Link YouTube Videos to Powerpoint Presentations

You should spice up your PowerPoint presentations with lively video clips to arrest and hold the attention of your audience! You do not have to waste time making your own videos,as there are such great amazing videos in the YouTube website on any topic - whether it is a tutorial, a fun advertisement,a movie , a song clip or if you have your own YouTube video, then ,well and good!:)
You can incorporate these YouTube videos in your Powerpoint presentations and mind you, linking YouTube video to a PowerPoint presentation is just a cake walk! :) Moreover it does add some pizzazz !

There are two ways to use YouTube Videos in PowerPoint Presentations.

1. You can link the YouTube videos (you will need a good internet connectivity to view this presentation)
   
2. You can download and embed the YouTube videos (by this option you can view the presentation offline)
   

Well, now lets say that you are giving a presentation in a Wi-FIi conference room and the internet connection speed is really fast! Then you can use the first option of just linking the live YouTube Videos directly to your presentation slide.

To link YouTube Videos directly into PowerPoint slide -
You need:

• A YouTube Video plug-in added to your Powerpoint.

You can download the YouTube Video Wizard plug-in from here
and install it in your computer.

When done,

• Open PowerPoint

• Go to Tools,click Add-Ins

The Add New Powerpoint Add-In dialog box will open.
Click the installed Youtube Video add-in and click OK

This will add a new "Insert YouTube Video" command to your PowerPoint Toolbar.

Now you are ready to link the YouTube videos to your Powerpoint Slide!

Next,
Click>Insert in your Powerpoint presentation
Click>YouTube Video command
The Insert You tube Video Wizard will appear and walk you through the process!


Enter the link to the YouTube video you want to be linked, from the YouTube video browser address bar.

By default, the YouTube video size is set to 50% of the PowerPoint slide. This is usually the best size to use. You can set any size you like for the video to play, but then, choosing a larger size will show some distortion in the video.

When you are done , click the Finish button. The YouTube video will be imported into your PowerPoint presentation. You will see large X in the center of your PowerPoint slide.This is a
YouTube Video Placeholder which the YouTube video wizard inserts on your PowerPoint slide.



To see the YouTube video in action, you must watch the presentation as a Slide show.

1. Choose Slide Show > View Show or press the F5 key on your keyboard.

2. Press the Esc key to exit the slide show.



Note - It is important that you have a live internet connection in order to view the linked YouTube video in your PowerPoint presentation!

This YouTube video is not embedded into the presentation, but is simply linked to the web!
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Assign Keystrokes to Symbols for MS Word

While working in MS Word, if you want to use a particular symbol frequently, you can assign a shortcut key to that symbol so that you can insert the symbol into your document by just using the keystroke and avoid the Symbol dialog box.

To assign a keystroke to a symbol:

• Go to Insert Menu

• Click the Symbol

• The Symbol dialog box will appear.

• Highlight the symbol you propose to use.

• Then click the Shortcut Key button.

The Customize Keyboard dialog box will appear.

In the Press new shortcut key box, type in the key combination you want to use, like, press ALT+ the desired key.

Click Assign.



After entering a keystroke and you need to change it, hit the backspace key and enter a new keystroke for the symbol.

After entering a keystroke and you need to change it, hit the backspace key and enter a new keystroke for the symbol.

You can save the shortcut key for the symbol either with the Normal template (the default document template) or with the current document.
If you choose the current document, the shortcut key will only insert the symbol when you are editing only the current document.

To make your selection:
Click on the drop down box beside Save changes in and highlight your choice.


Click Assign and Close.

When the Symbol dialog box reappears, click Close or Cancel.

Your Shortcut key is ready for use and your symbol so very handyand easy to access!

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Inserting Special Characters in MS Word

What are Special characters? They are certain symbols that are not on the Windows keyboard. Like for instance the currency sign for a different country or the copyright or trademark symbols.

To get these and other symbols:
• Go to Insert menu
• Select and click symbol


When the symbol dialog box appears, select the symbol you would like from the display.


• Double click the special character
• Click the Insert button at the bottom of the box

If you do not see the symbol you would like to insert

Click the Special Characters

• Choose and click the special character you want
• Then click the Insert button at the bottom of the box.

• Click Close to return to the document.

The special character that you chose will be inserted in the document at the cursor’s location.

To access some other sets:

Click on the drop-down box beside the Font label.

Scroll down and after several font sets you come to Wingdings.
Find the symbol you would like to insert into your document

That's it!You have whatever character symbols you wish to insert!:)

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Hiding Text in MS Word

Lets say that you have loads of text on a Word document and that you want to print just a portion of that word document or maybe print two different versions of the document. Well its simple and can be done! Oh no, you do not have to have two documents! One document will do ..all that you need to do is just hide the portion that you do not want to print or would not want others to see it! You can always view your hidden text!

To Hide the Text:

1. Highlight the portion you wish to hide

2. Right-click and select Font

3. In the Effects section, select Hidden
4. Click OK
Your text has been hidden!

Now, if you want to view your hidden text...

All that you have to do is to:

1. Click Tools

2. Select Options

3. Open the View tab

4. Under Formatting marks, select or deselect Hidden



5. Click OK

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Microsoft Word's Hidden Calculater

Do you work off line ever so often in MS Word? Have you ever felt the need of a calculator while working offline in Word? Well, Word has a hidden calculator as well! Of course, your computer has a calculator, but then.. while working in Word, it will be easy to use the hidden calculator in Word!

How to find the hidden Calculator in Word:

Since Microsoft has sort of hidden the calculator so very thoroughly, you will have to do a bit of digging to unearth it! When you find it, you will have to drag it to your toolbar!

For Word XP/2003:

1. Open Word
2. Click on the Tool menu and choose Customize.
3. Click the Commands tab in the Customize dialog.


4. In the Categories list click Tools and in the Commands list scroll to Tools Calculate.
5. Click and drag the Tools Calculate command onto wherever in your Toolbar.

6. To display a calculator icon, right-click the Tools Calculate button on the toolbar, select Change Button Image and choose the calculator icon.Right-click the Tools Calculate button once again and click Close.

That’s it! Your hidden calculator has been unearthed and sitting on your Word tool bar!


For Word 2007:

1. Open word.
2. Right-click the Quick Access toolbar and choose Customize Quick Access Toolbar
3. Select For All Documents in the Customize Quick Access Toolbar drop-down box.
4. In the Choose Commands From drop-down box, select Commands Not In The Ribbon.
5. Locate Calculate in the list and double-click it to add it to the list of Quick Access commands, then click OK.

Done! Your hidden calculator has been brought to light!

How to use the Calculator:

Your Word calculator can do addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, percentages, exponentiation and roots.

Addition: +

Subtraction: - or place the number to be subtracted in parentheses, ( )

Multiplication: *

Division: /

Percentages: %

Exponentiation and roots: ^

The result is usually displayed, for a brief moment, in Word's status bar. The result is also stored on the clipboard and you can press Ctrl+V to either paste it into your Word document, or copy it to another program.

For instance.. Type 235+235 in your word document and highlight it and click your calculator and viola …your answer is in Words status bar! Do remember that it is there for a brief moment but then ,it will also be stored in your clip board.

I’m sure you got the picture now and you can calculate likewise with other options as well!

The Word Calculator works in Paragraphs

The calculator works in paragraphs as well. In certain paras the numbers intervenes with text. In such paras too the calculater works .
Thus , if you use the calculator on the following sentence:

At the conference there were 16 professors, 9 researchers, 44 scientists and 345 students and 45 guests.



The total number at the conference will be calculated.The answer 459 is in the status bar.


In the same manner,the calculator recognizes only Digits.. A sentence like "There were three women and 18 men in the room " will add up to 18 and not 21.

Uninstall / Remove

You cannot uninstall the Word calculator as it is embedded in the program.However,
the toolbar buttons can be removed from the toolbar, just like any other toolbar icon.

In Word 2003 :

Open the Customize dialog .
Go to the toolbar and drag the icon off the toolbar. (Just like how you added the icon by dragging it from the Customize dialog to the toolbar , to remove ,drag the icon away from the toolbar while the Customize dialog is still open.

In Word 2007:

Go to the Customize Quick Access Toolbar.
On the right there is a list of buttons on the QAT.
Click on the one you want to remove and click the Remove button .


Well..this is awesome! Work away in Word without moving away from Word!

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