Here is What’s New in Microsoft PowerPoint 2007, a free online PowerPoint course from Dell which will assist you in becoming more productive using PowerPoint 2007. This free PowerPoint course takes you through many of the important features you need to understand and know so you can use PowerPoint more effectively, including the new Office user interface and application navigation. To start the free PowerPoint 2007 course on Dell’s web page, click on the “Launch Your Free Course Now!” link or the course’s title. (Your pop-up blocker must be disabled and free registration is required.) Below is the outline of the course’s modules.


PowerPoint 2007 Course Overview: Modules & Lessons:

• Navigation Overview   
• What’s New in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007
• Getting Started
• Lesson Introduction   
• Exploring the New Interface   
• Tasks and Tabs   
• Self Test   
• Creating Presentations 
• How to Create Custom Layouts   
• Powerful Diagrams   
• How to Insert Tables and Charts   
• Contextual Menu for Tables and Charts   
• Self Test   
• Enhancing Presentations
• Themes   
• Effects   
• New Presentation Options   
• Self Test   
• Sharing Presentations
• What are PowerPoint Slide Libraries?   
• How to Insert Slides from a PowerPoint Slide Library   
• Publishing Presentations to a PowerPoint Slide Library   
• Review and Approval Workflows   
• How to Finalize Presentations   
• Selecting Appropriate Finalizing Methods   
• Self Test   
• Module Summary   
• Glossary
• Next Steps

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Here is a freely available ebooks, titled Photoshop 7.0 Scripting Ebook that will help you understand and learn how to use and write scripts in Visual Basic or Javascript for making Photoshop easier to use. These scripts in effect direct Photoshop to execute predefine tasks, which can also be actions that are repeated many times, thus saving time through automation. These tasks can be actions such as resizing or reformatting documents. (91 pages, 887kb, pdf format)


Table of Contents for  Photoshop 7.0 Scripting Ebook

Chapter 1 Introduction
   About this manual
   What is scripting?
   Why use scripting?
   What about actions?
   System requirements
   JavaScript
   Choosing a scriptingl anguage
   Legacy COM scripting

Chapter 2 Scripting basics
   Documents as objects
   Object model concepts
   Documenting scripts
   Values
   Variables
   Operators
   Commands and methods
   Handlers, subroutines andfunctions
   The Scripts menu
   Testing and troubleshooting

Chapter 3 Scripting Photoshop
   Photoshop scripting guidelines
   Viewing Photoshopobjects, commands and methods
   Your first Photoshop script
   Object references
   Working with units
   Executing JavaScripts from AS or VB
   The Application object
   Document object
   Layer objects
   Text item object
   Selections
   Working with Filter
   Channel object
   Color object
   History object
   Clipboard interaction
   Action Manager scripting

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