How to Create an Editable PowerPoint

 

How to Create an Editable PowerPoint, Step-by-Step:

Good news: you can create an editable PowerPoint.  

More good news: you can flatten the un-editable portions of your images, by saving them as jpgs, then copying and pasting those jpgs back into a blank PowerPoint--page by page.  That way, no one can lift out the clip art and text. On top of those jpgs, you can insert the editable fields.

Bad news: the ppt will not be secure.  Also, the quality of a simple jpg will not be quite as crisp and clear when you print it, as a pdf would be.  

You can go into your systems to increase the dpi of your jpgs. But the printed PowerPoint pages will still not look super-clear.

Or...

For MUCH CRISPER EDITABLE PPTs

You'll need Adobe Acrobat DC Pro.

·         Prep the PowerPoint (ppt): make a copy of the ppt, and from this copy, remove all editable fields including any print with hyperlinks.  

    

    Keep only the backgrounds, borders, graphics, images, and clipart that you want to be flattened so no one can lift them out of the doc.

    Also, keep any text that will be non-editable!

·         Remove page #s if desired, and add one page with a blank border, to add text and a TOC Table of Contents

·         Open ppt/ save as / adobe pdf

·         Tools/ export pdf/ image/ JPG [Select JPG, then click on the settings sprocket icon next to it]

·         Settings/Gray scale quality: maximum/ Color: maximum

·         Format: progressive (5 scans) / [USE DEFAULT SETTINGS FOR ALL OTHERS]

·         OK/ Export/ Select an Empty folder or Create a folder called: [Doc Name] JPGs / Save

·          Next, create a new ppt called: [Doc Name] JPGs AND: Import the jpgs one at a time onto each blank page of the ppt

·         Add editable text fields from original ppt as necessary, including Title page, TOC page text, and terms of use page text--with hyperlinks--which will be inserted into a blank border page

--   Add any text that you wish, that will not be flattened.   Buyers can edit this.

--  Tell buyers that they can add any text they wish, and explain how to add a text box:  Insert > Textbox > [Type inside the box; edit the color, size, font; click and drag the box anywhere on the page.]

·         Shrink borders for proper printing, slim at left and top, a bit wider extra border at right and © at above 1” from the bottom, if necessary for proper printing

·         Save as ppt [Doc Name] EDITABLE w JPGs

I hope this helps you to create editable PowerPoints that will print out super-crisp and clear.

If you'd like to know how to create an editable and secure PDF, step-by-step, it's here!

 

How to Tie a Shoe for Kids

I'll never, ever tie another shoe again!

Why should I?  I figured out the holy grail of kids' sneakers.

This year, not a single kid could tie a shoe.  Not one.

I knew I'd be squatting all day, knotting a spaghetti tangle of shoe laces.

Did I panic?  Yes, briefly.  Then I recovered--and realized what I had to do.

I spent 10 minutes teaching about the shoe tie center.

I opened the Shoe Tie Tutorial on my SMARTboard, and followed the "Easy Tie" Steps.  I used the kiddie sneaker I keep in my learning center, and I showed each step in real-time.   And...I had my kids act out the steps in mid-air--a fun brain break, if you vamp it up a little:

1)  Pull the laces out
2)  Cross them over
3)  Put one lace into the hole
4)  Pull the laces tight

etc., etc...

I went through the steps twice, then I set up my Shoe Tie Center (with a printout of the shoe tie tutorial in a binder), and watched the magic happen.

Day One, one girl learned how to tie shoes.  She signed my Shoe Tie Club poster, and she won an award and a little prize.

Ahh, the look on a child's face when they tie their first shoe is glorious!

Day Two, she taught 4 other kids, using the binder pictures...

Once my kids master the easy shoe tie, they move on to the advanced shoe tie.  That's the one where they have to loop around a loop.  It's a piece of cake--not!  (no pun intended!)

The doctorate level involves making a double knot--which every teacher knows is a MUST to get through a whole day.

To quote one buyer: 

"It works! It really, really works! I'm never tying another shoe, except my own, once a day. I love this product!"  

Maybe, I'll set that to a rock beat and belt it out, while standing on a kindergarten tabletop.

Or I'll sing to the tune of George Michael's "Careless Whisper."

"I'll never tie a shoe again

Guilt-less feet have got some rhythm..."

I'm definitely doing a happy dance!