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Microsoft PowerPoint 2007: Troubleshooting Pasted Slides

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by AJ George  Here's the scenario: You are an eLearning developer and receive a PowerPoint presentation from another party (a client, colleague, SME, etc). You've decided to paste some of the slides into another PowerPoint presentation following your own finely crafted master layouts.

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PowerPoint 2007 & 2010: How to Extract Audio & Images from a Presentation

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As an eLearning developer, sometimes you're given a completed PowerPoint project and told to "fix it" or you need to use it in another program (such as Captivate). While there is no way from within PowerPoint to directly extract audio and image files from a presentation, there is a workaround. by AJ George.

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eLearning and PowerPoint: Usage Survey

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by AJ George  I've heard from several eLearning developers expressing their frustration over being given lackluster PowerPoint presentations and asked to magically transform them into effective and engaging eLearning lessons and courses. Are Perhaps you are creating the PowerPoint presentations as well?

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Custom eLearning Development: How Long Does it Take?

Upside Learning

His previous data – from his March 2007 post – on this gives us the following ratios for different type of learning: 34:1 Instructor-Led Training (ILT), including design, lesson plans, handouts, PowerPoint slides, etc. 33:1 PowerPoint to E-Learning Conversion. Read his post here and participate in the survey here.

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Editing the Custom Dictionary in Word and PowerPoint

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Technical terms, program names, proper names, and acronyms can light up your Word or PowerPoint screen with red zigzag underlines, causing not only annoyance but also a risk that you will overlook an actual misspelled word. But the Custom dictionary, which Word and PowerPoint share, can actually help clean up the mess.

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eLearning: Let the Learner Decide the Path

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Tufte admonished the use of the "slow reveal" in PowerPoint presentations, suggesting instead that if you must use bullet points (he advises against using them altogether), present all your information--clearly and at once. I  I don't think this applies just to giving a presentation, but also to eLearning.

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These PowerPoint Experts Can Make You a Star

Rapid eLearning

Last week I was at PowerPoint Live 2009 in Atlanta where I spent some time with people in the PowerPoint community. I met a few blog readers, many of the PowerPoint MVPs that I’ve followed over the years, and was reminded of a few tips and tricks that I can use in my rapid elearning courses. PowerPoint MVPs.