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After inserting a video clip into PowerPoint, you can play the clip with minute control over its volume, looping, rewinding, etc. Rather than create smaller tutorials that explore these options, we are exploring them all on this page. Before we do so, it’s important to understand that these abilities only exist so that you can use them when they are required, rather than using them just because they exist!
Explore advanced video options in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.
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You have already explored what a digital signature is, and how a digital signature can be important for use in PowerPoint presentations. To digitally sign a presentation, you need a digital certificate. In this tutorial, we will explore how you can both acquire or create a digital signature using PowerPoint 2013.
Learn how to acquire or create a digital signature in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.
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By Kurt Dupont
PowerPoint and Excel are two popular Microsoft products used extensively in business. But which one is more powerful for creating business reports?
Since a lot of the data needed for reports is often already in Excel, many people automatically use Excel to create reports and charts for reporting to management and stakeholders. But, in our experience, we have found that PowerPoint is usually the better business reports tool. Here’s why:
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When you insert a video clip in PowerPoint, you may find that the inserted video starts playing abruptly when started within the Slide Show view, causing a jarring interruption to the flow of your slides. Fortunately, this is avoidable if you opt to add Fade In and Fade Out effects to the beginning and end of your video clip.
Fade in or fade out your video clips in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.
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Margot Leitman is the author of the best-selling book Long Story Short: the Only Storytelling Guide You’ll Ever Need and Gawky, Tales of an Extra Long Awkward Phase. She has written for Dreamworks TV, the Hallmark Channel, the Pixl Network and NBC. She is the founder of the storytelling program at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theatre and is a five-time winner of the Moth Storyslam and a winner of the Moth Grandslam. She travels all over the world teaching people to tell their stories.
In this conversation, Margot discusses her book, Long Story Short: the Only Storytelling Guide You’ll Ever Need.
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