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In this article, Robert Lane interviews Chantal Bosse, a presentation professional offering development and training services in the province of Quebec, Canada. She specializes in visually interactive presentation techniques for improved learning and sales results and shares some of her top tips for creating great presentations, and five common mistakes that she sees in presentations.

If you work with layered items on PowerPoint slides, the Selection Pane, new in the 2007 Office release, can make that task easier. The Selection Pane lists each item on your slide so you can apply custom effects to just that item, without having to click through the layers on the slide itself. When you finish, you can preview the effects and unhide all the items — and your slide is ready to go. Watch the demo and you'll be a Selection Pane pro in no time.

To prepare you for working with PowerPoint 2007, this article introduces eight of the product's new or significantly improved features. If you’re upgrading to PowerPoint 2007 from a previous version, you’re probably most interested in the differences between the old and new versions and how they will affect you, as well as how to find out about them in the quickest possible way.

Here are the top 10 ways that PowerPoint 2007 helps you increase your productivity and improve collaboration with others.

If you want your presentation to contain more than one theme (layouts that contain colors, fonts, and effects), apply muliple slide masters to your presentation This article shows you how.

In this article, Microsoft writer Joy Miller demos how to use PowerPoint 2007 to create your own photo album slide show and download a free photo album or travel-related template from the main Office Online Templates page and customize it to meet your needs.

In this month's column, Michael C. Oldenburg shows you how to use your favorite Microsoft Office 2007 programs on your cell phone.

You can run your PowerPoint 2007 presentation from one monitor (at a podium, for example) while your audience views it on a second monitor.

To ensure that you can open your Office PowerPoint 2007 presentation (.pptx) in an earlier version of PowerPoint, you can save a copy of it that is compatible with PowerPoint 97-2003, or you can download the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats.

In this article, Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Glenna Shaw discusses three things you can add to your presentation to compensate for auditory limitations, such as hearing impairments, background noise, poor sound equipment, or presentations delivered in a different language. By adding captions, subtitles, or annotations, you can increase the reach of your presentation and ensure that your message is delivered clearly.

In this article, Microsoft writer Joy Miller explains that, to create color-coordinated slides with matching fonts and backgrounds in your next PowerPoint 2007 presentation, you should understand the difference between PowerPoint 2003 and earlier design templates and PowerPoint 2007 themes.

Take a look at this article if you can't find a feature or command in PowerPoint 2007 that you used in PowerPoint 2003 or earlier.

A SmartArt graphic is a visual representation of your information and ideas. You can create SmartArt graphics by choosing from among many different layouts to quickly, easily, and effectively communicate your message.

To help you produce professional-looking presentations, Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 provides a comprehensive set of features that you can use to create and format your information. You can create and add designer-quality SmartArt graphics with only a few clicks of your mouse.

This article introduces the basic elements of the new Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 interface, and also provides lists of commands that you may already be familiar with in PowerPoint 2003, showing you how to accomplish the same results in Office PowerPoint 2007.

If security alerts from the Microsoft Office Trust Center appear when you open your presentation or click certain content in your presentation, read this article to find out how to resolve the issue.

Get an overview of how new design tools and close integration with Excel 2007 make it easy to create engaging presentations with PowerPoint 2007.

If you're new to PowerPoint 2007 and just want to pick up the basics, this demo will get you started fast. You'll see how to create your own slides for a show and add headings, bulleted lists, and pictures. Use built-in layouts to organize your slide content. And see how the new Preview feature helps you choose theme colors and background design, minimizing the guesswork and giving you a polished result. Watch the demo to see how easy it is.

An quick and easy answer to a very common customer question: How can I change the color of my hyperlink text in PowerPoint 2007?

Narration can enhance Web-based or self-running presentations. You can also use narration to archive a meeting, so that presenters or absentees can review the presentation later and hear any comments made during the presentation.