PowerPoint Tips

This section contains some of the tips and tricks that can be used with Microsoft PowerPoint. These tips and tricks are in the form of How To achieve certain things with PowerPoint.

Presentation Effects

• How to get a Continuous Swivel effect in succession on multiple shapes

• How to get a Continuous Fade In and Out effect in succession on multiple pictures

• How to get the Continuous Blend effect?
• How to get the Pulsate effect?
• How to get a circle to "draw" itself during a slide show?
• How to get a circle to "draw" itself while following an arrow-head?
• How to highlight bullets one by one?
• How to show a shape by clicking another shape?
• How to show shapes one at a time by clicking another shape?
• How do I get a mouse over kind of effect with Microsoft PowerPoint?
• How do I animate shape using keyboard?

PowerPoint in Multi-monitor Setups

• How do I see formatted notes on my laptop while the audience sees the slide show?
• How do I see the notes on my laptop while the audience sees the slide show?
• How can I see English presentation on my laptop while projecting the same slide show in a different language?
• How do I show multiple slide shows vertically?
• How do I use the slide sorter view to change the slide on the slide show?
• How do I keep PowerPoint presentations going on in multi-monitor setups?
• I have multi-monitor setup. How do I run different slide shows on each monitor and have them running simultaneously?
• How do I edit a presentation while the slide show is running?
• How do I loop a set of presentations on the secondary monitor while editing them on the primary monitor?
• How do I loop a set of presentations displayed on the projector and also see the slides synchronized on the laptop?
• I want PowerPoint Shapes to be displayed over the video on the slide. How do I get that?
• I want to see video/movie on a monitor and control it from another monitor. How do I do that?
• How do I show a ticker at the bottom of the screen while displaying the slide show?
• How do I display multiple slide shows with Matrox DualHead2Go?
• How do I display multiple slide shows synchronous with each other using Matrox DualHead2Go?
• How do I display multiple slide shows with Matrox TripleHead2Go?
• How do I display multiple slide shows synchronous with each other using Matrox TripleHead2Go?

PowerPoint Viewer

• How do I use multiple monitors with PowerPoint Viewer?
• How do I run a slide show on second monitor to allow me to do my other tasks on primary monitor?
• How do I run different slide shows on different monitors using the free Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer?
• How to I run slide shows on remote machines and control them remotely?

PowerPoint

• How do I change the position of a shape within a group?
• How do I rotate a shape within a group? (PowerPoint 2003 only)
• How do I change color of a shape within a group? (PowerPoint 2003 only)
• How do I draw half a circle in PowerPoint?
   
• How do I create keyboard shortcuts for Align Left, Align Right, Align Top, Align Bottom and other Align tools?
• How do I create keyboard shortcuts for macros?
• How do navigate back and forth through multiple open presentations when comparing them side-by-side?
   
• How do I insert a non-breaking space on slides?
• How do I insert a non-breaking hyphen on slides?
   
• How to view the slide without Outline and Notes panes?
   
• How do I directly refer to a slide within a presentation?
• How do I directly refer to a bookmark within a Word document or an Excel workbook from a presentation?
• How do I directly refer to a cell within an Excel workbook from a presentation?
   
• Where is Expand Slides menu in PowerPoint 2000 (or later)?
• How do I keep the date/time on the slide show updated?
   
• Click me if you can - demo

Tutorials

• Multiple Monitor Concepts
• Configuring Multi-Monitor on Various Display Cards

General Tips

• How do I synchronize files between my desktop and my laptop/tablet?