How to Make PowerPoint Image Slideshow

Question:

My dad is making a PowerPoint Presentation that consists of images of my grandfather for his birthday. He has 150 slides that he has arranged in chronological order by year. I would like to know if there is any way you can import all the images at once and create individual slides for each of them without having to individually import every picture one-by-one and making a new slide for each.

Solution:

Actually we can handle this problem with an ease. Maybe you have not noticed one function of PowerPoint (for all versions) yet, which is called "Photo Album".
With this function, you can easily create a photo album, with one photo on one slide with a single mouse click.

First, run your PowerPoint, in the toolbar you will find "Insert", click it, and choose "Photo Album" below.



Second, in the pop up window, click "File/Disk" button



Third, another window show up, find the folder where your photos are, select them all, click "Insert" on the lower right corner.



That's it, an individual slide is created for each of the photos.

How to Add a MP4 Video into PowerPoint 2007

As we know Office PowerPoint provides us a "Insert" function to add picture, music and video into PowerPoint slide. Many people like to add short videos to make the PPT more attractive. But the video format supported by PowerPoint is limited. The best formats that all PowerPoint versions can support are AVI and WMV, which are created by Microsoft itself.

But if you want to add a MP4 video to PowerPoint, which is the representative of High definition videos, you have to check your PowerPoint version first.

For PowerPoint 2003 or below, there is no way to add a MP4 video.

For PowerPoint 2010, you can directly click "Insert" to add MP4 video to PowerPoint slide.

However, the PowerPoint 2007 is special that I need to explain it in detail.
Though you cannot click "Insert" to add a MP4 video directly, there is another way.

Step 1: Enable control.

Because the default state in PowerPoint 2007, the control function is hidden, we need to enable it firstly as follows:

1. Left click" office button" in PowerPoint 2007

2. Hit" PowerPoint options" to open it

3. In the open box, select" Popular" tab, check the option that "Show developer tab in the ribbon", at last click" OK".



Return to the PowerPoint edition interface, there will be a new option-"developer" on the toolbar.

Step 2: How to Insert a MP4 video

1.Click" developer" button to enter its menu layout

2. Select" More controls" button in " control" area, there will pop up a dialogue box



3. In the dialogue box, select" Windows Media Player", click" OK" to close the dialogue box. Then the mouse will become"+".

4. Drag the mouse, the player interface of Windows Media Player will appear in the PPT.

5. Select the player interface, right click, select" properties", a dialogue box will pop up.



6. Input the path and name of video file in" URL" option.

7. Close" properties" window, and you have inserted the MP4 video successfully.

When playing the MP4 video that is inserted into the PowerPoint, you have full control options such as play, pause, volume or stop.

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How to Turn PPSX to PPTX

Today when we I was wandering on the Internet. I find someone ask about how to turn a PPS file back to PPT so they can edit it. Because when you double click on it, it will directly open as a show, and at the end, it will quite, you have no option to choose. They said it won't work if directly change the suffix .pps back to .ppt.
Yes, I have save a PPT file to PPS before, but vice versa, I don't have the experience. As a curious man, I tried for a while and finally find out that: if your PPT is make in PowerPoint 2003, you can directly change the suffix.But for PowerPoint made in 2007 with PPSX or PPTX format,it doesn't work. Now I want to share with all of you. It is quite simple actually.

The simplest Method 1:
1. Run PowerPoint, click "Open"



2. Find the correct path of the PPS file
3. Click "OK", it will be opened just like PPT
4. "Save as" to a PPT format.

Another Method which I find first:
1. Run PowerPoint
2. Drag the PPS file into PowerPoint, you will see the PPS file will like a picture
3. Right click on it, choose "Presentation Object" --> then choose "Open"



Now, a new PowerPoint window will pop up, and that is a PPT file, you don't have to "Save as", it is a PPT file now.

Easy, isn't it? There are thousands of small tips and skills when using PowerPoint, as long as we learn more, we will find PowerPoint easy and interesting.

How to Add Music to PowerPoint 2007 and Playing Across Slides

Many people asked the question on how to add music to PowerPoint 2007 and at the same time the music can play across the entire PowerPoint slides.

To add music to PowerPoint 2007 is quite easy, I think almost all of us know how. And to make it play repeatedly, all we need to do is to make a few further settings.

For most of the tutorials are about PowerPoint 2003, I will tell you how to make it in PowerPoint 2007, which is a little different, from the very beginning.

Step 1: Insert the music to your PowerPoint
From the toolbar, “Insert” > “Sound” > “Sound from File”








Then in the popup window, choose a song and click “OK”







You will then get a message about how do you want the music to start in the slide show.







Step 2: (The main part) Settings to make the music play across the slides
“Animation” on the toolbar > “Custom Animation” > Right click on the music and select “Effect Options”







You will need to set when the music stops in “Stop Playing” > “After number slides”, set the number as the last slide to enable the music to play across the whole PPT.







Step 3: Finally, embed the music into the PowerPoint 2007
You need to enlarge the file size setting of PowerPoint 2007, click the round Office button > “PowerPoint Options” > choose “Advanced” in the pop up window > find the “Save” option on the right > set the max file size in “Link sounds with greater file size than” box, the number should be bigger than the file size of the music.







The only thing is that the file size of the final PPT file could be quite large.

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How to Reverse Text in PowerPoint

Question: How to reverse text in PowerPoint?

For some instances, we may want to put a line of text upside down or vertical. Actually it is a quite useful skill to make the PowerPoint more flexible and appealing. How to make it? Please follow me.

Step 1: After open your PPT file, select the line you want to reverse, and there will come up "Format" option on the toolbar.



Step 2: Click "Format", find the "Rotate" below, click it, there are five options, choose "Flip Vertical" for example, you will see the line as the picture shows below.



Step 3: Click "More Rotation Options" to make advanced adjustment. For example, set the "Rotation" as "165°", the text will show as follows.



Have a try and make a wonderful PPT by yourself.

How to Add Bookmarks in PowerPoint 2007

PowerPoint is widely used in our daily life, whether you are trying to make a presentation in class, give a speech to public, or introduce our products in business affairs, you will use it. Someone suggest a good PowerPoint contains no more than 10 slides. But most of the time, a PowerPoint may contain 10 to 20 slides and several chapters. It is a good way to create a menu to organize it and build a shortcut to each chapter or return to the main menu.

Adding bookmarks in PowerPoint makes it possible. Here takes PowerPoint 2007 as an example to show how to do that. The basic idea is to create hyperlinks between the slides.

Step 1: After creating the menu for your PowerPoint, select the sub-title, right click, choose "Hyperlink"




Step 2: In the pop up window, choose "Place in This Document", and there will be the list of all the slides on the right, select the one you want to link to and press "OK".



Step 3: Create a shortcut back to main menu.

Repeat the steps talked above, you can make a great bookmark in PowerPoint 2007.
If you prefer graphical hyperlinks, you may put a bookmark on an image. First insert an image and then right click on the image and choose "Hyperlink" in the same way as for text above.



Easy, isn't it? Don' t hesitate, make one for yourself!

How to Make Your Resume Looks Good

When you are finding a job, the resume is the first thing the employer can get to know you. Basically, a resume is a brief overview of your experience and skills putting together to sell yourself as one of the best choices for a prospective employer to interview. It initiates the process of introducing yourself to the employer. So the quality of your resume determines the whole job hunting process. Some may say the most important is that you have the true knowledge and ability to do the job well, which unfortunately cannot be judged unless you have got that job.

The content is the most important of your resume, but it doesn’t mean the more you write the better your resume will be. I recommend the resume to be no more than 2 pages. Basically, your resume should include the following information.



(1) First of all, you need to put your complete contact information on top. That includes: full name, full address, phone number, and E-mail.

(2) Open your resume with your education. Include all the schools that you have attended and your GPA. Do not put anything below middle high-school.

(3) After education, list all your previous job experiences and the volunteer experience that you had and any special awards or honor rolls. This is the most important part of your resume. If you have much experience, remember to keep it concise if you want to list them all. Or you can pick a few and illustrate them in some detail.

Another thing to bear in mind is to make it easy to read. You should choose the right background color, font and page structure. Take a reference of the successful resume samples on the Internet will help you a lot. One thing you should not forget is to make it look good after printed on papers.

Usually the resume is created in Word, Excel, or Photoshop. It is fine if you make it in Photoshop, for the resume is saved as an image, and it will look quite nice after printing. For those who make resume in Word or Excel, I suggest you save it as a PDF file, for one thing you never know what version of word or Excel processor your recipient is using. For another, a PDF file will look much better than Word or Excel after printing.

That’s it. As long as your resume is informational and looks good, it will absolutely impress the employer and more job opportunities will come to you.

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What Should We Learn From the Japan Earthquake – Preparedness

A massive 9.0 magnitude earthquake hit the Pacific Ocean nearby Northeastern Japan, 130 km from Tokyo, at around 2:46pm on March 11 causing huge damage with blackouts, fire and tsunami and even the nuclear leak in Fukushima.

We all know Japan is a country confronts lots of earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis for its unique geological location. Ever since the Great Hanshin Earthquake which happened in January 1995 in Kobe city, killed 6,000 and injured 415,000 people, the Japanese government has made great efforts to educate the whole nation about how to survive in an earthquake and improve the infrastructure, such as the quality of the buildings, the prediction and alert system of earthquakes.

These efforts finally pay off. We can see how the Japanese unify to pass through this disaster with great discipline. Also much fewer victims than Sichuan Earthquake in 2008 has been reported even though the 1 million Sendai city is right on the corner of the epicenter.

If people can make enough preparation in our daily life and education system before earthquake happens, much more lives can be saved. There are many such information on the Internet, in various forms, while the PowerPoint may be the most informational and easy making. But it is not convenient to view PowerPoint, for a computer or Internet is needed. If the PowerPoint can be burnt to DVD discs, people can watch it and learn the basic survival tips anytime anywhere, all the need are DVD player and TV, which is quite common used. How nice will it be!

To burn PowerPoint to DVD is not difficult indeed. Let’s take a look at how to do it.

Step 1: Import the PowerPoint file
After launch Moyea PPT to DVD Burner, click "Add" button on the left to add PowerPoint file to the program.



Step 2: Output Video Options
Click "Next" to the output video options interface. "Norm" refers to the TV standard for your DVD output. Generally, NTSC applies to American users while PAL applies to European users. If you are not sure which one it should be, click "Help" to check it.



Click "Advanced Settings" to further adjust the "Slide Size", "video Layout", "video Quality", and conversion status for your DVD output, if necessary.



Step 3: Choose a right DVD menu or create your own
Choose the preset menu style or create a new menu by click "Menu Design".



In the pop up window, click each specific tab in the frame to make a change like background fill, button styles, icon styles and frame colors.



Step 4: Add background music
The Music feature gives you an alternative to sound inserting in PowerPoint. Click "Add Music" to add a favorite song as the background music.



Step 5: Burn PPT to DVD
Click "Start" button to enjoy the super conversion of PPT to DVD.



After burning PowerPoint to DVD, people can sit back toward a TV, and watch the PowerPoint-made DVD with their families and friends easily. With more earthquake knowledge and sufficient preparedness, there will be fewer casualties in the earthquake disaster.

How to Embed a Video into PowerPoint 2007

Summary: 2 easy ways to insert video (movie) into PowerPoint 2007, play video in PowerPoint 2007.

With video inserted into PowerPoint can surely add attraction to PowerPoint presentation.

In this article, I will introduce two methods on "How to insert a video into PowerPoint 2007".

Method 1: Direct insertion

Step 1: On the "Insert" tab, point to "Movies", and then click "Movie from File".



Step 2: Click the video you want to use and then click "OK".

Step 3: After you click OK, you' are promoted with a message asking how you want the movie to start in the slide show. I recommend you choosing "Automatically "even if you want the movie to play when clicked. And that's done.

Tips:
1. This is the easiest way to insert a video.
2. When playing the video that is inserted in this way in the PowerPoint, it only shows the video thumbnail, and only has two control options: play or stop. So you can't select the playing time freely.
3. Only video in formats of AVI, MPEG and WMV can be inserted in this way.
4. Always put the movie in the same folder as your PowerPoint presentation.If you later move the PowerPoint presentation to another computer, copy the movie too. Keeping your movie in the same folder as your presentation ensures the link will still work. However, you should always test the movie on a new machine just to be certain. Re-insert the movie, if necessary.

Method 2: Windows Media Player Insertion

If you want to view the video in PowerPoint just like viewing in Windows media player, you can try this insertion method.

Step 1: Enable control. Because the default state in PowerPoint 2007, control function is hidden, we need to enable it firstly as follows:
1. Left click" office button" in PowerPoint 2007
2. Hit" PowerPoint options" to open it
3. In the open box, select" Popular" tab, check the option that "Show developer tab in the ribbon", at last click" OK".
Return to the PowerPoint edition interface, there will be a new option-"developer" on the toolbar.



Step 2: Insert videos.
1. Click" developer" button to enter its menu layout
2. Select" More controls" button in " control" area, there will pop up a dialogue box



3. In the dialogue box, select" Windows Media Player", click" OK" to close the dialogue box. Then the mouse will become"+".
4. Drag the mouse, the player interface of Windows Media Player will appear in the PPT.
5. Select the player interface, right click, select" properties", a dialogue box will pop up.
6. Input the path and name of video file in" URL" option.
An example of a file name is as follows:
C\:My video.avi
7. Close" properties" window, and you have inserted the videos successfully.

Tips:
1.This methods needs more options to insert a video.
2.When playing the video that is inserted in this way in the PowerPoint,it is actually playing in Windows Media Player,thus full control options are available: play, pause, volume or stop. So you can select the playing time freely.

PowerPoint to iPad 2 - 5 Methods to View PowerPoint on iPad 2

Steve Jobs has announced the release of iPad 2 on March 2, news say the sale of iPad 2 will begin on March 11. Are you ready for an iPad 2? Once you get an iPad 2, you may have the desire to use it for presenting your great PowerPoint Presentations to your clients, friends and family members. However, PowerPoint presentation can't be used on iPad directly, to solve the problems, there are some simple ways to have your PowerPoint slideshows displayed on your iPad 2. Let's walk through the following 5 methods to show you how to view PowerPoint presentation on iPad 2.




Method 1: Export PowerPoint slides as images

Images can be viewed on the iPad 2 with the embedded slideshow photo viewer on iPad 2. The most common supported image formats by iPad 2 are JPG, BMP, GIF, and PNG. The following steps will guide you on how to save PowerPoint slides as images.

For PowerPoint 2007:

1. Start up PowerPoint, and open up the presentations. Click the Office button ->” Save As” ->” Other Formats”.
2. At the pop-up window, select the Save As type, for example, choose JPG, and click "Save". When PowerPoint asks whether you want to export all slides, select "Every Slide".
For PowerPoint 2003 & 2010:

1. Start up PowerPoint, click “File” -> “Save As”.
2. In the “Save as type” menu, choose “GIF” for example, and click “Save”, When PowerPoint asks whether you want to export all slides, select “Every Slide”.

Now you can import the slide pictures to your iPad 2. The limitation of this method is that animations, transitions, and sound and video clips will be lost.

Method 2: Convert PowerPoint to video formats for playing on iPad 2

The iPad 2 provides excellent support for video playback. By converting PowerPoint to iPad 2 video formats, you can watch the PowerPoint slides on your iPad 2 easily. Also, you can upload it to video sharing sites like YouTube so that you can watch it online. Many PowerPoint to video converters provide the smart feature to convert PowerPoint presentation to iPad supported video formats, like M4V, MP4, MOV. Take Moyea PPT to Video Converter for example. In 3 steps, your PowerPoint can be converted to an iPad 2 supported video formats.

1. Install the PowerPoint to video converter and import the presentations that you want to convert. Bath converting is available.
2. Select an output video format you need. You can also customize video profile parameters to be perfect fit.
3. Click "Start" to convert the presentation to video.

I prefer this method for it is lossless, the PowerPoint presentation displayed on iPad 2 is exactly the same as the original.

Method 3: View PowerPoint on iPad 2 as PDF files

The iPad 2 can read PDF files using a few programs designed for iPad such as CloudReaders or Easy PDF. You can use the FREE Moyea PPT to PDF Converter to transfer PowerPoint to PDF. Just like images, all the animation, transitions, the audio and video clips will disappear.

Method 4: View PowerPoint on iPad 2 via PPT sharing sites


The PPT sharing sites like authorSTREAM.com and DocStoc.com enables you to display PowerPoint presentation online. Take DocStoc.com for example, for viewing your PowerPoint on iPad 2, you can upload your PowerPoint on DocStoc.com. When you open the URL provided by DocStoc.com on iPad 2, you can view your presentation normally which has been converted to the iPad 2 compatible format. You can also download your presentations as video, and view them on iPad 2. It will preserve the animations of the presentation but not the audios and videos.

Method 5: View PowerPoint on iPad 2 using Keynote

If you have Keynote installed on your iPad 2, you can open a PowerPoint file within Keynote, then use the Keynote functions to play your presentation.
Third party programs like MightyMeeting also let you view your presentation on your iPad 2. This application stores your PowerPoint presentations in the cloud and you can share them in online meetings and discussions from the web, tablet, or smart phone.

All the 5 methods above can help you view PowerPoint presentations on iPad 2, which one do you prefer?

Funny Quotations for Enjoying Women's Day

Events are scheduled to take place in more than 100 countries around the world on March 8, 2011, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day. In this happy moment, why not enjoy some funny women quotes and don't miss out on Groucho Marx's cunning twist in the quote, "Women should be obscene and not heard."
• What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.
  ~Lord Byron
• One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
  ~Oscar Wilde
• Man has will; but woman has her way.
  ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
• Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a station wagon.
  ~Tim Allen
• When women go wrong, men go right after them.
  ~Mae West
• What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce.
  ~Mark Twain
• Despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, I have not yet been able to answer the great question that has never been answered:What does a woman want?
  ~Sigmund Freud
• When I have one foot in the grave, I will tell the whole truth about women. I shall tell it, jump into my coffin, pull the lid over me and say, 'Do what you like now'.
  ~Leo Tolstoy
• Women should be obscene and not heard.
  ~Groucho Marx
• Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.
  ~Charlotte Whitton
• I love women. They're the best thing ever created. If they want to be like men and come down to our level, that's fine.
  ~Mel Gibson
• A woman is like a tea bag - you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.
  ~Eleanor Roosevelt
• To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.
  ~Helen Rowland
• My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being: hitting my head on the top bunk until I faint.
  ~Erma Bombeck
• Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
  ~Alfred Lord Tennyson
• Women are like elephants to me. I like to look at them, but I wouldn't want to own one.
  ~W. C. Fields
• Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
  ~Friedrich Nietzsche
• I have an idea that the phrase "weaker sex" was coined by some woman to disarm some man she was preparing to overwhelm.
  ~Ogden Nash
• It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.
  ~Mignon McLaughlin
• A woman is like a tea bag. She only knows her strength when put in hot water.
  ~Nancy Reagan
• If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
  ~Aristotle
• I hate women because they always know where things are.
  ~James Thurber
• A woman knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.
  ~Malcolm de Chazal
• Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions.
  ~Jules Michelet
• The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.
  ~Freya Stark

How to Use Firefox to Download YouTube Videos for PowerPoint

YouTube is so popular with millions of videos that everyone can find what he needs. The only inconvenience is that we cannot download it directly. Fortunately the great minds always come up with the solutions.

There are many free video download software available, like Leawo Free YouTube Downloader, or free web services to download and convert YouTube videos for PowerPoint, like http://vixy.net/.

Since Firefox is such a popular web browser for its features of speed, security and customization, I’d prefer to introduce 5 add-ons of Firefox to help you quickly download YouTube videos for FREE. Then you can convert the video and import it into PowerPoint.

After you installed the Firefox, run it, click “Tools” on the toolbar, on the dropdown menu, choose “Add-ons”.



In the popup window you can search and install the following add-ons to download YouTube videos freely.



1. Ant Video Downloader and Player
With the Ant Video Downloader, you can download video from Youtube or any other streaming site. Rare are the sites you will not be able to download from. After installing Ant Video Downloader and Player, you can see it on the statusbar, when you watch a video on YouTube, the button “Download” will twinkle, click it and the video will be downloaded to your computer.



2. UnPlug
UnPlug scans web pages and tells you where media players are getting their data from, and allows you to easily save the media file. The icon of UnPlug will be at the statusbar, click it, the link of the video will be decrypted, click “Download” to start downloading.



3. Download Helper
An easy way to download and convert web videos from hundreds of YouTube-like sites. This works also for audio and picture galleries. Find your video on YouTube, the icon of Download Helper will be twinkling, click the tiny triangle button on the right, on the drop down menu, you can click on the links to download the video.



4. NetVideoHunter Video Downloader
This addon is a download helper tool that let you easily download videos and music from almost any video-sharing site. Click the incon and a window will come up, press the “Download” button to get the video you want.



The four add-ons above are plug-ins created by people all over the world, it enables user to change Firefox to meet their needs, while the following makes it possible for changing the function of the web pages.

5. Greasemonkey + Scripts
Greasemonkey is an add-on of Firefox, unlike others, it is a small platform to be more precisely. It could only work when a script is installed. Many people use this add-on because of the high customization it brings, and the scripts can be quite small while powerful. Many scripts could download videos from YouTube, just to name a few: Download from YouTube, Download YouTube Videos as MP4, YouTube Video Download, etc.. By using this method, a download button will directly added to the web page for you.



Of course there are hundreds more add-ons which can download videos from YouTube, here just picks up the most popular ones. It’s up to you which one you will choose. After downloading the videos to your computer, the video converter can help you to import the any video formats into PowerPoint.