Transferring a Facebook Profile Username to a Facebook Page

Have you accidently registered your Facebook page username as your profile page instead?

Someone at work did the same for a client's Facebook page and we had printed material that was ready to go out on shelves - Luckily I managed to rectify the situation and avert disaster!

Facebook username? you might be wondering what that is, well this is a URL like: www.facebook.com/companyname and it will take users directly to your Facebook Page.

There are a couple of steps you need to get it transferred:

1. Your Facebook Page should have at least 25 likes, you cannot register a username without 25 likes and they will probably not transfer a username to the page without them.



2. The profile you used to register the page should be the admin of the page, obviously if you have registered your username as your profile instead of your page by mistake this will be the case.


NOTE: On step 3. below I DID NOT fill out the trademark information on the form, I just explained the mistake that had been made.


3. Fill out the following form on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=username_infringement and explain your situation in the box provided

It took Facebook less than 24 hours to rectify the situation and our major disaster was averted.

I also posted on a Facebook discussion and you can see that this worked for other people too: http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=10381469571&topic=21365&post=114815

Hope this helps you solve your Facebook issue.

UPDATE: Facebook now offer a way to convert a Profile in to a Business Page. The information can be found here: http://www.facebook.com/help/?page=18918

Note the following before doing this: Be aware that when you convert your profile to a Page, your profile pictures will be transferred, and all of your friends will be automatically added as people who like your Page. No other content will be carried over to your new Page, so be sure to save any important content before beginning your migration.

The account associated with the profile you previously maintained will be converted to a business account, which will be the sole admin of your new Page.

Again I hope this information is useful and helps solve your Facebook issue.

Creating a custom Font Theme in PowerPoint 2011 Office for Mac

UPDATE: If you have PowerPoint 2016 for Mac please check here on how to update theme fonts: http://bit.ly/1TmDX1r

If you have PowerPoint 2011 please see below:

I wanted to create a custom Font Theme for a presentation template I was building but PowerPoint didn't have an option to create one. I was using a Mac and Office 2011 so i couldn't download the Theme Builder.

If you are on a PC you can download the theme builder here: http://bit.ly/gTH2nP

Powerpoint allows users to create their own custom Colour Themes - which was handy but not what I wanted to change. Anyway after a bit of research into XML files I found a way to create a custom Font Theme.

To do this for yourself you will need to know a little XML and you will need an XML editor of some sort.

I used Komodo Edit, you can download it from their website here: http://bit.ly/dSYJ8J

I have created a video to walk through of the Steps below, sorry there is no sound:



Step 1

You need a current Font Theme XML file.

You can copy the code below and paste it into your XML editor and create your own XML file
OR
You can do a search for "office 2.xml" in the applications folder
OR
You can go to: Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Office/Media/Office Themes/Theme Fonts/Office 2.xml

Copy the file on to your desktop, this will ensure you still have the original file if you make a mistake.

Here is the XML file you can copy, when using Komodo Edit create a new File from Template and select XML file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?>

<a:fontScheme name="Office 2" xmlns:a="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/main">

<a:majorFont>

<a:latin typeface="Calibri"/>

<a:ea typeface=""/>

<a:cs typeface=""/>

<a:font script="Jpan" typeface="ＭＳ ゴシック"/>

<a:font script="Hang" typeface="맑은 고딕"/>

<a:font script="Hans" typeface="宋体"/>

<a:font script="Hant" typeface="新細明體"/>

<a:font script="Arab" typeface="Arial"/>

<a:font script="Hebr" typeface="Arial"/>

<a:font script="Thai" typeface="Cordia New"/>

<a:font script="Ethi" typeface="Nyala"/>

<a:font script="Beng" typeface="Vrinda"/>

<a:font script="Gujr" typeface="Shruti"/>

<a:font script="Khmr" typeface="DaunPenh"/>

<a:font script="Knda" typeface="Tunga"/>

<a:font script="Guru" typeface="Raavi"/>

<a:font script="Cans" typeface="Euphemia"/>

<a:font script="Cher" typeface="Plantagenet Cherokee"/>

<a:font script="Yiii" typeface="Microsoft Yi Baiti"/>

<a:font script="Tibt" typeface="Microsoft Himalaya"/>

<a:font script="Thaa" typeface="MV Boli"/>

<a:font script="Deva" typeface="Mangal"/>

<a:font script="Telu" typeface="Gautami"/>

<a:font script="Taml" typeface="Latha"/>

<a:font script="Syrc" typeface="Estrangelo Edessa"/>

<a:font script="Orya" typeface="Kalinga"/>

<a:font script="Mlym" typeface="Kartika"/>

<a:font script="Laoo" typeface="DokChampa"/>

<a:font script="Sinh" typeface="Iskoola Pota"/>

<a:font script="Mong" typeface="Mongolian Baiti"/>

<a:font script="Viet" typeface="Tahoma"/>

<a:font script="Uigh" typeface="Microsoft Uighur"/>

</a:majorFont>

<a:minorFont>

<a:latin typeface="Cambria"/>

<a:ea typeface=""/>

<a:cs typeface=""/>

<a:font script="Jpan" typeface="ＭＳ ゴシック"/>

<a:font script="Hang" typeface="맑은 고딕"/>

<a:font script="Hans" typeface="宋体"/>

<a:font script="Hant" typeface="新細明體"/>

<a:font script="Arab" typeface="Times New Roman"/>

<a:font script="Hebr" typeface="Times New Roman"/>

<a:font script="Thai" typeface="Angsana New"/>

<a:font script="Ethi" typeface="Nyala"/>

<a:font script="Beng" typeface="Vrinda"/>

<a:font script="Gujr" typeface="Shruti"/>

<a:font script="Khmr" typeface="MoolBoran"/>

<a:font script="Knda" typeface="Tunga"/>

<a:font script="Guru" typeface="Raavi"/>

<a:font script="Cans" typeface="Euphemia"/>

<a:font script="Cher" typeface="Plantagenet Cherokee"/>

<a:font script="Yiii" typeface="Microsoft Yi Baiti"/>

<a:font script="Tibt" typeface="Microsoft Himalaya"/>

<a:font script="Thaa" typeface="MV Boli"/>

<a:font script="Deva" typeface="Mangal"/>

<a:font script="Telu" typeface="Gautami"/>

<a:font script="Taml" typeface="Latha"/>

<a:font script="Syrc" typeface="Estrangelo Edessa"/>

<a:font script="Orya" typeface="Kalinga"/>

<a:font script="Mlym" typeface="Kartika"/>

<a:font script="Laoo" typeface="DokChampa"/>

<a:font script="Sinh" typeface="Iskoola Pota"/>

<a:font script="Mong" typeface="Mongolian Baiti"/>

<a:font script="Viet" typeface="Times New Roman"/>

<a:font script="Uigh" typeface="Microsoft Uighur"/>

</a:minorFont>

</a:fontScheme>

Step 2

You can now edit the XML.

You will only need to edit two parts:

Change 'Calibri' to the font you wish to use for the Heading text.

<a:majorFont>

<a:latin typeface="Calibri"/>

AND

Change 'Cambria' to the font you wish to use for the Body text.

<a:minorFont>

<a:latin typeface="Cambria"/>

Step 3

Save your XML Font Theme to:
[your username]/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/User Templates/My Themes/Theme Fonts

Step 4

Now when you open PowerPoint you will see your custom Font Theme available.

You can see the one I created shown in the screenshot below: