Category Archives: PowerPoint

Power Point starts Tuesday next week!

17 Thursday Nov 2016

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A new class starts next week…Power Point! Tuesday and Thursday evenings, 5:30 – 9:30 p.m. Join Us…I promise a good time will be had (and a little learning…)!

ALSO!!!!

We finally have access to the loose leaf versions of the book. If you are interested in purchasing them, please either email me or call me and I’ll give you the link to the site. Thanks for your patience!!!

 

Power Point animations and tricks to improve your presentations!

08 Monday Dec 2014

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This first one is an older tutorial, but it still applies and uses techniques that many don’t know how to do. I encourage you to learn these tools and use them in your next Power Point presentation!

http://articulate.www.resources.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/community/blogdemo/Animation1/player.html

Here is some You Tube tutorials that will really help make your Power Point shine.

How to choose pictures

19 Wednesday Nov 2014

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We use pictures everywhere. They add to our documents, spreadsheets, and most certainly Power Point presentations. But are we picking the right pictures to use? Here are some links to websites that will give you some guidance.

http://photography.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-choose-your-best-photo-in-a-series-every-time–photo-193
http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/tutorials/picking-right-media-reporting-story/
http://www.almostsavvy.com/2011/04/06/8-tips-how-to-choose-the-right-profile-photo-linkedin/

Click to access visual_aids.pdf

http://www.howtogeek.com/school/microsoft-word-document-formatting-essentials/lesson4/all/

Working with Color and Fonts

19 Wednesday Nov 2014

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Your choice of color and fonts when creating documents are much more important than you may realize. Below is a couple of links to websites that discuss these important choices. I encourage you to think about them the next time you are putting together a report in Word or a presentation in Power Point.

Using Fonts:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Font
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/owlprint/705/

Perception of Fonts:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/12/14/what-font-should-i-use-five-principles-for-choosing-and-using-typefaces/
http://psychology.wichita.edu/surl/usabilitynews/81/PersonalityofFonts.asp

Using Color:
http://www.color-wheel-pro.com/color-meaning.html

Pictures, pictures, pictures!

11 Wednesday Dec 2013

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Tis the season for picture taking! So where do I put all those pictures?

If you want to save them along with any other files you might have, the cloud is a good place.

If you have a Windows device (especially Win 8), Skydrive is easy to use. You just need an account: http://www.live.com

Another good cloud service is http://www.dropbox.com

If you want to just have a place to save photos your Phone or tablet can be set to save to the following sites:

http://www.flickr.com/ (Now you get 1 Terabyte free!)
http://photobucket.com/ (You get 2 GB free)
http://www.shutterfly.com
https://www.facebook.com/  (Unlimited storage of photos)

With flikr and shutterfly you can make books, pillows, blankets, mugs, etc.. with your pictures on them. Great for gift-giving!

If you take a lot of pictures….check this tool out! http://www.eye.fi/

Remember, MS Word has some good photo editing tools but one of the best is a free tool from Google called Picasa. http://picasa.google.com/

Here is some info on cameras you might find useful and a site that reviews them.
http://www.digital-photo-secrets.com/tip/333/do-more-megapixels-mean-better-photo-quality/
http://www.dpreview.com

Have fun!

Differences between the Office Suites

11 Friday Oct 2013

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I often get asked what the differences are between different versions of Microsoft Office. Here is a couple of websites that gives you some of that information….

http://www.microsoft.com/business/en-ie/Whats-new/Pages/Article.aspx?cbcid=75

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc178954.aspx

http://blogs.gartner.com/guy-creese/2012/07/17/office-2013-vs-2010/

 

 

 

Welcome Power Point Students!

08 Wednesday May 2013

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Welcome Power Point Students! I am glad to have you in the class. I am looking forward to spending the next 4 weeks with you. I promise I will make it as informative and enjoyable as possible. Hopefully the time will fly by! The book I will reference for this class has the ISBN number of 9781423905240 for the 2007 book, 978-0-538-74716-5 for the 2010 book. Look to this page for additional information and any handouts. My contact info:

Steve Simpson
626-256-0302
simpsongcc@live.com