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Saturday, 30 June 2012

Nominative determinism 12





I've not done a nominative determinism post in ages, but here's another good one.

The author of a draft report on the proposal for a new EU directive on recreational crafts and personal watercrafts is called…

Malcolm Harbour

 

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Thursday, 28 June 2012

Powerpoint - how to close the notes pane at the bottom





In Powerpoint 2010, if you do a search and the text you're searching is inside any of the Notes to your slides, it will show the Note at the bottom of the slide in a separate pane.

The annoying thing is that there's no X to close that pane once you're done with it.

The simple solution? Move the mouse pointer over the divider tipbetween the slide, so that it becomes a double headed black arrow with vertical lines - as outlined in red in the pic below.

powerpointNotes

Then click and drag that divider down to the bottom of your window with your mouse.

That's it!

Monday, 25 June 2012

Powerpoint - how to get back the slides thumbnails list on the left





In Powerpoint 2010, on the left there's normally a vertical display or pane listing thumbnails of all your slides vertically, outlined in red below, so that you can select or edit particular slides quickly (and copy/paste etc individual slides too).

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If you click the X to close that vertical pane on the left, how do you get that pane or view back?

It's not at all obvious. But there are two possible ways:

  • Click on the Normal button in the View menu (outlined in blue below), or
  • Move your mouse pointer to the left border of the window until it becomes a double-headed arrow (see the red outline) - that's actually the divider, and if you click and drag to the right you can get the pane back!

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