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My Presentation Life in the Gentle Breeze, and the Research of Learning and Teaching Technologies in Education as eLearning Specialist.
Saturday 16 February 2008, 11:56 AM
Best Practices for Playing and Controlling More in PowerPoint Presentations
As we've already known, Microsoft PowerPoint is an incredibly powerful and popular tool for helping anyone create and conduct rich presentations. PowerPoint even allows you to integrate rich media, video and documents into the slides.
To insert Word, Excel and PDF files, you must have Microsoft Word, Excel and Adobe Acrobat Reader installed in your computer, and go to PowerPoint menus: Insert -> Object, then you can insert these files as objects into your presentation.

If you use ActiveX controls in PowerPoint, which can be as simple as a text box, as complex as an entire dialog, and in some cases as complex as a small application, you can insert and control more such as Flash movies as you want. Click the More Controls tool

To make full use of the control, you have to set the properties. Make sure the control is selected, and then click Properties

Certainly a good presentation cannot depend on text and pictures only, try to grab more items to power up your presentations in PowerPoint.
William Peterson
Presentation Veteran


