PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

POPcomms, and the Morph Transition Effect in PowerPoint

Microsoft has added an amazing new transition effect called Morph. In many ways, you just need to design slides and PowerPoint automatically determines changes in the following slides and morphs elements between the slides!

To understand how powerful Morph can be, take a look at this YouTube embed:

This video shows a PowerPoint presentation created by POPcomms, a presentation design firm based in Bristol, UK. You can read more about why and how they created this sample presentation.

I asked POPcomms‘ Damjan Haylor: What do you folks at POPcomms think about the new PowerPoint Morph feature, and what possibilities does this new feature bring forth?

Here’s Damjan’s answer: PowerPoint’s new Morph feature is a powerful transition tool that will allow companies to create ever more visually engaging and persuasive stories.

It allows you to create fluid animations that go well beyond Prezi’s capabilities and when combined creatively with PowerPoint’s interactive features you can create desktop, mobile, and touchscreen presentations that just weren’t possible before.

You’ll be able to create multi-layered interactive diagrams allowing the user to drill down from top-level overview to the smallest detail and back, seamlessly. For events, you can create looping videos that will easily match motion graphics videos created in AfterEffects. And for that all-important keynote presentation or pitch, you now have a tool that allows designers to explore full motion and captivating storytelling to help sell your ideas.

With all presentations the message is key but how you present and visualize that message is just as important and the morph tool allows you to do this in ever more compelling and persuasive ways.

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.

Filed Under: Interviews
Tagged as: Damjan Haylor, Design, Interviews, Morph, POPcomms, PowerPoint, Presentation Design, Transitions

Add Dubsmash Videos in PowerPoint

In our Sharing Dubsmash Videos tutorial, we showed how you can export your Dubsmash videos on iOS devices to your Photos folder. In this tutorial, you will learn how you can insert these videos within your PowerPoint slides. Do note that this tutorial will look at using Dubsmash videos in PowerPoint for iOS devices such as iPhones and iPads. If you want to use Dubsmash videos in other PowerPoint versions, you will have to forward such videos to yourself as an email attachment – and then insert within PowerPoint as a regular video clip.

Learn how you can insert Dubsmash videos in your PowerPoint slides.

Filed Under: PowerPoint All Versions
Tagged as: Dubsmash, iOS, iPad, iPhone, PowerPoint, Tutorials, Video

Remove and Revoke Shares in Microsoft Sway

What if you have shared your Sway with several people, and now, for some reason, you want to stop sharing the Sway with some or all Authors? If you are the original owner of a Sway, it is easy to revoke all edit and view links to your Sway. However, do remember that Sway makes it an all-or-none option. You cannot selectively revoke share options for a Sway. You will, therefore, have to remove all Authors and then individually add the ones you want to be retained!

Learn how to remove and revoke shares in Microsoft Sway.

Filed Under: Sway
Tagged as: Microsoft, Online Presentations, Share, Sway, Tutorials

Presenters Think Different, Also

By Fred Miller

Think Different was Apple’s slogan for a long time. It was appropriate to their products and services. They did, and still do, ‘think different’ and ‘do different.’ This has been a huge factor in making them one of the world’s most successful companies.

Picture Courtesy: Wikimedia Commons

We speakers can improve our presentations by ‘thinking different,’ when developing slides for our presentations.

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Filed Under: Guest Posts
Tagged as: Fred Miller, Guest Post, Opinion, Presentation Skills

Add New Slide Layouts in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows

While duplicating and editing Slide Layouts is a great way to make small changes, it’s not the same as creating a Slide Layout from scratch. As an analogy, duplicating and editing a Slide Layout is more like using a coloring book to fill color between the lines of pre-drawn art — but creating your Slide Layout from scratch is more like starting with a blank sheet of paper and drawing your art before you start coloring between the lines. You can decide which of these approaches works best for you.

Learn how to add a new Slide Layout in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2016
Tagged as: Layouts, Microsoft Windows, Office 2016, PowerPoint 2016, Slide Layouts, Slide Masters, Tutorials