Friday, February 12, 2010

How to Move Pointer Using Keyboard

MouseKeys is designed for people who have difficulty using a mouse. MouseKeys allows you to use the numeric keypad to control the mouse pointer. If you want to use the numeric keypad for data entry as well as for navigation, you can set the MouseKeys to be activated by pressing NUM LOCK.

Open Accessibility Options.
On the Mouse tab, under MouseKeys, click Settings, and then do one of the following:
  1. To use the shortcut which allows you to turn MouseKeys on or off by pressing left ALT+left SHIFT+NUM LOCK, select the Use shortcut check box. 
  2. To set the maximum speed at which the mouse pointer moves when you hold down a MouseKeys direction key, under Pointer speed, drag the Top speed slider.
  • To set how quickly the mouse pointer accelerates to its maximum speed when you hold down a MouseKeys direction key, under Pointer speed, drag the Acceleration slider. 
  • To enable slowing down the pointer speed by holding down the SHIFT key and speeding up the pointer speed by holding down the CTRL key while pressing MouseKeys direction keys, select the Hold down Ctrl to speed up and Shift to slow down check box. 
  • To switch between MouseKeys and standard numeric keypad operation by pressing NUM LOCK, after Use MouseKeys when NumLock is select Off if you use the keypad for data entry or select On if you primarily use the numeric keypad for navigation. 
  •  To show an icon on the taskbar when MouseKeys is turned on, select the Show MouseKey status on screen check box.
Note:
To open Accessibility Options, click Start, click Control Panel, and then double-click Accessibility Options.

Monday, February 1, 2010

Create Animation on Power Point

There are two kind of animation on Power Point, and Object animation and Animate Diagram or Organization Chart. How to animate this? Basically the principle and the tool use to animate the two kind of those object are the same.

The first time you must create your texts or object or organization chart you want to animate. After you create using power point design and power point layout, you can animate using this procedure:

  • In normal view, display the slide that has the texts you want to animate.
  •  If you only want to apply the animation scheme to a few slides, click slides tab, and select the slides you want.
  • On the Slide Show menu, click Animation Schemes.
  • On the Slide Design task pane, under Apply to selected slides, click an animation scheme in the list.
  • If you want to apply the scheme to all slides, click the Apply to All slides button.
To apply a custom animation to text and object, follow this step:
  • In normal view, display the slide that has the text or objects you want to animate.
  • Select the object you want to animate.
  • On the Slide Show menu, click Custom Animation.
In the Custom Animation task pane, click Add Effect, and do one or more of the following:
  • If you want to make the text or object enter the slide show presentation with an effect, point to Entrance and then click an effect.
  • If you want to add an effect to text or an object that is on the slide, point to Emphasis and then click an effect.
  • If you want to add an effect to text or an object that makes it leaves the slide at some point, point to Exit and then click an effect.
  • If you want to add an effect that makes an object move in a specified pattern, point to Motion Paths and then click an effect.
  • Add Motion Path to Animation Text, object or Chart.
  • In normal view, display the slide that has the text or object you want to create a motion path for.
  • Select the text item or object you want to animate. For text items, you can select a placeholder or paragraph (including a bullet). 
  •  If the Custom Animation task pane is not displayed, on the Slide Show menu, click Custom Animation.
In the Custom Animation task pane, click Add Effect, point to Motion Paths, and do one of the following:
  • Click a preset path or click More Motion Paths to choose from more options
  •  Click Freeform to draw a path with both curved and straight segments. Drag to draw freehand shapes; click and move the mouse to draw straight lines.
  •  Click Scribble and drag to draw a path that looks more like it was drawn with a pen or to create smooth curves.
  • Click Line and drag to draw a straight path.
  • Click Curve and click where you want the curved path to start, and then continue to move the mouse and click wherever you want to add a curve.
In the Custom Animation task pane, in the Custom Animation List, click the animated text item that you want.

Click the arrow, click Effect Options, and then do one or more of the following:
  • If you want to animate by letter, on the Effect tab, in the Animate text list, click By Letter.
  •  If you want to animate by word, on the Effect tab, in the Animate text list, click By word.
  • If you want to animate by paragraph level or bullet, on the Text Animation tab, in the Group Text list, click an option.
  • If you want to delay in action between letter, word, or paragraph animations, on the Timing tab, enter a number in the Delay box.
  • To animate the text all at once, on the effect tab, in the Animate text list, click As one object.
To animate a diagram or graph use the similar ways of the above procedures, but to animate elements of diagram or graph you must ungroup first of graph elements and then create animation on that each elements or group diagram. After you ungroup of these graph elements you can create an animation to diagram elements by click the Effect Options, then on the Diagram Animation tab, in Group Diagram list, click an option.