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If you are part of the Office Insiders program, you will notice a new feature in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows. This new feature, named PowerPoint Zoom lets you easily create interactive, non-linear presentations with smooth hyperlinking between slides and sections. Plus, you can create slide thumbnails with hyperlinks on the fly!
Microsoft put up a video showcasing the PowerPoint Zoom feature, shown below.
You access the Zoom feature in the Insert tab of the Ribbon in the Links group (see figure below).
If you use Zoom on an older or unsupported version of PowerPoint, you will find that it has been substituted with a Dissolve transition effect.
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Presentation properties are details about a presentation such as titles, author name, subject, and keywords that identify the document. It’s important to specify relevant values for the presentation’s Property attributes, because they help to identify the presentation. Populating the fields for various Properties also helps you search for slides more efficiently later.
Learn how to view and edit file properties in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.
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Just like many other users of PowerPoint, you might have also faced this situation: you have been working on a presentation for hours and suddenly PowerPoint or even the computer crashes? This may happen due to a power outage, instability of the system, or even PowerPoint itself may crash. You realize that you had not saved the presentation for a long time and you may have lost most of your work! Although you can keep your programs updated, system secure, and even save your file often, there is no guarantee that you will never see a crash again and lose all or some of your work.
Learn how to work with AutoRecover and AutoSave options in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.
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As a presentation designer, do you need to buy stock photos to use in your client presentations? But did you know that you may be breaking the rules, without being aware—even if you are paying to license the photos?
Thanks to Nancy Duarte for highlighting this area in a recent conversation. Here is what she said:
There’s a little-known clause in terms of stock photo houses that states that agencies cannot buy images on behalf of others (we can’t transfer rights of images to others). So, we have to open individual accounts in each client’s name and the stock houses don’t let you know this. We spent tons-o-time on the phone with them trying to explain that this is standard practice for agencies to buy images and bill them back but they confirmed that those are not in the terms (and other large agencies confirmed that they avoid many stock photo houses like the plague due to the liability). Look closely at the terms of your favorite stock photo houses because you contractually cannot act as an agency on behalf of clients.
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Imagine this situation: You started working on a presentation, saved it couple of times, then got so much involved in your work that you spent an inordinate amount of time working on it without saving it. Then, your computer unexpectedly crashes or just shuts off due to some unexpected crisis. Or maybe just PowerPoint crashes for some reason. Does it mean you are now left with your presentation in the status when you last saved it and lost all your work? Not really because you can restart PowerPoint, and one of two occurrences may happen.
Learn how to recover unsaved presentations in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.
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