PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Keyboard Shortcuts: PowerPoint 2016 for Mac

Here’s the most comprehensive list of PowerPoint 2016 for Mac keyboard shortcuts that we know about — how many of these do you presently use? If you discover a shortcut key not listed here, please get in touch with us through our feedback form.

View the shortcuts here.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2016
Tagged as: Keyboard Shortcuts, Mac, Office 2016, Office for Mac, PowerPoint 2016, Tutorials

Co-Authoring in Microsoft Sway

Once you have added an Author to an existing Sway, you will find that more than one Author can work on the same Sway, even if they are editing at the same time! In this tutorial, we will explore how this Co-Authoring option works.

Learn how you can use the Co-Authoring option in Microsoft Sway.

Filed Under: Sway
Tagged as: Authors, Online Presentations, Sway, Tutorials

Adding Authors in Microsoft Sway

Once you create a Sway, you can share it with others who can view your Sway. However, did you know that you can also share your Sway with others and also allow them to edit your Sway! Imagine that you could create a Sway that you share with several others and provide them with edit access. They could then add more content, such as text, pictures, or anything else. This approach makes Sway a very powerful media sharing and editing platform. In this tutorial, we will explore how you can share and invite others to edit your Sway.

Explore how to add Authors to your presentation in Microsoft Sway.

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Tagged as: Authors, Sway, Tutorials

SlideTeam Presentation App: Conversation with Ajay Mohan

      Ajay Mohan is the Founder and CEO of SlideTeam. Before starting SlideTeam, Ajay Mohan held senior positions in Fortune 500 companies in the US including tech companies in Silicon Valley. He has done his Master of Business Administration (MBA), Finance from Indiana University Bloomington and Master of Science (MS), Engineering from Rutgers University-New Brunswick. His goal for SlideTeam is to bring a scientific approach to presenting complex ideas using well researched visual aids. SlideTeam.net and partner site SlideGeeks.com host a comprehensive and easily searchable collection with over 500,000 slides.

In this conversation, Ajay talks about the new SlideTeam Presentation App.

Geetesh: Ajay, can you tell us more about your SlideTeam Presentation app, and what motivated you to create it?

Ajay: Put very simply, the SlideTeam Presentation app converts sketches and notes into professional presentations. It is the first-ever app that allows presenters to take photos of their notes, drawings, and rough sketches from their mobile phones and send them to SlideTeam’s Custom Design Services team, one of the world’s best presentation design teams, and get a completely professional finished presentation back in 48 hours.

Our team of 150+ graphic designers, with over 10,000+ hours of PowerPoint experience, converts those sketches and notes into beautiful, polished presentations combining the best of graphics, editable diagrams, icons, and a customized template!

The increasing demand from our clients for a faster and easier way to request custom designs motivated us to launch this app. Even before the app was launched, our design services team had already designed thousands of winning presentations for Fortune 500 companies, marketing, and sales professionals, doctors, lawyers, and academia. Fortune 500 companies like General Motors, Boeing, Bank of America, Starbucks, Ford, General Electric, AT&T, CISCO, Colgate-Palmolive, and tech giants such as TCS, Infosys, Tech Mahindra, and leading IITs have been using our professional slides for their presentations.

During interaction over phone and email, several of our clients wished for a way that would make sharing their notes and design requirements as easy as a click of a button. Creating rough PowerPoint decks on their PCs and laptops was a hassle. Talk about taking pictures from whiteboards after a meeting. Since most of the clients preferred to stay in touch and work on the go using their phones and tablets, we devised a way that would drastically cut down the end-to-end process of crafting a winning presentation. And so the SlideTeam Presentation App was designed. The presenters now only need a pen and paper to jot down their ideas and their mobile phone to click those notes and send them via our app.

Geetesh: How does the app work, and what benefits will this bring to the end-user?

Ajay: The app is very easy to use as can be seen through these steps:

1. Simply sketch out your idea on paper and click it. Presenters can also send photos of their whitepapers, whiteboard notes, class notes, meeting notes, doodles or any other content.

The designers at SlideTeam take these rough sketches and notes and transform them into polished slides. Here’s one such professional slide created using clients’ brief:

Here are some benefits of SlideTeam App:

• Send notes and sketches from Android and iPhones with the click of a few buttons.
• Convert sketches and notes into crisp, professional presentations.
• Minimize time delay, get high quality presentations in 48 hours or less.
• Submit requests for complete PPTs, slides, diagrams, logos, 3D graphics, etc.
• Free to use and no sign in/sign up required.

Here are links to download the SlideTeam Presentation App from the Apple AppStore and the Google Play Store:

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: Interviews, PowerPoint, Presentation Samples, SlideGeeks, SlideTeam

PowerPoint and Presenting News: February 23, 2016

Nancy Duarte has written a new book, Illuminate and she speaks exclusively in this interview with Indezine. We then explore ten sites that provide free icons. Robert Kawalsky then discusses the amazing new features on Zeetings, his presentation sharing and viewing platform. We updated our Evolution of Office Themes article to include content relevant to the new PowerPoint 2016. And then Georg Kremer talks about Slideflight.

PowerPoint 2016 for Windows users can learn about reusing and inserting slides; and about changing backgrounds in the Slide Master. PowerPoint 2013 for Windows users can learn about creating new files with a hyperlink! PowerPoint 2016 for Mac can better understand why there is no Developer tab in their version. 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