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A handy reference guide for Microsoft PowerPoint is available from itbusinessedge.com.

PowerPoint Quick Reference Card

The guide includes an introduction to the basics of PowerPoint, a list of useful PowerPoint keyboard shortcuts and tips on using formatting, graphics and animations in your presentation.

It’s probably most useful for new users of PowerPoint and those who have just upgraded to PowerPoint 2007. It’s free! So download it, print it out on both sides of a piece of paper and if you have a laminator handy you have just got yourself a reference guide that won’t stain when you put your coffee mug on top!

Here’s where you can get the reference guide: http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/docs/DOC-1342 (registration required). Guides for other Office products and Abobe products are also available.

Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 Demos:

Keep sane with the Selection Pane - If you work with layered items on PowerPoint slides, the Selection Pane, new in the 2007 Office release, can make that task easier.  The Selection Pane lists each item on your slide so you can apply custom effects to just that item, without having to click through the layers on the slide itself. When you finish, you can preview the effects and unhide all the items.

Use 3-D effects - You want your presentation to convey key points to your audience. The new 3-D effects in PowerPoint 2007 give you dozens of ways to create graphics effects that pop off the slide and highlight the information you want to be remembered. Watch the demo to see how to do this with slides. Similar options are available in Excel 2007, Outlook 2007, and Word  2007.

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