By default, the rulers in PowerPoint display measurement in inches. The same is true of the other Microsoft Office applications. If you prefer to view and work with metric units, this setting can be changed from within Microsoft Word and Excel (via Options > Advanced > Display) but not from within PowerPoint.
Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 includes many useful new features that make it easy for users to do everything they need to do from within the program. We can now edit images, audio clips, and even video without ever opening another application. While these editing capabilities are fairly limited, they are still extremely handy when you are trying to get a slide show out the door quickly.
Considering their efforts to include all the basic tools that a designer could ever need, I am really surprised that Microsoft has not integrated some type of color picker tool into their user interface. I can’t count the number of times over the past 5 years when I have needed to identify and replicate a specific color used in a slide show. Yes, I am a power user, and yes, I do create far more presentations than the average Joe, but I feel certain that even novice users may occasionally have this need.
While it isn’t difficult to open Photoshop, or another image editing application, and to use the tools available to identify a color’s hexadecimal code or RGB values, it takes time. I want everything to be quick and easy! ( :
I guess that is why I was so excited when I recently discovered a handy little utility called Pixie. The program is free, easy to download and use, and it provides accurate color information, not only for use with PowerPoint, but for use with any application that doesn’t have its own built-in color picker.
Did you know that if you frequently work with the same multiple workbooks in Excel, you can actually save these into one workspace file? Then you will only have to open one file (rather than trying to find and open several workbook files) in order to have quick access to all of your Excel data.
Here are a few suggestions on how to do this:
This workspace file is just a handy way to open multiple workbooks all at once in the same way that you closed them. Everything else works the same. The changes you save to any workbook individually will always appear within the workspace file. If you make any changes to a workbook in the workspace file itself, you will be prompted to save that workbook before closing it.
Uh-oh, the notorious “Windows detected a hard disk problem” error. What now? This article will show you steps you can take to make a proper decision about the problem. These steps can be taken for almost any suspected hard disk problem whether or not you’ve gotten this error.
Have you ever wondered what the purpose of that little push pin is when it shows up in a Microsoft Office 2007 or 2010 application? This push pin can be quite a time saver when opening documents or using online Help in Office applications.
