Embed Fonts

To embed fonts in the active presentation, follow these steps:

• Choose Office Button | PowerPoint Options to bring up a dialog box of the same name.
• Choose the Save tab in the left pane.
• Check the option that says Embed fonts in this file.
• Click OK to get back to your presentation.

You'll need to save your presentation for these changes to have effect.

Remember, not all fonts can be embedded -- and PowerPoint may still not embed any fonts used as a bullet.

SmartArt in PowerPoint 2007

SmartArt is the replacement in PowerPoint 2007 (and other Office 2007 programs) for the diagramming feature in older versions of PowerPoint. It's actually much more than a replacement because it does things that diagrams never dreamt about!

Indezine.com provides a full chapter on SmartArt as a free book excerpt -- read it here...

Marking PowerPoint 2007 Presentations as Final

Do you move your slide objects by mistake? Maybe that chart moved up a few nudges due to an oversensitive mouse, or you pressed the arrow keys on the keyboard when a text box was selected? Or maybe you don't want to edit a presentation even by mistake once everything is final.

You're in luck if you use PowerPoint 2007 -- just choose Office Button| Prepare | Mark as Final, and your presentation is now read-only and cannot be edited. If you save the file with a new name, it still cannot be edited.

But if you choose Office Button | Prepare | Mark as Final again, the presentation toggles back to its original status, and you can make all the edits you want. Once you are done making the edits, mark it as final again.

For sure, this is not as good as password protection against edits -- but it's great for those occasions when you or someone else might edit the presentation by mistake.