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PowerPoint and Presenting News: June 18, 2019

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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Start or Restart Numbering for Lists in PowerPoint 365 for Mac

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

Presentation Summit 2019: Conversation with Mike Parkinson

      Mike Parkinson (Microsoft MVP and APMP Fellow) is an internationally recognized visual communication expert, professional speaker, and award-winning author. Mike is one of 36 Microsoft PowerPoint MVPs in the world. He regularly conducts workshops and creates graphics, presentations, and creative materials for Fortune 500 companies like Microsoft, FedEx, Xerox, Dell, and Boeing as well as at international learning institutions and organizations.

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

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Improve Your Delegating with These Tips

By Sam Warner, Toastmasters International

In my experience, staff are promoted into leadership roles and then develop them once there. This is despite the fact that a better approach is to give them the tools to do the job first and then promote them to the role once equipped. In the first scenario, the new leader is left unsupported and drowning. Newly promoted leaders often feel they must prove themselves by achieving a lot in their first year. However, they risk burn out if they try to do it all themselves. A sign of a great leader is one who is confident enough to delegate effectively.

Delegation provides opportunities for people to feel empowered, supported, and encouraged. It also gives the leader a chance to dial down overwhelm and stress by spreading out the workload amongst the team.

Image: Pixabay

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No Shape Outline in PowerPoint 365 for Mac

Whenever you insert a new shape into a PowerPoint slide, you can see that it is filled with a solid color and has an outline by default (this may differ depending on the Theme applied to your presentation). You can remove the fill of the shape as well as the outline. In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to remove an outline from a shape so that it only includes a fill without any outline. Whatever you do, make sure that you either remove the fill or the outline because if you remove both, then your shape will no longer be visible.

Remove the outline from any shape in PowerPoint 365 for Mac.

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Tagged as: Mac, Office 2016, Office 365, Office for Mac, Outline, PowerPoint 2016, PowerPoint 2019, PowerPoint 365, PowerPoint for Mac, Shapes, Tutorials