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Webcasts and podcasts: Office PowerPoint 2007
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.
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Change the look, position, or function of bulleted or numbered lists in your presentation
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.
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Goal: Control project risks
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.
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Demo: Add, hide, and show columns in Project
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.
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Use the Project Guide to start a new project
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.
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My ten favorite PowerPoint tips
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.
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Apply a theme to your presentation
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.
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Demo: Assign an action to a built-in button or picture in your presentation
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.
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Template: Holiday or Winter vacation photo album
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.
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Edit a presentation that is marked as final
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.
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Embed fonts in a PowerPoint presentation
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.
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Goal: Identify new risks
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.
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How scheduling works in Project
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.
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Share work on an enterprise project
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.
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Create and use strong passwords
Read about the 6 steps to a better password; plus, common strategies it's better to avoid.
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Change the order in which stacked objects, placeholders, or shapes appear on a slide
See how to change the order in which stacked individual components (objects, placeholders, or shapes) or grouped components appear on a slide, so that one appears in front of another.
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Selling with PowerPoint: Taking Control of That Critical First Meeting
Learn how to create a presentation that allows for highly flexible access across all visual content, allowing instant tailoring to customer needs and interest, or any objections that might arise along the way.
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Goal: Adjust costs to keep the project on budget
Assume you discovered a problem with your project's budget. Now what? Use this goal, part of the Project Map, to discover how Project 2007 can help you fix the problem and re-optimize the schedule for cost.
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How calendars work in Project 2007
There are four types of calendars in Project 2007: base, project, resource, and task. You can modify these calendars to define the working days and hours for the whole project, for groups of resources, for individual resources, and for tasks.
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Install updates for Microsoft Office 2007 Help
Download updates to the Help files for Project 2007 and the entire 2007 Microsoft Office system.
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