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The Message-Centric Slide

By Lior Student

You know the drill. The teams are assembled for a mandatory meeting on some subject or another. The speaker takes front and center, and behind him, a PowerPoint presentation that looks like it’s been with him since the 90s. As your eyes ping pong between the speaker and the screen, back and forth, your eyelids begin to feel heavy… before you know, you’re in dreamland.

Are you the type that begins preparation by opening your PowerPoint and typing in your data? Text? Excel?  Are you and your slide interchangeable?  Is your message instantly clear? Power up your slides to get results with our message-centric, bottom-up method.

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Tagged as: Guest Post, Lior Student, Make a Point, PowerPoint

Video Shapes in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows

When you insert a video clip within a PowerPoint slide, you’ll find it placed as a traditional rectangular shape. And while that’s what most users expect, as it seems safe and conventional. However, PowerPoint allows you to have your video playing in different shapes such as a circle or oval, or a wave, a triangle, or any of the shapes that PowerPoint’s Shapes gallery includes. However, just the fact that a video can be placed within a shape is no reason to forego the conventional rectangle. Do remember that most other shapes may crop out important parts of your video clips.

Constrain a video clip to a shape in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Microsoft Windows, Office 2016, PowerPoint 2016, Shapes, Tutorials, Video

PowerPoint and Presenting News: July 18, 2017

We begin with an exclusive guest post from Jan Metchel, who talks about SlideProof. We then discuss the smallest font size you can use in your PowerPoint slides–we look at guidelines and ideas. We also look at using photos in presentations–explore copyrights, where to get photos, how to insert photos, and the Triple-C guidelines.

We look at the video file types that various Windows and Mac versions of PowerPoint can insert. PowerPoint 2016 for Windows users can learn about video borders, video effects, video poster frames, and cropping videos. We also look at keyboard shortcuts for PowerPoint 2013 users. Finally, do not miss the quotes, press releases, and templates of this week.

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Explore Fonts: Papyrus

Fonts can help you tell a story, but they have amazing stories of their own. Today, we will talk about Papyrus, a font from Letraset that has been ubiquitous on many computer systems since it is one of the many fonts bundled as part of Microsoft’s Office suite.

Learn about Papyrus, a calligraphic font that comes with an amazing story.

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Tagged as: Fonts, PowerPoint, Safe Fonts

New Tab Options in Backstage View in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows

When you launch PowerPoint 2016, you are provided with an option to create a new blank presentation. Further, if you are already working on an open presentation, and want to create a new presentation at that point, you can do so using the New tab within the Backstage View.

Learn about options within the New tab of Backstage view in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Backstage, Interface, Office 2016, PowerPoint 2016, Tutorials