Finding and Replacing Words or Phrases

If you need to quickly find every occurrence of a certain word or phrase within your presentation or on even just one slide, you will find the commands you need on the Home tab. By typing the word or phrase you want to find, you can have PowerPoint 2007 search the entire presentation and highlight every occurrence of the word or phrase it finds. You can easily quit the process by clicking the Close button whenever you want. You can locate and change specific text in a presentation...

Adding a Text Box to a Slide

A typical PowerPoint slide lets you type text in the Title text box or the Subtitle text box. When you type text in the Title or Subtitle text box, the contents appear as slide titles and subheadings within Outline view. However, PowerPoint also offers you a third option for displaying text on a slide: You can create your own text box and place it anywhere on the slide. When you create your own text box and fill it with text, this text will not appear within Outline view. The...

Common PowerPoint Problems and Solutions

The perils of PowerPoint stem (ironically) from how easy it is to use PowerPoint. Microsoft made PowerPoint work so much like Word and Excel (as far as the logical interface and look are concerned) that more people than Microsoft ever imagined are using PowerPoint! To accommodate the growing number of novice users, Microsoft created the concept of content templates. These enable you to create everything from a science fair presentation to a tent card and everything in between. As a...

Controlling How Text Fits in Text Frames and Text Boxes

When text does not fit in a text placeholder frame or text box, PowerPoint takes measures to make it fit. In a text frame, PowerPoint shrinks the amount of space between lines and then it shrinks the text itself. When text does not fit in a text box, PowerPoint enlarges the text box to fit more text. PowerPoint handles overflow text as part of its AutoFit mechanism. How AutoFit works is up to you. If, like me, you do not care for how PowerPoint enlarges text boxes when you enter the...

Understanding the New PowerPoint XML Format

Not that you particularly need to know it if you do not share presentations with others, but PowerPoint 2007 presentations are formatted using XML (Extensible Markup Language), not the binary file format of previous PowerPoint versions. A markup language is a computer language, or set of codes, that determines how text, graphics, colors, and all else is displayed on a computer screen. You may have heard of HTML (Hypertext Markup Language). HTML is the markup language that Web browsers...

Creating a New Presentation

When you start PowerPoint, the program creates a new, blank presentation just for you. You can make this bare-bones presentation the starting point for constructing your presentation, or you can get a more sophisticated, fully realized layout and design by starting with a template. A template is a starter file for creating a presentation. Each presentation is founded on a template. Each presentation inherits its colors, designs, fonts, and slide layouts from the template on which it...

Displaying Records in Multiple Columns Using PHP

For this article, i have selected a table members, containing each member's pic and some other text detail. The members will be shown in multiple columns as shown in the picture below. The technique is to use 2 loops (one nested inside the other). The outter loop creates rows and the inner loop creates columns. The only thing we have to take care of is the inner loop creates equal number of columns for each row. If there are no more records the inner loop should print a blank column....

Multiply in Excel

Multiplication is essential in Excel. Luckily it is extremely easy. To multiply numbers or cells in Excel, we must use a basic formula. All Formula’s in Excel begin with “=” Multiplication is essential in Excel.  Luckily it is extremely easy. To multiply numbers or cells in Excel, we must use a basic formula.  All Formula’s in Excel begin with “=” The asterisk “*” is used as the multiplication symbol between cells. In...

Location-aware search with Apache Lucene and Solr

Location, location, location! Just as location is king in real estate, search plus location awareness can yield significant dividends in helping users effectively and efficiently find information. For instance, if you are a business-directory provider (such as a "Yellow Pages" site), when a user searches for a plumber, the site should return results for plumbers near the user's home. If you run a tourism site, you might want to allow travelers to search for places of interest near their...

Help With Modify Commands

Basic Modify Commands Here we'll cover the modify tools, which give us control over simple shapes we have created. As the name suggests - we can modify drawing elements. This is what the modify toolbar looks like (if you don't see it, check the modify box in 'view - toolbars'): The modify tools (from left to right): Erase, Copy, Mirror,...