Monthly Archives: September 2006

Did you know that PowerPoint 2003 and previous versions provided an option to create pattern fills for shapes that had transparency? For example, you could end up with horizontal lines that were 50% transparent, 20% transparent, or transparent with any percentage value. Look at Figure 1, below and you can clearly see what I am ...

Enable or Disable PowerPoint Animations in Slide Show View In this post, we explore troubleshooting a PowerPoint animation problem. We look at what to do when PowerPoint animations stop working, and then, we also explore how you can stop all animations in your presentation with one option. One of our subscribers just reached out to say ...

We do have some extensive content on what Unicode encoded fonts are, and how the remaining ASCII encoded fonts are of two types: single-byte and double-byte. However, our readers want more info, as can be understood from these questions we received: If you just could tell me which fonts in Microsoft Windows are double-byte, I'll know ...