PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Duplicate Shapes by Dragging in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows

Shapes in PowerPoint are very useful in representing design or content, or in showing a process or a sequence. However, when you create a slide that has many such shapes, you’ll find that most of your shapes may be the same size and may also share other similar attributes. Yes, you can go ahead and insert the same shape into PowerPoint repeatedly, but that will consume much of your productive time that you could have used elsewhere! There are quicker alternatives for duplicating shapes.

Learn how to duplicate shapes by dragging them to make copies on a slide in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.

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

Search Online Resources in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows

The new Smart Lookup feature in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows is an option that brings up definitions, images, and other results from various online resources about a word or phrase, right within PowerPoint. PowerPoint’s online documentation sometimes calls this feature Insights, and it looks like the terms Insights and Smart Lookup are the same features.

Learn about the Search feature that provides access to reference sources in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2016
Tagged as: Interface, Microsoft Windows, Office 2016, PowerPoint 2016, Reference, Search, Smart Lookup, Tutorials

Presentitis: Conversation with Robert Befus

      Bob Befus is passionate about helping scientists and clinicians present the results of their research. In the 1980s, he co-founded a company that eventually became Research Presentation Strategies (RPS). RPS developed and manages SlideSource.com, a presentation management tool that lets you organize and share your presentations from one secure online library anytime, anywhere.

In this conversation, Bob discusses presentitis.

Geetesh: Bob, what exactly is presentitis? Also, are those who suffer from presentitis aware that they have a problem?

Bob: Presentitis (pre-sen-TIE-tis) is a serious, slide-related stress disorder that is common among all types of PowerPoint users. It causes a wide range of chronic health problems for both presenters and the people who create and manage their presentations.

Recent studies have shown that presentitis is on the rise around the world and often goes undiagnosed. It may affect as many as 26,000,000 people in the United States alone. But sufferers may not even realize they have this serious, debilitating condition.

Diagnosing presentitis can be tricky. Symptoms can be vague or extremely similar to other ailments like gallbladder problems, bladder or urinary tract infections or gastritis.

One of the first symptoms sufferers become aware of is a profound and chronic state of frustration resulting from disorganized PowerPoint slides and presentations. The second is often an overwhelming urge to sleep during the day due to anxiety and sleeplessness at night. While other symptoms may vary greatly from one sufferer to another, the most common symptoms occurring in the majority of sufferers include:

• Feelings of frustration when changes to presentations are lost
• Difficulty concentrating due to feeling overworked
• A dull ache in the cranial region
• Loss of appetite or cravings for comfort foods
• Anxiety over version control problems
• Sleeplessness as a result of having to recreate lost slides or merge versions of presentations
• Embarrassment when the wrong version of your presentation makes its way to the screen
• Cognitive dissonance when the slides you thought were in the presentation have inexplicably and completely disappeared
• Feeling like you are the only person in your organization who understands the importance of effective presentation management

Geetesh: Can you tell us more about the cure for this state?

Bob: While presentitis is a common and serious disorder, it is largely preventable and can be cured even after symptoms appear. Preventing and curing presentitis is simple, and the cure has no adverse side effects.

Managing individual slides and presentations in an easy to use online library will prevent the onset of Presentitis… and quickly cure it once it has developed.

Years of research and clinical testing have gone into the development of SlideSource.com, the only approved cure for presentitis. SlideSource.com brings powerful slide and presentation management to every PowerPoint user and presenter in an easy to use cloud-based solution.

With SlideSource.com, users report 100% elimination of the symptoms of presentitis… along with increasing feelings of control and confidence because they always know where the most current versions of all their slides and presentations are.

If you are wondering if you might have presentitis, you can find excellent resources and even take a self-assessment test at Presentitis.com.

If you know you are a presentitis sufferer and want to move right to the cure, visit SlideSource.com.

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.

See Also: So Many Slides: Conversation with Robert Befus

Filed Under: Interviews
Tagged as: Digital Asset Management, Interviews, PowerPoint, Presentation Management, Presentitis, Robert Befus, Slide Management, SlideSource

Manipulating Shapes by Dragging Yellow Handles in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows

There are so many different types of shapes that PowerPoint provides you with, and you can format these shapes by resizing, rotating, flipping, etc. Other than these basic formatting tasks, you must explore what you can achieve with the special yellow round handles. Most shapes in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows when selected, display eight resizing handles and a single rotation handle. In addition, some shapes also have one or more yellow round handles. These yellow round handles enable you to change some facets of the selected shape, or in some cases, you can change the entire shape.

Learn about the special handles that allow you to manipulate shapes in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.

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

PowerPoint and Presenting News: June 28, 2016

We start by looking at the circle in the sun. You may wonder what this has got to do with presenting? As this series evolves, we will explore how circles play an important part in presenting. We also bring you another installment of our Timelines that are Different series—this week we look at an offering from infoDiagram. And then we feature Vikas Agrawal in a guest column, where he talks about infographics and the presentation revolution.

PowerPoint 2016 for Windows users can learn about different formatting options for lines, such as dashes, thickness, arrowheads, and even gradients. We also look at the new Tell Me feature, introduced in PowerPoint 2016, that gets quick access to help. 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