PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

PowerPoint and Presenting News: December 4, 2018

We first feature John Auckland, who shares his experience of successfully funding around 50 companies, to share with you, 5 Steps to Creating a Killer Pitch Deck When Raising Funds. Nigel Holmes, a celebrated illustrator talks about his new book, Crazy Competitions: 100 Weird and Wonderful Rituals from Around the World. If you explore through the pages of his book, you will discover so many ideas on how you can make illustrations work better for you in PowerPoint. Even if you don’t use the inspiration in PowerPoint, the book is an amazing read and watch! We then feature Ken Molay, who shares Top 5 Tips For Remote Presentation Design. This is a must-read if you deliver webinars. Finally, we did not find a list of common double-byte fonts anywhere, and with so many requests pouring in, we decided to create a list on our own.

PowerPoint 2016 for Windows can explore the many Views in the program. PowerPoint 2013 for Windows can learn how to Insert Symbols. PowerPoint 2016 for Mac users can learn about Manipulating Shapes by Dragging Yellow Handles, and Text Alignment. 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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Tagged as: Ezine, Indezine, News, PowerPoint

Cookie Cutter Shapes in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac

Do you want to create a pentagon-shaped table? Even better, don’t you want to use a process that not only makes the table completely editable, but which ends up with a particular shape? We are going to use two PowerPoint techniques to achieve this trick.

Learn how to make cookie cutter shapes in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2016
Tagged as: Combine, Cookie Cutter, Fills, Mac, Office 2016, Office for Mac, PowerPoint 2016, PowerPoint for Mac, Shapes, Slide Background Fill, Tutorials

Add an Em Dash in PowerPoint for Mac

You may want to quickly add an em dash within your text container—be it a placeholder, text box, shape, or even a table. It’s very easy to add an em dash, and there is more than one way to achieve this task, although there may be some differences, and all ways may not work in the version of PowerPoint you are using. But certainly, using one of these options, you will be able to add an em dash in PowerPoint for Mac.

Learn how you can insert an em dash in PowerPoint for Mac.

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Tagged as: Em Dash, Mac, Office for Mac, PowerPoint, PowerPoint for Mac, Tutorials

Text Alignment in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac

Text is an important element in your PowerPoint slides, and most of the time, text alignment is taken care by the defaults set in your presentation template. You type or paste some text in a placeholder, and the text may align left, right, or even center, based upon the choices made in the template or Theme of the presentation. However, there are times when you want to make alignment choices, not just for text in placeholders, but also for text in text boxes, shapes, charts, tables, and anywhere else.

Align text in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac.

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Tagged as: Align, Mac, Office 2016, Office for Mac, PowerPoint 2016, PowerPoint for Mac, Text, Text Alignment, Tutorials

Crazy Competitions: Conversation with Nigel Holmes

  Born in England, Nigel Holmes studied illustration at the Royal College of Art in London and then freelanced for magazines and newspapers for 12 years in London before moving to New York in 1978 to work for Time Magazine. He became graphics director and stayed there for 16 years. Since 1994 he has run his own business, Explanation Graphics, explaining all sorts of things for a variety of clients and publications. These have included American Express, Scientific American, National Geographic, and the New York Times.

In this interview, Nigel discusses his new book, Crazy Competitions: 100 Weird and Wonderful Rituals from Around the World.

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Tagged as: Books, Interviews, Nigel Holmes