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Presentation Masala: Conversation with Vivek Singh

  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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Dynamic Text Boxes in PowerPoint with DataPoint

By Kurt Dupont

Learn about using dynamic text in PowerPoint

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.

Set Up a Data Connection

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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Tagged as: Add-in, DataPoint, Guest Post, Kurt Dupont, PresentationPoint, Text Boxes

Recent Tab of Backstage View in PowerPoint 365 for Windows

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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Tagged as: Backstage, Interface, Microsoft Windows, Office 365, PowerPoint 365, Tutorials

Recent Tab of Backstage View in PowerPoint 365 for Mac

The Recent option within the 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 Mac.

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Tagged as: Interface, Mac, Office 365, Office for Mac, PowerPoint 365, PowerPoint for Mac, Tutorials

PowerPoint and Presenting News: July 14, 2020

We first feature Lyn Roseaman of Now You’re Talking, who explores how can stand out with a direct and dramatic opening of your speech or presentation. AlexAnndra Ontra and James Ontra explore ways to collect content to create a robust Presentation Management platform. In our PowerPoint Concept Slides series, we bring you Heart Circles, a bunch of PowerPoint infographics.

We also feature speakers from the upcoming Presentation Summit 2020 virtual conference. This time, we interview Lori Chollar and Taylor Croonquist. Also, make sure you do not miss the quotes, press releases, and templates featured in the last week.

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

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