Introduction |
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What You Don't Need to Read |
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How This Book Is Organized |
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Part I: Basic PowerPoint 2007 Stuff |
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Part II: Creating Great-Looking Slides |
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Part III: Embellishing Your Slides |
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Part IV: Working with Others |
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Part I: Basic PowerPoint 2007 Stuff |
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Welcome to PowerPoint 2007 |
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What in Sam Hill Is PowerPoint? |
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Introducing PowerPoint Presentations |
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12 | (1) |
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Navigating the PowerPoint Interface |
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The View from Here Is Great |
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Creating a New Presentation |
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20 | (1) |
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20 | (1) |
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21 | (1) |
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Moving from slide to slide |
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22 | (1) |
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Displaying Your Presentation |
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24 | (1) |
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25 | (1) |
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27 | (1) |
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28 | (1) |
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Moving from Slide to Slide |
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30 | (1) |
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Resizing or moving an object |
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32 | (2) |
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34 | (1) |
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Using Cut, Copy, and Paste |
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Using the Clipboard Task Pane |
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Oops¡ I Didn't Mean It (The Marvelous Undo Command) |
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38 | (1) |
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Rearranging Your Slides in Slide Sorter View |
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42 | (3) |
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45 | (6) |
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Selecting and Editing an Entire Slide |
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Selecting and Editing One Paragraph |
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47 | (1) |
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Promoting and Demoting Paragraphs |
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47 | (1) |
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48 | (1) |
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49 | (1) |
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Collapsing and Expanding the Outline |
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Proofing Your Presentations |
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Checking Spelling As You Go |
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Spell Checking After-the-Fact |
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53 | (2) |
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55 | (1) |
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56 | (1) |
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Using the AutoCorrect Feature |
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57 | (4) |
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61 | (6) |
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62 | (1) |
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Adding an Extra Notes Page for a Slide |
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Adding a New Slide from Notes Page View |
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65 | (1) |
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66 | (1) |
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Displaying Notes on a Separate Monitor |
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66 | (1) |
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67 | (16) |
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68 | (1) |
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Using the Print Dialog Box |
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68 | (4) |
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69 | (1) |
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Printing part of a presentation |
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69 | (1) |
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Printing more than one copy |
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70 | (1) |
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Exploring the other printing options |
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71 | (1) |
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Using the Print Preview Command |
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72 | (1) |
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73 | (1) |
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73 | (2) |
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75 | (1) |
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Keyboard and Mouse Tricks for Your Slide Show |
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Scribbling on Your Slides |
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77 | (2) |
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Rehearsing Your Slide Timings |
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79 | (1) |
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80 | (3) |
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80 | (1) |
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81 | (1) |
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82 | (1) |
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83 | (4) |
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83 | (1) |
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Finding Your Way Around in Help |
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84 | (2) |
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Getting Help on the Internet |
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86 | (1) |
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Part II: Creating Great-Looking Slides |
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All about Fonts and Text Formatting |
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Changing the Look of Your Text |
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Two ways to apply formatting |
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Changing the size of characters |
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92 | (1) |
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Adding color to your text |
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93 | (1) |
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94 | (1) |
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Big Picture Text Formatting |
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94 | (7) |
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95 | (1) |
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96 | (2) |
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98 | (1) |
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99 | (1) |
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100 | (1) |
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101 | (1) |
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Creating Fancy Text with WordArt |
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101 | (4) |
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105 | (14) |
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Looking at the Design Tab |
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105 | (1) |
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106 | (1) |
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107 | (7) |
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108 | (1) |
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109 | (3) |
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112 | (1) |
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113 | (1) |
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114 | (5) |
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115 | (2) |
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Using other background effects |
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117 | (2) |
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119 | (14) |
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119 | (1) |
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120 | (2) |
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Animating Text with Entrance and Exit Effects |
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122 | (1) |
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Customizing Your Animation |
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Understanding custom animation |
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123 | (2) |
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125 | (3) |
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More about animating text |
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128 | (1) |
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129 | (3) |
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Masters of the Universe Meet the Templates of Doom |
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133 | (2) |
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Modifying the Slide Master |
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Working with the Slide Master and Edit Master tabs |
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Adding recurring text or other elements |
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Applying themes to your Masters |
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Adjusting the Handout and Notes Masters |
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140 | (2) |
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Changing the Handout Master |
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Changing the Notes Master |
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142 | (2) |
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Overriding the Master text style |
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143 | (1) |
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Hiding background objects |
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143 | (1) |
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Using Headers and Footers |
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144 | (2) |
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Adding a date, number, or footer to slides |
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144 | (2) |
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Adding a header or footer to notes or handouts pages |
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Editing the header and footer placeholders directly |
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146 | (1) |
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Yes, You Can Serve Two Masters |
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Creating a new Slide Master |
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147 | (1) |
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148 | (1) |
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149 | (1) |
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Restoring Lost Placeholders |
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150 | (1) |
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151 | (2) |
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Creating a presentation based on a template |
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151 | (1) |
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152 | (1) |
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Part III: Embellishing Your Slides |
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Inserting Pictures and Clip Art |
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155 | (16) |
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Exploring the Many Types of Pictures |
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155 | (3) |
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156 | (1) |
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157 | (1) |
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158 | (3) |
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Dropping in some clip art |
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158 | (2) |
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Moving, sizing, and stretching clip art |
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160 | (1) |
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Getting clip art from the Internet |
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161 | (1) |
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Inserting Pictures from a File |
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161 | (3) |
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Adding Style to Your Pictures |
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165 | (3) |
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166 | (2) |
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Applying a picture border |
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168 | (1) |
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168 | (1) |
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More Things You Can Do with Pictures |
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168 | (3) |
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Some General Drawing Tips |
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171 | (2) |
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172 | (1) |
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Sticking to the color scheme |
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Drawing rectangles, squares, ovals, and circles |
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175 | (1) |
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176 | (6) |
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177 | (2) |
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Drawing a polygon or free-form shape |
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Drawing a curved line or shape |
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180 | (2) |
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182 | (1) |
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182 | (2) |
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Setting the shape outline |
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183 | (1) |
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183 | (1) |
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Flipping and Rotating Objects |
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184 | (2) |
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184 | (1) |
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Rotating an object 90 degrees |
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184 | (1) |
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185 | (1) |
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Drawing a Complicated Picture |
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186 | (5) |
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186 | (1) |
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187 | (1) |
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Using the grids and guides |
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188 | (1) |
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188 | (3) |
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Charting for Fun and Profit |
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191 | (18) |
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191 | (2) |
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Adding a Chart to Your Presentation |
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193 | (5) |
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Adding a new slide with a chart |
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193 | (4) |
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Adding a chart to an existing slide |
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197 | (1) |
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Pasting a chart from Excel |
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198 | (1) |
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198 | (1) |
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199 | (4) |
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Switching rows and columns |
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200 | (1) |
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Changing the data selection |
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201 | (1) |
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202 | (1) |
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Changing the Chart Layout |
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203 | (1) |
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203 | (1) |
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204 | (5) |
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209 | (12) |
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209 | (2) |
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Creating a SmartArt Diagram |
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211 | (2) |
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Tweaking a SmartArt Diagram |
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213 | (2) |
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Editing the SmartArt Text |
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215 | (1) |
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Working with Organization Charts |
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216 | (5) |
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218 | (1) |
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219 | (1) |
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Changing the chart layout |
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219 | (2) |
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Lights¡ Camera¡ Action¡ (Adding Sound and Video) |
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221 | (14) |
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Getting Ready to Add Sound to a Slide |
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221 | (5) |
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Investigating sound files |
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222 | (1) |
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223 | (3) |
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Playing a Sound Over Several Slides |
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226 | (2) |
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Playing a Track from a CD |
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228 | (1) |
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229 | (2) |
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Adding Video to Your Slides |
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231 | (4) |
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More Things to Insert on Your Slides |
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235 | (18) |
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Creating a table in a Content placeholder |
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235 | (2) |
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Inserting a table on a slide |
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237 | (1) |
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238 | (2) |
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Applying style to a table |
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240 | (1) |
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Working with the Layout tab |
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241 | (2) |
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243 | (2) |
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245 | (3) |
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Creating a hyperlink to another slide |
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246 | (1) |
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Creating a hyperlink to another presentation |
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247 | (1) |
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248 | (5) |
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248 | (1) |
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249 | (1) |
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250 | (1) |
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Creating a navigation toolbar |
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251 | (2) |
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Part IV: Working with Others |
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253 | (42) |
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Using PowerPoint's Collaboration Tools |
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255 | (6) |
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255 | (2) |
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257 | (1) |
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Packaging Your Presentation on a CD |
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258 | (3) |
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261 | (14) |
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Creating a My Network Places Shortcut to Your SPS Site |
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262 | (4) |
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Accessing a SharePoint Site |
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266 | (1) |
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267 | (8) |
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Retrieving a presentation from a document library |
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271 | (1) |
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Adding a presentation to a document library |
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272 | (1) |
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273 | (2) |
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Using a Slide Library and Other Ways to Reuse Slides |
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275 | (8) |
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Stealing Slides from Another Presentation |
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275 | (3) |
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Saving Slides in a Slide Library |
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278 | (1) |
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Stealing Slides from a Slide Library |
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279 | (4) |
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Creating a Video Presentation with Microsoft Producer |
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283 | (12) |
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Introducing Microsoft Producer |
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283 | (2) |
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Creating a Producer Presentation |
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285 | (5) |
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290 | (1) |
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Saving and Publishing a Presentation |
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291 | (2) |
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293 | (2) |
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295 | (26) |
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Ten PowerPoint Commandments |
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297 | (4) |
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Thou Shalt Frequently Savest Thy Work |
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297 | (1) |
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Thou Shalt Storeth Each Presentation in Its Proper Folder |
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297 | (1) |
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Thou Shalt Not Abuseth Thy Program's Formatting Features |
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298 | (1) |
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Thou Shalt Not Stealeth Copyrighted Materials |
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298 | (1) |
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Thou Shalt Abideth by Thine Color Scheme, Auto-Layout, and Template |
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298 | (1) |
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Thou Shalt Not Abuse Thine Audience with an Endless Array of Cute Animations |
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298 | (1) |
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Keep Thy Computer Gurus Happy |
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299 | (1) |
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Thou Shalt Backeth Up Thy Files Day by Day |
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299 | (1) |
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Thou Shalt Fear No Evil, for Ctrl+Z Is Always with Thee |
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299 | (1) |
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299 | (2) |
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Ten Tips for Creating Readable Slides |
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301 | (4) |
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Try Reading the Slide from the Back of the Room |
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301 | (1) |
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301 | (1) |
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No More Than Five Bullets, Please |
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302 | (1) |
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Avoid Excessive Verbiage Lending to Excessively Lengthy Text That Is Not Only Redundant but Also Repetitive and Reiterative |
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302 | (1) |
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302 | (1) |
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303 | (1) |
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Keep the Background Simple |
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303 | (1) |
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Use Only Two Levels of Bullets |
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303 | (1) |
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Keep Charts and Diagrams Simple |
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304 | (1) |
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Ten Ways to Keep Your Audience Awake |
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305 | (4) |
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Don't Forget Your Purpose |
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305 | (1) |
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Don't Become a Slave to Your Slides |
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305 | (1) |
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Don't Overwhelm Your Audience with Unnecessary Detail |
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306 | (1) |
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Don't Neglect Your Opening |
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306 | (1) |
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306 | (1) |
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Don't Forget the Altar Call |
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307 | (1) |
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Practice, Practice, Practice |
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307 | (1) |
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307 | (1) |
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308 | (1) |
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308 | (1) |
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Ten Things That Often Go Wrong |
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309 | (4) |
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309 | (1) |
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I've Run Out of Hard Drive Space |
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309 | (1) |
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310 | (1) |
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310 | (1) |
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I Accidentally Deleted a File |
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310 | (1) |
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It Won't Let Me Edit That |
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311 | (1) |
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Something Seems to Be Missing |
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311 | (1) |
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What Happened to My Clip Art? |
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311 | (1) |
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I Can't Figure Out Where the X-Y-Z Command Went |
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312 | (1) |
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The Projector Doesn't Work |
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312 | (1) |
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Ten Best New Features of PowerPoint 2007 |
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313 | (8) |
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313 | (1) |
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314 | (1) |
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315 | (1) |
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316 | (1) |
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316 | (1) |
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317 | (1) |
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317 | (1) |
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317 | (1) |
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318 | (1) |
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318 | (1) |
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