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Author: Geetesh Bajaj
Product/Version: PowerPoint
March 2, 2020
What do you do if you are working on a presentation within PowerPoint and want to create a new presentation, or even open an existing one? The answer is easy: you access the Home tab of Backstage view. When you bring up Backstage view, Home is the default tab that you see.
Learn about options within the Home tab of Backstage view in PowerPoint 365 for Windows.
February 28, 2020
If you explore how people use PowerPoint, you will discover that people are successful in 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 in PowerPoint 365 for Windows.
Explore Backstage view in PowerPoint 365 for Windows.
February 28, 2020
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 covers the whole of the industry, from message crafting, through presentation design, slide creation, software technique, and delivery. He is the host of the Presentation Summit, now in its 18th season as the most prominent learning event for the presentation community. In this conversation, Rick talks about the Presentation Summit, being held in Seattle, WA this year from August 9 to 12, 2020.
February 27, 2020
How do I present a PowerPoint or a slide from any other program without laughing? This was one of the challenging questions that someone posted on Quora, and I decided to take up the challenge. Here is my answer based upon what I answered on Quora, but I have expanded this version extensively.
February 27, 2020
Backstage view is not akin to other PowerPoint views such as Slide Sorter view or Normal view that relate to working with slides. In fact, Backstage view is not a view in those terms, because you can be using Normal view (to work with slides) and Backstage view (to work with options) at the same time. Consider Backstage view as an over-sized menu that gives you access to many options.
Explore Backstage view in PowerPoint 365 for Mac.
February 26, 2020
Stories are powerful for communicating, teaching, motivating and learning. That’s because stories draw on emotion and scenarios that resonate with us on a visceral level. Better stories get people to act.
Read more with AlexAnndra Ontra and James Ontra.
February 26, 2020
If you explore how people use PowerPoint, you will discover that people are successful in 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 in PowerPoint 2019 for Windows.
Explore Backstage view in PowerPoint 2019 for Windows.
February 25, 2020
We first feature Philippa Leguen de Lacroix from Presented, a presentation-design agency. She explains how you can effectively use the Zoom transition option in PowerPoint. We then explore how DataPoint, a PowerPoint add-in that lets you do some amazing things by connecting your slides with database sources. In this feature, Kurt Dupont looks at how you can work with dynamic text and speech. We also feature well-known author, Jerry Weissman who explores Barack Obama's unique style of message repetition.
We then look at how you can add photos and layouts to Title slides with PowerPoint Designer in PowerPoint 365 for Windows. We also look at File Formats in PowerPoint 365 for Mac and Windows, and also in PowerPoint 2019 for Windows. We also find out which file types can be opened in PowerPoint 2019 for Windows. Also, make sure you do not miss the quotes, press releases, and templates featured in the last week.
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February 25, 2020
We already learned about the file types that PowerPoint 365 for Mac can save to. But when you go and look at the file types that PowerPoint 365 for Mac can open, you'll find that there's no drop-down list in the Open dialog box. All files within any navigated folder are shown, and the only way you understand that a particular file type can be opened is because those files are not grayed out. Have you ever wondered what all those file types that are not grayed out are? Should you even be concerned about them at all? These are the file types that PowerPoint 365 for Mac can open.
Learn about various file types that can open and work in PowerPoint 365 for Mac.
February 24, 2020
Mr. Thoreau’s words are applicable to business people today who lead lives of not-so-quiet desperation every time they have to make a presentation. Of all the many reasons for their desperation—time pressure, workload, and the fear of failure—perhaps the most pressing is the self-imposed practice of using their PowerPoint slides as not only the presentation graphics, but also as speaker notes, send-aheads, and leave-behinds. This multitasking approach produces images of encyclopedic detail that serve none of the functions.
Read more with Jerry Weissman.
February 24, 2020
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 365 for Windows can save to, but when you go and look at the file types that PowerPoint 365 for Windows 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. When you access the Open dialog box in PowerPoint 365 for Windows, you can choose the file type you want to open.
Learn about various file types that can open and work in PowerPoint 365 for Windows.
February 21, 2020
Let’s take a look at two video examples of the zoom transition in action, and give you some pointers and guidance on how to use this Zoom feature in PowerPoint. The first example of the Zoom transition in PowerPoint is a simple dashboard. Our second example of the Zoom transition in PowerPoint is an interactive menu.
Read more with Philippa Leguen de Lacroix.
February 21, 2020
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 2019 can save to, but when you go and look at the file types that PowerPoint 2019 for Windows 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. When you access the Open dialog box in PowerPoint 2019 for Windows, you can choose the file type you want to open.
Learn about various file types that can open and work in PowerPoint 2019 for Windows.
February 20, 2020
Quick, how many file formats (types) can PowerPoint 365 for Windows save your slides to? If you take count of every single format from the necessary to the irrelevant (and forget the missing ones), then the number is 29. Some of these could be genuinely helpful, such as the MPEG-4 Video export and others like GIF, JPG, PNG, WMF, and EMF ensure that you get good graphic outputs. And RTF outlines can sometimes be a boon.
Explore various file types in the Save As dialog box in PowerPoint 365 for Windows.
February 19, 2020
DataPoint is the PowerPoint add-on to display real-time information on your information screens. What more do you need? You can display information in real-time. Change the information on a second computer, and the data is updated on your screen.
February 19, 2020
Quick, how many file formats (types) can PowerPoint 2019 save your slides to? If you take count of every single format from the necessary to the irrelevant (and forget the missing ones), then the number is 29. Some of these could be genuinely helpful, such as the MPEG-4 Video export and others like GIF, JPG, PNG, WMF, and EMF ensure that you get good graphic outputs. And RTF outlines can sometimes be a boon.
Explore various file types in the Save As dialog box in PowerPoint 2019 for Windows.
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