The software that makes up the Office suite: Word, PowerPoint and Excel, have the advantage of a very capable programming environment in Visual Basic for Applications [VBA]. With VBA, you can automate a whole host of actions and selection processes that speed up the creation of documents, as well as […]
Installing a PowerPoint template follows the same requirements for Word. In fact, Word is like the manager of the Office suite, so the place for Word templates is the same for PowerPoint. A PowerPoint template consists of setting up masters, text positions and sizes, typographic levels, colour management and any […]
Who remembers overhead projectors? Sheets of plastic cell you could draw on and project on a screen. That was high-tech once! PowerPoint is probably the most widely used presentation tool for both business and personal use today. The original PowerPoint seems to have been called Presenter, and was not developed […]
Word is certainly not InDesign. Over the years it has been given a considerable number of publishing features, like formatting multiple columns, but it lacks some fundamental abilities when it comes to imitating a design software. Designers try to use Word in much the same way as in InDesign, but […]
The Word we have now is far more capable than the first version in 1983 for the IBMPC. The original concept and interface started out as a software called Bravo, it would seem, developed as part of the Xerox Parc labs. [which is the same labs that Steve Jobs took […]