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By Fred Miller
Your escape plan for networking must be in place!
If you’re a regular networker, I’ll bet this has happened to you. The seminar is scheduled to begin at 8:30, and the event notice suggested to: “Arrive early and Network!”
“Great!” was your initial reaction. That’s one of the reasons you attend events.
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You have developed and practiced your elevator speech. You’ve tweaked it enough times that you’re comfortable with it and excited about the opportunity to use it with the goal of finding many prospects for your products and services.
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We start with an exclusive interview with Rick Altman, who talks about this year’s Presentation Summit being held in Las Vegas. We then have PowerPoint MVP Chantal Bossé featured, and she shares some amazing information for those who need to work with presentations created in multiple languages within PowerPoint. We then feature TJ Walker again, who answers a few questions from Indezine readers: How much practice is good enough for delivering a presentation or speech? Alternatively, to put the same question in different words, is there something called practicing too much? Can you recommend any books, websites and other resources that will help me become a better presenter? Being acutely conscious of yourself is something that represents most speakers. Is it good? Alternatively, if it is not, how does one stop being aware of ourselves?
PowerPoint 2016 for Windows users can learn more about Picture Slide Layouts. You can also explore resizing and moving Text Boxes, and also Text Box Autofit options. PowerPoint 2011 for Mac users can learn about exporting PNGs and other Graphic File Formats (JPG, GIF, TIFF, BMP). Finally, do not miss the new discussions and templates of this week!
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Sometimes you want your Text Box to be placed in an exact position on your slide. Yes, you can select a Text Box and move it around by dragging it with your mouse, and then let it go wherever you want it placed. However, for all practical reasons this process is just visual and not accurate enough. Thankfully, PowerPoint provides a way to accurately position any Text Box just where you want it located — having said that, do not move your text boxes until they contain all the text content you need within them, or you may find that your Text Boxes resize when you add text to them! Of course, you can control this behavior using the Autofit option we explained to you in a separate tutorial.
Learn how to reposition your Text Boxes accurately on a slide in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.
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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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