Powerpoint
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Keyboard shortcuts
- Alt-E-S, paste spécial (very handy to paste special a Visio graphic in Enhanced Metafile format).
Tips
- Turn mouse into laser pointer
- Hold Ctrl and press left mouse button to show a laser pointer dot.
- Go to Slideshow → Setup slideshow to change pointer color.
- Basic presentation rules (source
- Skillsoft - Powerpoint 2010 best practices)
- Say it or show it, not both.
- Max. 5 bullets / slides, and 7 words / bullet
- Font size, rule of thumb: age of oldest person / 2
- Set picture transparent color
- Select picture
- In Format ribbon menu, click color, then click set transparent color
Generate PDF slides from Powerpoint Presentation
Recent Powerpoint
- Powerpoint can now save directly into PDF.
- This is the best approach because it also keeps the slide ratio (4:3 or 16:9).
Using PDFCreator + Watermark
With the document not opened (but slide ratio lost):
- Right click on the document.
- Select Convert with PDF creator
- In Setting, click Add a stamp text on top of all page.
- Recommended to use outline font, width 1.
With the document opened in Powerpoint:
- Print, select PDF Creator.
- Go to printer properties, General, Preference, Advanced, Paper size: use millimeter and 169mm x 300mm (but what about 90mm x 160mm, or 180mm x 320mm)
- Print, apply watermark as above.
Using PrimoPDF
- Requires
- Primo PDF
- pdftk (on Cygwin)
- In Powerpoint, open Print Setup,
- Select PrimoPDF printer,
- Click Properties,
- Select Landscape.
- Click Advanced..., in Paper/Output, select Postscript Custom Paper Size, set Width=3.78in and Height=5.04in (or use Width=7.56in and Height=10.08in for better picture resolution).
- Click Scale to fit paper.
- When PrimoPDF window opens, select Print.
- Note: Seems that Screen, or EBook settings break bitmap pictures.
- Rotate the generate PDF to make it landscape. In Cygwin,
pdftk in.pdf cat 1-endE output out.pdf