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Carmine Gallo is a keynote speaker and bestselling author. His new book, Five Stars: The Communication Secrets to Get from Good to Great, teaches readers how to master the ancient art of persuasion to thrive in the world of AI. Carmine is a global communication advisor who has transformed leaders at the world’s largest and most admired brands. He also written eight other books including Talk Like TED, The Storyteller’s Secret, and The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs.
In this interview, Carmine talks about his new book, Five Stars: The Communication Secrets to Get from Good to Great.
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We first re-explore our updated article on how Office 365 programs are updated. We also focus on an interview with Jerry Weissman from a decade ago and find it amazing that everything he said is valid even today.
PowerPoint 2016 for Windows can learn so much about Sections, such as getting started with them, adding and renaming, moving slides between sections, and removing them. PowerPoint 2016 for Mac users can explore Theme Fonts. 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 seven days.
Stay informed about updated tutorials and happenings related to PowerPoint and presenting.
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In a presentation, both pictures and words are important, and they both play complementary roles. If you had to choose just one of them; then seeing is a much more important part of presenting. Presentations, by their very nature, are meant to be seen since they evoke actions such as project, display, or broadcast; and all of these actions represent visual media. Text and speaking are important too, but you can be more effectively heard and remembered if your content includes both text and pictures.
Learn how to insert a picture on a slide in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac.
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PowerPoint 2016
Tagged as: Insert, Mac, Office 2016, Office for Mac, Pictures, PowerPoint 2016, PowerPoint for Mac, Tutorials
When business people hear “Let’s schedule a meeting,” they react the same as they would when they hear “Let’s schedule a root canal.”
Meetings have long been—and continue to be—the Bermuda Triangle of business. In 2004, Patrick Lencioni offered his advice to make meetings more productive in his bestselling book, Death by Meeting. This week, conflict-resolution mediator Priya Parker will publish her advice in The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters.
With all due respect to these accomplished authors, let me offer five additional solutions to that chronic problem in the form of rhetorical questions that each leader, as well as each attendee, must be able to answer before and after a meeting—but especially during.
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First of all, TJ Walker talks about his new course, Complete Presentation Skills Masterclass for Every Occasion that he is giving away free to Indezine readers. We then explore the art of creating stories, inspired by cinema. We also look at the new Presets in Shape Styles, to be found in Office 365 versions of PowerPoint. We then revisit an amazing post authored by Carmine Gallo, in which he explains how you can create a presentation, the Steve Jobs way. We also updated our Which Themes Are Installed Within Office Versions? page so that you can see and even download every single Theme bundled with all versions of PowerPoint!
PowerPoint 2016 for Windows users can learn about working with HSL colors and Shape Styles. PowerPoint 2016 for Mac users can explore Picture Slide Layouts, creating custom shaped Picture placeholders, and add Places to save and open files. 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 seven days.
Stay informed about updated tutorials and happenings related to PowerPoint and presenting.
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In PowerPoint, any Theme applied brings to the table several unique facts such as Theme Fonts, Theme Colors, and Theme Effects. And also, Slide Layouts, Backgrounds, etc. When you apply another Theme to your PowerPoint presentation, the changes reflect in all slides in the presentation. Yes, the change is complete, and thus the resulting slides all look consistent. In this tutorial, our focus is primarily on Theme Fonts. We’ll explore how Theme Fonts work in your presentation.
Explore Theme Fonts in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac.
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Tagged as: Mac, Office 2016, Office for Mac, PowerPoint 2016, PowerPoint for Mac, Theme Fonts, Themes, Tutorials
Do you want your pictures to be contained within shapes that look like frames? Or maybe you want to use silhouette style placeholders for your pictures? Yes, this process is a little involved, but we’ll hold your hand if you promise to follow all our steps in sequence!
Learn how to create custom shaped Picture placeholders in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac.
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PowerPoint 2016
Tagged as: Mac, Office 2016, Office for Mac, Pictures, Placeholders, PowerPoint 2016, PowerPoint for Mac, Slide Layouts, Tutorials
While you can open and save files from any file location you access on your computer or network, you can also add more places from where you can open and save files. You see options to add a place, also known as Online Locations in both the Open and Save As dialog boxes.
Learn to add places to open and save files in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac.
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Tagged as: Mac, Office 2016, Office for Mac, Places, PowerPoint 2016, PowerPoint for Mac, Tutorials
We first look at PowerPoint makeovers, and why each makeover is different. We look at a strategy that will help you approach your makeovers better. We have a special series on Themes and templates for Microsoft Office, including PowerPoint. We first explore the evolution of Themes and then explore where you can look for built-in Themes. We then look at where your custom Office Themes are saved in various Office versions on both Windows and Mac.
PowerPoint 2016 for Windows users can learn about using RGB colors and adding Places to open and save files. PowerPoint 2016 for Mac users can explore resizing text boxes and formatting Picture placeholders in layouts. PowerPoint 2013 users will learn to add Places to open and save files. 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 seven days.
Stay informed about updated tutorials and happenings related to PowerPoint and presenting.
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Slide Layouts are a very useful feature because they let you use a preset arrangement of placeholders repeatedly, resulting in consistent looking slides. And yes, you can also create your own custom Slide Layouts. While very few users create their own custom Slide Layouts, even fewer will create a custom Slide Layout for pictures! That’s regrettable since Picture Slide Layouts can make your slides look so unique. In this tutorial, we will show you how easy it is to create your own Picture Slide Layout in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac.
Learn how to work with Picture Slide Layouts in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac.
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Tagged as: Mac, Office 2016, Office for Mac, Pictures, Placeholders, PowerPoint 2016, PowerPoint for Mac, Slide Layouts, Tutorials
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