• How to Add Rotate Animation to Images in PowerPoint 2010

    Posted on January 17th, 2012 Dupont 1219 views | No comments

    You know, we can click “Insert” → “Picture” to add one image to the PowerPoint slide, or “Insert” → “Photo Album” to add multiple images to create a PowerPoint photo album with one picture on each slide. After we inserted the image into PowerPoint, it is placed in one location stagnant. We can leave it there or we can animate it. The following will show how to add the animation effect to make the image rotate on an axis when show up in PowerPoint 2010. 1. Import the image i... Read more

  • How to Set a Video as the Background in PowerPoint 2007

    Posted on December 29th, 2011 Dupont 1176 views | No comments

    Question: I am making a PowerPoint presentation using PowerPoint 2007. How can I set a video as the background without paying for extra software? You know when you have inserted a picture into PowerPoint 2007 → right click on it → choose “Send to Back” → now you have set the picture as PowerPoint background. Then you can add text, picture, animations, transitions, etc. on it. Can we do that to a video to make it as the background in PowerPoint 2007? Let’s have a try! Before that, yo... Read more

  • How to Animate Picture and Text in PowerPoint 2010

    Posted on December 20th, 2011 Dupont 1288 views | No comments

    If you want to make your PowerPoint presentation attract your audiences’ eyes, Animation is one of the best tools you should learn to use. Adding animations in PowerPoint 2010 is a bit different from previous versions for many buttons we are used to have been changed, removed or emerged into one. Basically animations are added to pictures and texts; now let’s take a look at how to animate picture and text in PowerPoint 2010. Adding Animation to Picture: Select the picture first and click ... Read more

  • How to Insert One PowerPoint File into Another PowerPoint File

    Posted on November 4th, 2011 Dupont 1597 views | No comments

    Surely you are not using Microsoft PowerPoint for the first time, and you may have inserted picture, music and video clips into PowerPoint slide for many times. But in some other situations, when you are presenting one PowerPoint but you need to refer to another PowerPoint file for details, last time we have talked about how to switch from one PowerPoint presentation to another smoothly, today you are going to learn how to insert one PowerPoint into another PowerPoint file. Step 1: Open you Pow... Read more

  • How to Add Slide Numbers in PowerPoint 2007

    Posted on October 28th, 2011 Dupont 1510 views | No comments

    When we are reading a book, we tend to keep an ey on the page numbers to follow up. Likewise, adding slide numbers can be a great way for the presenter to keep track of where they are in a presentation. Also it would be quite useful to organize the handouts when the PowerPoint slides are printed out. How to add slide numbers in PowerPoint 2007: 1.Click on the “Insert” tab and choose “Slide Number” in the “Text” section. 2.In the “Header and Footer” dialogue box, check the box... Read more

  • How to Switch from One PowerPoint Presentation to Another Smoothly

    Posted on October 27th, 2011 Dupont 1618 views | 1 comment

    In the past weeks I have attended a lot of presentations using PowerPoint on Windows. The problem is that whenever the first presenter finishes his speech, the next presenter has to close the PowerPoint, search for his own PowerPoint file and open again. Normally this would take a few minutes and the audiences begin to lose patience and get distracted. Question: What can I switch from one PowerPoint presentation to another smoothly without losing audience’s attention? The simplest way is to ... Read more

  • How to View Several PowerPoint Presentations in One Window

    Posted on October 25th, 2011 Dupont 1817 views | No comments

    Microsoft PowerPoint the most widely use presentation program for all kinds of people, no matter students, teachers, businessmen, researchers or governors. It is part of the Microsoft Office Suite. The latest version for Windows system is PowerPoint 2010 and PowerPoint 2011 for Mac system. If you have ever tried to view several PowerPoint presentations at a time, you may have noticed that only one presentation will show up, others will be placed at the background. How can you view several Power... Read more

  • How to Create Invisible Hyperlinks on a Picture in PowerPoint 2007

    Posted on October 24th, 2011 Dupont 11,794 views | No comments

    When talking about hyperlinks in PowerPoint, you would first think of adding hyperlink to certain text. Here we would like to tell you an easy and useful method to create hyperlinks on a picture using PowerPoint 2007. This would be quite suitable for an introductive PowerPoint presentation and you can use a picture as the main menu. Suppose we are going to make a PowerPoint presentation to introduce the 6 main characters in the famous TV show Friends, and we find this picture as the main menu. ... Read more