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Presentation Summit 2016: Conversation with Nancy Duarte

Nancy Duarte is CEO of Duarte, Inc. and the author of several best-selling books on presentations and communications. Her latest book, Illuminate: Ignite Change Through Speeches, Stories, Ceremonies, and Symbols, co-authored with Patti Sanchez, shows how the world’s greatest leaders use powerful communication to move people and ideas forward. She has a passion for teaching others about the power of persuasive presentations to drive change in the world.

In this conversation, Nancy discusses her keynote at the upcoming Presentation Summit 2016 series.

Geetesh: You deliver the opening keynote at this year’s Presentation Summit where you will speak about Illuminate. Can you give us a curtain-raiser introduction to Illuminate? Also, what takeaways can attendees anticipate from your talk?

Nancy: When presentations are coupled with stories and ceremonies, leaders can ignite change more effectively. As one of the largest presentation firms, I’ve had to learn this the hard way and I will be sharing personal stories about my shop, my wins and losses as a leader, and how fired up I am that so many in the room believe presentations make a huge difference in the world.

Geetesh: Nancy, not only are you a renowned author, but you run Duarte, a company that works with messages, slides, and delivery coaching. I am sure you do so much more. How do you prioritize what needs to be done, or do you just have the freedom to do whatever you want to do?

Nancy: I’ve surrounded myself with a rockstar executive team. It took me a long time to figure out my role as CEO. There’s no job description for one. So, I spend my time in five ways: as an investor, an inventor, an ambassador, a teacher, and a student. Now, I’m slowly delegating some of that. As an entrepreneur, there are always plenty of responsibilities to get through each day but I have been able to carve out for myself working on things that play to my strengths and energize me. I work long days that have meetings scheduled in 15 to 30 min increments but because I enjoy what I do, it doesn’t feel like a burden. Also, it helps to try to listen to TV while I e-mail in the evenings and pretend I’m not working. My weekends are kept free for me to hike, contemplate and then do it all over again.

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Tagged as: Events, Interviews, Nancy Duarte, PowerPoint, Presentation Summit, Presentations

Embed Fonts in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows

Have you ever been in a situation where your presentation looked so awesome with some amazing typography, but when you opened the same presentation on another computer, the text looked positively terrible! This behavior may happen if the font you used is not available on the other computer. The best solution to this problem is to use safe fonts that are available on most computers, or you may also explore the option to embed fonts in your PowerPoint presentation.

Learn how to embed fonts in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Embed Fonts, Fonts, Microsoft Windows, Office 2010, PowerPoint 2010, Text, Tutorials

Outstanding Presentations 2016: Conversation with Ellen Finkelstein

Ellen Finkelstein is a Microsoft PowerPoint MVP, a recognized expert, speaker, trainer, and best-selling author on PowerPoint, presentation skills, and AutoCAD. Her articles have appeared in numerous magazines, newsletters, and blogs. She is presently running the Outstanding Presentations Workshop 2016 series, her webinar series that allows everyone to learn from renowned presentation experts.

In this conversation, Ellen talks more about this new webinar series.

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PowerPoint and Presenting News: October 11, 2016

Widescreen slides are becoming the norm, and it is getting difficult to decide which slide proportions you should use for your next presentation, especially if you have no control over the projection environment. We explore this area in our Should You Create Widescreen Slides article. We also get you another foundation-level article–about differences between bitmaps and vector graphics.

In the Tutorials section, PowerPoint 2013 users can learn about moving shapes within SmartArt graphics, converting SmartArt into individual shapes, and formatting text attributes within SmartArt. PowerPoint 2010 users can learn about hiding and unhiding slides, and exporting presentations to video clips. Finally, do not miss the new press releases and templates of this week.

Read Indezine’s PowerPoint and Presenting News.

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Insert an Organization Chart in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows

You won’t find an option to add an Organization Chart in PowerPoint 2013’s Insert tab of the Ribbon. Instead, you will find the SmartArt option in the Insert tab, and organization charts are just one of the many variants of SmartArt graphics you can insert into your slide. An organization chart graphically represents the management or hierarchical structure of an organization. If you want to illustrate the reporting relationships in your company or organization, you can create a SmartArt graphic using the Organization Chart variant.

Learn how you can add an organization chart in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Diagrams, Graphics, Office 2013, Org Chart, PowerPoint 2013, SmartArt, Tutorials