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PowerPoint Feedback and UserVoice: Does This Go Anywhere?

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.

What is UserVoice?

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.

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.

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Tagged as: Microsoft, PowerPoint, Shawn Villaron, Stories, UserVoice

Star Wars Style Credits Animation in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows

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.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2010
Tagged as: Animation, Microsoft Windows, Office 2010, PowerPoint 2010, Star Wars, Tutorials

Free Images & Textures

Several websites allow one to download free images for non-commercial usage, although many even allow unrestricted commercial usage as long as any content is not redistributed or resold. Whatever be the case, make sure you read every disclaimer or agreement on a site before you download from to make sure that no copyrights are being infringed.

Explore sites that provide free images (pictures) and textures.

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Tagged as: Copyrights, Pictures, Resources, Textures

Switch Views Between Multiple Presentations in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows

Let’s imagine you have four presentations open and you can only see the one that is active. What about the other three presentations? How do you navigate to those presentations without having to close, or minimize the active presentation? In this tutorial, you will learn how to switch between multiple open presentations in PowerPoint 2016. With this option, you can easily switch in between different presentation windows (without reducing the window size).

Learn how to switch views between multiple presentations in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.

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

PowerPoint and Presenting News: February 2, 2016

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We then show you how the differences between Text Placeholders and Text Boxes in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows. Sway users can discover applying Design Styles and customizing them. For PowerPoint 2013 users, we have tutorials about Action Buttons and their Default Behaviors. Finally, you will not want to 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