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The Feature List Layout comprises three sample PowerPoint presentations—one each to create a visual list for 4 features, 5 features, and 6 features. These work great when you have too much information to fit within one slide. This solution lets you use multiple slides, but the visual result is still that of one single slide!
Download and use these slides.
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The Star Wars-credits style is a kind of Crawl animation. In this style, the text crawls from the bottom to the top, as it also does with Crawl. Additionally, the text diminishes in size all the time until it fades into oblivion. This is a really neat effect, and it is possible to accomplish it in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac if you combine multiple animations.
Learn to create Star Wars-style credits animation in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
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Picture Courtesy: Shawn Villaron
Do you see the dashboard-like screen in the display shown in the picture above? There’s a story behind that display!
Feedback from end users is always important for any product. However, what do you do when the product in question is PowerPoint? Yes, the same PowerPoint presentation program that millions of people have been using for more than 25 years. Predictably, feedback just needs to raise itself to a whole new level.
Microsoft has always made a huge effort in trying to use all the feedback users want to provide, but that is easier said than done. Why? Because all feedback is not the same. Also, feedback received needs to be compiled and then segregated so as to reach the exact teams that are responsible for any feedback area.
In the past, you could use the Microsoft Wish feature and put in a request for your requirements via the Answers forums. Clearly, this was not enough. And thus started the UserVoice initiative.
UserVoice is a site that many companies use to support their products. And PowerPoint is one of the products that’s present on the UserVoice site.
Microsoft has replaced the UserVoice site with their own Microsoft Feedback portal. This portal also contains the Microsoft Feedback for PowerPoint resource.
So, what happens to all the feedback to submit at UserVoice? Yes, let’s now make this a full circle: the picture you saw earlier is that of a display in the main PM hallway at Microsoft’s Silicon Valley Campus, where the PowerPoint team is based. Through this continuously updated dashboard, the PowerPoint team tracks the site! Besides, they also track Twitter feed live.
Thanks to Shawn Villaron, Partner Group Program Manager at Microsoft who is responsible for the PowerPoint team for sharing this picture, and his insight.
Shawn is based out of the Microsoft Silicon Valley Campus in Sunnyvale, CA.
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.
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The Star Wars credits style is a variant of the Crawl animation. In this style, the text crawls from the bottom to the top, as it also does with Crawl. Additionally, the text diminishes in size all the time until it fades into oblivion. It is a real neat effect, and it is possible to accomplish it in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows if you combine multiple animations.
Learn to create Star Wars-style credits animation in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.
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