by AJ George    When creating PowerPoint presentations and moving them from one computer to another, one area of concern is fonts. the Mac versions of PowerPoint can't embed fonts, nor can they use fonts embedded in a PC-born presentation. In PowerPoint, you'll notice all fonts have either a TT (TrueType)  or an  O (OpenType)  next to them in the font list. All embedding licenses are not created equal. The easiest way is to download and install  Microsoft's TrueType Font Properties Extension. MORE >>

by AJ George  Last week  I covered how to embed fonts in a PowerPoint presentation. Check out this link for what to do if your presentation contains Asian texts and formats that PowerPoint can't display. If you know there is a font throwing a kink in the works but can't find where it is used within the presentation, try the following: With your presentation opened in PowerPoint 2010, choose  File > Save & Send > Create Handouts. Click the  Create Handouts  button.     PowerPoint MORE >>

Microsoft PowerPoint is a very powerful tool for creating presentations. This means that a lot of content is developed in PowerPoint. There are times when you may want to reuse content created in PowerPoint in e-learning. Adobe Captivate does a great job of integrating with PowerPoint and converting slides to an e-learning format. Just open Captivate and choose to create a new project from Microsoft PowerPoint. As is quite common, they may be familiar with PowerPoint but not have Captivate installed. by Jonathan Shoaf. MORE >>

by AJ George  A PowerPoint user approached me recently with an issue. She was given a PowerPoint template with a company logo on it. My assumption is that someone created the background (with the logo included) in another program, or took a screen shot of the background in PowerPoint and inserted it as a background image. Having a problem getting PowerPoint to behave?  PowerPointShe was asked to remove the logo but could not. My first thought was to tell her to remove it from the master slides. Her best option was to cover it up. MORE >>

by Jennie Ruby Track Changes in Microsoft Word is an indispensible tool for editing, but it is not the best tool for the job in every editorial situation. For example, what if you are editing the text when you notice that PowerPoint has been spelled incorrectly as Power Point. Deleting the space with Track Changes turned on will create a mark that looks like this: Power-Point. Even if a reviewer of the edited document wanted Power Point to be printed with a space, you would not allow it, because PowerPoint is the proper name of the software. MORE >>