PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Mini Toolbar in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows

PowerPoint 2016 does provide most editing options to make alterations within the Ribbon tabs, and you can also populate your Quick Access Toolbar with frequently used commands. Yet, all these tasks involve moving your cursor to the Ribbon, located above the Slide Area and back continuously. While this movement may not result in Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, it helps to know that PowerPoint 2016 also includes the Mini Toolbar, a floating toolbar that spawns right next to the cursor, and it is also available instantly with a right-click!

Learn about the Mini Toolbar in PowerPoint 2016.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2016
Tagged as: Interface, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, Mini Toolbar, Office 2016, PowerPoint 2016, Tutorials

Slide Sorter View in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows

Most of the time, you may work on a single slide in your PowerPoint presentation, but there are times when you want to copy, duplicate, reorder, or even delete a bunch of slides. It’s in scenarios like these that you will encounter PowerPoint 2016’s Slide Sorter view. Among the various views available in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows to play and edit your presentations, we have already covered both Normal view and Outline view. Although Slide Sorter view does not let you edit individual slide objects, it does let you work with the whole slide itself. Any edits made will influence one or more slides, depending on your selection.

Learn about Slide Sorter view in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.

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Filed Under: PowerPoint 2016
Tagged as: Interface, Microsoft Windows, Office 2016, PowerPoint 2016, Slide Sorter View, Tutorials, View

2015 Prezi Awards: Conversation with Susannah Shattuck

  Susannah Shattuck is the Content Marketing Manager at Prezi. She helps to create and distribute blog posts, videos, infographics, and—most importantly—prezis for Prezi’s marketing team. She also coordinates the Prezi Awards competition every year.

In this interview, Susannah discusses the 2015 Prezi Awards.

Geetesh: What are the 2015 Prezi Awards, and how were the contributions? And is this something you will also do in 2016?

Susannah: The Prezi Awards are an annual competition that we host to celebrate the best Prezis that our community has created over the course of the year. For the past three years, we have asked people to nominate their favorite Prezis for a Prezi Award in one of five different categories: Best Business Prezi, Best Educational Prezi, Best Use of Zoom, Best Reusable Design, and Best Overall Design. Our team of judges then has the very tough job of picking a winner in each category. This year it was particularly difficult, as we had over 5,500 nominations!

Additionally, we ask the Prezi community to vote for their favorite of all the nominees—the entry that receives the most votes win the People’s Choice Award.

We will absolutely be running the Prezi Awards again in 2016—so keep an eye out for next year’s announcement sometime in October and submit your best work for the chance to win acclaim and fame!

Geetesh: What do you look for when you decide who will win? And what sets the winner of the Best Overall Design award this year apart from other Prezis?

Susannah: Our team of judges—top Prezi designers from our Evangelism team, who have created presentations for everyone from TED speakers to executives at multinational corporations—looks for presentations that make the best use of Prezi. We’re looking for Prezis that tell a visual story through great design and execution. The winner of the Best Overall Design this year does just that. Through playful graphics and an excellent use of zoom, “Heimathafen” really brings its content to life. As a result, it’s more memorable and engaging than any bullet-pointed slide deck ever could be—and that’s what makes it an amazing Prezi.

Best Overall Design by Anna Bojti and Inka Vigh

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Best Zoom by Josh Bonito

Best Reusable Design by Prezibase

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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: Awards, Interviews, Online Presentations, Prezi, Susannah Shattuck

Changing Between Group Card Types in Sway

Any content within Sway needs to be within one of the three Card categories: Text, Media and Group. As far as Group Card types are concerned, they are essentially a group of some combination that can include the Text and Media Card types. As long as you have the Card types and numbers that are a prerequisite for a particular Group Card type, you can change from one Group type to another.

Learn how you can change from one Group Card type to another within Sway.

Filed Under: Sway
Tagged as: Group Cards, Media Cards, Sway, Text Cards, Tutorials

Working with Dubsmash

Are you one of those folks who is always ready to play with the next new thing on a cell phone? Or maybe you won’t touch something unless it’s very mainstream? Either way, you must have heard some murmurs about Dubsmash – or you may be a seasoned Dubsmasher? Whether you have heard of Dubsmash or not, there’s no denial that this is a fun program although it can also be an awesome time waster!

Explore ways in which you can get started with Dubsmash.

Filed Under: PowerPoint All Versions
Tagged as: Android, Dubsmash, Fun, iPad, iPhone, Phone, Tutorials, Video