PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Reuse Slides in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac

Reusing your existing slides can be a great help: first you need not recreate stuff you already have and secondly you are saving so much time that you can use more effectively to practice your presentation! Having said that, always start by creating an outline of your presentation. This is important because it gives you an opportunity to plan your slides all over again. Thereafter, reuse any existing slides. PowerPoint provides a quick command that locates specific slides, and enables you to add them to the active presentation.

Learn how to reuse slides in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac.

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5 Ideas to Help You Remember Your Speech

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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PowerPoint and Presenting News: April 2, 2019

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.

Stay informed about updated tutorials and happenings related to PowerPoint and presenting.

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Format Slide Background in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac

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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Hide/Unhide Slides in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac

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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