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Mark Schwartz, EVP of Sales at Articulate leads the global direct sales and channel management teams. Before joining Articulate in 2005, Mark held sales and sales management roles at Dell, Inc., for 10 years. In his last position with Dell, he had P&L responsibility for a geographic sales organization with annual sales of more than $125 million. Mark went to Dell from IBM, where he spent 10 years in sales and marketing. In his marketing role, Mark developed and executed a market support plan for a line of PC-based business application software.
In this interview, Mark talks about Articulate Studio ’13, a suite of e-learning products.
Geetesh: Mark, can you tell us more about Articulate Studio ’13, the differences between the Pro and Standard versions, and how do all products within the Studio work together?
Mark: Articulate Studio ’13 is the fastest, easiest way to create online, presentation based courses. Also, Articulate Studio ’13 is a complete suite of products that are designed to work together:
Each of these products can work alone or integrate with each other for a fully featured, robust course that includes course content, rich interactions, screencasts, and assessments.
And they can all be published to and tracked by a SCORM, AICC, or TinCan supported LMS.
The Photographic Character Bundle 1 is also included with Studio ’13 and includes 8 additional photographic characters with over 1100 poses for use in any of the Studio ’13 products.
Studio ’13 Pro includes all these products, Studio ’13 Standard does not include Engage but all the other products in the bundle.
Geetesh: Compared to previous versions of Articulate Studio, what is your favorite feature in this release?
Mark: The main new features of Studio ’13 include:
The suite continues the Articulate tradition of a simple, intuitive user interface that enables even beginners to create professional looking e-learning.
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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In PowerPoint 2016 resizing Text Boxes is easy. You select any Text Box and you get eight handles, four on corners, and four on sides — you then drag any of these eight handles to resize. The problem with this approach is that the resized Text Box you end up with is not accurate. If you do not need accuracy, then you need not follow the rest of this tutorial — however there might be times when you need your Text Box sized exactly as the size of a picture you have inserted — or even an exact size based on a specification.
Learn how to resize Text Boxes accurately on a slide in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.
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Have you seen that PowerPoint automatically reduces the size of your text when you type in too much text? Or does the Text Box itself increase in size when you type in a sentence or two more than what can fit into the Text Box? Does this automatic hand-holding by PowerPoint drive you crazy and want to hit your head on the wall? Well, you really don’t have to worry because you can make PowerPoint behave itself — and bend it to your will.
Learn about Text Box autofit options in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.
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Rick Altman is a California-based presentation consultant who has been helping organizations communicate better in public since before Microsoft developed PowerPoint. He has been hosting end-user conferences since 1989 and is the host of the annual Presentation Summit, now in its 14th season.
In this conversation, Rick discusses the upcoming edition of his Presentation Summit conference, to be held in October 2016 in Las Vegas.
Geetesh: Rick, tell us more about the upcoming Presentation Summit in Las Vegas this October. Also, why did you choose Las Vegas?
Rick: I feel like a teenager having asked the homecoming queen to go to the prom with me. And she said yes: Nancy Duarte will be our Monday morning keynote speaker. And she’s not just blowing in and out — she will participate in a roundtable Sunday evening, a QA session after the keynote on Monday, and probably stay into the evening.
She has spoken at the conference before. However, the demands on her time are so high, all of the planets have to align for it to happen. We inquire regularly but I know the chances are usually slim. This year, everything worked out and we could not be more excited about that.
Why did we choose Las Vegas? Las Vegas has a lot of positives and a few negatives, and for years, the negatives were too much to bear. The Las Vegas Strip is gigantic, impersonal, loud, and a bit unkempt. All of the things that we are not! But over the years, the neighboring areas have really matured and they are different. In the town of Henderson, which is about five miles from both the airport and the south end of the Strip, we found a wonderful resort—relatively small, spacious ballrooms, gorgeous pool area, avoidable casino. So very un-Striplike.
But people can still visit the Strip. It’s a free 10-minute shuttle ride, so we can take in all of the great shows and restaurants and those who want to be part of that whole scene certainly can.
Geetesh: Last year, you also had smaller 30-minute sessions. Are they going to be back this year too?
Rick: Yes, we think that experiment was a big success. I don’t care what age you are, your attention span is just not the same in the afternoon as it is first thing in the morning, especially when we are stuffing you with so much information. Our so-called Tapas sessions were our response to that, and everyone appreciated the quicker pace after lunch.
The other benefit is that it allows us to cover topics that would otherwise be difficult. You don’t need an hour to show someone how to, say, customize their Quick Access Toolbar, so we never held a seminar about it. But in 20 minutes, we can show people what the QAT is and share with them how the experts use it.
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This tutorial is about moving text boxes rather than text placeholders. Typically text placeholders for regular text content or even slide titles are located in the same position on successive slides – so if you really do need to move a text placeholder, do it within the Slide Master so that this change of position happens on all slides, providing a consistent look to your presentation. This will also prevent you from repeatedly moving the placeholders on each and every slide on your presentation.
Learn how to move text boxes on a slide in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.
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