Vital tips for funny PowerPoint presentation

Some people consider PowerPoint is evil: dreary and caused drowsiness. In fact, PowerPoint presentation can be very amusing. Utilizes your gift for creativity, create personalized PowerPoint presentation. It’s totally marvelous beyond your belief. Now, follow the tips below, enjoy your gifted unique creation.

1. Changing the background color in PowerPoint
From the Format menu, click Background->Make your selections-> Click Apply

2. Recording a narration in PowerPoint
Go to the Slide you wish to add a narration to->Insert->Movies and Sounds ->Record Sounds-> the Record button (the red circle)-> the black Stop button->OK

3. Adding a background sound to a PowerPoint slide
Insert -> Movies and Sounds->Play CD Audio Track ->choose the track and options you want -> double-click the icon to start
Or:
Insert -> Sound -> Sound from File -> choose the song you want to insert and then click OK-> click automatically or when clicked as you like-> double clicking the sound icon to further set the sound options

4. Using transitions to enhance your slide show
Open the View ->Slide Sorter-> right-click a slide ->Slide Transition-> selection->Apply

5. Animating objects in PowerPoint
Insert ->select Picture->Clip art->pick a Clip Art -> Insert->right click the picture->select Grouping-> Ungroup->Yes->somewhere away from the Clip Art to deselect it->click on the yellow star in the toolbar ->click on the Custom Animation button (the button with the little green arrow in it->pick which objects you want to animate->to animate them all, click on the first one on the list, hold the Shift key, and then click on the last one->Animate radio button->Automatically radio button->click on the Preview button to see

6. Adding an Action button to a PowerPoint slide (You can add a button that performs a certain action, called an action button)
Open the Slide Show menu ->Action Buttons->choose a button->draw the button onto the slide->choose the action that you want->OK

7. Inserting funny videos into PPT
Download the interesting YouTube videos or other videos onto your computer, and then insert it into your PowerPoint. Learn how to embed the YouTube video into PowerPoint

8. Keeping pictures animated on PowerPoint
Insert ->Movies and Sounds->Movies from file->insert that picture->play it by pressing F5

9. Inserting photo album into PowerPoint presentation
Insert->Photo album-> new photo album->File/disk->choose the file->Insert->choose the options as you like

10. Automating a movie from a slide
Right-click on the movie or animation’s icon->custom Animation->Timing tab-> automatically->set the delay time ->a delay time of zero will start the movie automatically upon reaching that slide

11. Saving PowerPoint to DVD
Burn your PowerPoint presentations on DVD with transitions, animations, sound and movies retained and create flexible DVD Menus for your PowerPoint presentations to play on TV with a DVD remote control. Learn how to save PPT to DVD

12. Burning PPT to Video
Convert the PPT to various video formats such as AVI, MPEG, WMV, MP4, MOV, FLV, 3GP, etc, sharing your amusing PowerPoint presentations worldwide via blog, YouTube and iTunes or reviewing them on iPod, iPhone, Pocket PC. Learn how to convert PPT to video

Create a DVD Photo album for party using PowerPoint

Dozens of memorable photographs come from Birthday Party, Christmas Party, Wedding Party and etc. We touched by the memories. But troubled by how to create a photo album arranging the photos in an apple-pie order, or how to share the photo album in a convenient way?

From now on, under the powerful function of widespread PowerPoint, we easily archive hundreds of our favorite high-resolution photos to create a photo album. After convert PPT to DVD, we throw ourselves in a sofa. Let memorable yesterdays flow out from the big screen TV with a remote in our hand. The bride can send DVD photo album to each of the party goers with a thank you note. The mother can memorialize your baby's first birthday permanently. Between the food, the guests, and the entertainment, a DVD photo album makes it never to end!

All these can be done in a few minutes. Just use the photo album feature of Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007. Just four mouse clicks to burn the PPT to DVD. Let's start to create a memorable DVD Photo album.
1. On the Insert menu, click Photo Album. And in the drop-down list, click New Photo Album option.

2. Click on the 'File/Disk…' option and choose the photos. Importing multiple pictures at a time is available. You can preview each photo by clicking it in the Picture in album list. Below the preview window, there is a photo editing area. You can use these buttons to adjust the rotation, contrast and brightness of each picture.


3. In the drop-down list of Picture layout, you can choose the layout format you like. And in the drop-down list of Frame Shape, you can choose the frame you want to add to your photos. Click the Browse button. Locate the template in the Choose Theme box that allows you to navigate to the folder where we have stored the downloaded templates. Or you can use the operating system's own theme templates.




4. Clicked Create button. If necessary, click the title placeholder, and then type the title for your photos.


5. If you want to give your album captions, click the Photo Album arrow on the Insert tab. And then click Edit Photo Album. Select Captions below All pictures box, then click Update.

That's how your own PowerPoint photo album got out. Isn't this easy?

Want to store the photo album permanently? Want to share the photo album efficiently? Want to create DVD menus to play on TV with a DVD remote control?

Now, let’s convert our valuable photo album to DVD.
Click here to start the process of burning PPT to DVD.

Imagine that you and your family watch the photo album on TV after years, you all bring back the good old days. Imagine that your friends view the photo album DVD disc when you are separated by distance. So, when are you going to create your next DVD photo album? Very soon, I presume, like this happy person--“I love PPT2DVD, I created a Family Reunion album viewed on our TV's for a BBQ we had with several generations of the family. It's fantastic! Work on a bigger one for Christmas this year!”