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Author: Geetesh Bajaj
Product/Version: PowerPoint
November 18, 2015
Kurt Dupont, based out of Belgium heads PresentationPoint, a company that creates several amazing PowerPoint add-ins. After his Computer Science studies, Kurt started with Andersen Consulting (Accenture nowadays) in Brussels. After 3 years he moved to the Brussels Airport Terminal Company that runs the Brussels airport - this last placement inspired the start-up of Take-off (now known as PresentationPoint) in 1998. In this conversation, Kurt discusses Dynamic WEATHER, an add-in that lets you spice your PowerPoint slides with weather conditions and forecasts.
November 18, 2015
PowerPoint 2016's Presenter View is a purpose-built view that accompanies Slide Show view. This view is beneficial in an environment that has at least two displays such as a laptop and a projector. The projector then shows the actual slides – that is what we commonly call Slide Show view. However, you see the Presenter view on the laptop -- Figure 1 below shows you Presenter view. Notice that you get to see much more than just the slide -- rest assured that the audience viewing the projector output see only the slide!
Learn about Presenter View in PowerPoint 2016.
November 17, 2015
We bring you icons again, and also some bulb graphics! We explore PCB files that customize your PowerPoint interface -- we explore versions 2013, 2010 and 2007. You can also read about changing Presentation Aspect Ratio from Standard to Widescreen in PowerPoint 2010. We continue our tutorial series on Sway, another presentation tool from Microsoft. Finally, don't miss the new discussions and templates of this week!
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November 17, 2015
The Task Pane is a docked area within the PowerPoint 2016 interface that provides more options than dialog boxes. Also unlike most dialog boxes which cover the Slide Area, you can view both the active slide(s) and the Task Pane at the same time -- thus the Task Pane provides a more streamlined experience. In fact, all the options within the Format dialog boxes from older versions of PowerPoint are now available within the new Format Task Panes in PowerPoint 2016.
Learn about how the Task Pane works in PowerPoint 2016, and how you can toggle its view.
November 16, 2015
Many new changes have happened within PowerPoint 2016 and several other versions released in the past. However, one thing that has not changed in the last 20 years is PowerPoint's tri-paned interface! So why is the interface called tri-paned -- are there three distinct regions within the PowerPoint 2016 interface? Yes -- the Slide area is one of three principal regions in PowerPoint 2016 -- the other two are the Slides Pane and the Notes Pane.
Learn about the Slide Area in PowerPoint 2016.
November 13, 2015
In PowerPoint 2010, the default slide ratio is 4:3 (Standard). This can be a challenge, especially if you have been asked to create a presentation that has a 16:9 (Widescreen) ratio. Yes, you can easily change the ratio later but it is best to start creating the slide from the beginning in the slide aspect ratio that you need. Although PowerPoint 2010 lets you change the ratio later, the process is nowhere as intuitive as it is when you change the presentation aspect ratio from Widescreen to Standard in PowerPoint 2013. Still, let's see how PowerPoint 2010 fares.
Learn how to change a presentation’s aspect ratio from Standard to Widescreen in PowerPoint 2010.
November 13, 2015
PowerPoint add-ins help in adding new capabilities that can polish your presentation in many ways. But when the time comes to uninstall these add-ins for whatsoever reason, you might be surprised to find their menu customizations still exist! Click those menu extensions and nothing may happen -- but these menu options are still there! In another scenario, you may have customized your PowerPoint menus and toolbars to a large extent -- and may now want to restore everything to a pristine state -- almost like how the interface looked when you first installed PowerPoint.
Learn how to remove customizations from PowerPoint's PCB files in PowerPoint 2007.
November 12, 2015
The Sway interface essentially is tri-paned. The first of the three panes typically shows content based on what you have selected from the toolbar – so you see the All Cards pane if you have selected Cards in the toolbar. The second pane is the Storyline, which is the editing environment for your Sways. Finally, the third area is the Preview pane.
Explore the Preview Pane in Sway.
November 10, 2015
We start with an incredible offering. These are polka dotted sticky tapes in 10 colors! We then feature Simon Raybould who talks about his new book, Presentation Genius in an exclusive conversation. David Tang of Flevy then speaks about FlevyPro, an amazing subscription service for frameworks and diagrams that you can use on PowerPoint slides. Kartik Sundar then discusses TeamSlide, a content management solution that helps keep PowerPoint content at your fingertips. We continue our tutorial series on Sway, another presentation tool from Microsoft. We also explore keyboard sequences in PowerPoint 2016. Finally, don't miss the new discussions and templates of this week!
November 10, 2015
PowerPoint add-ins help in adding new capabilities that can polish your presentation in many ways. But when the time comes to uninstall these add-ins for whatsoever reason, you might be surprised to find their menu customizations still exist! Click those menu extensions and nothing may happen -- but these menu options are still there! In another scenario, you may have customized your PowerPoint menus and toolbars to a large extent -- and may now want to restore everything to a pristine state -- almost like how the interface looked when you first installed PowerPoint 2010.
Learn how to remove customizations from PowerPoint's PCB files in PowerPoint 2010.
November 9, 2015
PowerPoint add-ins help in adding new capabilities that can polish your presentation in many ways. But when the time comes to uninstall these add-ins for whatsoever reason, you might be surprised to find their menu customizations still exist! Click those menu extensions and nothing may happen -- but these menu options are still there! In another scenario, you may have customized your PowerPoint menus and toolbars to a large extent -- and may now want to restore everything to a pristine state -- almost like how the interface looked when you first installed PowerPoint.
Learn how to remove customizations from PowerPoint's PCB files in PowerPoint 2013.
November 6, 2015
Simon Raybould is a speaker and trainer. As a speaker, he specializes in resilience, emotional robustness, public speaking and presenting. As a trainer, he is the director of the training company Aware Plus. He has a particular speciality as a trainer and coach helping anyone who wants to make better use of their voice or who wants (needs?) to make better presentations. Basically, as he says, "it all boils down to 'impact'". His clients range from start-ups to multi-nationals such as Dell Computers and football teams in the English Premiership! In this conversation, Simon discusses his new book, Presentation Genius.
November 6, 2015
We've already explored quite a bit within our Microsoft Sway tutorials, but we will reiterate that you cannot just add any content to your Sways without first adding a Card that will hold that content. So these Cards are essentially containers for your content. To place your video content in Sway, you will first therefore need to insert a Video Card, and that’s precisely what we will learn within this tutorial.
Learn how you can use Video Cards in Sway.
November 5, 2015
Kartik Sundar is focused on helping consultants improve their productivity. As a former management and corporate strategy consultant, Kartik has firsthand knowledge of consulting workflows and understands the process of building insightful business presentations. He is now a co-founder at Aploris GmbH, a software firm that builds PowerPoint-focused productivity tools. In this conversation, Kartik discusses TeamSlide, a content management solution that helps keep PowerPoint content at your fingertips.
November 5, 2015
Sway is an amazing tool that lets you play with disparate objects such as text, pictures, charts, multimedia, and even social media – all in one cohesive platform! Each object in Sway needs a home of its own – and Sway calls these “container” homes Cards. Let us now explore how you can work with Picture Cards in Sway.
Learn how you can use Picture Cards in Sway.
November 4, 2015
This set contains Sticky Tape graphics with polka dot patterns already placed in PowerPoint slides. You just need to copy them and paste within your slides. Use them to create a look that makes a picture, shape, or anything else appear as if it has been stuck on a surface, board, or wall with tape! These ready-made Sticky Tape segments have been provided in 10 different colors, and all colors have various transparency values.
Get these Sticky Tape graphics now.
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