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09/06/2023

Never-before-seen PowerPoint tricks
Have you ever seen a very good colleague working on PowerPoint, only to be struck by something he does, and you don’t understand how he did it?

You know, those gestures, those functions or shortcuts that surprise you and that if you’d known them before, you would have saved a lot of work time? I’ll show you 10 PowerPoint Hacks you’ve never heard of.

With time and experience, I have learned countless functions, generally by working directly on PowerPoint presentations and also by answering specific community questions.

So, I decided to create a list of PowerPoint tricks that, in my opinion, are more interesting and can really change your life, saving you an important amount of time.

From now on, I’ll update this list every time I discover a new, interesting trick. So, do not hesitate to give me some suggestions!

Let’s start.

Table of Contents

1. PowerPoint Hacks You May Not Know About
a. Make multiple images the same size
b. Keep everything at your fingertips with the Quick Access Toolbar
c. Quickly duplicate any object
d. Getting rid of bullet points
e. Fixed page numbers (requires knowledge of the slidemaster in PowerPoint)
f. Learn how to manage layers in PowerPoint
g. How to make a transparent image in PowerPoint
h. Record videos in PowerPoint
i. How to create image templates in PowerPoint
k. Auto play videos in your presentations

For more read here: https://quickxeen.blogspot.com/2023/09/never-before-seen-powerpoint-tricks.html

09/05/2023

Russia claims it won't allow foreign banks to easily leave the market unless they unfreeze Russian assets.

Russia is imposing increasing costs for corporate breakups by foreign banks — it's now demanding they unfreeze Russian assets if they want to exit the market.

"We have stated our position, and it stands — we will be tough in letting foreign banks go, it will depend on the decision to unfreeze Russian assets," Alexei Moiseev, Russia's deputy finance minister, said at a forum on Friday, Reuters reported.

Western nations and their allies have frozen more than $300 billion in Russian central bank assets abroad as part of their sanctions on Russia over its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. It's not clear how many of these Russian assets were frozen by Western banks.

For more read here: https://quickxeen.blogspot.com/2023/09/russia-claims-it-wont-allow-foreign.html

09/05/2023

China's New Economic Measures Target Real Estate Crisis

China has introduced a fresh wave of economic stimulus measures aimed at rejuvenating its struggling property market and stabilizing the weakening yuan. These initiatives represent the latest efforts to bolster confidence in the world's second-largest economy. The policy announcements, coupled with signs of a manufacturing sector uptick in August, led to modest gains in Asian stock markets on Friday.

In a joint statement from the People's Bank of China (PBOC) and the National Administration of Financial Regulation (NAFR), it was revealed that minimum down payment requirements for mortgages will be reduced to 20% for first-time buyers and 30% for second-time buyers across the nation. This is a significant change from previous requirements in cities like Beijing and Shanghai, where homebuyers had to secure down payments of at least 30% to 40%.

Furthermore, interest rates on new mortgages are being cut by approximately 40 percentage points following the central bank's adjustment of the minimum premium to its benchmark loan prime rate. In a separate statement, regulators disclosed that rates on existing mortgages for first-home purchases can be renegotiated starting September 25, with banks being encouraged to offer lower rates. This move is expected to reduce interest expenses for borrowers, promoting increased consumption and investment.

For more to read: https://quickxeen.blogspot.com/2023/09/chinas-new-economic-measures-target.html

09/05/2023

Country Garden makes it through one debt due date. Next is just a few days away.

Investors in embattled Chinese property giant Country Garden are breathing a collective sigh of relief Monday, after it reportedly won approval from local creditors to delay repayments on a maturing bond, averting the threat of a default — at least for a few days.

It was the first debt extension the firm has secured since its liquidity crisis became public last month and offers a temporary reprieve for China’s real estate industry, which has been gripped by fears that Country Garden’s debt woes would spill over to its peers and ripple through the economy.

The company hasn’t replied to a request for comment from CNN.

But the company is not off the hook. It failed to pay the interest owed on two dollar bonds last month and a 30-day grace period on those missing payments expires this week. A failure to pay those creditors could still lead to a default.

For more to read: https://quickxeen.blogspot.com/2023/09/country-garden-makes-it-through-one.html

09/05/2023

China creates a private sector bureau

In a significant move to further bolster the private sector, a crucial driving force for the country's economic output, China announced on Monday that it has set up a bureau specializing in promoting the private economy's development under the country's top economic planner.

The latest arrangement has sent a reassuring signal to domestic private players that the country is resolved to improve the business environment by taking concrete actions to implement previously launched supportive measures in broader efforts to shore up the world's second largest economy, which has been on a bumpy road of recovery in recent months, experts told the Global Times.

The newly launched bureau under the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) will strengthen policy coordination in relevant areas, and ensure that relevant measures are implemented as early as possible and achieve tangible results, Cong Liang, deputy head of the NDRC, told a press conference on Monday.

For more to read: https://quickxeen.blogspot.com/2023/09/china-creates-private-sector-bureau.html

09/05/2023

The next major threat to China's economy, after deflation and the real estate crisis, may be a brain drain.

It's been a rough year for China's economy so far.

After ending nearly three years of harsh zero-COVID lockdowns at the end of 2022, Beijing has struggled to revive growth, stop deflation, and shore up a crisis-hit property sector.

One economic threat that hasn't captured so many headlines is a so-called "brain drain" – with highly-qualified and wealthy entrepreneurs steadily leaving the country over the past half-decade.

Around 9,000 high-net-worth individuals – people with fortunes of over $1 million – moved away from China a year for much of the 2010s, according to data compiled by the Wall Street Journal.

But since 2018, more Chinese millionaires have emigrated – with another 13,500 expected to leave the country this year, per estimates by the consultancy firms Henley & Partners and New World Wealth.

It's not difficult to see why the wealthy are fleeing China.

In the past few years, president Xi Jinping has cracked down aggressively on business, targeting high-profile individuals like Alibaba founder Jack Ma and rolling out harsh regulations that have wiped over $1 trillion off the market value of local Big Tech firms.

For more to read: https://quickxeen.blogspot.com/2023/09/the-next-major-threat-to-chinas-economy.html

09/05/2023

After heavy rains submerged the festival site in mud, roads out of Burning Man may reopen today for the thousands still trapped there.

Roads out of the Burning Man festival could reopen Monday for the estimated 72,000 people trapped for a third day in the Nevada desert after heavy rains smothered the grounds with ankle-deep mud too thick to drive on.

Roads leading in and out of the Black Rock Desert event were closed Saturday, and event organizers imposed shelter-in-place orders. Attendees were told to conserve food, water and fuel after the deluge made it virtually impossible for vehicles to drive on the surface, authorities said.

The remote area in northwest Nevada was hit with two to three months’ worth of rain – up to 0.8 inches – in just 24 hours between Friday and Saturday morning. About 72,000 people remain on site, according to a Sunday night update from Burning Man organizers.

The weeklong festival is scheduled to end Monday, but it’s unclear exactly when attendees will be allowed to drive out of the area.

“The roads in Black Rock City remain too wet and muddy to officially open them for Exodus on Sunday 9/3,” Burning Man organizers said Sunday night.

Fore more read here: https://quickxeen.blogspot.com/2023/09/after-heavy-rains-submerged-festival.html

09/04/2023

Ken Paxton made an effort to keep his affair from his wife and the public. It might be his downfall.

With two months to go before Election Day — and holding hands with his wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton — the attorney general reportedly told them about an extramarital affair. He said it was over and swore to recommit to his marriage.

But Ken Paxton didn’t — the first in a series of consequential choices that Texas House impeachment managers say set off a chain of alleged crimes and coverups that, five years later, has culminated in one of the most dramatic moments in Texas political history. The once-in-a-century impeachment trial that starts Tuesday is expected to center on Paxton’s infidelity, and could air out the sordid details of the staunch, Christian conservative’s life as he sits just yards away from his wife, and her 30 Senate colleagues who will serve as jurors to decide her husband’s fate.

House impeachment managers argue that Paxton, driven in large part by his desire to continue and conceal the tryst, went to great, impeachable — and potentially criminal — lengths to hide the betrayal from his wife, and from the deeply religious voters who have sustained his political life for two decades.

Fore more read here: https://quickxeen.blogspot.com/2023/09/ken-paxton-made-effort-to-keep-his.html

09/04/2023

Labor Day 2023: Business hours for the September 4 holiday

Labor Day is here, which means summer is winding down and schools are reopening.

The first Monday in September also commemorates the American labor movement and contributions workers have made to the US economy.

Since it’s a bank holiday, many Americans will be traveling or hosting their last summer barbecues. But if you have errands to run, here are the businesses and institutions that will be open and closed on Monday, September 4.

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