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What's in This Book, Anyway? |
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What Makes This Book Special |
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Easy-to-look-up information |
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Conventions Used in This Book |
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Book I Getting Started in PowerPoint |
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Chapter 1 Introducing PowerPoint |
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PowerPoint as a Communication Tool |
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A Whirlwind Tour of PowerPoint |
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10 | (5) |
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Designing your presentation |
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Inserting tables, charts, diagrams, and shapes |
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Showing your presentation |
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Chapter 2 PowerPoint Nuts and Bolts |
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Creating a New Presentation |
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Deciding between the blank presentation and a template |
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Creating a blank presentation |
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Creating a presentation from a template |
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Starting from another presentation |
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Saving Your Presentation Files |
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22 | (4) |
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Saving a presentation for the first time |
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Telling PowerPoint where you like to save presentations |
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Saving presentations for use in earlier versions of PowerPoint |
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Saving "AutoRecovery information" |
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Navigating the Save As and Open Dialog Boxes |
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Opening and Closing Presentations |
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30 | (1) |
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Entering the Document Properties |
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Shortcut Commands Worth Knowing |
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Repeating an action - and quicker this time |
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Entering text quickly with the AutoCorrect command |
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Chapter 3 Finding Your Way around the PowerPoint Screen |
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Knowing Your Way around the PowerPoint Interface |
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37 | (7) |
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38 | (1) |
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40 | (3) |
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43 | (1) |
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PowerPoint for keyboard lovers |
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44 | (1) |
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44 | (1) |
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Getting a Better View of Your Work |
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45 | (5) |
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47 | (1) |
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Normal/Slides view: Moving from slide to slide |
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47 | (1) |
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Normal/Outline view: Fiddling with the text |
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47 | (1) |
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Slide Sorter view: Moving and deleting slides |
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47 | (1) |
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Reading View view: Proofreading slides |
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48 | (1) |
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Slide Show view: Giving a presentation |
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Notes Page view: Reading your speaker notes |
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48 | (1) |
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Black and White and Grayscale views |
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48 | (1) |
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48 | (2) |
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Hiding and Displaying the Slides Pane and Notes Pane |
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Displaying, Hiding, and Reading the Ruler |
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51 | (2) |
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Chapter 4 Planning Ahead for a Solid Presentation |
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53 | (10) |
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Formulating Your Presentation |
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54 | (1) |
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Start by writing the text |
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54 | (1) |
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Make clear what the presentation is about |
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54 | (1) |
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Start from the conclusion |
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Personalize the presentation |
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55 | (1) |
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55 | (1) |
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55 | (1) |
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Designing Your Presentation |
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55 | (5) |
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Be consistent from slide to slide |
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Choose colors that help communicate your message |
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57 | (1) |
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When fashioning a design, consider the audience |
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57 | (1) |
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58 | (1) |
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Observe the one-slide-per-minute rule |
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58 | (1) |
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59 | (1) |
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Use visuals, not only words, to make your point |
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60 | (1) |
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Delivering Your Presentation |
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Rehearse, and rehearse some more |
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61 | (1) |
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Connect with the audience |
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61 | (1) |
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Anticipate questions from the audience |
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61 | (1) |
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61 | (1) |
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Take control from the start |
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62 | (1) |
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Play tricks with the PowerPoint screen |
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62 | (1) |
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Book II Building your Presentation |
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63 | (140) |
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Chapter 1 Inserting and Handling Slides |
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65 | (20) |
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Understanding How Slides Are Constructed |
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66 | (2) |
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66 | (1) |
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Text frames and content frames |
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66 | (2) |
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Selecting the right layout |
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68 | (1) |
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Creating New Slides for Your Presentation |
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68 | (9) |
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68 | (1) |
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Shortcuts for creating slides |
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69 | (1) |
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Creating a duplicate slide |
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69 | (2) |
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Copying and pasting slides |
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71 | (2) |
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Stealing slides from other presentations |
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73 | (1) |
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Conjuring slides from Word document headings |
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74 | (3) |
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Selecting a Different Layout for a Slide |
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Dividing a Presentation into Sections |
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78 | (2) |
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Creating, naming, and removing sections |
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78 | (1) |
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Managing and manipulating sections |
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79 | (1) |
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Changing the Size and Orientation of Slides |
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80 | (1) |
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Changing the size of slides |
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80 | (1) |
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Changing the orientation of slides |
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81 | (1) |
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Selecting, Moving, and Deleting Slides |
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81 | (2) |
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81 | (1) |
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82 | (1) |
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82 | (1) |
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Hidden Slides for All Contingencies |
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83 | (2) |
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83 | (1) |
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Showing a hidden slide during a presentation |
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83 | (2) |
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Chapter 2 Handling Master Slides and Master Styles |
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85 | (16) |
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Using Master Slides and Master Styles for a Consistent Design |
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85 | (7) |
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Switching to Slide Master view |
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86 | (1) |
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Understanding master slides (the Slide Master and layouts) |
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87 | (2) |
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Understanding how master styles work |
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89 | (1) |
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Relationships between the Slide Master, layouts, and slides |
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90 | (2) |
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Ground Rules for Handling Master Slides |
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92 | (1) |
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93 | (3) |
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93 | (1) |
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Changing the layout of master slides |
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94 | (2) |
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Creating another Slide Master |
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96 | (2) |
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Restoring a Redesigned Presentation to Its Original State |
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98 | (1) |
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Reconnecting a presentation slide to its original layout |
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98 | (1) |
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Re-imposing the original design on an entire presentation |
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99 | (1) |
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Removing a Background Graphic from a Single Slide |
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99 | (2) |
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Chapter 3 Handling Slide Backgrounds |
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101 | (22) |
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Looking at Themes and Background Styles |
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101 | (2) |
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102 | (1) |
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A look at background styles |
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102 | (1) |
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103 | (3) |
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Setting the tone by your color choices |
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103 | (1) |
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Carefully selecting the background colors |
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104 | (2) |
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Making a Theme for Your Presentation |
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106 | (5) |
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106 | (2) |
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108 | (3) |
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Creating Slide Backgrounds on Your Own |
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111 | (8) |
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Using a solid (or transparent) color for the slide background |
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112 | (1) |
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Creating a gradient color blend for slide backgrounds |
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112 | (2) |
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Placing a clip-art image in the slide background |
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114 | (1) |
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Using a graphic or photo for a slide background |
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115 | (2) |
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Using a texture for a slide background |
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117 | (1) |
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Creating a pattern for slide backgrounds |
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118 | (1) |
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Changing the Background of a Single or a Handful of Slides |
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119 | (4) |
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Selecting a different theme for some of the slides |
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119 | (1) |
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Creating a different background for some of the slides |
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120 | (1) |
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Using a different background for slide layouts |
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120 | (3) |
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Chapter 4 Entering the Text |
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123 | (44) |
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Entering Text: The Basics |
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123 | (1) |
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Normal/Outline View for Reading and Editing Text |
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124 | (1) |
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125 | (4) |
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Selecting text on a slide |
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126 | (1) |
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Moving, copying, and pasting text |
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126 | (3) |
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129 | (1) |
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Changing the Look of Text |
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129 | (11) |
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130 | (4) |
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Finding and replacing fonts throughout a presentation |
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134 | (1) |
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Changing the font size of text |
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135 | (1) |
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Applying font styles to text |
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135 | (1) |
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Applying text effects to text |
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136 | (4) |
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Changing the color of text |
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140 | (1) |
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Quick Ways to Handle Case, or Capitalization |
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140 | (2) |
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Entering Symbols, Foreign Characters, Quote Marks, and Dashes |
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142 | (2) |
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Entering symbols and characters with the Symbol dialog box |
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142 | (1) |
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Handling dashes and quotation marks |
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143 | (1) |
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Correcting Typos Automatically with the AutoCorrect Command |
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144 | (3) |
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Opening the AutoCorrect dialog box |
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144 | (1) |
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Telling PowerPoint which typos and misspellings to correct |
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145 | (1) |
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Preventing capitalization errors with AutoCorrect |
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146 | (1) |
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Finding and Replacing Text |
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147 | (3) |
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Finding stray words and text |
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147 | (1) |
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Conducting a Find-and-Replace operation |
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148 | (2) |
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Correcting Your Spelling Errors |
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150 | (8) |
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Correcting misspellings one at a time |
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151 | (1) |
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Spell checking an entire presentation |
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152 | (1) |
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Fine-tuning the spell checker |
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153 | (5) |
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Researching a Topic inside PowerPoint |
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158 | (4) |
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Using the Research task pane |
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159 | (1) |
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Choosing your research options |
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160 | (2) |
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Finding the Right Word with the Thesaurus |
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162 | (1) |
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Working with Text Written in a Foreign Language |
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163 | (2) |
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Telling PowerPoint which languages you will use |
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163 | (1) |
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Marking text as foreign language text |
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164 | (1) |
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Translating Foreign-Language Text |
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165 | (2) |
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Chapter 5 Formatting Text on a Slide |
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167 | (36) |
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Putting a Text Box on a Slide |
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167 | (4) |
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168 | (1) |
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169 | (1) |
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Establishing a default text box style |
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170 | (1) |
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Using a Shape as a Text Box |
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171 | (1) |
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Turning a shape into a text box |
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171 | (1) |
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Turning a text box into a shape |
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172 | (1) |
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Selecting Text Boxes and Text Frames |
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172 | (1) |
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Changing the Direction of Text |
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173 | (1) |
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Controlling How Text Fits in Text Frames and Text Boxes |
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174 | (3) |
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Choosing how PowerPoint "autofits" text in text frames |
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175 | (2) |
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Choosing how PowerPoint "autofits" text in text boxes |
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177 | (1) |
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Positioning Text in Frames and Text Boxes |
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177 | (6) |
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Aligning text in frames and text boxes |
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178 | (1) |
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Indenting text in text frames and text boxes |
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179 | (4) |
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Aligning Text with Tab Stops |
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183 | (4) |
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Changing the tab settings |
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185 | (1) |
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Creating tab settings with the ruler |
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185 | (1) |
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Creating tab settings with the Tabs dialog box |
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185 | (1) |
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Adjusting and removing tab stops |
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186 | (1) |
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Handling Bulleted and Numbered Lists |
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187 | (5) |
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Creating a standard bulleted or numbered list |
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187 | (1) |
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Removing bullets and numbers from lists |
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188 | (1) |
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Choosing a different bullet character, size, and color |
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188 | (2) |
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Choosing a different list-numbering style, size, and color |
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190 | (1) |
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Making sublists, or nested lists |
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191 | (1) |
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Fine-Tuning the Text Layout |
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192 | (5) |
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Adjusting the space between lines and paragraphs |
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192 | (2) |
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194 | (1) |
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Adjusting the space between characters |
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195 | (1) |
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Changing the internal margins of a text frame or box |
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196 | (1) |
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Putting Footers (and Headers) on Slides |
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197 | (6) |
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Some background on footers and headers |
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198 | (1) |
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Putting a standard footer on all your slides |
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198 | (1) |
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Creating a "nonstandard" footer |
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199 | (1) |
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Removing a footer from a single slide |
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200 | (3) |
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Book III Communicating with Tables, Charts, and Diagrams |
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203 | (86) |
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Chapter 1 Constructing the Perfect Table |
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205 | (20) |
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205 | (1) |
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206 | (2) |
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Entering the Text and Numbers |
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208 | (1) |
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Selecting Different Parts of a Table |
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209 | (1) |
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Aligning Text in Columns and Rows |
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210 | (1) |
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Merging and Splitting Cells |
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211 | (1) |
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212 | (3) |
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Changing the size of a table, columns, and rows |
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212 | (1) |
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Adjusting column and row size |
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213 | (1) |
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Inserting and deleting columns and rows |
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213 | (1) |
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214 | (1) |
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Changing the size of cell margins |
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214 | (1) |
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215 | (4) |
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Designing a table with a table style |
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216 | (1) |
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Calling attention to different rows and columns |
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217 | (1) |
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Decorating your table with borders and colors |
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217 | (2) |
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219 | (6) |
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Changing the direction of header row text |
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219 | (1) |
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Using a picture as the table background |
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220 | (2) |
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Drawing diagonal lines on tables |
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222 | (1) |
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223 | (1) |
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Wrapping slide text around a table |
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223 | (2) |
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Chapter 2 Putting a Chart on a Slide |
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225 | (42) |
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A Mercifully Brief Anatomy Lesson |
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225 | (2) |
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The Basics: Creating a Chart |
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227 | (2) |
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229 | (16) |
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Ground rules for choosing a chart |
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230 | (1) |
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Examining the different kinds of charts |
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231 | (14) |
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Providing the Raw Data for Your Chart |
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245 | (6) |
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Entering data in an Excel worksheet |
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246 | (4) |
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250 | (1) |
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Updating a chart with new data |
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250 | (1) |
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Changing a Chart's Appearance |
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251 | (8) |
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251 | (1) |
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Changing the shape of a chart |
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252 | (1) |
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Relying on a chart style to change appearances |
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252 | (1) |
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Changing the layout of a chart |
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252 | (4) |
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256 | (1) |
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Changing a chart element's color, font, or other particular |
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257 | (2) |
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Saving a Chart as a Template So That You Can Use It Again |
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259 | (1) |
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Saving a chart as a template |
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260 | (1) |
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Creating a chart from a template |
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260 | (1) |
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Chart Tricks for the Daring and Heroic |
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260 | (4) |
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Decorating a chart with a picture |
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261 | (1) |
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261 | (2) |
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Displaying the raw data alongside the chart |
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263 | (1) |
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263 | (1) |
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Creating an overlay chart |
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263 | (1) |
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Converting 97-2003 Charts to PowerPoint 2010 Charts |
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264 | (1) |
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265 | (2) |
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Chapter 3 Putting Diagrams on Slides |
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267 | (22) |
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The Basics: Creating SmartArt Diagrams |
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267 | (2) |
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Creating the Initial Diagram |
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269 | (2) |
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270 | (1) |
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Swapping one diagram for another |
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271 | (1) |
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Changing the Size and Position of a Diagram |
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271 | (1) |
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Laying Out the Diagram Shapes |
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272 | (6) |
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Selecting a diagram shape |
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272 | (1) |
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Removing a shape from a diagram |
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273 | (1) |
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Moving diagram shapes to different positions |
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273 | (1) |
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Adding shapes to diagrams apart from hierarchy diagrams |
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273 | (1) |
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Adding shapes to hierarchy diagrams |
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274 | (1) |
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Adding shapes to Organization Charts |
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275 | (2) |
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Promoting and demoting shapes in hierarchy diagrams |
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277 | (1) |
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Handling the Text on Diagram Shapes |
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278 | (2) |
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Entering text on a diagram shape |
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278 | (1) |
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Entering bulleted lists on diagram shapes |
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279 | (1) |
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Changing a Diagram's Direction |
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280 | (1) |
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Choosing a Look for Your Diagram |
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280 | (2) |
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Changing the Appearance of Diagram Shapes |
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282 | (2) |
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Changing the size of a diagram shape |
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282 | (1) |
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Exchanging one shape for another |
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282 | (1) |
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Changing a shape's color, fill, or outline |
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283 | (1) |
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Changing fonts and font sizes on shapes |
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284 | (1) |
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Creating a Diagram from Scratch |
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284 | (1) |
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Writing Equations with the Equation Editor |
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285 | (4) |
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Launching the Equation Editor |
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285 | (1) |
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286 | (1) |
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287 | (2) |
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Book IV Embellishing Your Slides with Graphics and Shapes |
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289 | (86) |
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Chapter 1 Drawing Shapes, Lines, and Other Objects |
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291 | (18) |
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The Basics: Drawing Lines and Shapes |
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291 | (2) |
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293 | (8) |
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Drawing a straight line (or arrow) |
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293 | (1) |
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Changing a line's length and position |
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294 | (1) |
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Changing a line's appearance |
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295 | (1) |
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Attaching and handling arrowheads |
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296 | (1) |
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Drawing and editing arcs and curved lines |
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297 | (3) |
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Freeform and scribble drawing |
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300 | (1) |
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Connecting Shapes with Connectors |
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301 | (2) |
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302 | (1) |
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Attaching a connector to a different shape |
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302 | (1) |
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303 | (1) |
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Drawing Rectangles, Ovals, Stars, and Other Shapes |
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303 | (2) |
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304 | (1) |
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Changing a shape's symmetry |
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305 | (1) |
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Exchanging One Shape for Another |
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305 | (1) |
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Using a Shape as a Text Box |
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306 | (1) |
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WordArt for Bending, Spindling, and Mutilating Text |
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307 | (2) |
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307 | (1) |
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308 | (1) |
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Chapter 2 Managing and Manipulating Objects |
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309 | (28) |
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The Basics: Manipulating Lines, Shapes, Art, Text Boxes, and Other Objects |
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309 | (2) |
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Selecting Objects So That You Can Manipulate Them |
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311 | (2) |
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Laying Out Objects with the Grid, Drawing Guides, and Rulers |
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313 | (3) |
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Displaying the grid and drawing guides |
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314 | (1) |
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Telling PowerPoint how tight to make the grid |
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314 | (1) |
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Creating and moving drawing guides |
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315 | (1) |
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Displaying and hiding the rulers |
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316 | (1) |
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Changing an Object's Size |
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316 | (1) |
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"Eye-balling it" with the selection handles |
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317 | (1) |
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Entering Height and Width measurements |
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317 | (1) |
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Changing an Object's Proportions |
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317 | (1) |
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Positioning Objects on a Slide |
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318 | (2) |
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318 | (1) |
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Positioning objects by way of the dialog box |
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319 | (1) |
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320 | (1) |
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When Objects Overlap: Choosing which Appears above the Other |
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320 | (2) |
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Controlling overlaps with the Bring and Send commands |
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321 | (1) |
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Controlling overlaps with the Selection and Visibility pane |
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322 | (1) |
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Rotating and Flipping Objects |
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322 | (1) |
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Tricks for Aligning and Distributing Objects |
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323 | (3) |
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323 | (2) |
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Distributing objects so that they are equidistant |
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325 | (1) |
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Changing an Object's Color, Outline Color, and Transparency |
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326 | (5) |
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How PowerPoint handles object color |
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326 | (1) |
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Filling an object with a color, picture, or texture |
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327 | (1) |
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Making a color transparent |
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328 | (1) |
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Putting the outline around an object |
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329 | (1) |
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330 | (1) |
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Grouping Objects to Make Working with Them Easier |
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331 | (1) |
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332 | (1) |
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Ungrouping and regrouping |
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332 | (1) |
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Putting a Third Dimension on an Object |
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332 | (2) |
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Letting PowerPoint do the work |
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332 | (1) |
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Building the third dimension on your own |
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333 | (1) |
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Putting a Shadow on an Object |
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334 | (3) |
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Chapter 3 Decorating Slides with Graphics and Photographs |
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337 | (28) |
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All about Picture File Formats |
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337 | (3) |
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Bitmap and vector graphics |
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338 | (1) |
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339 | (1) |
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339 | (1) |
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340 | (1) |
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Choosing File Formats for Graphics |
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340 | (1) |
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The All-Important Copyright Issue |
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341 | (1) |
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Inserting a Picture on a Slide |
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342 | (1) |
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343 | (8) |
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Softening and sharpening pictures |
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345 | (1) |
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Correcting a picture's brightness and contrast |
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345 | (1) |
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346 | (1) |
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Choosing an artistic effect |
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347 | (1) |
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Selecting a picture style |
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348 | (1) |
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Cropping off part of a picture |
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348 | (2) |
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350 | (1) |
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Compressing Pictures to Save Disk Space |
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351 | (1) |
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Using Graphics as Backgrounds |
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352 | (4) |
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Using a picture in the background |
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352 | (1) |
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Using a graphic as background for text |
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353 | (3) |
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Putting Together a Photo Album |
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356 | (3) |
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Creating your photo album |
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356 | (3) |
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Putting on the final touches |
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359 | (1) |
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359 | (1) |
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Using Microsoft Office Picture Manager |
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359 | (6) |
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Mapping the graphic files on your computer |
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360 | (1) |
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Displaying the graphic file you want to work with |
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361 | (1) |
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361 | (4) |
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Chapter 4 Decorating Slides with Clip Art |
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365 | (10) |
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365 | (1) |
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Inserting a Clip-Art Image in a Slide |
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366 | (1) |
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Tinkering with a Clip-Art Image's Appearance |
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367 | (1) |
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Handling Media Files with the Clip Organizer |
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368 | (7) |
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Knowing your way around the Clip Organizer |
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368 | (1) |
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Locating the media file you need |
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369 | (2) |
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Inserting a media file into a PowerPoint slide |
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371 | (1) |
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Storing your own files in the My Collections folders |
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371 | (4) |
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375 | (72) |
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Chapter 1 Taking Advantage of Transitions and Animations |
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377 | (38) |
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Comparing Transitions and Animations |
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377 | (1) |
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Showing Transitions between Slides |
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378 | (2) |
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Assigning transitions to slides |
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379 | (1) |
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Troubleshooting transitions |
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380 | (1) |
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A Short but Sweet Animation Primer |
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380 | (6) |
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381 | (2) |
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Choosing which slide elements to animate |
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383 | (1) |
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Choosing an animation and animation effect |
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383 | (1) |
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Defining the order of animations |
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384 | (1) |
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Deciding when elements are animated |
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384 | (2) |
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The Quick Way to Animate a Slide |
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386 | (1) |
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Advanced Techniques for Animating Slides |
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387 | (23) |
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387 | (1) |
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Using the Animations tab and Animation pane |
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387 | (3) |
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390 | (2) |
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Changing and scrapping animations |
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392 | (1) |
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392 | (3) |
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Animating text frames and text boxes |
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395 | (3) |
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Hiding elements and changing their color after animation |
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398 | (1) |
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Motion paths for moving elements across a slide |
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399 | (4) |
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Playing choreographer with animations |
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403 | (5) |
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Starting an animation with a trigger |
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408 | (2) |
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Playing Sounds along with Animations |
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410 | (1) |
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Suggestions for Animating Slides |
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411 | (4) |
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Animating bulleted and numbered lists |
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411 | (1) |
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Changing elements' size as they move |
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412 | (1) |
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Building a slide one element at a time |
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412 | (1) |
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Animating different parts of a chart |
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413 | (2) |
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Chapter 2 Making Video Slides |
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415 | (12) |
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415 | (2) |
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Understanding how video files strain your computer |
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415 | (1) |
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Understanding video file formats |
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416 | (1) |
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417 | (1) |
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417 | (3) |
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Inserting a video on a slide |
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418 | (1) |
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Inserting a video that isn't compatible with PowerPoint |
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419 | (1) |
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Starting and Pausing a Video during a Presentation |
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420 | (1) |
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Fine-Tuning a Video Presentation |
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421 | (2) |
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423 | (1) |
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Adding Spice to Your Video Presentation |
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424 | (3) |
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Adjusting the size of the video screen |
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424 | (1) |
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Putting a border and poster frame on a video |
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425 | (2) |
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Chapter 3 Making Audio and Music a Part of a Presentation |
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427 | (20) |
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Ways to Include Sound in a Presentation |
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427 | (1) |
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A Word about Audio File Formats |
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428 | (1) |
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Finding Audio Files on the Internet |
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429 | (1) |
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Marking Slide Transitions with Sound |
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429 | (2) |
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Assigning a transition sound to a slide |
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429 | (2) |
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Fine-tuning transition sounds |
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431 | (1) |
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Inserting Audio Files in Presentations |
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431 | (11) |
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Inserting an audio file in a slide |
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432 | (1) |
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Telling PowerPoint when and how to play an audio file |
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433 | (1) |
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Playing audio after a few seconds have elapsed |
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434 | (2) |
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Playing an audio file as several slides appear |
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436 | (1) |
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Getting the audio from a CD |
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436 | (3) |
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Playing a string of audio files |
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439 | (3) |
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Starting, Pausing, and Resuming an Audio File |
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442 | (1) |
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Recording a Voice Narration for PowerPoint |
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442 | (5) |
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Testing your computer's microphone |
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443 | (2) |
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Recording a voice narration in PowerPoint |
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445 | (2) |
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Book VI Giving a Presentation |
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447 | (64) |
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Chapter 1 Giving an In-Person Presentation |
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449 | (16) |
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Rehearsing and Timing Your Presentation |
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449 | (3) |
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Putting on the Finishing Touches |
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452 | (1) |
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Showing Your Presentation |
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452 | (4) |
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Starting and ending a presentation |
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452 | (1) |
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Going from slide to slide |
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453 | (2) |
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Switching to another program during a presentation |
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455 | (1) |
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456 | (2) |
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Wielding a pen or highlighter in a presentation |
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456 | (1) |
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Hiding and erasing pen and highlighter markings |
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457 | (1) |
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458 | (1) |
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Making Use of Blank Screens |
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458 | (1) |
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Customizing Shows for Particular Audiences |
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459 | (3) |
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Assembling slides for a custom show |
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459 | (1) |
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460 | (1) |
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461 | (1) |
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Summarizing PowerPoint Presentation Techniques |
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462 | (3) |
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Chapter 2 Speaker Notes and Handouts |
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465 | (12) |
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What Are Notes and Handouts? |
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465 | (1) |
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466 | (4) |
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466 | (1) |
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Editing your notes in Notes Page view |
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467 | (1) |
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The Notes Master for formatting notes pages |
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468 | (2) |
|
Providing Handouts for Your Audience |
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470 | (3) |
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Printing an Outline Version of Your Presentation |
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473 | (1) |
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Printing Slides, Handouts, and Notes Pages |
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473 | (4) |
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473 | (1) |
|
Examining the Print options |
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474 | (2) |
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Getting around in the Preview area |
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476 | (1) |
|
Chapter 3 Creating a Self-Running Presentation |
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477 | (6) |
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Good Uses for Self-Running Presentations |
|
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477 | (1) |
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Challenges of a Self-Running Presentation |
|
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478 | (1) |
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Deciding How Long to Keep Slides On-Screen |
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479 | (2) |
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Entering time periods yourself |
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479 | (1) |
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480 | (1) |
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Telling PowerPoint that Your Presentation Is Self-Running |
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481 | (1) |
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Starting and Ending a Self-Running Presentation |
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482 | (1) |
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Chapter 4 Creating a User-Run Presentation |
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483 | (18) |
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What Is a User-Run Presentation? |
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483 | (2) |
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Uses for User-Run Presentations |
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485 | (1) |
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Challenges of a User-Run Presentation |
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485 | (2) |
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Helping viewers understand how to run the presentation |
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485 | (2) |
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Fitting action buttons on slides |
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487 | (1) |
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Preventing a presentation from stalling |
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487 | (1) |
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Making Yours a User-Run Presentation |
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487 | (1) |
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Action Buttons vs. Hyperlinks |
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488 | (1) |
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Action Buttons for Going from Slide to Slide |
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489 | (5) |
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491 | (1) |
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Repairing, removing, and reshaping action buttons |
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492 | (1) |
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Creating your own action button |
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492 | (1) |
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Placing action buttons on a master slide |
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493 | (1) |
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494 | (5) |
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Creating a hyperlink to a slide |
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494 | (1) |
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Creating a hyperlink to a Web page |
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495 | (1) |
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Hyperlinking to a file in another program |
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496 | (1) |
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Creating an e-mail hyperlink |
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497 | (1) |
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Repairing and removing hyperlinks |
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498 | (1) |
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Making Sure That Your Presentation Doesn't Stall |
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499 | (2) |
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Chapter 5 Alternative Ways to Distribute Presentations |
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|
501 | (10) |
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Putting On the Finishing Touches |
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501 | (1) |
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Locking a File with a Password |
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502 | (2) |
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Password-protecting a presentation |
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503 | (1) |
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Removing a password from a presentation |
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503 | (1) |
|
Sending Your Presentation in an E-Mail Message |
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504 | (1) |
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Packaging Your Presentation on a CD |
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505 | (2) |
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Packaging a presentation on a CD |
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505 | (2) |
|
Playing a packaged presentation from a CD |
|
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507 | (1) |
|
Creating a Presentation Video |
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507 | (4) |
|
Book VII PowerPoint for Power Users |
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511 | (48) |
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Chapter 1 Customizing PowerPoint |
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513 | (12) |
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513 | (5) |
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Displaying and selecting tab, group, and command names |
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515 | (1) |
|
Moving tabs and groups on the Ribbon |
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515 | (1) |
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Adding, removing, and renaming tabs, groups, and commands |
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515 | (2) |
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Creating new tabs and groups |
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517 | (1) |
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Resetting your Ribbon customizations |
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517 | (1) |
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Customizing the Quick Access Toolbar |
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518 | (3) |
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Adding buttons to the Quick Access toolbar |
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518 | (1) |
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Changing the order of buttons on the Quick Access toolbar |
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519 | (1) |
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Removing buttons from the Quick Access toolbar |
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520 | (1) |
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Placing the Quick Access toolbar above or below the Ribbon |
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520 | (1) |
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Customizing the Status Bar |
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521 | (1) |
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522 | (3) |
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Chapter 2 Creating a Presentation Design for Your Company |
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525 | (12) |
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Creating a Template for Your Presentation Designs |
|
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525 | (1) |
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Making Your Company Colors Part of the Design |
|
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526 | (4) |
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Finding out a color's RGB or HSL setting |
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527 | (2) |
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Employing a company color in a PowerPoint design |
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|
529 | (1) |
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Making Your Company's Fonts Part of the Design |
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530 | (1) |
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531 | (1) |
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Creating Slide Layouts for Your Template |
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531 | (2) |
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Creating a new slide layout |
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532 | (1) |
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533 | (1) |
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Including Boilerplate Content in the Slide Design |
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533 | (1) |
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Telling Co-Workers How to Use Your Template |
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534 | (3) |
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Loading a template on a computer |
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535 | (1) |
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Creating a presentation from a template |
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|
535 | (2) |
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Chapter 3 Collaborating with Others on a Presentation |
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537 | (6) |
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Comments for Critiquing Others' Work |
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537 | (3) |
|
Writing and editing a comment |
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538 | (1) |
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Reading and reviewing comments |
|
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539 | (1) |
|
Cleaning comments from a presentation |
|
|
539 | (1) |
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Sharing Slides in a Slide Library |
|
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540 | (3) |
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Reusing slides from a slide library |
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542 | (1) |
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Chapter 4 Linking and Embedding for Compound Presentations |
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543 | (10) |
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543 | (3) |
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544 | (1) |
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545 | (1) |
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Uses for object embedding |
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546 | (1) |
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Pitfalls of object linking and embedding |
|
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546 | (1) |
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Embedding Data from Other Programs on a PowerPoint Slide |
|
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546 | (3) |
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547 | (2) |
|
Editing an embedded object |
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549 | (1) |
|
Linking a PowerPoint Slide to a Source File |
|
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549 | (4) |
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550 | (1) |
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551 | (1) |
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Editing data in the source file |
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551 | (1) |
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Converting a linked object to an embedded object |
|
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552 | (1) |
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Chapter 5 Automating Tasks with Macros |
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553 | (6) |
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553 | (1) |
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Displaying the Developer Tab |
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554 | (1) |
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Managing the Macro Security Problem |
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554 | (2) |
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556 | (1) |
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Running a Macro from a Button on the Quick Access Toolbar |
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556 | (1) |
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557 | (2) |
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