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An outline encompasses the text content within your presentation slides. In many ways, this text is the story or the structure of your presentation and forms an ideal starting point for a bunch of slides. PowerPoint can import outlines created in many applications, and we have already shown you how you can create outlines for PowerPoint presentations in several versions of Microsoft Word.
Learn how to create outlines for presentations in Microsoft Word 365 for Windows.
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Tagged as: Microsoft Windows, Office 2016, Office 2019, Office 365, Outline, PowerPoint 2016, PowerPoint 2019, PowerPoint 365, Tutorials, Word
Unlike the slides which are primarily presented through a display device such as a monitor, TV screen or projector, the Notes and Handout pages in PowerPoint are essentially intended for printing. In this tutorial, we will explore how you can add Headers and Footers to make your printed Notes and Handout pages more professional-looking and useful.
Add Headers and Footers to Notes and Handout pages in PowerPoint 365 for Mac.
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Peter Ryckaert has been active in the internet business since 1995, and has been recognized in 2006 as the Flemish Youth Entrepreneur. With his previous company DigiPoint he also won the Trends Gold Award for the innovative realization of a completely new remarketing platform for the automotive industry (used by General Motors). DigiPoint has long been among the top-3 internet companies in Belgium before being sold to Cegeka, a pan-European ICT group active in 11 countries. In 2015, he started the crowdbeamer venture, together with co-founder Hans Romaen.
In this conversation, Peter talks about crowdbeamer winning the Best of Show winner for Rental & Staging Systems at InfoComm 2019.
Geetesh: Peter, your product, crowdbeamer won the Best of Show winner for Rental & Staging Systems at InfoComm 2019 in Orlando, Florida. What do you believe convinced the judges about the crowdbeamer ProAV system?
Peter: Winners were selected by a panel of anonymous InfoComm members (CTS-certified) at InfoComm 2019. On Day 1 and Day 2, the judges evaluated each product against multiple criteria including innovation; performance against category standard; richness/relevance of feature set; ease of installation/maintenance; network friendliness; and value/ROI. As crowdbeamer ProAV got the highest total points, it was designated as a winner.
We do believe that the judges were impressed by the whole crowdbeamer portfolio, which now provides a solution for any size of audience, and for any use case, whether it is a mobile situation (giving a presentation on the go), a fixed installation (meeting room or auditorium)or for a temporary event (a conference or other event). From crowdbeamer Go and Enterprise, to the newcomers Enterprise+ and ProAV, they are all compatible with one single crowdbeamer app which provides the same benefits to the participants: see the broadcasted presentation, take snapshots, zoom in to see the smallest detail, take notes and export to other business apps.
Crowdbeamer ES+ a solution for larger meeting spaces
Whereas the crowdbeamer GO and Enterprise models come with a built-in battery and antenna to provide a 100% mobile solution, the new Enterprise+ model is optimized for maximum Wi-Fi coverage.
It draws its power from an external power supply unit, or an external battery pack (optional). Thanks to its four dual-band 2.4/5GHz external antennas, Crowdbeamer Enterprise+ triples the WiFi range of the GO & Enterprise models (30+ meter radius). Crowdbeamer Enterprise+ therefore offers an attractive solution for education and training facilities at universities and in corporate environments.
Crowdbeamer ProAV a solution for AV Rental & Staging professionals
The brand-new crowdbeamer ProAV has been designed to serve the needs of AV Rental & Staging companies. It is a ruggedized device that can be securely suspended to a stage truss, can easily cover any indoor or outdoor space by connecting multiple devices to support 1000+ simultaneously connected client devices over its built-in Wi-Fi. Its multiple networking and powering options (including PoE) deliver the flexibility, reliability, and scalability to support large-scale VIP events at challenging locations and international conferences.
“This was a rich field of submitted nominations, reflecting the breadth of engineering, R&D, and UX talent we have in this industry,” says SVC editor Cynthia Wisehart, “Congratulations to the winning team of crowdbeamer. I look forward to seeing their solution at work across our markets.”
Geetesh: We spoke earlier this year about crowdbeamer. Can you share some usage scenarios, and how you are evolving the product based on user feedback?
Peter: More and more crowdbeamer is being used in education (high schools, university colleges and universities), especially in circumstances where they want to give a presentation in a certain context (for instance an art course in a museum), in places where there is no access to classic presentation equipment (for instance outside the classroom), or when they want to give a presentation in a different way (for instance in a discussion group, a campfire session, …).
Related to this usage scenario, but from a corporate perspective, are the training rooms. Not only for classic training sessions, but also for hands-on setups, where people are trained to use specific equipment. The explanation is then given next to the equipment involved, and the presentation can be followed at the same location, directly on the personal devices.
Another market that we see trending is related to court rooms. There they present witness material directly onto tablets instead of printing out the material, saving valuable time and resources.
We also have great feedback from visually impaired people, who now have a close and clear view on the presentation. Again, ideal for education and organizers of seminars and conferences.
As crowdbeamer is a growing platform, we take great care in listening to the feedback we receive from customers. The firmware is continuously being improved. Latest additions are for instance the possibility for participants to keep a connection with the internet (even when connected to the crowdbeamer’s Wi-Fi signal), remote management of the crowdbeamer devices via an API, more available Wi-Fi channels to improve the broadcast quality, the possibility to use multiple crowdbeamers in a network to span larger areas (and hence the development of Enterprise+ and ProAV).
The views and opinions expressed in this blog are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of any other agency, organization, employer, or company.
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Tagged as: Crowdbeamer, Infocomm, Interviews, Peter Ryckaert
Have you wondered if some of your presentations are actual presentations? Or are they business reports? We explore more in the Is Your PowerPoint a Presentation or a Business Report? post. We then feature Erica Keswin, whose recent book, Bring Your Human to Work (2018 McGraw-Hill), was an immediate Wall Street Journal bestseller. In this interview, she talks about her book and how you can be more human while delivering presentations. We then explore ten easy topics you can choose for a Pecha Kucha presentation, although these topics will work for all types of presentations.
PowerPoint 2016 for Windows users can learn about Working with Custom Groups in Ribbon Tabs, and Adding Commands to Custom Groups. PowerPoint 365 for Mac users can explore how to Replace Fonts and use shapes with No Outline. PowerPoint 2016 for Mac users can explore Reordering and Removing Ribbon Tabs. 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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Imagine that you have a long numbered list that forms the content within your PowerPoint slide. Now, it is not uncommon for slides to have numbered lists that comprise twenty lines, and that is singularly unfortunate because even if members of your audience have perfect eyesight, they won’t be able to read the teeny-weeny sized text! And let us face the fact that too much text is downright boring, and nowadays any sort of bulleted or numbered lists seem to signify a poorly designed slide. One approach you can take to combat this problem is by dividing your list across multiple slides.
Learn how to start or restart the numbering for numbered list in PowerPoint 365 for Mac.
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Tagged as: Mac, Numbered List, Office 2016, Office 365, Office for Mac, PowerPoint 2016, PowerPoint 2019, PowerPoint 365, PowerPoint for Mac, Tutorials
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