PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Crop Pictures in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows

After inserting a picture in your slide, you should first consider if the picture you have used complements the message of your presentation and slide. Even if it is relevant, you should consider making it more pertinent by removing the areas that may be not required. In other words, you must ponder and decide whether you want to use PowerPoint’s Crop options. Cropping an area removes extraneous areas, and lets you add focus to the areas of the picture that are appropriate to the topic of your presentation.

Learn how to work with crop options for pictures in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2016
Tagged as: Crop, Graphics, Microsoft Windows, Office 2016, Pictures, PowerPoint 2016, Tutorials

Insert and/or Link Pictures in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows

Inserting a picture on PowerPoint slide is a frequent and commonplace task, and to you, this may look like a simple activity. But this simple task includes few options. You know that pictures located in any of your folders can be inserted on a slide. By default, PowerPoint retains no relation; even if you delete or move the original picture file you inserted, the copy on your slide will still be retained since PowerPoint saves the picture as a part of the file it creates. Yet, there are options within PowerPoint that let you maintain the relation between the original picture and the inserted picture. For example, if you make changes to your original picture, PowerPoint will update its copy on the slide!

Learn about the options available for inserting and/or linking pictures in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Graphics, Microsoft Windows, Office 2016, Pictures, PowerPoint 2016, Tutorials

New Feature for DataPoint and Bluetooth Buttons in PowerPoint

By Kurt Dupont

Let me show our latest project where we use PowerPoint to streamline a waiting queue.

There is a company with helpdesks, and they want to have some privacy when they are helping customers. So, that is why they have a waiting area and a large monitor that shows the availability of the desks. A green or red traffic light is shown to visualize the status of each desk individually.

On the large monitor, there is a small computer connected that is running a dynamic PowerPoint presentation with our DataPoint add-in to display dynamic information. Here, in this presentation, we are showing a clock, the current local weather, and an RSS feed to entertain the waiting people. Next to that infotainment, the 3 traffic lights for the availability.

At the different desks, they have a Bluetooth button that is connected to a database. Each click changes the status of the corresponding desk, and that is updated on the screen. Next to the traffic light changes, you can give any notification sound to empower the status change of the help desk.

Next to traffic lights with a green or red status, you can also use a counter or ticket from 1 till 99 that people can take at a ticket dispenser when they enter the area. A button click will then increment the number being served. A single click will increment, and you can use a double button click to decrement the number in case of an error.

The advantage of using PowerPoint here instead of a simple LED display with 2 characters, is that you can display additional information like instructions, messages, announcements, and advertising. And everything can be designed in your favorite presentation tool; PowerPoint. More software and ideas can be found on our website.

  Kurt Dupont is a solution provider who would go out of his way just to ensure he brings out the best when it comes to issues that has to deal with data-driven presentations, data visualization, and digital signage software.

He started by working at airports worldwide to set up airport databases and flight information screens. This evolved to become the basis for PresentationPoint.

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.

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Tagged as: Add-in, DataPoint, Guest Post, Interviews, Kurt Dupont, PowerPoint, PresentationPoint

Save as PDF in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows

Saving a PowerPoint presentation as a PDF has its pros and cons. The biggest advantage is that recipients won’t be able to edit, and you can embed fonts easily. Disadvantages include that you cannot be multimedia-friendly. Whatever your thoughts may be, PowerPoint makes it very easy to create PDFs.

Create PDFs from your presentation slides in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Microsoft Windows, Office 2013, PDF, PowerPoint 2013, Tutorials

PowerPoint and Presenting News: December 13, 2016

PowerPoint can only embed TrueType fonts. And the newer fonts are all OpenType. But how do you identify these fonts? Learn more in our Identify Font File Types in PowerPoint tutorial. Fifteen years ago, Neuxpower released NXPowerLite, the first PowerPoint compression tool that reduced file sizes. In the ensuing years, NXPowerLite has evolved and reinvented itself. Mike Power, the founder and Managing Director of Neuxpower explores NXPowerLite retrospectively and looks at the near future.

In the Tutorials section, PowerPoint 2016 users can learn about changing the PowerPoint interface color, Picture Styles, adjusting Picture options, and Picture Effects. PowerPoint 2010 users can explore PDF saving options. Finally, do not miss the new press releases and templates of this week.

Read Indezine’s PowerPoint and Presenting News.

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Tagged as: Ezine, Indezine, News, PowerPoint