- Office Reference Guide
- Table of Contents
- Surrealty: An Organic Case Study
- Working with Microsoft Word
- Branding Yourself with Microsoft Word
- Revising Your Document
- Saving and Using Document Templates
- Formatting with Styles
- Secrets of AutoText and AutoCorrect
- Trying To Remain Normal
- Customing Word with Macros, Menus, and Toolbars
- Document Management: Scanning into Word
- Using the Clip Organizer
- Backing Up Your Office System
- A Testimonial To Tables
- Navigating with Bookmarks
- Using a Document Map
- Creating a User Form
- Introduction to Word 2007
- Blogging with Word 2007
- Using Word 2007 Quick Parts and Building Blocks
- Mail Merge in Word 2007
- Word 2007: Open and Repair
- Styling: Using the New QuickStyles in Word 2007
- Compare and Combine Document Versions in Word 2007
- Accelerating Your Knowledge of Excel
- Getting Started with Excel Worksheets
- Creating and Autofitting Cell Content
- Populating the Worksheet with Data
- Using AutoSum To Create Automatic Calculations
- Using Formulas
- Making Your Worksheet Look Nicer
- Charting the Data
- Completing the Financial Picture
- Getting Fancy With Xcelsius
- Say It With Charts!
- The Effect of Text Entries and Blank Cells on Calculations
- Filtering Your Outlook Contacts
- New Charting and Productivity Tools
- Cataloging Your Backups in Excel
- Using Excel as a Simple Database
- Painless Pivot Tables
- Creating Interactive Spreadsheets Online
- Moving an Excel Macro
- Working with Scenarios and Goals
- Using Excel's Solver
- Emphasizing Sales Data in Excel
- XspandXL for Spreadsheet Analysis
- New Crystal Xcelsius Light (Free)
- Excel Business Analysis Books
- Excel 2007 Sorting, Filtering and Table Enhancements
- Creating an Entrepreneurial Marketing Plan in Excel 2007
- Named Ranges in Excel 2007
- Maintaining a Positive Outlook
- Using Word for Email
- Creating an Email Signature
- Handling Email Efficiently
- Creating an Anti-Spam Filter
- Working with Contacts
- Adding a Contact from Email
- Saving a Contact as a vCard
- Using the Calendar
- Appointments, Events, and Meetings
- Setting Tasks and Making Notes
- Protecting and Exporting Outlook Information
- Creating a Distribution List, and Other Outlook Tips
- Mail-Merge E-mail
- Creating an Outlook Form
- Completing the Outlook Form Solution
- Using Search Folders and Anti-Spam Tips
- Creating an E-Mail Template
- Using Outlook with a Cell Phone
- Stupid Outlook Tricks
- Using Multiple Outlook Calendars
- Using NewsGator for RSS in Outlook
- Review: <em>Conquer Email Overload with Better Habits, Etiquette, and Outlook 2003</em>
- Using Anagram's Artificial Intelligence
- MeetingSense for Enhanced Outlook Productivity
- Introduction to Outlook 2007 and Predictions
- Trying Business Contact Manager
- Outlook 2007 Organization Features
- Taking Your Outlook 2007 Calendar Online
- Going Mobile with My New SmartPhone
- Synching Outlook with Facebook
- Workaround: Create a Private Distribution List in Outlook
- Microsoft Office Outlook Connector
- "Where Are My Socks?" Accessing Your Important Information
- Exploring the Northwind Application
- Access Basics
- Creating Tables
- Using Forms for Data Entry
- Creating a Report
- Querying Your Database
- Creating Relationships
- Using Access for Business Documents
- Customizing an Access Template
- Using Macros and Switchboards in Access
- Creating an Online Data Access Page
- What's New in Access 2007
- Making Your Access 2007 Forms and Reports Look Professional
- Use the Access Label Wizard
- Presenting Professionally with PowerPoint
- Introduction to PowerPoint
- Creating Cool Diagrams
- Using the Diagram Object
- Beginning the Org Chart
- Using the Org Chart Toolbar
- Changing the Org Chart Layout
- Selecting Portions of the Org Chart
- Moving and Formatting the Selection
- Applying Styles to the Org Chart
- Using the Other Conceptual Diagrams
- Adding Our Concepts
- Moving Shapes with the Diagram Toolbar
- Moving or Resizing the Diagram
- Using the Diagram Styles
- Changing Your Concept Diagram
- Turning Off AutoFormat
- Adding a Caption or Title
- Summary
- Q&A
- Customizing Your Presentation
- The Concept of Customization
- Accessing the Master Views
- Understanding the Master Views
- The Power of the Master Views
- Adding Our Logo
- Changing Other Elements
- Slide Master Rules
- Using the Title Master
- Using the New Slide Master Template
- Adding Date and Time to a Footer
- Using Headers and Footers
- The Master View Toolbar
- Using the Handout Master
- Using the Notes Master
- Using Page Setup to Change the Presentation Type
- Summary
- Q&A
- Accessorizing for Presentations
- The Potential Of Photo Album
- Using Broadcast Quality Effects
- The Latest Presentation Gear
- Using PowerPoint, Video and DVD
- Microsoft Producer for PowerPoint
- Expanding PowerPoint with Plug-Ins
- Using Presenter View with a Projector
- Getting Into Your Presentation -- Literally
- The View from PowerPoint LIVE
- Making a PowerPoint Movie (not just for the Mac anymore)
- Making a Self-Running Animated Holiday Card
- Reporting on Databases in PowerPoint
- HD or Not HD, That Is The Question
- Taking On Tufte
- What the Heck Do I Say?
- Broadcasting PowerPoint Video with Serious Magic
- Video Blogging as a Presentation Value-Add
- This Just In: PowerPoint Secedes from MS Office!
- Two New PowerPoint Add-Ins
- Podcasting our PowerPoint
- What We Can Learn from InfoComm 2005
- Putting Yourself in the Show
- What You Can Learn from SIGGRAPH
- Using DVD Video in PowerPoint
- Animating Individual Chart Elements
- The Magic of PowerPoint LIVE 2005
- Making Sure Your Video Plays
- Creating a Timeline Template in PowerPoint
- Creating Transparent Animation and Backgrounds
- Using Advanced Animation Techniques
- Advanced Animation Part 2: Reusing Motion Paths
- Advanced Animation Part 3: Masked Backgrounds and Triggers
- Getting an Ovation with PowerPoint
- Video that Plays For Certain
- Using an Animated PowerPoint Chart on DVD
- Packaging Music Files with PowerPoint
- Say It With Presentations
- Keep Saying It With RSS
- PowerPoint LIVE 2006
- Total Solution: Using Propaganda for a PowerPoint Podcast for iTunes
- Wildform Wild Presenter for Interactive PowerPoint Online
- PowerFrameworks to Stimulate Your Creative PowerPoint Juices
- Distributing Video for iPods and Other Devices
- Converting Bullets to SmartArt Graphics in PowerPoint 2007
- Editing Video in PowerPoint (And a Lot More)
- Enhancing PowerPoint with Stock Photos
- Creating Sticky Documents and Presentations
- Review: Why Most PowerPoint Presentations Suck
- Using PowerPoint 2003 and 2007 Together: Preparing for InfoComm 2007
- Converting Flash to PowerPoint Video
- Animated Artwork for PowerPoint: PointClips and Vox Proxy
- Cutting Edge Graphics at SIGGRAPH 2007
- The Insert Object Animation Trick in PowerPoint
- Using YouTube Video in PowerPoint
- Using PowerPoint 2007 with Video Online
- PowerPoint LIVE 2007: Presentation Paradise in the Big Easy
- Camatasia 5.0: An Upgrade Worth the Effort
- Solving Video Playback in PowerPoint for Vista
- Review: Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 Complete Makeover Kit
- Graphic Novels in PowerPoint
- The Ultimate Presentation
- Opazity: PowerPoint for Lazy People
- Using SlideShare for Online PowerPoint with Narration
- Mastering Themes in Office 2007 (and Specifically PowerPoint 2007)
- VIDITalk's New Online Presenter Program
- Using and Converting YouTube Video for PowerPoint
- SlideRocket: Documents in the "Cloud"
- PFC Pro: Use YouTube Directly in PowerPoint and Maybe Get Your Web Cam into a Web Conference
- AuthorSTREAM: PowerPoint with Narration Made Easier Online
- Slide:ology: Nancy Duarte’s Design Secrets and Her New PowerPoint Book
- Mastering the New Slide Masters (and Layouts) in PowerPoint 2007
- Using PowerPoint 2007 to Create Slides That Don't Look Like PowerPoint (Video Update)
- A Treasure Trove of PowerPoint Templates
- Posting a Web Site with FrontPage
- Getting a Web Site
- Creating a FrontPage Web
- Where's My Web?
- Adding Navigation
- Applying a Theme
- Publishing Your Site
- The Old MHT Trick
- Taking Over A FrontPage Web
- Expression Studio 2.0: A Worthy Successor to FrontPage
- Publish or Perish
- Creating Publications for Print
- Publisher Web Sites
- Creating an E-Mail Newsletter
- E-mailing Holiday Cards
- Publisher 2007
- Get Visual with Visio
- Creating a Visio Flowchart
- Connecting Shapes
- Examining the Shapesheet
- Creating a Report
- Moving In With Visio
- Expanding Visio with Third-Party Stencils
- Playing Well with Others Using Visio
- Creating Interactive Diagrams with Visio's Layers
- Creating a "Virtual Database"
- Creating a Visio Dynamic Solution Template
- Visio 2007
- Visio 2007 Professional IT Toolbox
- Project Management with Visio 2007 Gantt and Pert Charts
- Review: Using Microsoft Office Visio 2007
- Tools That Integrate Your Office Applications
- Creating Video E-Mail with MovieMaker
- Managing Pictures with Microsoft Office Picture Manager
- New Year's Predictions: 2005
- Office Predictions for 2006
- Favorite Books List
- Using Excel as a Database Conversion Tool for Outlook
- Oh, Brother, I Love Labels (and other Office Tips)
- Planning for Disaster
- Using OneNote with Outlook
- Web Resources for Microsoft Office
- Simple 3D in Microsoft Office
- Creating Dynamic Database Links
- Using an Access Query for Mail Merge
- Displaying Database Links with Xcelsius Enterprise
- An Office 12 Sneak Preview from PDC
- My Big Fat Office Vacation
- What CES 2006 Means to Office Users
- Using "Send To" Between Office Applications: Word and
- Running (and Surviving) a Web-based Conference
- Running an Online Office with HyperOffice and Writely
- Preparing with Index Cards
- Creating Meeting Agendas
- Collecting Data with New Technologies: ARS, SMS and RFID
- Using Application Sharing in a Web Conference
- Running an Online Notes or Windows Media Session
- Trying Out Live Meeting
- Creating a SharePoint Team Website
- Using and Customizing a SharePoint Team Website
- Creating a Trip Planner in Excel and Outlook
- Crystal Graphics’ Excel and Solutions and Chart
- GoToMeeting Instant Webinar Tool
- Checking Out Office Live
- Using Quindi Meeting Capture
- Using Excel to Link to Other Databases
- Trying Out Mind Manager Pro to Brainstorm with Office Programs
- The 13th Thing I Hate About Office
- Introduction to Office 2007
- What's New in Excel and PowerPoint 2007
- Take a Look at InfoPath 2007
- Office's Groovy New Collaboration Program
- Using Office Accounting Express
- Printing to PDF or XPS in Office 2007
- Getting Adjusted to Office 2007 Changes
- Using SnagIt for IT Training
- Providing Help with Go To My PC
- Vista Meeting Space and People Near Me from Microsoft
- Trying Expression Web
- Migration Issues to Word and Outlook 2007
- Vista – Are You Kidding Me?
- Making Office 2007 (and Vista) Work Properly
- Office and the Enterprise
- Survey Says – Use Web Surveys with Excel and Access
- Uninstalling Office 2007 in Windows XP Pro
- Using Excel for Tables in Office 2007
- VIDITalk – Video in SharePoint and Beyond
- Career Advancement for Office Professionals
- Online Database that Rivals Access?
- Web 2.0 2008 in San Francisco
- Going Virtual for MS Office
- Going Virtual Using Mobile Apps
- Managing Your Contacts Across the Office Suite
- Charts in PowerPoint and Excel 2007 (Video Update)
- Outline View: The Document Planning Bridge between Word and PowerPoint
- Using Document Inspector in Office 2007
- SmartDraw: A Powerful Communications Tool to Supplement MS Office
- Visio 2007's New Pivot Diagram
- Using the Macro Recorder in Visio 2007 (Video Update)
- Compatibility Pack: Challenges of Using Office 2007 Documents in Previous Versions
- Microsoft Office Live Small Business Beta
- No One Asked Me But... What I Want (and Don’t Want) in the Next Office and Windows
- Late New Year's Resolution: Keys to Effective IT Communication
- SmartDraw Extras: Healthcare and Legal Templates
- Interesting Upgrades: Camtasia 6 and SnagIt 9
- Addressing the Office 2007 Read-Only Runaround
- Getting Organized with OneNote
- Flagging OneNote Information
- Recording and Organizing with OneNote
- Recording and Organizing Video in OneNote
- OneNote 2007
- Using OneNote 2007 Efficiently with Other Office 2007 Apps
- Using OneNote as a Voice Recorder
- Video Tutorials
- Charts in PowerPoint and Excel 2007
- Using PowerPoint 2007 to Create Slides That Don't Look Like PowerPoint
- Using the Macro Recorder in Visio 2007
- Playing a CD Audio in a Self Running Presentation
- Textboxes, QuickParts and Building Blocks in Word 2007
- Working Between PowerPoint and PDF
- Additional Resources
- Exploring Twine and the New Semantic Web
- A Tale of Two Tech Supports — OfficeLive and Zoho
- Digital Hollywood 2008
- Infocomm 2006
- InfoComm 2007
- Judging a Disc By Its Cover
- Surviving the Office 2007 Beta
- The Latest Word from CES 2007
If you've followed my updates in the past, you know that my early experience in computers was in the area of video — painful as that was. I've written extensively about using video in PowerPoint, and have covered capture and editing using Windows MovieMaker. What is nice about MovieMaker is that you can also use it to publish movies in a web page.
At one point I also covered a tool that worked through PowerPoint 2003 called Microsoft Producer for PowerPoint.
But the problem with using video or movies in PowerPoint, and transferring them to the web, has always been that video in PowerPoint is always linked.
What Producer did for PowerPoint 2003 was to create a set of web pages with the links, and also encode the movies that were included in a presentation in the Microsoft media web-friendly WMV file format, and preserve the links.
It also automatically wrote the arcane code that places a movie into a web page.
Now if you are a Producer user, you can continue to use Producer with PowerPoint 2007, but you will need to make sure that you save your presentations in PowerPoint 97-2003 format out of PowerPoint. Otherwise it is very likely that Producer will not be able to import your PowerPoint presentations or slides.
But what about if you want to use PowerPoint 2007 directly to publish your slides (with linked video) to a web page?
I decided to find out just how PowerPoint 2007 handled the task.
I tool a simple two slide presentation with two videos, one linked to each slide. One was a web friendly WMV file and the other an AVI. In PowerPoint 2007, I used the Office Button and clicked Save As — Other Formats. In the drop down list I chose the standard web page format (HTML), and not the single page format (MHT). (You need more than one page for a multi slide presentation).
The main window for saving as HTML is standard — I can go through various export options by clicking Publish but I am going with the default.
The result is a subfolder of files including some web pages (HTM), but notice that my WMV and AVI movie files have also been renamed and included in the folder, along with other support files.
The trick is knowing which file will open the main web page for the online presentation. The correct answer is OUTLINE.HTM.
But when I click it, the ugly head of Microsoft protecting me rears itself:
I have to enable the Active X control for playing movies in Internet Explorer. Caveat: You will surely need Internet Explorer to play these slides videos.
With Active X enabled (I need to click Yes, I really want to one more time...) the web page opens.
Notice that I have a slide outline in the left panel — if I've been smart enough to add titles to my slides they well appear here.
And my video is ready to click and play in the first slide.
I do not have the same capability as I do in a PowerPoint slide show to stop and start it — to do that I would need the Media Player controls and that is an entirely different can of worms to enable.
But I can navigate to other slides and play their movies and go through an online presentation normally. I can even enable PowerPoint animation in the publish options and build my slides using entrance effects normally.
How well some advanced techniques will play will depend on the browser users employ so you should encourage them to use the latest version of Internet Explorer. But the movies will play and you will have an online presentation.
How do you get controls for the movies in your web pages? You could do some complicated coding or just follow the steps for publishing a movie in Camtasia Studio and choose the option for placing the produced movie into a web page with controls.
Note the Camtasia article link above is for making a movie from PowerPoint — you can use the Camtasia editor to put any movie into a web page with controls. The only problem is that these are individual web pages with individual movies that you would have to link to manually.
If you open up Camtasia movie in a web page (this is a movie of a PowerPoint presentation with a movie in it — all captured in Camtasia) there are controls for the main movie.
You can play or pause the movie in the web page. The smaller movie that played and was captured in the PowerPoint slide show will play automatically.
If you look at the production folder from Camtasia, it has one main web page and a supporting subfolder of files — a bit more manageable.
So basically saving PowerPoint 2007 as a web page will encode and link its movies but not give you user controls.
You can get user controls inside the web pages by using the production output from Camtasia for individual movies, or for a fully captured PowerPoint presentation. Opening the web page in Camtasia will not result in an ActiveX warning.
The good news is that if you're careful you can save your PowerPoint presentation to the web, and maintain your linked movies as well.