PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Better Beginnings: The Carmen Simon Interview

    Dr. Carmen Simon‘s presentations and workshops help business professionals to use communication and presentation skills to increase revenue, train or motivate others, and overall to stand out from too much sameness in the industry. A published author, Carmen is frequently invited as a keynote speaker at various conferences. In this interview, she talks about her book, shares ideas about creating better presentations, and then discusses imagination and sincerity.

Read the interview here.

Filed Under: Interviews
Tagged as: Books, Carmen Simon, Design, Interviews, PowerPoint

Text Placeholders vs. Text Boxes in PowerPoint 2007 for Windows

In PowerPoint slides, text can be found in many places: text placeholders, text boxes, tables, charts, the Notes pane, and more places. However, the text within a text placeholder has characteristics that set it a class apart from all other text. So, what exactly is a text placeholder, and how is it different from text within a text box or anywhere else?

Learn about the differences between text placeholders and text boxes in PowerPoint 2007 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2007
Tagged as: Outline, PowerPoint, PowerPoint 2007, Text, Tutorials

Create a Presentation the Steve Jobs Way

Carmine Gallo is a communications coach for the world’s most admired brands.

He is a sought after speaker and author of the new book, The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience.

Carmine Gallo explores nuances that will inspire you to create presentations similar to the ones used by Apple’s iconic Steve Jobs.

Filed Under: Guest Posts
Tagged as: Books, Carmine Gallo, Opinion, Presentation Skills

Slides Pane in PowerPoint 2003 for Windows

In the PowerPoint 2003 Interface page, we already showed you the different parts of the program interface, in this page, we’ll focus on one particular area of the interface. This is the Slides/Outline pane, and it is normally placed on the left side of the interface. The Slides tab is normally active, but to get to the Outline tab, all you need to do is select the second tab shown in the pane.

Learn about the Slides Pane in PowerPoint 2003 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2003
Tagged as: Outline, PowerPoint, PowerPoint 2003, Tutorials

Text Placeholders vs. Text Boxes in PowerPoint 2003 for Windows

Aren’t text boxes and text placeholders the same? Are they really different? And why should I bother even if they are different? All these are valid questions, and the answers to them form one of the most important foundations in learning to create more structured presentations.

In PowerPoint slides, text can be found in many places: text placeholders, text boxes, tables, charts, Notes pane, and more places. However, the text within a text placeholder has characteristics that set it a class apart from all other text. So what exactly is a text placeholder, and how is it different from text within a text box or anywhere else?

Learn about the differences between text placeholders and text boxes in PowerPoint 2003 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2003
Tagged as: Outline, PowerPoint, PowerPoint 2003, Text, Tutorials