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Toolkit
Presentations Tables in PowerPoint You use tables in Word. Why not use of some of those attractive, and very clear, Word tables in your PowerPoint slides? Let's say you're working on a presentation and you already have a table in a Word document. Why spend a bunch of time redoing the whole thing for your PowerPoint presentation? 1. Get the table just the way you want it. Use AutoFormat to choose the most attractive format. You might want to change the format because what looks good on paper might not look as good as a slide. 2. Select the table and then press Ctrl-C to copy it. 3. Open your PowerPoint slide and press Ctrl-V to paste the table into the slide. 4. Use the mouse to size and place the table. PowerPoint on Netscape? Use PointPlus to view Microsoft PowerPoint slide presentations within Netscape browsers. Simple Web Pages Do you have FrontPage Express? Microsoft is giving it away as a stripped-down version of FrontPage in hopes that you'll want to buy the full program. Front Page is what I use for my course webs. I got mine with the free (well, $2.95 for shipping) CD that Microsoft sent me with Internet Explorer 4.0. Netscape has a similar offering for its Communicator package, which is it giving away. You can create attractive Web pages with the FrontPage Express editor without knowing a single HTML command. Here's how to make and save a very simple Web page. If you installed FrontPage Express, you'll find it in the Start menu. To run it, click on Start, Programs, Internet Explorer, FrontPage Express. 1) To begin a page, choose Format, Font and select a font and a font size. To create a title, choose the largest size (7). 2) Now type in a title and then click on the Center button to place the title in the center of the page. 3) Next, let's add a horizontal line. To do this, choose Insert, Horizontal Line. 4) How about a picture? If you already have a JPEG or GIF image you'd like to include, choose Insert, Image. 5) Click on the Other Location tab and select From File. Now click on Browse to look for your picture. 6) When you locate the image file, double-click on it to add it to your page. 7) If the picture isn't sized correctly, click on it and use the mouse to adjust the size. 8) If you'd like the picture to appear in the center of the page, click on it and then click on the Center button in the toolbar. Now that you have a few objects on your page, it's time to save it. I recommend doing this often while you're working. Choose File, Save As. Click on As File and give your file a name. Select a folder and click on Save. Now you can double-click on your new file to see how it looks in Microsoft Internet Explorer 4. Roll Your Own The Netsolo to create dynamic, graphically rich Web sites with no technical background. Use CoffeeCup StyleSheet Maker++ to improve both the look and speed of your Web page. Panoramas Do you want a panoramic feel to the pictures in your Web pages? The SmoothMove format allows you to pan or move around an image -- all 360 degrees.
Vectors
Other graphics formats that solve these problems. Vector graphic formats, for example, are mathematical, rather than pixel-based. This means the images are much sharper and can be manipulated, and file sizes are generally smaller. One vector-based graphics format found on the Web is CMX. Corel's free plug-in called CMX Viewer allows you to view these images. Thumbnails Click on the thumbnail image ... and the full image appears gradually. How is this possible? Progressive JPEG images in the RapidVue format, that' s how. Want to know how look and act?
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