When adding emoticons to your PowerPoint slides, sometimes the rendering might not be as expected. For example, PowerPoint renders the emoticon only in a textual, monochrome variant on the slide. So, how can we influence this behavior?

Learn how to stack emoticons in PowerPoint to create engaging and visually appealing slide titles. Bring your presentations to life with this quick and easy tip!

Last week I received an invitation for a social work meeting about "Pixel art in spreadsheets". I thought: "How hard can it be". Well, it is about 25 lines of C# 9.0 hard! 😁

The other day I attended a meeting where the presenter switched from a PowerPoint slide to demonstrate an application. When he made the switch it was quite obvious the beamer was setup to only display the 4:3 slides to the maximum of the white screen. Since his desktop was in a 16:10 resolution the application was falling of the screen on both sides. While I was preparing a presentation myself I wanted to be sure my presentation would be in the same resolution as my desktop as I would be switching between my slides and Visual Studio.

This week I gave a presentation at Winvision and recorded it in Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007. The resulting recording is a webpage with multiple streams: desktop video, presenter video and audio. The problem is that the codec used doesn't work on x64 systems or Windows 7 (Server). Watching the separate streams isn't really an option because there is no audio included in the video streams. But I got lucky as it seems Microsoft has released a new tool called “Recording Converter for Microsoft Office Live Meeting 2007” only last month.