PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Visio and Word

It’s easy to bring in your Visio content into Word – depending upon what you want to import, you can choose a procedure that suits you best. While I’m using Word for these examples, the same techniques can be used to insert Visio content in Excel, Publisher or PowerPoint as well.

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Filed Under: Miscellaneous
Tagged as: Tutorials, Visio, Word

The Cliff Atkinson Interview

As an independent management consultant and president of Sociable Media, Cliff Atkinson advises the senior leadership of some of the world’s largest companies on how they can engage the organizational phenomenon called PowerPoint.

These companies are beginning to understand PowerPoint as more than just a presentation tool, and are seeking answers to deeper questions about its organizational use.

In this interview, Cliff discusses his work, the advantages of PowerPoint and why both PowerPoint and Toastmasters make a great team.

Filed Under: Interviews
Tagged as: Cliff Atkinson, Interviews, PowerPoint, Toastmasters

Media Playlists in PowerPoint 2003

If you use Windows Media Player or any other player to create playlists of your favorite songs, you’ll love the new PowerPoint 2003 feature that allows PowerPoint to play your entire playlist. Actually, you can also design a cool presentation that makes your slideshow look like a jukebox – or if you are less adventurous or corporate, you could always use the playlist feature to play a series of musical clips in sequence. In this tutorial, we are using Windows Media Player playlists, but PowerPoint 2003 can also accept standard M3U playlists – most players can create and edit M3U playlists.

Read more about Media Playlists in PowerPoint 2003 here.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2003
Tagged as: Microsoft Windows, Multimedia, Playlists, PowerPoint 2003, Tutorials

Using Cartoons in PowerPoint

Using cartoons within PowerPoint slides can be an amazing route to add a light moment or highlight attention towards a strong point. Either way, it is a great concept that is going places as Dan Rosandich discovered much to his delight.

Dan Rosandich creates cartoons that can be used in PowerPoint.

Filed Under: Interviews
Tagged as: Cartoons, Dan Rosandich, Interviews, PowerPoint, Presentations, Visuals

The Julie Terberg Interview

As owner and principle designer at Terberg Design, Julie Terberg develops custom presentation solutions — unique for every client and purpose. She is a contributing editor to Presentations magazine, and has recently co-authored a book on crafting medical presentations. Perfect Medical Presentations, co-authored by Terry Irwin, will be available later this year. Julie also conducts training sessions for those who want to expand their skills.

In this interview, Julie discusses the ‘art’ in PowerPoint; design, color and typography; inspiration, stock and digital photography and so much more.

Filed Under: Interviews
Tagged as: Interviews, Julie Terberg