MS PowerPoint Custom Colours

Microsoft PowerPoint is widely used for presentations, documentation, course materials … really for just about anything that you want to share professionally or personally. While you can add all kinds of effects to a presentation, the colours that you choose are important to the overall aesthetics.  

I got to thinking about Windows colour schemes for system colours, and how  similar shades could be  used.   PowerPoint already provides colours for text, lines and arrows, and shape  "fill" or background, but  to achieve  a variety  of similar colours would be tough.

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Simple MultiFilter for Excel

Data filtering is pretty common in Excel to show you only what you want to see.   Most commonly, the "Auto Filter" will provide a dropdown list of values found in a column and allow you to select one of the column values. Once selected, only rows that have the selected value are shown.  

Recently, a colleague was describing a situation he was faced with using a complex worksheet and was finding the built-in filtering capabilities either insufficient or too awkward, which has resulted in what I am sharing here – a simple multifilter addin.  

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Creating and Deploying Managed COM Add-ins with VSTO 2005 SE – Part IV

To read previous blog posts on the subject please see:

Here in the fourth blog post on the subject focus will be on the procedures that make up the utility. In order to take part of the code please sees the following article at my English site: Creating and Deploying Managed COM Add-ins with VSTO SE – Part III

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Creating and Deploying Managed COM Add-ins with VSTO 2005 SE – Part III

This article focuses on adding Ribbon Extensibility to a project, and is based on the Add-in Core discussed here. All code and picture for this post is available at my English site: Creating & Deploying Managed COM Add-ins with VSTO 2005 SE – Part II

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