Welcome to 123PPT.com's PowerPoint Tips and Tricks for Customizing PowerPoint. Within this section you'll find tips and tricks that provide insight into customizing PowerPoint to help you gain the most out of working with the application. Our PowerPoint professionals and technical staff, have compiled these helpful PowerPoint tips and techniques, and continue to add new tips and helpful user tricks each week, to help increase your productivity, and effectiveness with the worlds leading presentation tool. In an effort to make these helpful tips and tricks, more readily available, we have compiled a list of PowerPoint tips and user "how-to's" into several categories which are listed in the right hand menu. To find a helpful tip, select the category that is most relevant to your inquiry. Our latest PowerPoint Tips and Tricks for Customizing PowerPoint can be seen below: How to print a PowerPoint presentation without opening PowerPoint? How to save a customized tool bar configuration? How to start PowerPoint without the slide dialog box? How to print a PowerPoint presentation without opening PowerPoint? To print your presentation without even opening PowerPoint: Click the Windows Start button in the lower left hand corner. Select "Run" Type "POWERPNT.EXE /p filetoprint.PPT" into the text field. Replacing filetoprint.PPT, with the name of the PowerPoint presentation that you wish to print. How to save a customized tool bar configuration? When customizing your tool bar configuration, its layout, icons, visible options, and positions, are all recorded and noted within a file named ppt.pcb. The ppt.pcb is typically found at c:\windows\application data\microsoft\powerpoint\ppt.pcb, and by copying this file, you can also move your tool bar customization to other machines. How to start PowerPoint without the slide dialog box? To start PowerPoint without the slide dialog box: Select Options from the Tools main menu option. Click the View tab. Users of PowerPoint 97 should instead click the General tab. Remove the check from the "Show Startup Dialog". Users of PowerPoint 97, should also remove the check from the "Show Slide Dialog" checkbox. Click OK to save your settings. Email this page to a Friend     About 123PPT.com     Advertise on 123PPT.com PowerPoint templates | PowerPoint backgrounds | PowerPoint Video backgrounds | PowerPoint Photos | PowerPoint Music | PowerPoint Sound Effects 123PPT.com is a part of 123OfficeMedia. All content within this page remains the property of 123PPT.com and may not be reproduced, copied or otherwise republished without written consent. © 2008 123PPT.com. All rights reserved.