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Thoughts and impressions of happenings in the world of PowerPoint and presentations, continuously updated since 2003.
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In Silicon Valley, the Eleventh Commandment is Build a Better Mousetrap. Almost every day produces another announcement about a new way to drive, work, shop, eat, play, pay, and, if Mark Zuckerberg fulfills his future vision, to read minds with “optical neuro-imaging systems.” At the heart of this quest is the need to design world-class products.
Steve Vassallo understands this as well as anyone in the Valley. He led the team that designed Cisco’s iconic VoIP desk phone and, over the course of his career, his work has won over 77 patents. Steve is now a General Partner at Foundation Capital, a venture capital firm, and has generously decided to share his valuable knowledge about product—and company—design. He put it all in a new book, The Way to Design, and he’s made it available for free here.
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By Ken Molay
In order to think about designing for web presentations, you need to understand the three ways that web conferencing programs may show your visuals:
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We first explore whether 30 million or a billion slides are created using PowerPoint each day. We also feature Julie Terberg, who revisits the topic of safe fonts in PowerPoint. We then explore the merits of using Widescreen slides. And then, we look at some Bing Image Search filters including Layout and People.
PowerPoint 2016 for Windows users can explore options for Inserting a New Slide. PowerPoint 2016 for Mac users will learn about Adding and Renaming Slide Masters and Duplicating Slide Masters. 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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We look at how an add-in for PowerPoint lets you add tweets within PowerPoint, in our Displaying Tweets in PowerPoint Using DataPoint feature. Manuel Onate speaks about his add-in, PowerTOC that creates TOCs and more. And we re-explore our feature on 30 million presentations being created each year. We also look at the filters in Bing Image Search–this week we look at the Color and Type filters.
PowerPoint 2016 for Mac users can learn from our tutorials about pictures this week. We look at inserting pictures, linking them, and Text Autofit options. 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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Duplicating a Slide Master is a little different than adding a new Slide Master from scratch. And it is a smarter option because you do not have to make the same changes all over again. Let’s explain this with a scenario. Imagine you have formatted your existing Slide Master by applying a Background Style, adding a logo, or even adding your own Picture placeholder layout. And now you want a new Slide Master that’s almost the same as your existing one, but you want a different Theme Colors set to be used. For such a small change, it is advisable that you duplicate your existing Slide Master and make the small changes instead of starting all over again with a new Slide Master.
Learn how to duplicate Slide Masters in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac.
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