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PowerPoint and Presenting News: August 22, 2017

Do you know the real cost of presentations? What if you knew that it could be as high as 50+ hours each month? Learn more in this guest post by AlexAnndra Ontra. Adam Chapman, from a design agency based out of Hongkong, talks about his new infographic that looks at Tips to Improve Yourself at the Art of Delivering Presentations. We explore another font that is bundled with PowerPoint as part of our Safe Fonts series. This time, we explore Bell MT. We feature three speakers who talk about their sessions at the upcoming Presentation Summit: Rick Altman, Julie Terberg, and Doug Thomas.

For users of PowerPoint 2016 for Windows, we look at trimming video clips, the Format tab for audio clips, animating slide objects when a media clip on the same slide is playing, and open/close options in Backstage view. Finally, do not miss the quotes, press releases, and templates of this week.

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Adding and Renaming Sections in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows

Dividing a large number of slides into Sections helps you to manage them better. And even for presentations that do not have a large number of slides, you can benefit from Sections. However, the mere act of dividing slides into Sections will not achieve much unless you create and name these Sections in a proper manner to represent what the slides within each Section contain. In this tutorial, let us learn how to add Sections, and also how to rename them.

Learn to add and rename sections in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Microsoft Windows, Office 2016, PowerPoint 2016, Sections, Tutorials

Presentation Summit 2017: Conversation with Echo Swinford

  A Microsoft PowerPoint MVP since 2000, Echo Swinford holds a Master’s degree in New Media and is the owner of Echosvoice, a PowerPoint consulting firm specializing in custom template development, presentation creation, makeovers and cleanup, and training for large and small corporate clients. The past few years, Echo’s spare time has been consumed by the Presentation Guild, a not-for-profit association established for the presentation community.

In this conversation, Echo talks about her sessions at the upcoming Presentation Summit 2017 in Clearwater Beach, FL.

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Getting Started with Sections in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows

Sections in PowerPoint is a feature that lets you organize slides into segments or divisions for easier management. For instance, if you have many slides, you may find the content difficult to handle, edit, or even deliver. And if you have a few slides, even then you may have the need to organize them logically in Sections. The Section option within PowerPoint 2016 enables you to divide your presentation slides into logical parts.

Sections in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows can help organize your presentation in logical parts.

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Tagged as: Microsoft Windows, Office 2016, PowerPoint 2016, Sections, Tutorials

Open and Close Options in Backstage View of PowerPoint 2016 for Windows

When you click the File menu and access Backstage view in PowerPoint 2016, several options appear. On this page, we explore two of those options: Open and Close.

Learn about opening and closing files in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Backstage, Close, Microsoft Windows, Office 2016, Open, PowerPoint 2016, Tutorials