April 2008
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
15h 52m
English
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89 - USE POWERPOINT TEMPLATES
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# 33
HaCK 33:
Load a presentation template into Google Docs. And don’t take the
wrong le extension for a “no.”
When you export a presentation, you can tweak the images and stylesheets to t your needs
. But if you have a PowerPoint template that you want to use (or if you nd one online),
there’s a way to import those into Google Presentations.
To nd a theme, search the Web for keywords such as powerpoint themes or powerpoint
templates. For example, one site that popped up during my search was http://brainybetty.com/
MENUPowerPoint.htm, which offers free ZIP les of Microsoft PowerPoint presentation templates.
After I downloaded and unzipped them, I found that they contained les with the .pot extension (like
BusinessIII.pot).
Google Presentations doesn’t ofcially support PowerPoint templates, but if you make it think
that the le is a PowerPoint document, you can get it to load. Change the le’s .pot (PowerPoint
Template) extension to .ppt (PowerPoint Document), open up Google Docs, and click the Upload
button. Browse for your .ppt le, hit Upload File, and wait a bit. Your presentation will now consist
of two or so slides, and you can multiply any slide by right-clicking a slide thumbnail and selecting
“Duplicate slide” from the context menu, as shown in Figure 4-9.
If you have Microsoft PowerPoint or ...
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