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Learn how to create templates for others to use to create new presentations and overwrite the text in the default placeholders by adding custom prompt text.

Follow these step by step instructions to create a flow chart using SmartArt graphics.

Check out our new one stop shopping for all things SmartArt graphics!

History gives us the best indicator of future trends. The end of a project is an opportunity to create a history of your project's successes and failures and to share this information with your stakeholders. Use this goal, part of the Project Map, to learn how Project 2007 can help you use your completed project to improve your future projects.

The Project Help team is using Twitter to announce new and updated content, as well as other great resources.

In this article, Carl Chatfield and Timothy Johnson provide a nice refresher on the basics of project management, regardless of what software tools you use. They focus especially on the project triangle model.

View recordings from live events by Microsoft Office experts, see step-by-step demos by presenters, watch short videos for quick tips, or listen to audio-only versions of previously recorded webcasts and 5-10 minute "mini" podcasts focused more on specific tasks.

Learn how to change the style, color, and size of the bullets or numbers in your presentation. You can also change the number that you want to start from, increase or decrease indents, and increase or decrease spacing between a bullet and its text.

After a risk event occurs, you may need to respond to the risk in order to control the impact it may have on the project. Use this goal, part of the Project Map, to learn how Project 2007 can help you respond to risks.

Suppose you need to share your project plan, but there’s a column of information you don’t want to share with all your stakeholders. You don’t want to delete the information, either. It’s easy to hide information in Project 2007 and then bring it back again later. This demo walks you through the process.

The Project Guide provides easy-to-follow instructions to help you set up a new project. This tool is especially useful for new project managers or people who are still coming up-to-speed with Project 2007.

Read PowerPoint MVP, Geetesh Bajaj's, 10 favorite tips including how to put your picture in a star, create timelines, and create Star Wars-style credits.

See how you can quickly change the look of your presentation by applying a group of slide layouts, that contain combinations of coordinating colors, fonts, and effects.

Watch as an action button is added to a presentation and then an action is assigned to it. The action can occur when a presenter clicks or mouses over the action button.

Create a photo album keepsake to commemorate your winter holiday event! A great gift idea for those who participated in your holiday event. You can save it to CD or share it up on your web site.

See how to determine if a presentation has been marked as final, which makes a presentation read-only. Note that anyone who receives an electronic copy of a presentation marked as final can reverse the Mark as Final status and edit the presentation as this command is not a security feature.

Learn how to embed fonts in a presentation, thus saving the font with the presentation. When you embed fonts your text will always display as you want even if the host computer doesn't have the fonts you are using installed.

Risk management is the process of identifying, mitigating, and controlling the known risks in order to increase the probability of meeting your project objectives. Use this goal, part of the Project Map, to learn how to use Project 2007 to help manage project risks.

Project 2007 uses a powerful scheduling engine to help align your organization's projects and tasks with available resources. Understanding how Project 2007 schedules work is a key factor in making intelligent planning decisions.

With Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007, you can check out a project that you are working on, send it to someone else for review, and then check the file back into Project Server 2007 with changes made by the reviewer. This can be particularly helpful in a situation where the reviewer does not have access to your Project Server.