Thoughts and impressions of happenings in the world of PowerPoint and presentations, continuously updated since 2003.
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Anna Guerrero is head of Marketplace at Canva, an online design and publishing tool which makes graphic design simple for everyone. Since launching in 2013, Canva has grown to over 15 million users across 190 countries, with more than 1 billion designs created, at 36 designs per second. Today Canva is growing from strength the strength, with over 600 team members across 3 offices in Sydney, Manila and Beijing, working together on a mission to empower everyone to create beautiful designs.
In this conversation, Anna talks about Canva’s recent acquisition of community photo sharing sites, Pixabay and Pexels.
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Creating outlines for PowerPoint in various external applications lets you stay away from distractions in PowerPoint-land and concentrate on the structure of your slides rather than their appearance. Once you have the outline created, it’s very easy to import it in the form of slides into PowerPoint. While this import process works the same way in all versions of PowerPoint, there are small interface changes.
Learn how to import outlines in PowerPoint 365 for Windows.
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Tagged as: Office 2016, Office 2019, Office 365, Outline, PowerPoint 2016, PowerPoint 2019, PowerPoint 365, Tutorials
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John H. Rahmlow is an internationally known expert in presentation design and delivery. He is currently an Online Retirement Education Consultant (aka webinar specialist) for The Vanguard Group. In this role, he conducts hundreds of webinars a year and assists with the development and maintenance of the presentations he (and the other members of his team) delivers. He has earned two law degrees (JD and LL.M. in Taxation) and currently holds a number of financial services licenses and designations. John is a member of The Presentation Guild where he started and leads the book club.
In this conversation, John talks about the Presentation Summit, being held in San Antonio, TX this year from October 6 to 9, 2019.
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The Ribbon is the long strip comprising tabs with buttons across the top of the main window within the PowerPoint 365 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 365 for Windows.
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Tagged as: Interface, Office 2016, Office 2019, Office 365, PowerPoint 2016, PowerPoint 2019, PowerPoint 365, Ribbon, Tutorials
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In today’s issue, we begin by featuring a post from Sam Warner of Toastmasters, who talks about how a great leader is one, who is confident enough to delegate effectively. We next feature Mike Parkinson, who speaks about his sessions at the upcoming Presentation Summit in San Antonio, later this year. We then continue our series on Presentation Management by AlexAnddra Ontra and James Ontra, where we explore how presentation management is empowering presenters. Also, hear from Peter Ryckaert of crowdbeamer, whose product won the Best of Show at InfoComm 2019. We also bring you info from UK-based Eyeful Presentations about the true cost of presentations in business. We then explore Canva’s new photo collages.
PowerPoint 365 for Windows users can learn about Creating PowerPoint Outlines in Microsoft Word. PowerPoint 2016 for Windows users can explore how to Reset, Export, and Import Ribbon Customizations. PowerPoint 365 for Mac users can find about Starting or Restarting Numbering for Lists, and how to Add Headers and Footers to Notes and Handout Pages. 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.
Stay informed about updated tutorials and happenings related to PowerPoint and presenting.
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