[QUOTE=GargoyleWB]
Now if anyone can show me how to start Powerpoint with a default blank slide, instead of one with “helpful” blank text and menu boxes already on the slide, I will FedEx you a jelly donut.
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Hold the Donut but:** I tested this and it worked in PP 2003. **
[QUOTE=PowerPoint Help]
Change the default design for new presentations
When you click New on the Standard toolbar, Microsoft PowerPoint displays a new slide that uses a default (“blank”) design. You can change this design so that it always includes certain elements, such as a logo or a type of background, font, or bullet.
On the Standard toolbar, click New .
On the View menu, point to Master, and then click Slide Master.
On the slide master (slide master: The slide that stores information about the design template applied, including font styles, placeholder sizes and positions, background design, and color schemes.), make the changes that you want to be reflected in every new presentation.
On the Slide Master View toolbar, click Close Master View.
On the File menu, click Save As.
Note In order for blank.pot to become the default, it must be saved to the default path in the Save As dialog box.
In the Save as type box, select Design Template; in the File Name box, type blank, and then click Save.
Close the template.
Note You must name the template “blank.pot” regardless of what language version of PowerPoint you have and which language is installed. Also, the variation “blank presentation.pot” will not work.
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When you bring up the default slide just delete box on it and if you follow all of this, the next time you open Power Point you have a blank Slide.
Did anyone try the Beta version of IE7 and then go to the full release? I’m still using that and I like it. I don’t want to update now that everyone is harping on about how bad this sucks.
I loaded IE7 after reading this thread. I liked tabbed browsing, but I was sick of Firefox crashing. So far, so good with IE7. I’m not sure how all of you have your menus configured, but right now mine are taking up less screen space than any other browser I’ve ever used.
[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright]
Did anyone try the Beta version of IE7 and then go to the full release? I’m still using that and I like it. I don’t want to update now that everyone is harping on about how bad this sucks.
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Like I said earlier, the favicons which worked so well in Release Candidate 1 are now screwed up in the official release.
I just installed it, to see what the fuss was about.
It’s hideous!! I’m astonished. It looks like some terrible piece of crappy shareware. No logic to the layout, nothing. And half a GB of disk space, too.
Kind of makes me think they’re just not trying. Content to let the competition take this one, saving them the hassle of working hard themselves.
[QUOTE=GorillaMan]
I just installed it, to see what the fuss was about.
It’s hideous!! I’m astonished. It looks like some terrible piece of crappy shareware. No logic to the layout, nothing. And half a GB of disk space, too.
Kind of makes me think they’re just not trying. Content to let the competition take this one, saving them the hassle of working hard themselves.
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I did this too, and now I want the old Explorer back…Can I uninstall this and get the old release back?
Well… I finally found one page in IE 7 that I can’t get to load properly. Some editor controls for a different message board are being blocked. Other than that, it’s been very smooth sailing.
I know there is a lot of love here for Firefox. I used it for the tabbed browsing, but I was underwhelmed with its stability. It also had issues with some sites not loading properly. I used IE 6 for those sites. I’m quite happy so far with IE 7, but unfortunately, I’m still going to have to keep a second browser for troublesome sites.
[QUOTE=GorillaMan]
I just installed it, to see what the fuss was about.
It’s hideous!! I’m astonished. It looks like some terrible piece of crappy shareware. No logic to the layout, nothing. And half a GB of disk space, too.
Kind of makes me think they’re just not trying. Content to let the competition take this one, saving them the hassle of working hard themselves.
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Well, after reading your post, i decided not to bother even trying IE7. I hardly ever use IE6 anyway.
Instead, i just downloaded and installed Firefox 2.0. The latest full release should replace 1.5.0.7 on the regular Firefox site tonight or tomorrow, and it’s already available elsewhere on the Mozilla site, and at various mirror sites, like this one.
I was a little worried that i’d lose compatibility with a lot of my extensions (as sometimes happens with new FF releases), but all of my favorite extensions have already been updated to include 2.0, so everything’s good.
I abhor Firefox 2.0! I’m ripping this crap out and going back to 1.5 for as long as possible. Might as well use IE7, AFAIC.
I lost several extensions, but nothing major - spell check is incorporated into 2.0, so that extension is obsolete, moon-phases I can live without for a few days, but I can’t stand the close-tab button being on the tab - I had an extension that did this months ago and took it off.
Perhaps I should take a few deep breaths.
I got used to IE7 beta 2 - I like it, just not as much as I like Firefox 1.5.
No comment on the final release, MS has fucked up every final release since IE4 (well, longer than that, but IE4 is the first Beta I messed with)
[QUOTE=Bobotheoptimist]
I can’t stand the close-tab button being on the tab - I had an extension that did this months ago and took it off.
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Agreed. Is there any tweak to disable this, anyone?
I’m happy to sit and wait for extension updates. And FWIW, at a rough guess, installing Firefox 2.0 took about one-twentieth of the time of installing IE7.
[QUOTE=Bobotheoptimist]
…but I can’t stand the close-tab button being on the tab - I had an extension that did this months ago and took it off.
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Each to their own; i actually prefer the close buttons being on the tabs, like in Opera. Having the single close button over on the right always struck me as poor design.
I guess we must browse differently.
I use mouse gestures for closing tabs most of the time anyway.
[QUOTE=mhendo]
Each to their own; i actually prefer the close buttons being on the tabs, like in Opera. Having the single close button over on the right always struck me as poor design.
I guess we must browse differently.
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Fully agreed. Which is why I (and it would seem others) are amazed that there’s no obvious way to go back to the ‘old Firefox’ way of using a close button.
[QUOTE=RogueRacer]
… I was sick of Firefox crashing
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What version do you have? I had this problem with one a few months ago (I’m on Linux) but it was fixed in the very next update.
It makes a pre-defined movement of the mouse into an interface command. For example, in Opera I don’t have to click on a small button up in the top right corner to close a tab - I just hold the right mouse button, make a swishing motion down and right, and the tab closes. Up-down to refresh, up to stop, left and right are forwards and backwards respectively. The right-click means you can’t do them accidentally. There are more, but those are the main ones, and those alone mean that my browser interface looks like this (spot the buttons).
As I say, the only problem is that they get so addictive that you start trying them in other programs. But now you can do that too.
Hmm, I sound a little bit like the dribbly evangelist guy on Oxford Circus. Ah well.
