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Microsoft Office is updated in so many ways. Depending on how soon you want to see these updates, you can receive only thoroughly tested features, or you can play with new ones. If you prefer the latter, then you may be wowed by the new update that shows up as part of their Office Insider Fast program. With this update, PowerPoint and many other Office programs can now insert and manipulate 3D models.
3D Models are now available in all releases of PowerPoint 365.
Imagine inserting a 3D model on your slide–almost as if you were inserting a picture or a media clip!
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New Features
Tagged as: 3D, Microsoft Office, Models, Office Insider, PowerPoint
This story began with a message from my mother, who never uses PowerPoint. She innocently sent me a link to a video clip, which she thought would be something I would love. And she was right. What she probably did not know is that I wanted to recreate the animation shown in this video clip using PowerPoint.
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Tricks
Tagged as: Animation, PowerPoint
Most PowerPoint designers love to have white space on their slides, but there will always be demands from clients to include more and more content. Now, this is not a great idea because slides need to be aesthetic and focused–and adding so much more textual or any other content negates the very idea of well-designed slides. Adding extra content is, therefore, a compromise that you should avoid.
In the real world, there will be many reasons to cram this content, and the immediate result is that designers have to use a font size that’s smaller than what they started with. But really speaking, what is the smallest font size that you can use?
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Guidelines
Tagged as: Font Size, Fonts, Guidelines, PowerPoint, Slide Design, Text
For the last 20 years, users have waited for 3D in PowerPoint. There were umpteen add-ins (small programs that plug into PowerPoint, much like Photoshop and WordPress plug-ins) that added 3D models, 3D backgrounds, and even 3D text in PowerPoint. They met the same fate–discontinued by their vendors! And that’s sad because some of them were really awesome and ahead of their time.
And now Microsoft has announced that there will finally be real 3D in PowerPoint. How is that different than the other add-ins? And does this mean that you can really do 3D modeling in PowerPoint? Here are the answers to those questions:
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Showcase
Tagged as: 3D, Heather Alekson, Microsoft Office, PowerPoint
Trend Micro released a comprehensive blog post that talks about a trojan horse malware triggered by PowerPoint’s Mouse-Over action setting. This action setting can run a PowerPoint macro.
OK, this is not as bad as it may sound. Why? I can think of three good reasons:
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Troubleshooting
Tagged as: PowerPoint's Mouseover Malware
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