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Author: Geetesh Bajaj
Product/Version: PowerPoint
March 06, 2018
We begin by featuring the Hypersay team in an exclusive interview. Paul Balogh, Cristian Dinu, and Brian Daly talk about Hypersay, a product that improves PowerPoint by making it a conversation. We next feature Guillaume Otrage, who co-founded Wow3D with Krzysztof Kobus to bring the 3D "Wow" of Pixar to PowerPoint. We also bring back Gear Graphics, the second series for PowerPoint that lets you add pre-animated gears to your slides.
PowerPoint 2016 for Windows users can learn about File Types That Can be Opened, File Menu and Backstage View, and adding animation. PowerPoint 2016 for Mac users can learn about Rulers. And if that wasn’t enough for this week, make sure you do not miss the quotes, press releases, and templates released in the last seven days.
Stay informed about updated tutorials and happenings related to PowerPoint and presenting.
March 06, 2018
Adding animation to your slide objects is easy, but needs prior thought. It’s best to first decide what type of animation works best for a particular slide object. The type of animation used for any object is paramount because it can make the animated end-results viable, or relegate it to a distraction. In this tutorial, let us get started with showing you how many types of animations are available within PowerPoint 2016. When we say "many types," we do not mean the animation effects themselves, but the categories in which these Animation effects are divided.
Learn about different animation types in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.
March 05, 2018
I read an article in a large, mainstream publication about how PowerPoint may be the enemy, and of course, they had to show this famous slide about the complexity of American strategy in Afghanistan in the article.
March 05, 2018
In PowerPoint on Windows, you will be able to use a number of keyboard sequences which help you access various menu commands. These keyboard sequences are combinations that start with pressing the Alt key followed by a few more characters in succession. But with Mac versions of PowerPoint, this approach doesn't work. You can do something similar but even then, the process and the results are both a little different. Let's learn more in this tutorial.
Explore keyboard sequences in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac.
March 01, 2018
After the success of our Animated Gears, the first series, we are happy to bring you a new set of animated Gears. We call this one Animated Gears Again! Like the earlier series, these come in both animated and non-animated versions. The time-consuming process of using Gears and animating them in PowerPoint is now made easy again.
Download and use these gears in your slides.
March 01, 2018
When working with multiple slide objects, you should have a visual cue about where you are placing slide objects. You can get exact coordinates of your slide objects using the positioning options in PowerPoint, but most of the time, you just need an approximate idea of where your objects are placed, and this can be easily obtained by using the Rulers option available in PowerPoint. Turning on this option shows you the rulers in PowerPoint. These rulers are located on the top and left parts of the active slide.
Learn about viewing and using Rulers in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac.
February 28, 2018
You may create the best PowerPoint slides, and populate them with amazing visuals, but unless you put in the same amount of thought into what you write, you may end up with slides that do not have the impact you may have desired.
Explore five ways to write better content for PowerPoint slides.
February 28, 2018
PowerPoint allows you to animate any slide object that can be selected on your slide. Such objects include pictures, shapes, text, bulleted lists, SmartArt graphics, charts, etc. You can tweak the way objects on your slides appear, move, and disappear by adding animation. Follow these steps to add animation to a shape in PowerPoint 2016.
Learn how to add animation in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.
February 27, 2018
An established media exec and serial entrepreneur, Guillaume Otrage has brought a number of 3D graphic technologies to market, that are now standard 3d visualization and interactive communication in numerous Fortune 500 companies including Sony, Electronic Arts, and P&G. Through his career, Guillaume built major partnerships with top brands in 3D visualization, such as Nvidia, HP, and Barco. After being VP of Global Sales for one of the brands at Dassault Systemes (the developer of leading CAD software such as Solidworks and CATIA) Guillaume co-founded with Krzysztof Kobus Wow3D to bring the 3D "Wow" of Pixar to PowerPoint. In this conversation, Guillaume talks about Wow3D.
February 27, 2018
If you explore how people use PowerPoint, you will discover that people are successful finding options that are intuitive and easy-to-discover. They fail when options are hidden in drop-down menus or dialog boxes. Fortunately, Backstage view is from the former category of options. Let us explore existing features within Backstage view. You access Backstage view from the File tab. The File tab is placed at the left extreme of the Ribbon.
Explore the Backstage view in PowerPoint 2016.
February 27, 2018
First, we feature AlexAnndra Ontra who discusses how Shufflrr and good presentation management strategy makes jobs easier and helps users become more effective in their roles. We bring back a feature we first posted 14 years ago, and find it so amazing that Richard E Mayer's interview about the Cognitive Load of PowerPoint is as relevant today as it was at the time it was first released. Emma Bannister talks about her new book, Visual Thinking. We look at Five Ways to Improve PowerPoint Presentations. And then, we feature Gil Segal who talks about the new ToolsToo v7.1, an add-in for PowerPoint. We also explore how you can edit captions, and align, hide, show, or remove them using the STAMP add-in for PowerPoint. PowerPoint 2016 for Windows users can learn about the Present Online feature and options within the Share tab of Backstage view. PowerPoint 2016 for Mac users can learn about Notes Master view. And if that wasn’t enough for this week, make sure you do not miss the quotes, press releases, and templates released in the last seven days.
Stay informed about updated tutorials and happenings related to PowerPoint and presenting.
February 26, 2018
CEO Paul Balogh and CTO Cristian Dinu have known each other and worked together for over 15 years. They are both born and raised in Romania. Brian Daly is Commercial Director and joined in October 2016. He is American and an ex-investment banker. In this conversation, the three of them talk about Hypersay, a product that improves PowerPoint by making it a conversation.
February 26, 2018
Programs such as PowerPoint are a very significant part of our workflows not just because of their vast abilities but also because they can understand content from so many file formats. These include file types that PowerPoint can save and open. We already explored file types that PowerPoint 2016 can save to, but when you go and look at the file types that PowerPoint 2016 can open, you’ll find that the list of file types is not exactly the same. There are several omissions and additions compared to that list.
Learn about various file types that PowerPoint 2016 can open and work with.
February 23, 2018
Gil Segal is the creator of ToolsToo and a senior software consultant. Gil is always on the lookout for ways to automate manual tasks in any software he uses and has been a PowerPoint power-user since the mid-90s. In this interview, Gil talks about the new ToolsToo v7.1 add-in for PowerPoint.
February 23, 2018
The STAMP add-in for PowerPoint is a free download from Microsoft that lets you add captions to media such as movie clips inserted in your slides. When installed, the STAMP add-in creates new buttons in the Video Tools Playback tab of the Ribbon in PowerPoint, within the Captions group of the Video Tools Playback tab, There are several options in this group that can be helpful while working with your existing captions.
Learn how to align, show, hide, or remove all the captions within the STAMP add-in for PowerPoint.
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