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By Gordon Adams, Toastmasters International
To make your presentation fly, you need to capture your audience’s attention right from the start. That means you need an opening that engaging and full of impact.
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Here are some different ways to achieve this:
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Tagged as: Audience, Delivery, Guest Post, Opinion, Presentation Skills, Storytelling, Toastmasters
Microsoft Office 2016 applications work well with cloud platforms such as OneDrive. Roaming capabilities enable when you log into your Microsoft account within Office applications such as PowerPoint. Once logged in, all your settings, including your recent files or templates, will be synced across all your devices, including laptops, tablets, and even smartphones.
Learn how to add various services in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac.
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In the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, there’s a phenomenon called “SEP” that you just can’t see. SEP stands for Somebody Else’s Problem, and quite simply: we all choose not to see it.
I’m pretty sure this same principle applies to all those buttons on applications that we don’t know what they do. We just don’t see them. Blissfully unaware! For example: “Triggers” in PowerPoint’s Animation Pane has been there for a very long time, probably. But it’s only in recent years that we’ve been using them. And we’re making up for lost time now. They are genius!
Simply put, a triggered animation is one that only happens when you click something else. The best way to explain this is through demonstration – here’s a video:
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Tagged as: eLearning, Guest Post, Philippa Leguen de Lacroix, Presented, Trigger Animations
We first answer a question from a reader: You set an audio clip to play across slides, and then you return to the first slide by pressing the Home button, or any other way. Now the audio no longer plays automatically. Why? We then answer another question: In my deck of slides, I need to have slide numbers 1 to 8 for the first section of slides. I then need the next section to be numbered 1 to 6 for another section. Is this doable? After answering these questions, we bring you an exclusive interview with Peter Ryckaert of Crowdbeamer.
Sway users can learn about signing into Microsoft Sway, and explore how Sway differs from PowerPoint. PowerPoint 2016 for Mac users can explore Tiling Options in texture fills, and also learn to Add Pattern Fills to Shapes. 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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Shape fills such as solid colors, gradients, pictures, and textures can have a Transparency attribute that lets you reduce the opacity of a fill so that the slide object or background behind shows through.
Apply transparency to shape fills in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac.
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