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Watch a short video on how you can use effects in PowerPoint to create a 3-D keyboard.

Do you want your audience to take away more from your presentations? In this article, Robert Lane and Dr. Stephen Kosslyn describe how you can use brain research to make your PowerPoint presentations more effective. You can also increase how well your audience remembers your message by using meaningful visual aids or cues.

In this article, Microsoft MVP Glenna Shaw discusses ways that you can scroll through a large image or document on a PowerPoint slide, moving forward or backward or stopping dynamically. Depending on the object that you inserted into your presentation there are a number of ways to accomplish this effect, including using add-ins or features in PowerPoint.

What if your presentation was supposed to last an hour but your time slot was reduced to only 20 minutes? What would you do? Now imagine that next time this happens to you, you’re ready for it. You can completely restructure your slide sequence on the spot, without making any changes to the actual PowerPoint slides themselves, because you’ve added navigation elements to your slide shows. In other words, you can instantly adjust to accommodate any circumstance, any audience question, any threat or opportunity instantly. This article by Robert Lane and Chantal Bosse helps you discover how you can use the Seven Key Principles for creating a visually interesting and flexible presentation to tailor your delivery to any circumstance.

You want your presentation to convey key points to your audience. The new 3-D effects in PowerPoint 2007 give you dozens of ways to create graphic effects that pop off the slide and highlight the information you want to be remembered. Watch the demo to see how to do this with slides. Similar options are available in Excel 2007, Outlook 2007, and Word 2007.

This article shows you how you can manually wrap text around any object, such as a table, picture, shape, chart, SmartArt graphic, and more in PowerPoint 2007.

Are you a parent of children who play sports? Are you a coach or the designated "team mom"? Most importantly, if you are the person who plans the end-of-season parties and orders the player and coach trophies, you might find this article helpful.

Take the latest Microsoft Office programs out for a spin in this quick, easy-to-use, browser-based trial experience.

SmartArt graphics add color, shape, and emphasis to your text and data, and they're a snap to use. You can easily try out a variety of SmartArt graphics to see which one works best for getting your point across. Watch the demo to see how easy it is to add dimension and impact to your text.

If you prefer to use the keyboard instead of the mouse, the programs that use the Ribbon, which is part of the Microsoft Office Fluent user interface in the 2007 Microsoft Office system provide keyboard shortcuts that enable you to quickly perform tasks without reaching for the mouse

To run a presentation on a computer on which Microsoft Office PowerPoint is not installed, or to distribute a self-contained presentation to an audience that might not have PowerPoint installed, use Microsoft Office PowerPoint Viewer.

Watch this demo to get familiar with the new design, and to see for yourself that you won't have to learn PowerPoint all over again.

This article is a great place to start learning (or remembering) how to use PowerPoint. By the end of this article, you will have a new PowerPoint presentation, and a solid foundation of knowledge and confidence about using Office PowerPoint 2007.

Slack provides some additional space in your project, so that if a task slips, pushing the schedule out, the project finish date is still met. This short demo shows you how to add slack to your project.

A template is a pattern or blueprint of a slide or group of slides. You can create your own custom templates and store them, reuse them, and share them with others. You can also find hundreds of different types of free templates on Office Online and on other partner Web sites.

Read about transforming presentations into dynamic—even conversational—speaking experiences similar to conversations in a Cafe. This article by Robert Lane and Dr. John Sweller introduces you to strategies that might be useful in your presentations and shows you how to use PowerPoint to create dynamic, navigation-based slide shows.

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.