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The Ribbon is the long strip comprising tabs with buttons across the top of the main window within the PowerPoint interface. The Ribbon contains almost all the commands you need to work with your slides and is designed in a way that helps you quickly find the commands that you need to complete a task.
Learn about Ribbon and Tabs in PowerPoint 2019 for Windows.
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Tagged as: Interface, Microsoft Windows, Office 2019, PowerPoint 2019, Ribbon, Tabs, Tutorials
Cliff Atkinson is an acclaimed writer, popular keynote speaker, and an independent communications consultant to leading attorneys and Fortune 500 companies. He crafted the presentation that persuaded a jury to award a $253 million verdict to the plaintiff in the nation’s first Vioxx trial in 2005, which Fortune magazine called “frighteningly powerful.”
Cliff’s bestselling book, Beyond Bullet Points (published by Microsoft Press) was named a Best Book of 2007 by the editors of Amazon, and has been published in four editions and translated into a dozen languages including Chinese, Korean, and Russian. Cliff’s work has been featured in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, and Fox News.
In this conversation, Cliff talks about the Presentation Summit, being held in San Antonio, TX this year from October 6 to 9, 2019.
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Tagged as: Cliff Atkinson, Events, Interviews, Presentation Guild, Presentation Summit, San Antonio
By Rebecca Pepper, Toastmasters International
As a small child, I sat still, wide-eyed, following every movement my granddad made, entranced by every change of intonation as he regaled my younger brother and me with a story about the most magnificent adventure. My granddaddy had been in the depths of the jungle, machete in hand, hacking back leaves to stop them from whacking into his face as he trudged, dripping with sweat, through the dark, abundant foliage. He stopped. Frozen. He’d heard a noise—a splash. There must be water nearby. Water – how he needed it; his canteen was down to its last tepid drop. He sniffed the air. He turned, and there, through the leaves and vines, he saw a pool of water. Rapidly, he stumbled towards it, throwing himself onto his knees into its wet blessed relief. He cupped some water in his hands, ready to splash his grimy, sweat-drenched face. But danger not relief was in store for my granddaddy. A crocodile! A crocodile in the pool of water. A crocodile with its beady eyes fixed on my granddaddy ready to attack. My granddaddy found himself in a wrestling match. A wrestling match to the death. A wrestling match with one of the most feared creatures in the jungle. Thanks to the strength, bravery, and training, my granddad had had, he was able to wrestle it to the ground underneath him. It whipped its tail and shifted my granddad’s weight. All of a sudden, its wide mouth, with its gleaming, sharp teeth was ajar. There was only one thing my granddad could do. He shoved his arm into the depths of the crocodile’s rancid body, grabbed the end of its tail, and pulled it inside out! Victory was his!
Image: Pixabay
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Guest Posts
Tagged as: Guest Post, Presentation Skills, Rebecca Pepper, Storytelling, Toastmasters
When launched, PowerPoint 2019 for Windows typically opens with Backstage view. Click the New button to bring up the Presentation Gallery. This Presentation Gallery provides several ways to start your new presentation using a template, a Theme, or even a blank presentation.
Explore the Presentation Gallery in PowerPoint 2019 for Windows.
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PowerPoint 2019
Tagged as: Interface, Microsoft Windows, Office 2019, PowerPoint 2019, Presentation Gallery, Tutorials
We feature Echo Swinford this week in an interview, where she talks about her sessions at the upcoming Presentation Summit. She also talks about the Certification Presentation Specialists exam, being launched by the Presentation Guild, an industry body of presentation professionals.
PowerPoint users can learn about the CMYK color model, which they may only encounter if their slide content needs to be professionally printed. If you use PowerPoint 365 for Windows, we look at how you can locate if you indeed have this version installed, and how you can set it as the default version. We also explore the default version options, if you are using PowerPoint 365 for Mac. PowerPoint 2016 for Windows users will want to know this trick that lets you insert dummy text on your slides. And if that wasn’t enough for this week, make sure you do not miss the quotes, press releases, and templates released in the last week.
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