Wayne's Microsoft BlogPowerPoint and OfficeArt funCompany Store- April 27, 2004 ActiveWin has up some pictures of the Microsoft company store. One of the nice benefits of working at Microsoft is being able to buy software at a nice discount. I was so in awe of the prices when I first went that I bought all this stuff I never use. I think I still have an unopened mouse somewhere in the back of my closet at home. It's a common Microsoft myth that employees get the software all for free though.http://blogs.msdn.com/waynekao/archive/2004/04/27/121264.aspx Nudging- April 22, 2004 Need to move a shape or a picture into an exact position but can't get it positioned just right using the mouse Nudging lets you move something a tiny distance so you can get it positioned precisely the way you want. How to nudge a shape: Click the shape (the shape, picture, diagram, etc.) once. On your keyboard, hit an arrow key to move it up, down, left, or right. For more precision, hold down Ctrl while you're hitting the arrow keys and you can move pixel by pixel. Some exceptions: This.http://blogs.msdn.com/waynekao/archive/2004/04/22/118017.aspx OneNote SP 1- April 21, 2004 A preview of OneNote Service Pack 1 is out on the web. For those who haven't heard, OneNote is a cool new note-taking application released last year as part of Office 2003. Most service packs only contain bug fixes since companies don't like surprise features and don't want to have to retrain everyone every time they deploy a service pack. So, this Office service pack that includes updates for OneNote and InfoPath, and the upcoming Windows XP SP 2 update, are notable in that they include.http://blogs.msdn.com/waynekao/archive/2004/04/21/117341.aspx Programming Jokes- April 20, 2004 The only good programming joke I know: My other car is a cdr. As you may know, car and cdr are from LISP. People are getting pretty sick of hearing this one from me though. What's your favorite programming joke Know of any good programming joke sites As a side note, how do you pronounce "cdr" "coo-der" or "could-er"http://blogs.msdn.com/waynekao/archive/2004/04/20/116573.aspx PowerPoint Viewer Requires Installation- April 16, 2004 Mike Niedringhaus and I had a short thread yesterday about whether the PowerPoint Viewer really requires installation. I claimed in my previous post that it didn't. Mike insisted that you had to either install PowerPoint or install the Viewer. Turns out we were both sort of right.http://blogs.msdn.com/waynekao/archive/2004/04/16/114479.aspx Frontpage Isn't Just For Novices Anymore- April 15, 2004 The last version of Frontpage I used was Frontpage 2.0 back in... 1997 Lisa Wollin, a Microsoft programmer writer, nicely summed up some of my Frontpage complaints on her blog yesterday: When I write code, I want it to look the way I formatted it to look because I did it ON PURPOSE. When I put in a line break, I want a line break. When I DON&8217;T put in a line break, I DON&8217;T want a line break. Very simple, but FrontPage just didn't get it. This, of course, is a very simplistic...http://blogs.msdn.com/waynekao/archive/2004/04/15/113690.aspx Presenter View- April 15, 2004 Another question from Superman: Can I view notes while presenting in PowerPoint Answer: If you have PowerPoint 2002 (a.k.a. PowerPoint XP) or PowerPoint 2003, you can use Presenter View. While all the audience sees if your normal slides, you the presenter can: View thumbnails of upcoming slides. Click a thumbnail to jump to a particular slide quickly. See your notes. See the elapsed time. Black out the screen (though there are other ways to do this). To set this up, your machine...http://blogs.msdn.com/waynekao/archive/2004/04/14/113665.aspx Multimedia in PowerPoint- April 13, 2004 Figuring out how PowerPoint plays movies and sounds can be perplexing to say the least. Andrew May has written two new MSDN articles on the subject: The first article talks about how PowerPoint plays your multimedia file. There are some nice flow charts that show the process PowerPoint uses to decide which media player to use. Andrew also talks about how PowerPoint picks a codec to play your multimedia. The second article for VBA programmers has lots of code showing how.http://blogs.msdn.com/waynekao/archive/2004/04/13/112090.aspx Where are the Fill Effects- April 12, 2004 Why fill your autoshapes with just a boring single color when you can do so much more In the picture below, The top rectangle has a traditional single-color fill. This is the default look that new autoshapes get. The middle rectangle has a pretty two-color gradient, going diagonally from dark blue to white. The bottom one is textured with an image. image It's all very easy to do. First create your favorite autoshape in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, or Frontpage. You can..http://blogs.msdn.com/waynekao/archive/2004/04/11/111421.aspx Slide Master- April 9, 2004 Superman asked me yesterday: In PowerPoint, I have a bunch of slides and I want to apply one font to all their titles and another font to all their body text. How do I do this without having to edit all these slides one by one The answer is a master slide. First let's create a master with the style we want: Launch PowerPoint. Create a new presentation or open an existing presentation. Go to the View menu Master Slide Master. Since we don't want this applied to every existing slide in..http://blogs.msdn.com/waynekao/archive/2004/04/09/110314.aspx |