PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Link to Excel Cells and Ranges from PowerPoint 2013 for Windows

Do you want to link to an Excel file from within PowerPoint? You can then use the technique explained within our Linking to Any File in PowerPoint 2013 tutorial. However, click on the link, and you will end up opening your Excel file at the last saved location. What if you always wanted your link to access a particular cell or a range of cells in Excel? This is possible, but you will rarely find this secret option documented at all!

Learn how you can link to a particular cell or range in Excel from within PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2013
Tagged as: Excel, Hyperlinking, Linking, Microsoft Windows, Office 2013, PowerPoint 2013, Tutorials

Create and Animate a Car in PowerPoint

Some things are better shown than read! Creating or animating a car in PowerPoint is just one of those things. So in this video tutorial, you will learn how you can use PowerPoint’s basic shapes to create a car, moving wheels, a steering, and even a driver! We will then explore how you can animate them all at the same time.

Learn how you can create a simple car in PowerPoint and animate it, with moving wheels too!

Filed Under: PowerPoint All Versions
Tagged as: Animation, PowerPoint, Shapes, Video Tutorial

Navigation in Microsoft Sway

If you have seen a couple of Sways, you will know that how you move from one Card to another can differ. In some Sways, you move from left to right. In others, you move from top to bottom. You can control these options within your Sways, as we will explore within this tutorial.

Learn how the Navigation option works in Microsoft Sway.

Filed Under: Sway
Tagged as: Cards, Microsoft, Navigation, Online Presentations, Sway, Tutorials

Office Timeline’s Integration with Wrike: Conversation with Tim Stumbles

Tim Stumbles is the co-founder of Office Timeline, a start-up focused on making project presentations simple. Office Timeline offers timeline maker and Gantt chart software, natively built for Microsoft PowerPoint. With Office Timeline, over 500,000 PowerPoint users easily create impressive project presentations for important client and executive meetings.

In this conversation, Tim talks about Office Timeline’s integration with Wrike.

Geetesh: Tim, can you introduce us to both Wrike and also the integration that Office Timeline provides with Wrike?

Tim: The challenge in the project planning and project management space is project visuals. Project applications create very detailed and complex visuals that are intended for the project teams, but which are difficult for non-project audiences to understand. Our users tell us that their clients and executives don’t want to see complicated Gantt charts and timelines, but rather want to these in a simple, visual way that is familiar to them. In many organizations across the world, PowerPoint is the familiar standard for client and executive presentations. Office Timeline is a PowerPoint add-in that solves the challenge of complicated project visuals. It creates simple, impressive high-level timelines and Gantt charts that are suitable for executive communications.

Wrike is a powerful online project management and work collaboration solution. Wrike users depended on it to streamline important workflow processes and manage massive projects. We teamed with them to build integration so users can instantly create impressive Executive Gantts and timeline slides in PowerPoint by importing their existing Wrike data.

Geetesh: How is the Office Timeline – Wrike integration useful for users of both products, and how does this work within PowerPoint? Can resultant timelines be updated as well?

Tim: Users across the enterprise are under pressure to do more and they are constantly looking for productivity boosts to help them. Our users were asking for tighter connections from Office Timeline to their project tools so they could be more productive and effective. We have completed a wave of integrations with project tools like Microsoft Project, Excel, Wrike, and others. These integrations bring huge productivity gains to anyone who is communicating a project. What used to take them hours to do before can now be done in a few clicks.

Office Timeline’s integration with Wrike is our most recent development in this wave. The actual integration happens natively, right inside PowerPoint via Office Timeline Plus edition. Users log into Wrike from the Office Timeline import wizard in PowerPoint. They select their project and choose which parts of it they want to present. Once the project details have been selected, Office Timeline instantly transforms the data into a graphical PowerPoint visual that can easily be shared, edited, and presented. Any Wrike user can download the free version of Office Timeline from our website and try this immediately.

See Also: Office Timeline Plus Edition: Conversation with Tim Stumbles

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: Add-in, Interviews, Office Timeline, PowerPoint, Tim Stumbles, Wrike

Exporting PNGs and other Graphic File Formats (JPG, TIFF, WMF, EMF) in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows

PowerPoint allows you to save your slides to many graphic file formats, which can later be used in other applications as required. One of the most popular graphic formats that you can export your slides to is PNG. This tutorial will show you how you can export slides to PNG, but using the same process, you can also export to other graphic file formats such as JPG, GIF, TIF, BMP, WMF, EMF, etc.

Learn how to export PNGs and other graphic file formats (JPG, TIFF, WMF, EMF) in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2010
Tagged as: Export, Graphics, Office 2010, PNG, PowerPoint 2010, Tutorials