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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 points with bullets?
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?
How do I keep an image on Slide Master always on top?

PowerPoint in Multi-monitor Setups

See formatted notes on your laptop while the audience sees the slide show
See English presentation on my laptop while projecting the same slide show in a different language
Show multiple slide shows vertically
Use slide sorter view to navigate the slide on the slide show
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?
Edit a presentation while the slide show is running
Loop through a list of presentations on the secondary monitor while editing them on the primary monitor
Loop through a list of presentations displayed on the projector and also see the slides synchronized on the laptop
Display PowerPoint shapes over a playing video
See video/movie on a monitor and control it from another monitor
Show a ticker at the bottom of the screen while displaying the slide show
Display multiple slide shows with Matrox DualHead2Go
Display multiple slide shows synchronous with each other using Matrox DualHead2Go
Display multiple slide shows with Matrox TripleHead2Go
Display multiple slide shows synchronous with each other using Matrox TripleHead2Go
Edit different PowerPoint presentations on different monitors
Show multiple slide shows across multiple machines
Synchronize slide shows across different machines
Centrally control slide shows on different machines

PowerPoint Viewer

Use multiple monitors with PowerPoint Viewer
Run a slide show on second monitor to allow me to do my other tasks on primary monitor
Run different slide shows on different monitors using the free Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer
Run slide shows on remote machines and control them remotely

PowerPoint

How do I play a video from the middle?
How do I setup PowerPoint to play sections of a video?
How do I setup PowerPoint to play different sections of a video?
How do I start numbering slides from slide 4 onwards?
How can I setup slide transitions of less than 1 second?
How do I start a photo slide show from PowerPoint?
How do I change the position of a shape within a group?
How do I rotate a shape within a group?
How do I change color of a shape within a group?
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
Installing multiple versions on the same machine
How do I use PowerPoint 2003 for my PPT files and PowerPoint 2007 for my PPTX?
How to determine which version of Microsoft Office 2010 is installed?

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?