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Two weeks ago, Mary Jennings Hegar was a textbook definition of a long shot: a rookie Democrat running in red state Texas’ 31st Congressional District against John Carter, a Republican who has held the office for 15 years. Although MJ, as she likes to be called, had a distinguished career as a U.S. Air Force Medevac pilot in Afghanistan (winning a Distinguished Flying Cross and Purple Heart when her helicopter was shot down), she was a political unknown. But last week, after she released a campaign video that went viral with nearly 4 million views, she was all over the media; USA Today, People, Time, Washington Post, and CNN.
Whether the video will translate to an upset victory won’t be decided until November 6, but what made the ad so successful and so quickly can be attributed to two powerful communication factors:
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We first feature Markus Hannebauer of think-cell who talks about the new think-cell 9 release and how AI benefits users. We then explore the concept of PowerPoint dashboards, and what exactly you can place within such a dashboard. Jerry Weissman observes that every day, there’s another announcement about a new way to drive, work, shop, eat, play, or pay. Clearly, you need to build a better mousetrap and presentation. And Robert Kawalsky discusses the acquisition of Zeetings by Canva.
PowerPoint 2016 for Windows users can learn about Rulers, Gridlines, Guides, Smarter Guides, and how the Snap to Grid settings work. 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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Jamie Garroch is the founder of YOUpresent, a PowerPoint add-in and presentation design agency. YOUpresent provides a suite of off-the-shelf add-ins plus a custom add-in design service for organizations wishing to extend the functionality of PowerPoint or other Office apps. That can be anything from adding a single button to apply a corporate style, to a fully loaded ribbon with custom tools tuned to the organization’s workflow. Known as “extensibility,” Jamie is a passionate evangelist of this relatively unknown productivity feature of Microsoft Office.
In this conversation, Jamie talks about the new Custom Colors feature in his YOUtools add-in for PowerPoint.
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Shapes are the building blocks of whatever you create in PowerPoint. In fact, even a text box that you add to your slide is essentially a shape with a No Fill attribute. Once you get proficient with shapes, you can do so much more. For example, you can combine multiple shapes to create fancier shapes. However, you need to start with the very basics, and there’s so much to learn even at this foundation level. The first task you need to do is to insert a shape. Fortunately, PowerPoint makes it easy to do this task.
Learn how to insert Shapes in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac.
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Markus Hannebauer is co-founder and CEO of think-cell, where he is in charge of Marketing, Sales, Operations and Finance. He is a Computer Scientist by training and holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from Technical University Berlin. In this conversation, Markus talks about think-cell 9, a PowerPoint add-in that uses AI to help you create amazing charts.
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