PowerPoint Tips: How to Embed an Excel Spreadsheet into a PowerPoint

Microsoft's Excel and PowerPoint are both frequently-used tools for office working. Sometimes we need to show the Excel spreadsheet and PowerPoint slideshow at the same time. As a consequence, it could be very convenient to simply embed Excel into PowerPoint. The process are shown below.

Step 1 Open a PowerPoint file. On the slide that you want to embed a spreadsheet, click Insert tab and choose Object option.

Step 2 On the Insert Object dialog box, choose the Create from File button, then click on Browse. In the menu box that pops up, find the location of your Excel file. Double-click on the Excel file you want to embed into PowerPoint, then hit the OK button.

Step 3 Now we successfully embed an Excel sheet into PPT. We can resize the Excel sheet, drag and drop to move it to the desired location. It's also easy to edit contents by double-clicking on the sheet.

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Free Download The Croods Movie Wallpapers

The Croods is an upcoming American 3D computer-animated adventure comedy film. Produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by 20th Century Fox, the movie features the voices of Nicolas Cage, Ryan Reynolds, Emma Stone, Catherine Keener, Clark Duke, and Cloris Leachman.

The Croods will hit the theater in March 22, 2013, a game app of the same name is already available for iOS. Here I've collected some official wallpapers of this film. They can be used as PPT backgrounds as well. Enjoy the movie!

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How to Embed Twitter in a PowerPoint File?

A couple of hours ago, I saw a tweet on twitter. Somebody asked, "How do you embed twitter into PPT?" To tell you the truth, I've never thought of such a question. Why do people want to embed tweets in PowerPoint? That's weird.

Though it's rare to embed twitter in PPT, there's a way to do the trick. Here's the steps.

Step 1 Download the PowerPoint add-on from SAP Web 2.0 and save it on your computer. It should be a file named powerpoint_twitter_tools.ppt, a presentation with the SAP Web 2.0 Twitter tools embedded.

Step 2 Double-click to open the PPT file. The click on the 4th slide of the presentation.

Step 3 Press Shift+F5 to start the presentation. Type the search term you want to return in the lower left-hand corner of the screen, then click Refresh. You'll see the most recent tweets with that term.

For example, I entered "St. Patrick's Day", and I got this:

Step 4 Copy and paste this slide into your PowerPoint presentation. Done. This is how we normally embed twitter in PowerPoint.

Notes: 

• You must have Internet access when you're giving the presentation for the twitter feed to appear.
• Enter the search term before you give your presentation live so it will refresh automatically.

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Life Companion from Samsung, Enjoy Playing PowerPoint on Galaxy S4

Samsung has just unveiled its brand new flagship, the Galaxy S4 on March 14 at a stage dramatic event. On the stage, this handset is positioned as the "life companion". With similar design to Galaxy S3, the new S4 will ship in 155 countries next month.

Specs
The Galaxy S4 has a good and large screen: a 4.99-inch full-HD Super AMOLED display with 1080*1920 pixels of resolution and 441 ppi. Reports before the event indicated that the phone's case is made of plastic, comes up with a 1.8 GHz Exynos 5410 Octa processor and runs Android 4.2.1. It also has 2GB of RAM, 16GB, 32GB or 64GB of internal storage with MicroSD card expandation. For cameras, this gadget has a 13MP rear camera and a 2MP front-facing one. A massive 2600 mAh battery is also equipped to provide longer stand-by time.

Highlights

• Camera features. A dozen of new camera features are introduced. For example, the Dual Camera record feature allows users to use two cameras at the same time. The Sound and Shot feature can record a 5-second audio before taking a pic. 
• Air View. With the help of the Air View feature, users can scroll through pages with a wave of their hand, other than touching the screen with fingers or stylus.
• S Translator. This feature supports translation among 9 languages, enables to convert voice and words.
• Smart Switch. A feature that transfers data to PC and then restores it to another S4. (like apple's iTunes?)
• Samsung Knox. Similar to BlackBerry Balance, the Samsung Knox is for users to switch modes between Life and Work simply.
• Eye tracking. The Galaxy S4 supports eye tracking feature. That is, the phone plays videos as usual while user's eyes stare at the screen, otherwise it stops automatically. Samsung's competitor, LG, has brought similar software to its Optimus G Pro as well.

Watch PowerPoint on Galaxy S4
The Samsung Galaxy S4 is really an omnipotent gadget for users,isn't it? With lots of innovative technologies integrated, the Galaxy S4 is tough enough to compete with iPhone 5 and even upcoming iPhone 6. So, does this phone has weakness?

As an Android based gadget, its system can't be as fluent as iOS yet, let alone the malware hidden in Android apps. Moreover, it could be a little difficult to view PowerPoint on Galaxy S4. Usually users show PPT on Android devices with Office apps, but these apps can't totally remain some PowerPoint elements, such as background music, animations and transition. As an alternative of Office apps, a PowerPoint to Galaxy S4 video converter can be used to solve the problem. By converting PowerPoint files to mobile suitable video formats, users can play PPT on Galaxy S4's HD display without difficulty.

4 Methods to Reduce PowerPoint File Size

Question
I've just finished a PowerPoint file, but it's almost 20 MB in size! It's too large to send by e-mail. How on earth can I reduce my PowerPoint file size?

Answer
There are several methods to reduce PPT size in PowerPoint 2010. Some of them are available for all PowerPoint versions. Now let's take a look.

Method 1 Save PowerPoint with a new file name
It's said in some cases, this method can reduce the size of the file by up to 50%.
1) Click File and choose Save As in the tool bar.
2) Type a new file name, then click Save.

Method 2 Compress PowerPoint pictures
You can make the PowerPoint file size smaller by reducing the color format of the pictures (compressing).
1) Double-click the picture or pictures that you want to compress.
2) Under Picture Tools, on the Format tab, in the Adjust group, choose Compress Pictures.

3) To compress the selected pictures only and not all of the pictures in the PowerPoint, select the Apply only to this picture check box.
4) Under Target Output, click to choose the resolution that you want.

Method 3 Turn off the activated review feature (PowerPoint 2007 only)
1) On the Tools menu, click Options and choose Advanced E-mail tab
2) Clear the check box next to “add properties to attachments to enable reply with changes”.

Method 4 Break down a large PowerPoint file into several smaller files
If your PowerPoint file is too large, then why not split it into 2 or more smaller files instead? Create a hyperlink from the last slide in File 1 to the first slide in File 2 and then close off File 1. This method is available for PowerPoint 2007/2010.
1) Add a new slide to the end of the first PowerPoint file.
2) On the Home tab, click on the rectangle tool in the Drawing section.

3) Draw a rectangle large enough to cover the whole slide.

4) Right click on the rectangle and choose Format Shape... from the menu.
5) In the Format Shape dialog box, select Fill -> Solid Fill. Choose black from the Color drop down selections and then close the dialog box.

6) Right click on the rectangle again and choose Hyperlink....
7) In the Link to: section on the left side of the dialog box, choose Existing File or Web Page.
8) Locate the second PowerPoint file previously saved on this computer. Click OK to confirm.


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