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PowerPoint and Presenting News: July 16, 2019

In this issue, we first look at how you can prevent losing your fonts, backgrounds, and colors when you change the Slide Size with some PowerPoint Themes. We also bring you several interviews with presenters from the upcoming Presentation Summit. This week, we feature John Baluka, Ric Bretschneider, and Richard Goring. While these interviews talk about their sessions, we also bring you tips and ideas from them that will help you today.

PowerPoint 2016 for Windows users can learn about Working with Custom Groups in Ribbon Tabs, Adding Commands to Custom Groups, Resetting, Exporting, and Importing Ribbon Customizations, Reordering and Removing Ribbon Tabs, Resetting, Exporting, and Importing QAT Customizations, and Working with RGB Colors. PowerPoint 365 for Mac users can learn how to Add Headers and Footers to Slides, Import Outlines, Work With Slide Numbers, and the Interface. 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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Presentation Gallery in PowerPoint 365 for Mac

When launched, PowerPoint 365 for Mac typically opens the Backstage view that contains the Presentation Gallery. The Presentation Gallery provides different ways to start your new presentation using a Theme, a recent presentation, a not-so-recent presentation, or even a blank presentation. These and other choices are explained in this tutorial.

Explore the Presentation Gallery in PowerPoint 365 for Mac.

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Interface in PowerPoint 365 for Mac

When launched, PowerPoint 365 for Mac opens the Presentation Gallery. The Presentation Gallery provides several ways to start your next presentation using a Theme, a recent presentation, a not-so-recent presentation, or even a blank presentation. Once you make choices within the Presentation Gallery and click the Create button, you see the actual PowerPoint 365 for Mac interface.

Explore the interface for PowerPoint 365 for Mac.

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Working With Slide Numbers in PowerPoint 365 for Mac

If your presentation has many slides, it will be easy to identify the current slide in Slide Show view, as long as you have enabled slide numbers on your slides. In PowerPoint, you have to make these slide numbers visible since they don’t show by default.

Learn how to add Slide Numbers on slides and Masters in PowerPoint 365 for Mac.

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Presentation Summit 2019: Conversation with Richard Goring

  Richard Goring is a Director at BrightCarbon, the specialist presentation and eLearning agency. He has helped to write and create thousands of presentations, and coached hundreds of teams to present more effectively using visuals, diagrams, and animated sequences that explain and reinforce the key points.

In this conversation, Richard talks about the Presentation Summit, being held in San Antonio, TX this year from October 6 to 9, 2019.

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