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Quick Tour of PowerPoint 2010

Tom — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 20:28:00 +0000

I get a lot of questions about PowerPoint 2010. Personally, I think it’s pretty slick. There are a lot of new features. In fact, I’m starting to put together some simple tutorials on PowerPoint 2010. I’ll have them listed soon.

You can always check out this blog post where I discuss a recent free PowerPoint 2010 webinar: Become a PowerPoint 2010 Rock Star!

Some of the things I cover in the screencast tour below:

sleeker interface
access recent files quickly
customize the PowerPoint ribbon
insert slide sections
paste as image option
capture and insert screenshots
insert math equations
sophisticated audio and video features
new design themes
improved slide transitions
smoother animations
animation painter
animation interface has changed
share a link and broadcast your PowerPoint slide shows
translation feature
links to OneNote pages
reading view for quick preview
able to open multiple PowerPoint files
alignment guides for objects on the slide

Watch tour of PowerPoint 2010’s new features:

Click here to view the PowerPoint 2010 tour.

I’ll be adding some free tutorials soon. If you have any specific questions, feel free to ask.

Become a PowerPoint 2010 Rock Star!

Tom — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 04:46:33 +0000

Doing a presentation tomorrow on some PowerPoint 2010 features. You can access the webinar via the Training Magazine network. They’ll have an archive of the presentation. You can also see the previous presentation on PowerPoint.

Here’s a link to the free PowerPoint 2010 resources I share with a bunch of tutorials and helpful links.

How to Generate Random Text in PowerPoint

Tom — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:09:00 +0000

There are a lot of times when I need some quick placeholder text. I used to go to this site to get the “lorem ipsum” text that I could copy and paste in my slide. The problem is that you have to be online and the extra steps it takes to generate, then copy and paste the text.

Now you can generate your own placeholder text in PowerPoint.

Here are the steps to generate random text:

Create a text box.
Type in =rand() and hit enter. That will generate some random text.
For more paragraphs or sentences, just add numbers in between the parenthesis. For example =rand(3,10) will generate 3 paragraphs with each containing 10 sentences.

In PowerPoint 2010, you can type in =lorem() and it will generate the random lorem ipsum text instead of the “quick brown fox.”

Click here to view the tutorial.