Month: March 2007

PowerPoint Heaven Updates on Jerry Lee’s artworks:1) Added a new PowerPoint Webcomic, Powerpuff Girls: The Boys Are Back In Town. The webcomic is based off a popular cartoon, The Powerpuff Girls, and is well-inspired by the works of Bleedman. It is a grown up version of the cartoon, where the story revolves around three girls: Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup, who have now got into college. (Link can be found on front page)2) Added Basic PowerPoint Art Tutorial. This is a tutorial that shows you how to draw a comic character in PowerPoint. In this tutorial, you will follow step-by-step instructions … Continue reading PowerPoint Webcomic and Tutorial

Anthony Barfield is our new PowerPoint Heaven contributor! He specializes in creating PowerPoint games. You will be seeing his new game on this coming April. More information will be available to you in the next few days.

I have added a sub-site, PowerPoint Experimental Laboratory which holds a list of ppt files. Most of these files are experiments and samples providing solutions for questions posted on Microsoft Office Discussion Group. If you are interested, feel free to take a look at these samples: http://pptheaven.mvps.org/experimental.html

From what I know, Fikree has scrapped his latest project on SCROLL. Instead, it has been renamed as Pointer’s Way 4. This will be the last PowerPoint game for Pointer’s Way series. Once again, you have to scroll your way through 60 levels (Full Version), avoid new killer obstacle, and unlock things to get pass through. You’llface 3 new bosses. Pointer’s Way 4 demo has been released. You can download them at:http://files.filefront.com/Pointers_Way_4_Demo/;6948157;;/fileinfo.html

Rhapzodé is a PowerPoint compiler by altaVENTE. It has wide variety of file conversions (converting ppt to swf, html, pdf, exe, and etc) and security features. This product is recommended for presentations where security comes first. Check out the review at PowerPoint Heaven:http://pptheaven.mvps.org/tutorials/Rhapzode.html

Often, you would like to have PowerPoint animating your text like those credits in a movie. PowerPoint 2002/XP has this Credits effect. Opening the Custom Animation task pane, select the text box, and click Add Effect > Entrance > Credits. This works fine if you keep the list of text short. Unfortunately if you have a long list of text, credits animation stopping half way through the slide would be a common issue, and you may wonder why.The reason is because, the credits effect will only animate those text that are within the slide. If you have a long list of text, causing the textbox overflowing the slide, the credits animation … Continue reading Incomplete Credits Animation