PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

PowerPoint and Presenting News: November 3, 2015

We start with an exclusive synopsis of Guy Kawasaki’s keynote at the Presentation Summit in New Orleans. We then bring you embellishments (call them transparent stickers) in the form of Sticky Tapes! Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Dave Paradi then brings you his exclusive article about Choosing between Axis or Data Labels in Charts. And finally another PowerPoint MVP, Ellen Finkelstein talks about her PowerPoint 2013 video training.

We continue our tutorial series about the interface options in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows — and also on Microsoft Sway. Finally, don’t 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

Storyline in Sway

Sway has a three pane interface. The leftmost area typically sports the All Cards pane, and that can be turned off by clicking the Close button on its top-left area. The rightmost area is reserved for the Preview pane. Right in between these two panes is Sway’s Storyline area. All Cards you create and edit within Sway live within the Storyline.

Learn about the Storyline in Sway.

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Tagged as: PowerPoint for the Web, Storyline, Sway, Tutorials

Keyboard Sequences: PowerPoint 2016 for Windows

Many users are familiar with keyboard shortcuts for PowerPoint 2016, yet there are no real shortcuts for tasks users need to perform all the time. This includes changing PowerPoint’s views or even aligning or reordering slide objects. Thankfully, there are many keyboard sequences that work for these tasks. Most sequences entail that you press two buttons, and then press a third button after a moment. So if the keyboard sequence is listed as Alt+S > H, then you must press the Alt and S keys together, let go those two keys and then press the H key.

Learn about keyboard sequences in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Keyboard Sequences, Keyboard Shortcuts, Microsoft Windows, Office 2016, PowerPoint 2016, Tutorials

FlevyPro: Conversation with David Tang

      David Tang is the founder of Flevy, the leading provider of business frameworks and analysis tools. Flevy’s materials are of the same caliber as those produced by top-tier management consulting firms–most were developed by seasoned executives and consultants with 20+ years of experience. Prior to Flevy, David worked as a management consultant for 8 years.

In this conversation, David discusses FlevyPro, a subscription service for frameworks and diagrams that you can use on PowerPoint slides

Geetesh: Tell us more about FlevyPro – what benefits do subscribers receive?

David: Certainly. FlevyPro is a subscription service for on-demand business frameworks and analysis tools. The primary benefit to subscribers is access to our curated library of business documents and tools. These include PowerPoint diagrams, presentation templates, business frameworks, Lean Six Sigma tools, interviews with CEOs and business experts, and others.

We are constantly adding new documents that we either develop in-house or acquire. This growth is fueled by subscriber demands. In other words, subscribers decide what type of materials we add. They can request and vote on management topics.

Additional benefits FlevyPro subscribers receive include discounts to all Flevy marketplace documents and exclusive partner offers (e.g. discounts to PowerPoint add-in software, free tickets to networking events, etc.).

Geetesh: How is FlevyPro different than your Flevy offering?

David: FlevyPro is a subscription service. Subscribers, as detailed above, gain access to a curated library of documents and tools (the FlevyPro document library), among other benefits.

Flevy is a marketplace for business documents. It’s an online marketplace, similar to eBay and Amazon, except our products are purely business documents (e.g. business training guides, PowerPoint templates, financial models). You can go to Flevy and procure documents on a pay-per-download basis. You can also sell your business documents on Flevy, just like you can sell other non-document items on eBay or Amazon.

The most important distinction is that FlevyPro is a subscription model, while Flevy is a pay-per-download model.

Another important point is that FlevyPro and Flevy each house different documents. The documents are mutually exclusive.

See Also: Flevy Tools: Conversation with David Tang

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.

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Tagged as: David Tang, Design, Flevy, Flevy Pro, Interviews, PowerPoint, Templates

Text Card in Sway

A Text Card is the last of the three text card types available within the All Cards pane in Microsoft Sway, the other two being Title and Heading Cards. In many ways, this Text Card is like a Text Box in a PowerPoint slide – you just add a Text Card and type in the text content you want to show up on this card!

Explore how you can work with Text Cards in Microsoft Sway.

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Tagged as: PowerPoint for the Web, Sway, Text, Tutorials