When you create a presentation using Microsoft PowerPoint 2007, can you be sure that if you have to send it to somebody else that they also have the 2007 version? If not then there is a simple way of ensuring that viewers can view the presentation, even if they have an earlier version.

In order to do this, you have to change the way you save your newly created presentation. Instead of simply clicking the Save button, you first go to the Microsoft Office button in the top left hand corner of the page and select Save As.

You then have to change the ‘Save As Type’ from a normal presentation to a ‘PowerPoint 97 – 2003 Presentation’ and then click save.

Now if the viewer you send the presentation to is using Microsoft PowerPoint 2007, then it will still show the presentation in ‘compatibility mode’

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Well, here we are again with another Microsoft PowerPoint tip for you. In certain cases, PowerPoint presentations can be useful to more than just one group of people.

But what if you have already inserted some Custom Animation into the slides which wouldn’t be appropriate for the group that you will be presenting to the second time around? You will have to go through each slide to remove the animation right?

Wrong! With Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 there is a way to disable the Custom Animation without having to change anything else. Here is how you do it:

1. In the Microsoft Office ribbon, select the ‘Slideshow’ tab.

2. Select the Set up Slideshow button and wait for the ‘Set up Show’ dialog box to appear.

3. Once the dialog box appears, check the box which says ‘Show without animation’ in the ‘Show Options’ section and then click Ok.

4. To check that you have stopped the animation, press F5 to test your presentation out

It is as simple as that and takes literally no time so that you can spend more time getting ready to present the presentation itself.

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