PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

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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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

MLC Add-in for PowerPoint: Conversation with Maurizio La Cava

    Maurizio La Cava is a digital entrepreneur, marketer, blogger, public speaker, presentation design guru, and Founder at MLC-Design.

He is also the author of Lean Presentation Design, a top-rated freelancer, and a Professor at the European Institute of Design in Milan. His favorite quote is “Time is free, but it’s priceless.”

In this conversation, Maurizio talks about his MLC add-in for PowerPoint.

Geetesh: Maurizio, can you tell us more about your MLC add-in for PowerPoint? What motivated you to create the MLC add-in?

Maurizio: After several years working in presentation design with hundreds of presentations under your belt, you begin noticing commonalities in your client’s needs. The main thing I noticed is that people often waste a huge amount of time crafting their presentations and finally, they come up with poor results. In my experience, this happens because:

1. They do not have basic knowledge about presentation design techniques, and they do not learn them because they think those techniques are for designers only.
2. They are extremely slow in PowerPoint because they have never optimized their most common actions.

In order to solve these two main problems, I decided to:

1. Write a book about Lean Presentation Design filling it with a handful tips and tricks easy to use for non-designer PowerPointers (recommended for managers, freelancers, marketers, startuppers, salesmen)
2. Develop a new MLC PowerPoint add-in that includes custom functionalities that boost your productivity in the day-by-day presentation work.

The MLC PowerPoint add-in, in its very first version three years ago, was born to improve my own productivity, and it only had three basic functions. I kept mapping my actions on PowerPoint during the years and analyzing the results backward. In the process, I’ve found stunning insights!

I noticed that there are a few tasks (roughly 20%) that account for the 80% of the time you waste making slides. Some of those tasks could be easily solved by learning shortcuts in PowerPoint. Some others required specific new functions that PowerPoint does not offer. And that’s where the MLC PowerPoint add-in helps with its top-notch functionalities that will boost anyone’s “PowerPointing” efficiency.

Geetesh: Can you share some feedback, trivia, or a story about how people are using the MLC add-in?

Maurizio: Here are some quotes from users of the MLC add-in for PowerPoint:

I’m a presentation designer, and I spend 10-12 hours daily working on PowerPoint. I’ve just found the MLC add-in, and it makes my life much easier! The MLC add-in includes all my often-used functions, so that I do not have to click many steps to get what I need, but I can just use the MLC add-in to complete it in one click.

As you know that one part of PowerPoint work is to align the elements to get them into the right and nice position, and I love that the MLC add-in includes all necessary functions for object alignment. They also include a function to swap objects and make objects the same size. These would take some time to complete without this add-in.

In summary, I love it, and I think all PowerPoint users should not miss this add-in.

N. Jatauron
Senior Presentation Designer

Just the day after I have downloaded and installed the add-in, I have intensively used it.

The feature of switching the positions of two shapes has saved my day! Really, a very nice feature, thank you for that. Also, the features Same Height and Same Width have been proven as extremely helpful.

J. Krüger
Diplom-Informatiker Counsel

The views and opinions expressed in this blog post or content are those of the authors or the interviewees 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, Maurizio La Cava, PowerPoint

PowerPoint and Presenting News: March 8, 2016

Have you seen a presenter jumping slides, going straight from the second slide to the second-last slide? We talk about solutions in our Jumping Slides article. Serge Starenko talks about chart and diagram templates on PoweredTemplate in an exclusive conversation. We also have more exclusive conversations with Simon Morton, who talks about the Think, Act and Deliver Differently in partnership with Microsoft. We also feature “P-Spice” Lia, who talks about her amazing PowerPoint animations, and her Spicy Slide Pack for PowerPoint.

PowerPoint 2016 for Windows users can learn about changing Background Styles for Slide Layouts. PowerPoint 2013 for Windows users can learn about finding missing Themes! Office Mix is a PowerPoint add-in from Microsoft. Read an intro and learn how you can install Office Mix. Sway users can explore Determining Authors. Finally, do not miss the new discussions and templates of this week.

Read Indezine’s PowerPoint and Presenting News.

Filed Under: Ezine
Tagged as: Ezine, Indezine, News, PowerPoint