Something useful for PPT2007

Hate always starting with the Calibri font package in PowerPoint 2007? Wish you could go back to Arial or Times New Roman? Then look no further than this post! Just follow the simple instructions below to set your own default presentation theme or design a new one:

In order to change the default font for PowerPoint 2007, we have to create a base
template and save it in default templates folder. Please follow the steps mentioned
below to create and save a base template and see if that will meet your
requirements.

1. Start PowerPoint 2007.
2. Select View tab ; then select Slide Master
3. 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. You have to make the changes to each slide of the slide master.
4. Then click Close Master View.
5. Click Office Button and then click Save As > Other formats
6. Pick PowerPoint Template from the Save As Type list box
7. Save the template as Blank.potx. PowerPoint will automatically chooses the folder as %Appdata%\Microsoft\Templates, so accept the default location. The default location would be \Documents and Settings\\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates.
9. Close the file and start a new presentation to verify the font.
For your testing, attached a sample Blank.potx file based on your requirement.

(Courtesy of: Office Deployment Support Team Blog at http://blogs.technet.com/odsupport/archive/2009/04/24/how-to-deploy-specific-fonts-in-office-2007.aspx)

Whoa, I've Moved and Other Stuff!

Wow, so it's been an inexcusably long time since I've posted. I really should model my blog more after Saket's. He does a better job of actually, you know, blogging.

So what's happened since the middle of March? Obviously, the rest of that month, April, May, and about a week of June. In that time I've completed both of my required TAships (to smashing successes), finished my last graded class EVER (at least for grad school), and MOVED! My new digs are downtown, just two blocks off Michigan Avenue (the Magnificent Mile stretch of that great street) along Ohio St. For those who know the city, I'm very close to the Northwestern Medical Campus. And Nordstrom's. And the Gap. And Eddie Bauer. Oh my....it's going to be fun come day-after-Thanksgiving sale weekend!!

Once I get my act together and blog from home (I'm on my school comp right now), I'll post pictures. In short, I can see: the Chicago River, the Trump Tower, the Sears Tower (a sliver), and the skyscrapers bordering Millennium Park. I'm also about five blocks away from Navy Pier, so I'll be attending a lot more WBEZ events.

So what's next? Before June is over I'll have traveled to California to celebrate Saket's graduation from Stanford (CONGRATS), celebrated my Dad's 64th birthday (insert Beatles song here) and Father's Day, visited Yosemite National Park and Lake Tahoe, and both written and succesfully defended my thesis proposal. I will actually have a laptop on that trip so I promise to update in a more timely fashion.

Until then, my sweets, farewell!