide can have a different transition.

This video will show you how to choose a transition, adjust the speed, add sounds to the transitions and whether to advance the transition manually or automatically.

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I get asked for PowerPoint tips all the time. As you have probably noticed, I have sometimes written about specific aspects of PowerPoint from a variety of angles. For example, I have written several articles just on fonts alone.

So, in order to coordinate all these tips, I have created a sort of hub of tips which I have creatively called PowerPoint Tips Central. This is sort of a "one stop shop" for collections of tips by topic. I hope that by stopping by this page, you can branch out to the area you are most interested in and find the help you need.

And ... if you have a great tip that you have discovered, why not share it by clicking on the Comments link below?

Learning PowerPoint
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•Beginner's Guide to PowerPoint (earlier versions)
•Your First PowerPoint Presentation