PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

PowerPoint and Presenting News: March 1, 2016

Last week we featured Nancy Duarte who has written a new book, Illuminate. This week, we feature her amazing co-author Patti Sanchez who talks about experiences of writing this book. We also feature Ajay Mohan of SlideTeam who discusses their Presentation App that lets you sketch slides that you want to be created. We also released a compilation of keyboard shortcuts for PowerPoint 2016 for Mac.

PowerPoint 2016 for Windows users can learn about Slide Layouts within Slide Master View. PowerPoint 2013 for Windows users can learn about creating a hyperlink to a new email message and also about adding some iconography to Action Buttons. Sway users can explore adding Authors and also learn about co-Authoring. Finally, do not miss the new discussions and templates of this week!

Read Indezine’s PowerPoint and Presenting News.

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Tagged as: Ezine, Indezine, News, PowerPoint

What is Office Mix?

Office Mix is an add-in for PowerPoint that provides extra tools that enhance how you deliver and share your presentation. In other words, Office Mix lets you be there even when you are not physically delivering your presentation. Mix enables you to record your delivery to perfection, and it saves all the interactivity. The end results closely mimic self-delivered content.

Explore Office Mix, an add-in for PowerPoint that lets you add more interactivity than what’s possible with just PowerPoint.

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Tagged as: Add-in, Office Mix, PowerPoint, Tutorials

Jumping Slides

Every presenter wants to be in the same situation as Tom! He was happy while presenting because his audience seemed so engrossed in his talk. Why? That is because Tom had shared a story about ups and downs. He had expressed the contrast in an almost nail-biting environment. Yes, the story had served as an awesome introduction, and Tom had everyone’s attention. Could anything go wrong? Maybe, or maybe not. Let’s see what happened next.

Learn how you can cope with the problem of jumping through slides.

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Tagged as: Delivery, Presentation Skills

Missing Themes in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows

When you bring up the Themes gallery within PowerPoint 2013, do you find that several Themes are missing? Alternatively, do you find that your friends and colleagues have more Themes than you do? Whatever be the reason for your missing Themes, it is possible to get them back.

Explore how to find missing Themes in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Office 2013, PowerPoint 2013, Templates, Themes, Tutorials

Adding Iconography to Action Buttons in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows

You know that Action Buttons are helpful because they at least look like buttons! But choices are limited to what PowerPoint provides – and let’s face it, choices for Action Buttons have remained unchanged since the last 20 years. What has changed in those 20 years? There was no Facebook, almost no social media, and the internet was in its infancy. Given this scenario, it is no surprise that the Action Buttons are limited to VCR style buttons – those were probably in vogue 20 years ago! Now times have changed, and fortunately you can tweak Action Buttons to create your own variants, as we will show you in this tutorial.

Create new Action Button variants with icons you source from your own collection, or from elsewhere PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Action Buttons, Graphics, Hyperlinking, Icons, Microsoft Windows, Office 2013, PowerPoint 2013, Shapes, Tutorials, Visuals