tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-598149216995933912.post2686206450092744049..comments2023-06-17T08:23:40.958-07:00Comments on Grad Hacker: 5 Ways to Avoid the Powerpoint TimesuckBdizzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00901107978275522299noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-598149216995933912.post-36996365924514457722011-03-16T22:35:49.771-07:002011-03-16T22:35:49.771-07:00While this article is a bit old, maybe these trick...While this article is a bit old, maybe these tricks will help someone nonetheless: <br />First, go to the slide master, and determine your font, colors, bullet types, places where your name/date/project will show. Do this once, and you'll have it for every future brief. All you have to change is the project name and date. All that time consuming formating will be done once and for all. Every new slide added will come with the standard formatting. Each new presentation, you can copy the master slides from the previous presentations.<br />Second, if you're pasting in pictures/graphs data tables from other office products (word, excel, etc.) paste them in as a linked object. This way, every time you update the source data, it'll update in your powerpoint automatically. <br />Obviously, this has problems if you use one excel graph twenty times to make twenty outputs. That won't work. But if, for example, you're using a pivot table to generate graphs and charts (connected to an access dataset maybe, or just an excel dataset), and you paste in a graph to powerpoint, then you can change the source data or the title or the colors or any other feature, and powerpoint will automatically update. This is incredibly useful for the original example of updating progress reports. You can paste in results, later cut the sample data in half, and the results will update themselves in powerpoint. Especially if your reporting requires habitual reporting of the same dataset, this is quite the time saver. <br />Good luck!<br />~One of many, Powerpoint Ranger :)Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10230894176602021833noreply@blogger.com