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Hide and Unhide Slides in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows

You have a secret slide with useful information that you do not want to delete. But you don’t want to show it to your audience inadvertently! What do you do? The solution is easy: you just hide the slide. Hidden slides don’t show up in Slide Show view, but they are still available to edit and to possibly unhide when you are ready to show that slide to the world.

Learn how to hide and unhide slides in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2010
Tagged as: Microsoft Windows, Office 2010, PowerPoint 2010, Slides, Tutorials

Geetesh, Interviewed by TJ Walker

Recently, TJ Walker interviewed me. We spoke about many things: how I evolved and got to do what I do, what are my thoughts on presenting, and so much more.

The transcript below covers only the first five minutes, but the recorded podcast that you can play spans more than an hour.

TJ: Our special guest today is internationally renowned PowerPoint expert, Geetesh Bajaj. He is the founder of Indezine, one of the most well-known websites and newsletters read by millions each month on all aspects of the technology of PowerPoint. In this show, you’re going to learn some real insights. I know I learned a lot, like what is the foolproof way of actually starting a content website and making money.

It’s very different from a lot of strategies you typically hear. He goes into exactly how he uses technology when creating PowerPoint presentations, and has some interesting frames—ways of looking at this. He says you should look at a PowerPoint slide, the same way you look out a window, in your own home—a fascinating perspective. And he has insights that you may have heard before but he just says it in an intriguing memorable way; just simple tips like when you’re giving a PowerPoint presentation, “Don’t impress. Inform!” It sounds simple and yet most people don’t do it.

Now, he’s a guy who has published half a dozen books, speaks, and trains all over the world, has millions of readers, viewers, consumers of his content, and he does it all from Hyderabad, India—a fascinating personal story of how he rose from a family business making food products. In India, at a time when it was hard to even get a landline to now becoming a true technology and communications leader around the world. Please settle back and get ready for a great interview. Geetesh, thanks for being our guest today.

Geetesh: It’s wonderful being here today, TJ.

TJ: A lot of our listeners are familiar with your name and who you are because you’ve done short, sort of guests appearances here. Before we talk about your specific niche, issues like PowerPoint…Today is a little different. We want to really go deep, find out more about who you are, and how did a guy who lives on the other side of the world—you now live in Hyderabad, India… become so influential throughout the world, and especially in the United States when it comes to PowerPoint presentations. As noted in the introduction, you are a Microsoft MVP, a Most Valuable Professional with respect to PowerPoint. You’ve written half a dozen books on communication and PowerPoint. Your Cutting-Edge PowerPoint for Dummies is still an extremely popular book, and hundreds of thousands of people are reading your newsletter every single week, and going to your Indezine site. Where did this all start?

Geetesh: I never planned this, TJ. And it just happened. One thing led to the other. I was fascinated by what I was doing, I was passionate about what I was doing, and that’s how I got here. It’s a journey, and I’m on the journey now.

TJ: Now what were you doing in, say high school or college, because I remember ten years ago, when I was in Bangalore, working with executives at Infosys, they were telling me that you know ten years earlier, they had to wait eighteen months just to place an order for a phone line; forget the Internet or high-speed access—and it was another eighteen months before the phone line got put in… so, what was your life like growing up in a relatively small town in India?

Geetesh: Not really a small town. Even in those days, Hyderabad was the sixth largest city in India, and Indian cities are huge. So it was probably not as well known outside India.

TJ: And then there goes my there goes my American bias, ignorance… If I haven’t heard of it, it must be a small town.

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

Filed Under: Interviews
Tagged as: Geetesh, Interviews, Opinion, PowerPoint, Presenting, TJ Walker

Backstage View – Program Options in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows

Many long-time users do not know that so many options within PowerPoint can change how you can work. Most of these preferences are found within the PowerPoint Options dialog box, accessed in multiple ways.

Learn about PowerPoint 2010’s program options that you can access from Backstage view.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2010
Tagged as: Backstage, Interface, Microsoft Windows, Office 2010, PowerPoint 2010, Settings, Tutorials

Backstage View – Help Options in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows

We have already explored options within Backstage View such as New, Recent, Print, etc. In this tutorial, we will explore the Help option that provides you assistance and documentation. Follow these steps to learn more about Help options within Backstage view in PowerPoint 2010.

Learn about the Help options within Backstage view in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2010
Tagged as: Backstage, Help, Interface, Microsoft Windows, Office 2010, PowerPoint 2010, Tutorials

Presentation Summit 2016: Conversation with Sunni Brown

  Sunni Brown is the Founder and Chief Human Potentialist of Sunni Brown Ink, an international consultancy supporting organizational problem-solving around communication, creativity, and culture. She was named one of the “100 Most Creative People in Business” and one of the “10 Most Creative People on Twitter” by Fast Company. She is a global public speaker and the best-selling author of Gamestorming and The Doodle Revolution. Her TED Talk on doodling has drawn more than a million views and her work has been featured in such major U.S. publications as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, WIRED, and Entrepreneur.

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

Geetesh: You are presenting the keynote on Tuesday called Being Centered while Taking Center Stage. Give us a curtain-raiser introduction to your session; and what you believe the attendee will take away from your talk?

Sunni: My hope is that the attendees will leave our experience together with a newfound sense of appreciation for the internal work we can all do to become better, more attuned presenters. There are many offerings for external resources – better slide design, more effective story structures, etc. – but few of us discuss the inside challenges that go on when we “take the stage.” I want to offer a way of honoring being fully human, fully yourself while being in front of others.

Geetesh: Sunni, you have authored the best-selling book, The Doodle Revolution, and have also done so much to destroy preconceived, ill reputations associated with doodling. Can you share some thoughts?

Sunni: The Doodle Revolution was inspired by my felt sense that learners everywhere need to be able to use many channels of the mind – not just those associated with reading and writing or the dominant modalities. Over the years advocating for visual literacy, design thinking, and the use of thinking games in any environment, I’m beginning to see those seeds take root and flourish, which is very gratifying. But there are still many forms of resistance to alternate learning techniques, so the Revolution has been taken up by the global audience of readers and doodlers to see how far it can go. The book is very much a love letter to and for people who think differently or who want to learn to think differently.

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

Filed Under: Events
Tagged as: Events, Interviews, PowerPoint, Presentation Summit, Sunni Brown