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Author: Geetesh Bajaj
Product/Version: PowerPoint
July 21, 2017
PowerPoint and Excel. Two popular Microsoft products used extensively in business. But which one is more powerful for creating business reports Since a lot of the data needed for reports is often already in Excel, many people automatically use Excel to create reports and charts for reporting to management and stakeholders. But, in our experience, we have found that PowerPoint is usually the better business reports tool.
July 20, 2017
Margot Leitman is the author of the best-selling book Long Story Short: the Only Storytelling Guide You’ll Ever Need and Gawky, Tales of an Extra Long Awkward Phase. She has written for Dreamworks TV, the Hallmark Channel, the Pixl Network and NBC. She is the founder of the storytelling program at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theatre and is a five-time winner of the Moth Storyslam and a winner of the Moth Grandslam. She travels all over the world teaching people to tell their stories. In this conversation, Margot discusses her book, Long Story Short: the Only Storytelling Guide You’ll Ever Need.
July 20, 2017
After adding Bookmarks to video clips, you may want to know how you can edit and remove those Bookmarks. PowerPoint does not let you edit inserted Bookmarks. For instance, you cannot change the time of the Bookmark from 25 seconds to 28 seconds. You will have to remove the Bookmark you wanted to edit and add a new Bookmark all over again! On the other hand, removing a Bookmark is easy!
Remove Bookmarks from Video Clips in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.
July 19, 2017
You know the drill. The teams are assembled for a mandatory meeting on some subject or another. The speaker takes front and center, and behind him, a PowerPoint presentation that looks like it’s been with him since the 90s. As your eyes ping pong between the speak and the screen, back and forth, your eyelids begin to feel heavy… before you know, you’re in dreamland.
July 19, 2017
When you insert a video clip within a PowerPoint slide, you'll find it placed as a traditional rectangular shape. And that's what most users expect, as it seems safe and conventional. However, PowerPoint allows you to have your video playing in different shapes such as a circle or oval, or a wave, a triangle, or any of the shapes that PowerPoint's Shapes gallery includes. However, just the fact that a video can be placed within a shape is no reason to forego the conventional rectangle. Do remember that most other shapes may crop out important parts of your video clips.
Constrain a video clip to a shape in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.
July 19, 2017
This story began with a message from my mother, who never uses PowerPoint. She innocently sent me a link to a video clip, which she thought would be something I would love. And she was right. What she probably did not know is that I wanted to recreate the animation shown in this video clip using PowerPoint.
July 18, 2017
Fonts can help you tell a story, but they have amazing stories of their own. Today, we will talk about Papyrus, a font from Letraset that has been ubiquitous on many computer systems since it is one of the many fonts bundled as part of Microsoft’s Office suite.
Learn about Papyrus, a calligraphic font that comes with an amazing story.
July 18, 2017
When you launch PowerPoint 2016, it always provides you with an option to open a new blank presentation. Further, if you are already working on an open presentation, and want to create a new presentation at that point, you can do so using the New tab within the Backstage View.
Learn about options within the New tab of Backstage view in PowerPoint 2016.
July 18, 2017
We begin with an exclusive guest post from Jan Metchel, who talks about SlideProof. We then discuss the smallest font size you can use in your PowerPoint slides--we look at guidelines and ideas. We also look at using photos in presentations--explore copyrights, where to get photos, how to insert photos, and the Triple-C guidelines. We look at the video file types that various Windows and Mac versions of PowerPoint can insert. PowerPoint 2016 for Windows users can learn about video borders, video effects, video poster frames, and cropping videos. We also look at keyboard shortcuts for PowerPoint 2013 users. Finally, do not miss the quotes, press releases, and templates of this week.
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July 17, 2017
Line charts can display continuous data over time, set against a common scale, and are therefore ideal for showing trends in data at equal intervals. In a line chart, category data is distributed evenly along the horizontal axis, and all value data is distributed evenly along the vertical axis. Line charts are best used to represent evenly spaced values such as months, quarters, or fiscal years.
Learn about Line Charts, and how you can use them within PowerPoint.
July 17, 2017
If you need to share a PowerPoint presentation with colleagues, or even publish it online, remember that your slides may include hidden data or information that you or your company may not want to share. The Inspect Document option enables you to check your presentation for such hidden properties and personal information, and clean whatever information or data you want to be removed.
Use the Inspect Document feature in PowerPoint 2016 to remove confidential or personal information.
July 17, 2017
Here's the most comprehensive list of PowerPoint 2016 keyboard shortcuts that we know. How many of these do you presently use? Speed up your PowerPoint usage with these shortcuts, and enjoy some free time!
Explore keyboard shortcuts in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.
July 14, 2017
Who doesn’t like to use photos in their presentation slides? But did you know that using photos in presentations is a two-edged sword that can help you conquer the minds of others, but can also hurt you in the process? How can you be hurt?
Take a peek into secrets professionals use for photos in presentations.
July 14, 2017
Different PowerPoint versions support a plethora of video file formats. Not surprisingly, the new PowerPoint versions support a larger number of file formats for video. This table provides information about video file format compatibility.
Learn about the video file formats that are supported by various PowerPoint versions.
July 13, 2017
SlideProof is an all-in-one PowerPoint add-in to deliver presentations better and faster. With this software, you will have access to many tools such as: Agenda to structure your presentation, Library to find and share content with your teams, Productivity to edit, unify and send your content, and Check to deliver flawless presentations.
Read more in this guest post by Jan Metchel.
July 13, 2017
Once you insert a video in your slide, you can crop it in almost the same way you crop a picture. The Crop option allows you to remove non-required areas of a video. For example, if the subject of your video is a speaker surrounded by a large, distracting background of other people or moving objects, you may want to crop the video so that the cropped video now focuses more on the speaker, and gets rid of all the extra distractions.
Crop video clips in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.
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