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Author: Geetesh Bajaj
Product/Version: PowerPoint
August 21, 2017
A Microsoft PowerPoint MVP since 2000, Echo Swinford holds a Master’s degree in New Media and is the owner of Echosvoice, a PowerPoint consulting firm specializing in custom template development, presentation creation, makeovers and cleanup, and training for large and small corporate clients. In this conversation, Echo talks about her sessions at the upcoming Presentation Summit 2017 in Clearwater Beach, FL.
August 21, 2017
Sections in PowerPoint is a feature that lets you organize slides into segments or divisions for easier management. For instance, if you have many slides, you may find the content difficult to handle, edit, or even deliver. And if you have a few slides, even then you may have the need to organize them logically in Sections. The Section option within PowerPoint 2016 enables you to divide your presentation slides into logical parts.
Sections in PowerPoint 2016 can help organize your presentation in logical parts.
August 18, 2017
When you click the File menu and access Backstage view in PowerPoint 2016, several options appear. On this page, we explore two of those options: Open and Close.
Learn about opening and closing files in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.
August 17, 2017
You have a 5-minute video or audio clip playing on your slide. And exactly after the clip has played for 30 seconds, you want some text to appear superimposed over the video clip. Alternatively, you may want to show other objects on the slide while your audio clip is playing. All this while, the original audio or video clip should continue playing. How do you achieve this result?
Animate any object in PowerPoint 2016 while a media clip on the same slide is still playing.
August 17, 2017
In 1788, Richard Austin created Bell, a serif typeface for the British Letter Foundry. Since then, this typeface went through an amazing journey. The typeface faded after its initial popularity with newspaper and magazine printers. Bell did find more favor in the United States during the 19th and the 20th centuries, and it was revived in 1931 by Monotype Corporation. Bell MT became a popular typeface, right up there along with Baskerville and Bodoni. Bell MT also made the transition from analog to digital. It gained popularity and wide acceptance when Microsoft bundled Bell MT as part of its Microsoft Office installations.
We look at Bell MT, a serif font family created in 1788.
August 17, 2017
Doug Thomas used to review movies and rent you--or your parents--VHS tapes. After working a few months at Microsoft, he had an idea to get other people to create videos about Office. That idea turned into a new job of creating videos and training content for Support.Office.com including the Office 15-Minute Webinars and his current series, Doug from Office. However, none of his videos are on VHS. In this conversation, Doug talks about his session at the upcoming Presentation Summit 2017 in Clearwater Beach, FL.
August 16, 2017
Business presentations are infamous for being incredibly boring and I am sure that you must know a few boring presenters personally. You might be skeptical about it but a business presentation can be made interesting with the use of audio-visuals, graphics and let’s not forget you, and your awesome personal style.
Learn more in this infographic shared by Adam Chapman.
August 16, 2017
When you select an inserted audio clip in PowerPoint 2016, you see two contextual Audio Tools tabs: Format and Playback. Once you explore the options within the Format tab, you'll wonder why there are options to adjust, arrange, resize, and apply picture styles. Also, why does PowerPoint provide picture format options for an audio clip? That's because an audio clip is represented by a sound icon. When you select the sound icon, the Player Controls bar is activated. Clearly, there’s so much to explore and learn.
Explore the Format tab for audio clips in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.
August 16, 2017
Julie Terberg is an internationally recognized presentation expert. She is the owner of Terberg Design, a Microsoft PowerPoint MVP, and a director of the Presentation Guild. Julie enjoys sharing knowledge and ideas with the presentation community and presents a monthly webinar, "Inspired by Design," exclusively for Presentation Guild members. She is passionate about designing visuals that help presenters better communicate with their audiences. In this conversation, Julie talks about her sessions at the upcoming Presentation Summit 2017 in Clearwater Beach, FL.
August 14, 2017
The average salesperson spends way too much time managing presentations of all sorts, including proposal, sales, training and financial presentations. In this post, we’ll help you learn how your organization can streamline presentation management and reclaim thousands of hours—increasing your team’s effectiveness and boosting your bottom line. Some key ideas we’ll discuss are: Salespeople spend 31% of their time every week tracking down and updating content and other sales collateral. This is an outdated approach which prevents organizations from reaching their full potential. By using modern presentation management solutions, organizations can help their sales teams reclaim upwards of 50 hours each month.
Read more in this post by AlexAnndra Ontra.
August 14, 2017
Once you insert an audio clip into your presentation, you may find that it is too long, or there may be parts in the clip that you don't want the audiences to hear. Or, maybe you just need a small bit to play, like the sound of that trumpet blowing! Although you can scrub the clip using the Player Controls bar to ascertain where you want the clip to begin and end, that option may become monotonous and inaccurate. Additionally, it also looks very unprofessional if you try scrubbing an audio clip right in front of your audience. Fortunately, PowerPoint's Trim Audio option can make this easy for you. Follow these steps to explore how you can trim an audio clip right inside PowerPoint 2016.
Learn to trim an audio clip in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.
August 14, 2017
Rick Altman has been hired by hundreds of companies, listened to by tens of thousands of professionals, and read by millions of people, all of whom seek better results with their presentation content and delivery. He is the host of the Presentation Summit, now in its 15th season as the most prominent learning event for the presentation community. Away from the conference, he regularly leads private workshops within organizations. In this conversation, Rick talks about his sessions at the upcoming Presentation Summit 2017 in Clearwater Beach, FL.
August 11, 2017
Dr. Stephanie Evergreen is an internationally-recognized data visualization and design expert. She has trained future data nerds worldwide through keynote presentations and workshops, for clients including Time, Adobe, Verizon, Head Start, American Institutes for Research, Rockefeller Foundation, Brookings Institute, and the United Nations. She writes a popular blog on data-presentation at StephanieEvergreen.com. Her book, Effective Data Visualization, was published in Spring 2016.
In this conversation, Stephanie discusses her other book, Presenting Data Effectively: Communicating Your Findings for Maximum Impact, just published in its second edition in June 2017. Both books hit #1 on Amazon bestseller lists.
August 11, 2017
Insert an audio file within your PowerPoint slide, and choose to play it either with a click or set it to play automatically. Whichever option you choose, some files can sound loud and unexpected! Have you not experienced the sudden scare or shock when a shrill voice interrupts an almost silent environment? Rather than shake the soul of your audiences, you can use PowerPoint's fade options to add a gradual increase in the volume of your audio files. PowerPoint provides both Fade In and Fade Out effects that you can add to the beginning and end of your audio clips. These fade options make your audio clips sound smoother and more subtle.
Fade in or fade out your audio clips in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.
August 10, 2017
One such scenario in which Morph can be used is with slide backgrounds rather than slide objects in the foreground. Now PowerPoint does not allow you to animate slide backgrounds, but Morph is technically not an animation, it’s a transition! Even then, you can use faux backgrounds (a full slide image placed beneath all other slide objects, but still over the slide background) to cook up some magic.
Animate faux backgrounds with the PowerPoint Morph transition.
August 10, 2017
When you click the File menu and access Backstage view in PowerPoint 2016, you see several options. In this tutorial, we explore two of these options: Saveand Save As.
Explore saving options in Backstage view of PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.
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