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

More On Photos in PowerPoint
• Compress Photos in PowerPoint 2007
• Crop Photos in PowerPoint
• B & W to Color Before Your Eyes

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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.

• More PowerPoint Videos
• Slide Transitions in PowerPoint 2007

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
•Beginner's Guide to PowerPoint 2007
•Beginner's Guide to PowerPoint (earlier versions)
•Your First PowerPoint Presentation

What is PDF format?

The acronym PDF stands for Portable Document Format and was invented by Adobe Systems over fifteen years ago. This format can be used for just about any type of document to -

• dramatically reduce the file size
• retain original formatting of document
• be able to be read by anyone, on any computer, by simply installing their free Adobe Reader

Now you can create PDF files of your PowerPoint 2007 presentations without using secondary software programs. This feature is a great resource for creating high quality print files of your slides or emailing the presentation to a colleague for review. Save PowerPoint 2007 Presentations as PDF Files

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You have just completed a lengthy PowerPoint presentation. Now you think that it would be better if this slide was placed here and that slide there. And, maybe you don't need that slide after all.

PowerPoint is such a "user friendly" program that it is very easy to delete or change the order of any or all of your slides. These quick step by step tutorials will take you through the steps for whichever version you are using.

• Add, Rearrange or Delete PowerPoint 2007 Slides


• Add, Rearrange or Delete PowerPoint Slides - (versions 2003 and earlier)

Why would you hide an object on a PowerPoint slide?

Design reasons may dictate that you do not want certain objects to appear on the slide -- for example, the sound icon that is placed on the slide when you insert music or sounds is not something that the audience generally needs to see. You can choose to hide this sound object or you may simply place a picture or clip art or other graphic object on top of it. The music will play, but the sound icon is not visible to your audience.

So, you proceed on and set timings on the graphic objects and rehearse the slide show, but then you decide that you would like the music to play over seven slides instead of the original five. The sound icon is hidden behind a picture. How do you select it to make the necessary change? Well, you will be surprised at how easy it is.
Select Hidden Objects on PowerPoint Slides

See also
• Add Music, Sounds or Narration to PowerPoint Slides
• Custom Timings and Effects for Animations
• Record and Rehearse Timings

With what seems like daily advances in technology, it had to happen that PowerPoint is now being used with an iPhone (and iPod). Did you know that you could show a whole presentation on your iPhone, or connect the iPhone to your computer monitor or -- for a big crowd -- connect it to a projector. All from that tiny, hand-held device. Read more on PowerPoint and the iPhone or iPod.

And ... if this is old news to you, perhaps you have a tip to share with others about how you have used your iPhone with PowerPoint. Weigh in and let us know your secret(s).

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The default font in any new PowerPoint 2007 presentation is Calibri, 18 pt, black, for text boxes other than the ones that are part of the default design theme such as the Title text box and Bulleted list text boxes.

If you are making a new PowerPoint presentation and do not want to have to change the font each time you add a new text box, the solution is simple. You can change the default font to any font you like, and also make multiple changes at once, such as the font style, color and size.

• Change the PowerPoint 2007 Default Font
• Change Default Font in PowerPoint - earlier versions
• Font Problems in PowerPoint

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A beautiful, classical piece of music playing softly in the background would set the mood for vacation photos as you revisit your cruise around the Greek islands in your friend's living room.

Or, how about adding the sound of a revving motor as your PowerPoint presentation shows a demo of your newest car at a trade show?

Both of these things can be accomplished by simply adding a music file or a sound effect to your presentation. Read more about Adding a Sound File in PowerPoint 2007.

More on PowerPoint 2007 Sound

• PowerPoint 2007 Sound Clip Organizer
• Play a CD Audio Track in PowerPoint 2007
• Fix PowerPoint 2007 Sound Problems

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