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Author: Geetesh Bajaj
Product/Version: PowerPoint
October 14, 2010
Reusing slides from an existing presentation (or several presentations) is a great way to add some common slides that you end up using in most presentations. I always suggest you to first create and import an outline so that you have a structured presentation in place -- thereafter do use the Reuse slides option to add more slides or even replace existing ones. Finally you can add any new slides that you need to create from scratch.
Learn how you can reuse existing slides in PowerPoint 2003.
October 13, 2010
Many procedures for PowerPoint work the same way whether you are using the program on a Mac or Windows. Importing outlines created in various external applications also works the same way -- it's very easy to import it in the form of slides into PowerPoint. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to import outlines in PowerPoint 2008 for Mac.
Learn importing presentation outlines in PowerPoint 2008 on Mac.
October 12, 2010
Creating outlines for PowerPoint in various external applications lets you stay away from distractions in PowerPoint-land -- once you have the outlines done, it's very easy to import it in the form of slides into PowerPoint. While this import process works the same way in all versions of PowerPoint, there are small interface changes -- in this tutorial, I'll show you how to import outlines in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.
Learn importing presentation outlines in PowerPoint 2010.
October 11, 2010
VisualBee is a PowerPoint add-in that automatically enhances your slides using an easy to use wizard based interface. To do this, VisualBee analyzes your slide content and selects appropriate images, layouts and templates to do an instant makeover. You can enrich your PowerPoint presentation from the VisualBee's design bank or your own library. Your original presentation remains unchanged, and you can re-enhance the presentation again and have a complete control over your final presentation.
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October 11, 2010
Andrew Abela is an Associate Professor of Marketing and Chairman of the Department of Business & Economics at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. His consulting clients include Microsoft, ExxonMobil, Motorola, Burger King, eBay, and Kimberly-Clark. Prior to academia, he ran the Marketing Leadership Council, was a consultant with McKinsey & Co., and a brand manager at Procter & Gamble.
In this Indezine exclusive interview, Andrew discusses his new book, The Presentation: A Story About Communicating Successfully With Very Few Slides.
October 11, 2010
Outlines are typically text files that you can create in applications such as Notepad, or even Microsoft Word. Creating an outline and then importing it in the form of slides into PowerPoint is a great way to create a new presentation from scratch. While this import process works the same way in all versions of PowerPoint, there are small interface changes -- in this tutorial, I'll show you how to import outlines in PowerPoint 2007 for Windows.
Learn importing presentation outlines in PowerPoint 2007.
October 08, 2010
Creating outlines for PowerPoint in various external applications lets you stay away from distractions in PowerPoint-land -- once you have the outlines done, it's very easy to import it in the form of slides into PowerPoint. While this import process works the same way in all versions of PowerPoint, there are small interface changes -- in this tutorial, I'll show you how to import outlines in PowerPoint 2003 for Windows.
Learn importing presentation outlines in PowerPoint 2003.
October 06, 2010
With too many years in the AV industry behind them, Duncan Peberdy and his business partner Jane Hammersley set up their own consultancy company in 2008 – Space 2 Inspire – to advise corporations on meeting room technology and the meeting process itself. Quickly establishing themselves as meeting experts, Prentice Hall commissioned Duncan and Jane to write "Brilliant Meetings" for their business series, which was published in 2009. In 2009 the Multi-Slides plug-in for PowerPoint was developed, and provides users with all the advantages of multiple display, all from a single computer running a single PowerPoint slide show.
In this conversation, Duncan talks about the Multi-Slides add-in for PowerPoint.
October 06, 2010
Typically, the last thing I would want to do is create my presentation outline in a spreadsheet program like Microsoft Excel. In one of my training sessions, I was showing participants how they could create presentation outlines for PowerPoint in Notepad or Microsoft Word -- and one of the attendees wanted to know how he could create an outline in Excel! To understand why anyone would want to create an outline in Excel, you probably need to be an Excel junkie -- but rather than go and discuss what an Excel junkie means, I'll show you how an outline can indeed be created in Excel -- this works on all versions of Excel for Windows and Mac OS X.
Learn to create a PowerPoint outline in Excel.
October 05, 2010
When presenting financial results on a PowerPoint slide, do not overwhelm your audience. Use the power of your numbers to support your conclusions. Do not make the mistake of thinking that "the numbers speak for themselves." They do not! Do not allow your numbers-filled slide deck to overshadow you, the presenter.
Learn more in this guest article by Danny Rocks.
October 04, 2010
It used to be that when you needed to embed a PowerPoint presentation on your site, you had to upload the PowerPoint file to a site like SlideShare, authorSTREAM, or SlideBoom and then use their embed code to show up a Flash file in your blog or web site. However, Microsoft has added new abilities to its SkyDrive hosted PowerPoint Web Application that lets you create embeds of the original PowerPoint files with no conversions required to Flash or any other format. Change your source PowerPoint file and the embeds update instantly too!
Learn about PowerPoint's new embed options.
October 04, 2010
Typically, there are three common ways in which you can create slides in PowerPoint. All these three ways can be combined with each other but it is best to start with creating an outline for your presentation in another program. Mac users can create outlines in TextEdit -- in addition you can use Microsoft Word as well. In this tutorial, I'll show how you can use Word 2008 for Mac to create an outline for a PowerPoint presentation.
October 01, 2010
A participant in one of my training sessions wanted to create a simple animation that shows the flow of electricity through a thin tube -- this presentation was created as a result of that question. Each animated tube is actually a long rectangle placed one over the other -- and only the top one is animated with a wipe animation. A small shape such as a circle or rounded rectangle was animated simultaneously on a Motion Path to sync with the wipe -- you could even use the lightning bolt shape within PowerPoint's shapes instead of a circle!
Download, view, and use this presentation!
October 01, 2010
Outlines are stories that contain sequential structures of any text content that you use in a presentation. In many respects, an outline is more like a script for a movie production than a bunch of slides -- however, it does form an ideal starting point for a bunch of slides! PowerPoint can import outlines created in many applications and we have already shown you how you can create outlines for PowerPoint presentations in Word 2003 and Word 2007. In this tutorial, we'll explore the procedure of creating a structured outline in Word 2010.
September 29, 2010
Nancy Duarte has been a Principal of Duarte Design since 1990. Her firm is in the heart of the Silicon Valley and the client list is loaded with Fortune 500 companies. Her passion for business communications that are clear, meaningful and attractive has opened doors for her in a business world full of cluttered and complex visual communications.
Nancy's much awaited book Resonate has just been released, and is a prequel to her best selling book, Slide:ology -- in Resonate, Nancy looksat the concept of creating better stories so that you can end up with more effective presentations. In this Indezine exclusive interview, Nancy discusses Resonate and more.
September 29, 2010
I already showed how you can create outlines for PowerPoint presentations in Word 2003. There are other applications like Notepad (on Microsoft Windows ) and TextEdit (on Mac OS X) in which you can create the outlines. In this tutorial we'll explore the procedure of creating an outline for your next presentation using Microsoft Word 2007. Follow these steps to create an outline for your PowerPoint presentation using Microsoft Word 2007 for Windows.
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