PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Ribbon and Tabs in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac

The Ribbon made its debut in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac. Unlike the PowerPoint versions on Windows though, the Ribbon did not replace all the menus and toolbars that were found in PowerPoint 2008 and older Mac versions. The Ribbon is essentially a long strip that’s fixed in size so that you cannot change its width or height. The Ribbon in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac includes several tabs and each tab is named.

Learn about Ribbon and Tabs in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2016
Tagged as: Interface, Mac, Office 2016, Office for Mac, PowerPoint 2016, Tutorials, View

Share Presentations in Microsoft Sway

Unlike with typical programs, Sway was created from the ground-up to be a program that allows easy sharing. Once you create a Sway, you will want to share your Sway with colleagues, family, and even friends. Sway provides some awesome sharing options, and we will explore them in this tutorial.

Explore various options available that let you share your presentations in Microsoft Sway.

Filed Under: Sway
Tagged as: Docs.com, Online Presentations, Share, Sway, Tutorials

Sharing Dubsmash Videos

Now that you have learned more about Dubsmash, you may even have created your Dubsmash videos. Won’t you want to share your videos with others?

Explore how you can share your Dubsmash videos.

Filed Under: PowerPoint All Versions
Tagged as: Dubsmash, Share, Tutorials, Video

The Storyteller’s Secret: Conversation with Carmine Gallo

    Carmine Gallo is a communication coach for the world’s most admired brands. He has helped transform the storytelling culture at Intel, Coca-Cola, LinkedIn, Chevron, and many others. He is an Emmy award-winning journalist, Forbes .com columnist, and popular keynote speaker on the topic of leadership and communication.

In this conversation, Carmine discusses his new book, The Storyteller’s Secret.

Geetesh: Can you tell us more about the idea, and the motivation that inspired your new book, The Storyteller’s Secret?

Carmine: I believe that storytelling is everything in today’s world. Storytelling is the one skill that helps you stand apart in the age of automation. Storytelling is what makes a PowerPoint really sing. Storytelling is the secret to career advancement, social media success, selling products, building brands and launching movements.

I didn’t go looking for the topic; it found me. I’ll tell you exactly when I knew I had to write the book. I was invited to speak at a conference held by the billionaire venture capital investor Vinod Khosla. Bill Gates, Sergey Brin, Tony Blair, Marc Benioff were also speaking. I began to question why he had invited me. “All of you are brilliant, which is why I invest in you,” he told the young CEOs gathered in the hall…”but few of you know how to do storytelling.” That was the ‘aha’ moment.

Geetesh: Although The Storyteller’s Secret is not a storybook, it does hold a reader’s interest in the same way as a gripping story. And that brings me to the real question. Most people relate a story to a work of fiction, but what about stories that are not fictional? Do these non-fictional stories exist, and if they do, can they help communicate better?

Carmine: For our purposes ‘storytelling’ means using the components of narrative to sell your idea. Ideas that catch on are wrapped in a story. For example, one of the greatest corporate storytellers of our time was Steve Jobs. His presentations were more like performances/plays than a typical presentation. He introduced villains, heroes, characters, props, entertainment.

The other day I had lunch with a venture capital investor for a prominent firm. “I’ve seen 2,000 presentations but I can only remember about 10 of them, and those all had personal stories in them.”

You see, people don’t want to buy a product as much as they want to buy into a story. For example, why does Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz always tell the story of growing up poor and struggling as a youth when his father was injured at work? They had no health insurance and it was hard on the family. Schultz uses the story to explain the ‘why’ behind the company’s initiatives such as providing health care for all employees. Stories inform, illuminate and inspire. Tell more of them!

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: Books, Carmine Gallo, Interviews, Presentation Skills, Storytelling

Reuse Slides in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows

Reusing your existing slides can be a great help: first you need not recreate stuff you already have and secondly you are saving so much time that you can use more effectively to practice your presentation! Having said that, always start by creating an outline of your presentation. This is important because it gives you an opportunity to plan your slides all over again. Thereafter, reuse any existing slides. PowerPoint provides a quick command that locates specific slides, and enables you to add it to the active presentation. While this process works the same way in all versions of PowerPoint, there are small interface changes — in this tutorial, we’ll show you how to reuse slides in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.

Learn how to reuse slides in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2016
Tagged as: Microsoft Windows, Office 2016, PowerPoint 2016, Reuse Slides, Tutorials