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PowerPoint and Presenting News: June 29, 2021

We first feature Dave Paradi, who explores differences in PowerPoint usage in Microsoft Teams and Zoom in this exclusive conversation. In another feature, Ga Lok Chung of Toastmasters International explains how you can make a high impact in meetings with the help of seven tips. We also feature Deborah Ashby, who talks about her new PowerPoint 365 training program from GoSkills.

We also bring you quotes, press releases, and templates from the last few days.

Stay informed about updated tutorials and happenings related to PowerPoint and presenting.

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Insert Video Clips in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac

Do you want to insert video clips within your PowerPoint slides? Videos can be useful to express your message, and PowerPoint lets you easily insert video clips. There are some prerequisites though that you must have in place before you use video clips in PowerPoint and also, you must be sure that you are using video clips for the right reasons.

Learn how you can insert a video clip on a slide in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac.

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Tagged as: Mac, Movies, Office 2016, Office for Mac, PowerPoint 2016, PowerPoint for Mac, Tutorials, Video

How You Can Make a High Impact in Meetings

By Ga Lok Chung, Toastmasters International

I don’t get it.

I love this scene from the 1988 movie classic, Big. In this film, a wish ‘to be big’ turns twelve-year-old Josh Baskin into a thirty-year-old man, played by Tom Hanks. Josh heads to New York and ends up getting a job at MacMillan Toy Company, where during an uninspiring number-driven marketing campaign meeting to launch a Building that turns into a robot, Josh raises his hand to say; I don’t get it.

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Differences in PowerPoint Usage in Microsoft Teams and Zoom: Conversation with Dave Paradi

    Dave Paradi has authored ten books on effective PowerPoint presentations and his ideas have appeared in publications around the world. Dave is one of fewer than ten people in North America recognized by Microsoft with the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award for his contributions to the PowerPoint, Excel, and Teams communities. His articles and videos on virtual presenting have been viewed over 1.1 million times and liked over 10,000 times on YouTube. He has delivered more than 450 customized training sessions around the world in the last 22 years.

In this conversation, Dave discusses findings of his survey about the use of PowerPoint with Microsoft Teams and Zoom.

Geetesh: Dave, please tell us more about the survey you conducted about the use of PowerPoint with Microsoft Teams and Zoom? What was the motive behind this survey?

Dave: Last year when the use of Teams and Zoom dramatically increased due to many people working from home, I started to see different questions being asked about each platform. I decided to see how PowerPoint was being used on each platform. I wanted to know if there were any differences.

I have one page on my website that explains different ways to share PowerPoint slides in Teams and another page for the different ways of presenting PowerPoint slides in Zoom. Visitors come to each of those pages because they use PowerPoint on that platform. I set up a simple poll on each of those pages asking visitors what they used PowerPoint for the most on that platform. Over time I received more than 1,100 responses for each platform.

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Tagged as: Dave Paradi, Interviews, Microsoft Teams, PowerPoint, Zoom Video

PowerPoint and Presenting News: June 22, 2021

We first look at how you can easily create curved shapes and then apply the Morph transition effect to create super-smooth animated slides. Rick Altman, the host of the annual Presentation Summit talks about how you can take part in the sweepstakes to win transportation to the conference paid for. The Presentation Summit 2021 is being held both virtually and on location in Clearwater Beach, FL, United States this year from September 26 to 29, 2021. Gavin McMahon of fasswordward talks to Ronan Dunne and discusses leadership storytelling.

We also bring you quotes, press releases, and templates from the last few days.

Stay informed about updated tutorials and happenings related to PowerPoint and presenting.

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Tagged as: Ezine, Indezine, News, PowerPoint