PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Complete Presentation Skills Masterclass for Every Occasion: Conversation with TJ Walker

  TJ Walker is the founder of Media Training Worldwide and has been conducting public speaking training workshops and seminars since 1984. Walker has trained Presidents of countries, Prime Ministers, Nobel Peace Prize winners, Super Bowl winners, U.S. Senators, Miss Universes and Members of Parliament.

His book, “Secret to Foolproof Presentations” was a USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Business Week Bestseller. Walker has made more than 2000 network TV and radio appearances on CBS, ABC, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, CNN, Bloomberg TV. In 2009, Walker entered the Guinness Book Of World Records for most talk show appearances ever in a 24 hour period. He is also a past president of the National Speakers Association, New York City.

In this conversation, TJ talks about his new Udemy course, Complete Presentation Skills Masterclass for Every Occasion.

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Filed Under: Interviews
Tagged as: Interviews, Presentation Skills, TJ Walker, Training, Udemy

Working with HSL Colors in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows

Assuming someone has provided you with an HSL (Hue, Saturation, and Luminosity) value of a color, and asked you to add a rectangle of that color to a slide, then how do you proceed? Let’s also explore another scenario. What if you have started with a color that’s close enough to what you need, but it’s not the exact one. Maybe you need it to be a little less saturated? Again, you will benefit by working with the HSL color model rather than the RGB model.

Learn about how to work with HSL Colors in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2016
Tagged as: Color, Color Models, HSL, Microsoft Windows, Office 2016, PowerPoint 2016, Tutorials

Add Places in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows

While you can open and save files from any file location you access on your computer or network, you can also add more places from where you can open and save files. You see options to add a place in both the Open and Save As tabs of Backstage view.

Learn to add places to open and save files in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2013
Tagged as: Backstage, Interface, Microsoft Windows, Office 2013, Places, PowerPoint 2013, Tutorials

Where Are the Office Themes and Templates Located?

Haven’t you seen the Themes that PowerPoint shows you when you want to create a new presentation? These Themes show up in the Presentation Gallery and also within the Themes drop down galleries within PowerPoint. Where are those Themes located? Many times, you want to know why this information is not as easily accessible as it should have been. Luckily, we will try and solve this problem.

Learn where Office Themes are located for various PowerPoint versions.

Filed Under: PowerPoint All Versions
Tagged as: Microsoft Office, Templates, Themes

Formatting Picture Placeholders in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac

When you are working with multiple pictures on a slide, their position, formatting, and size may be required to be the same across successive slides. This can be achieved manually using resizing and aligning options, although you will use an inordinate amount of time making sure that the pictures look consistent slide after slide. Even then, there are chances you may not be too happy with the results or the time it takes to make these changes. You can get over this problem by using a new Slide Layout with a picture placeholder. As we learned in previous tutorials, a placeholder is a container that you can use to fill in with all sorts of content types such as text, pictures, charts, SmartArt graphics, etc.

Learn how to format Picture placeholders in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2016
Tagged as: Mac, Office 2016, Office for Mac, Pictures, Placeholders, PowerPoint 2016, PowerPoint for Mac, Tutorials