PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

TeamSlide Pro: Conversation with Kartik Sundar

Kartik Sundar is focused on helping PowerPoint users improve their productivity. As a former corporate strategy and management consultant, Kartik has firsthand knowledge of consulting, sales, and marketing workflows. In addition, he understands the process of building insightful business presentations. Kartik has leveraged this background as a co-founder at Aploris GmbH, a software firm that builds PowerPoint-focused productivity tools.

In this conversation, Kartik discusses TeamSlide Pro, a desktop slide search solution that keeps PowerPoint content at your fingertips.

Geetesh: What does TeamSlide Pro’s desktop search product do? Please explain your takeaway idea for a novice user.

Kartik: TeamSlide Pro is a PowerPoint search tool that helps you instantly find the slide you need. It enables you to search for individual slides from across presentations in all your folders and even in your email attachments.

Instead of hunting through folders and emails to find that one slide you created last month, with TeamSlide you can search, preview, and insert individual slides all without leaving PowerPoint.

The Indezine audience can try TeamSlide Pro here.

TeamSlide Pro has two primary components:

TeamSlide Engine:  The TeamSlide engine locally indexes your PowerPoint presentations located in selected folders and email.  In addition, the engine creates preview images for all your slides.  It enables you to search across all your documents to find the specific slides you need. Note that all your content remains on your computer.

PowerPoint add-in:  The TeamSlide PowerPoint add-in is the primary user interface.  From within PowerPoint, you can search, preview, and insert slides into your active presentation.  The add-in allows you stay within your workflow and avoid disruption.

In addition to desktop search, TeamSlide offers a business product that enables users to build a shared repository or connect to an existing content system such as SharePoint, Dropbox, and Box. I have previously discussed this product with Indezine.

Geetesh: There are several slide management programs available today that work as desktop-based or cloud-based options. What sets TeamSlide Pro apart from all other products?

Kartik: At TeamSlide, our team has a unique set of business experience and technical know-how that differentiates us.

From a UI/ease-of-use perspective, our unique add-in offers incredibly easy access to your slides, and the intuitive design ensures that even PowerPoint beginners can immediately pick up TeamSlide. One customer explained to his team, “If you can use Google, you can use TeamSlide!”

Our search capabilities are built based on first-hand experience working with large repositories and also from directly speaking with users. These experiences and constant feedback have shaped our search formula and slide filtering capabilities to ensure you quickly find specific slides. For example, TeamSlide can automatically filter duplicate and title slides to clean-up search results.

Lastly, we spend time with our customers to ensure they are set up for success. Beyond just providing a tool, we work closely with our customers, sharing best practices and driving operational tasks that lead to business results.

Take a moment to try TeamSlide Pro (free) and start saving time and improving productivity.

The views and opinions expressed in this blog are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of any other agency, organization, employer, or company.

Filed Under: Interviews
Tagged as: Digital Asset Management, Kartik Sundar, Presentation Management, Slide Management, TeamSlide

Video Recolor Options in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows

Sometimes, the original look of the inserted video may not work well with the color palette of your presentation. In such situations, you could play around with the brightness and contrast for an inserted video by using the Corrections option. Additionally, you can also completely recolor your inserted video. Further, you can make your full-color video appear as a grayscale video, or even like a duotone video such as blue and grayscale. Do remember that the video Color options work almost similar to the Color options for the pictures.

Learn about the Recolor options for videos in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.

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

PowerPoint and Presenting News: July 4, 2017

It’s amazing how many people wonder if two animations can occur simultaneously in PowerPoint. In fact, you can make more than two animations happen at the same time, and we explain the process in an easy tutorial that works for all PowerPoint versions. AlexAnndra Ontra is our guest author this week, and she talks about how presentations fall into one of three categories: Presentation Guru, Spray and Pray, and Lone Wolf. Paul Carroll from Toastmasters explains how you can provide the Level of detail that your audience wants. And in a detour away from presenting, Louise Doherty talks about Nine Websites and Apps to Help You Set Up That Important Business Meeting.

PowerPoint 2016 for Windows users will learn about advanced Properties stuff to discover what happens to their metadata. We also explore adding Bookmarks in videos, reorienting (resize, rotate, flip) videos, and resetting them. PowerPoint 2007 users can explore how they can make this version the default version. Finally, do not miss the quotes, press releases, and templates of this week.

Stay informed about updated tutorials and happenings on Indezine.

Filed Under: Ezine
Tagged as: Ezine, Indezine, News, PowerPoint

Set PowerPoint 2013 for Windows as the Default Version

At times, you may want to change your default version of PowerPoint. This decision can be important for you if you have multiple versions of PowerPoint installed on your system. Typically the last version installed is the default version, but there are other ways to change the defaults, and all of them do not work all the time! Let us explore some options if you want to set PowerPoint 2013 as your default version.

Learn how you can set PowerPoint 2013 for Windows as the default version if you have more than one version of PowerPoint installed.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2013
Tagged as: Default, Microsoft Windows, Office 2013, PowerPoint 2013, Tutorials

Video Correction Adjustments in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows

Sometimes when you insert a video clip on your slide within PowerPoint 2016 for Windows, it may appear too dark or light. Luckily, adjustments can be made to any of the video clips you insert within your PowerPoint slides. These kinds of adjustments may be not only necessary for the appearance of the video clips on your computer, but also for how they show when projected onto a screen or even on a connected TV.

Learn about the Correction adjustment options for videos in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2016
Tagged as: Microsoft Windows, Office 2016, PowerPoint 2016, Tutorials, Video