Tom Van 't Veld 14 blogposts

By default, Prezi doesn’t support sound files. It does, however, support FLV files. So you could add a sound file as you would a video file, and play it on a specific location in your Prezi. First of all, you need to make an FLV file of your music. In this example, we’ll use Windows Movie Maker and a website, but any other option will do. Create a new movie in Windows Movie Maker and add a pic…

PowerPoint 2013 offers by default a slide size in widescreen format (16:9). If you want to present on a normal screen beamer, this would mean you lose a lot of space on the screen. In the tab 'Design', you can change the 'Slide Size' and switch between a widescreen and standard slide size (4:3). Be careful, however, as this applies to the entire presentation, not just the selected slide! So it's b…

OneNote offers some great possibilities during a meeting. In this blogpost I will explain how you can get the best out of combining Outlook and OneNote during a meeting. Let’s start from the following situation: you have a meeting request in your Outlook Calendar detailing what will happen during the meeting. Someone asks you to take notes and share those notes with the other participants afterw…

Outlook 2013 often has an annoying problem: the search function doesn’t work properly! Since this is one of the most important tools in your mailbox, here’s a workaround that might help.  First, look up any pst-files you might have on your computer. Right click on the pst file(s) and select advanced on the general tab. Put a check in the "Allow this file to have contents in addition to the file"…

An overview of the different levels of contribution in Lync 2013

OneNote is a program ideally suited for meetings. But since you usually structure your meetings the same way (agenda, to do’s,…) it would be nice to have some kind of template for this.

Let’s say you have a folder with a number of files and you want to have an Excel file that lists those files. Here’s how to do it (Note: this also works in Excel 2003 or older. However, I’m going to explain the Excel 2007/2010 way).

One of the major advancements in Word 2007 and 2010 was the fact that you can save almost anything as a building block. The same goes for watermarks, as you have the option in the gallery to save the watermark. However, to do this, you first need to select your watermark. And since it is placed behind your text, you can’t select it.