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Yes, the title of this post is 5 Ideas to Help You Remember Your Speech, but it could have been Remember Your Story or even Remember Your Narrative. You could be using this speech, story, or narrative at a boardroom meeting, or presenting in front of hundreds of colleagues. You could also be delivering a TED talk or speaking alongside your slides at a Pecha Kucha presentation.
Whatever your presenting style maybe, or whoever may be part of your audience, the most important part is for you to not forget what you intend to speak. And that’s probably one of the biggest fears of public speaking: the fear that you may forget your narrative.
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We feature Doug Neff, a a writer, facilitator, trainer, and speaker coach from Duarte. In this conversation, Doug talks about Duarte’s Speaking Coaching services, and also shares ideas for a speaker who needs some help for a presentation tomorrow! We also bring back an interview with Chris Pratley, who speaks about Microsoft Sway.
PowerPoint 2016 for Windows users can learn about Smart Dynamic Guides, Adding More Guides, and Guide Options. PowerPoint 2016 for Mac users can explore tutorials on Reset Slides and Hide/Unhide 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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PowerPoint provides twelve default Slide Background Styles. Apart from these default Styles, you can continue changing the default Slide Background to something else such as a solid color or gradient, a pattern or a texture, or, even a picture. In this tutorial, we’ll explore these options that can be accessed within the Format Background Task Pane.
Explore different options to format the slide background in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac.
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Tagged as: Mac, Office 2016, Office for Mac, PowerPoint 2016, PowerPoint 2019, PowerPoint 365, PowerPoint for Mac, Tutorials
Do you have a secret slide with useful information that you would rather not delete? But what if you show this slide to your audience inadvertently? How do you cope with this problem? The solution is easy: you just hide the slide. Hidden slides don’t show up in Slide Show View, but they are still available to edit and to possibly unhide when you are ready to show that slide to the world.
Learn how to hide and unhide slides in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac.
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Doug Neff is a writer, facilitator, trainer, and speaker coach with over fifteen years of experience moving people and audiences. As Duarte’s Content Director, Doug has crafted award-winning presentations that influence mindsets, sell revolutionary products, and some are literally changing the world. As an Executive Speaker Coach, he has awakened natural talents, built confidence, and inspired passion in communicators of all experience levels. He’s been fortunate to work with some of the world’s most well-known brands and thought leaders, including: Microsoft, Qualcomm, VMware, Cisco, Apple, Ford, HP, Citrix, numerous TED speakers, author Michael Pollan, productivity guru David Allen, and former Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. In his spare time, Doug enjoys urban sketching, photography, and writing.
In this conversation, Doug talks about Duarte’s speaker coaching services.
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