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In this issue, Vinette Hoffman-Jackson of Toastmasters International explores how you can end your online presentation or in-person speech with impact. Kurt Dupont of PresentationPoint then explores how the DataPoint add-in for PowerPoint can help you easily create dynamic text boxes that change the content at set intervals. Vivek Singh of Jazz Factory discusses his new book, Presentation Masala.
We also feature personalities from the upcoming Presentation Summit 2020 virtual conference. This time, we interview Mike Hanlon. For PowerPoint 365 users on both Windows and Mac, and also for PowerPoint 2019 for Mac, we explore the tabs in Backstage view that show your recent files and folders. Also, make sure you do not miss the quotes, press releases, and templates featured last week.
Stay informed about updated tutorials and happenings related to PowerPoint and presenting.
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Ric Bretschneider is a technologist, troublemaker, and problem solver. Professionally, he helps people raise the quality of their business communications, mainly presenting. At Microsoft, Ric spent 17 years working on PowerPoint, designing and molding the program that became a juggernaut in business communication.
Shortly after leaving Microsoft, Ric was awarded PowerPoint MVP status, a recognition held by only a dozen or so people in the US. In his spare time, Ric runs the San Jose California branch of the Pecha Kucha presentation event, writes, blogs and podcasts. He’s also a huge geek; his obsessions are hidden away on his site.
In this conversation, Ric talks about his sessions at the upcoming Presentation Summit 2020, being held virtually this year from August 10 to 13, 2020.
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Vivek Singh is a professional presentation designer. An MBA from IIM Ahmedabad, he worked in sales and marketing for 10 years before starting off on his own in January 2015. He runs his own presentation design firm Jazz Factory, and helps clients tell better stories to their customers, employees and other stakeholders.
In his conversation, Vivek talks about his new book, Presentation Masala.
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By Kurt Dupont
Today, you will learn a great trick for a PowerPoint presentation. You can make your PowerPoint presentations completely dynamic. Watch how you can connect a PowerPoint text box to a data source and use text boxes as dynamic text boxes on your slides.
First, you need to connect your presentation to your data. This data is often stored in a database or file. Supported databases are Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, and Oracle. Virtually any other database type on the market can be addressed via OLE DB or ODBC drivers. Files can be text files, comma-separated text files, XML files, or even Microsoft Excel datasheets are great for storing and manipulating data. To work with databases, you need to understand the structure of the database, and you need to know SQL. So, when you work with Excel, it will be much easier. For this article, I will use a simple Excel file. Nothing complicated. Let’s work with some data that everyone understands; beer! Yes, we are a Belgian company and like to promote some national products. We will display information about beer and pricing on our information screen. This is the Excel file I’m using. A simple file with one datasheet, where we list the names of the beers and the prices.
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The Recent option within the Home or Open tabs of Backstage View provides you with a list of recently opened presentations so that you can quickly select the one that you want to work upon. Further, the Recent option provides you with a couple of other tricks.
Learn about the Recent option within Backstage view in PowerPoint 365 for Windows.
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