Blanking your screen
during a slide show
Sometimes during a
slide show, someone will ask a question that's unrelated to the slide
onscreen. When this happens, you want to focus attention on the question
at hand, not on the slide. Or, you might be ready to give the audience a
break, but you didn't plant a signal slide in your presentation. In these
situations, all you need to do is display a black (or white) screen. Doing
so gives the impression that you've pulled up a blank slide for the
occasion.Fortunately, you can blank the screen during a slide show with
one simple keystroke.
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To display a black screen, press
the B key.
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If you would rather display a white
screen, simply press the W key.
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When you press the B or W
key a second time, the slide show picks up where you left off: the slide
that was displayed when you blanked the screen.
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Create scrolling
credits in PowerPoint (95/97/98/2000)
You can create a scrolling list of
credits in PowerPoint.
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To do this, you create a text box, add
text, and place the text box above the PowerPoint slide you want your
credits to scroll across.
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Once you position your text, you can
use the Custom Animation feature's Crawl From Bottom effect to animate
your credits.
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When you run your slide show, the credits
will scroll from the bottom of the screen and disappear when they run
off the top.
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Creating embossed images in PowerPoint (97/98/2000)
You can create embossed images using
Microsoft's Clip Gallery.
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To do this,
select a clip art image and ungroup it so that it becomes a drawing
object.
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Immediately
regroup the object once you ungroup it.
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Next, click
the Shadow Settings button on the Drawing toolbar and select Shadow
Style 17.
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Once you
apply Shadow Style 17, choose Format/Object to open the Format Object
dialog box.
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In the
Format Object dialog box, select the Colours And Lines tab.
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Then, select
the same colour you used as a background colour from the Fill Colour
dropdown menu and click OK.
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If the
embossed effect is difficult to see, use the Nudge Shadow buttons on the
Shadow Settings toolbar to adjust the position of your image's shadow.
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