Sometimes you’ll want to create a nice-looking title for your screencast. PowerPoint is a great tool to create rich titles (even with animation if you want). This screencast shows you how to do this using PowerPoint in Presentation mode so that you can start your screencasts off with a nice title and avoid seeing a PowerPoint application UI in the way.
The essential technique is to create a (Macro-enabled) PowerPoint presentation that is viewed in presentation mode, and that has a hidden rectangle you can click to minimize the PowerPoint window quickly. The following VBA code created as a Macro and then attached to an invisible rectangle to achieve this effect.
' Handle slideshow window
If (SlideShowWindows.Count > 0) Then
' Handle application window
Application.ActiveWindow.WindowState = ppWindowMinimized