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Outline Pane Options in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows

The Outline view in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows essentially brings up the Outline pane on the left side of PowerPoint 2016 interface. Note that this now replaces the Slides Pane that shows up in Normal view. Also, any changes you want to make to your outline can be made through right-click options, and we’ll show you how you can do so.

Explore Outline pane options in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2016
Tagged as: Microsoft Windows, Office 2016, Outline, Outline View, PowerPoint 2016, Tutorials

Made in Office: Conversation with Victor Rodriguez

Victor Rodriguez is the Vice President of Business Development at Made In Office, a leading provider in the development of Microsoft Office solutions. He is a twenty-year veteran in marketing and digital strategy and is responsible for the marketing and sales of Made In Office’s flagship product, empower enterprise, in North America. Victor earned an MS in Management of Technology from Polytechnic Institute of New York University. Before joining Made In Office, he was the Managing Partner in a digital marketing agency.

In this conversation, Victor talks about empower.

Geetesh: Can you tell us more about your Empower slide content management solution – what motivated you to create this product?

Victor: Our empower enterprise content management system for PowerPoint was developed organically at the request of many of our clients. They were looking for functionality that PowerPoint did not offer out of the box. We, at Made In Office, have been developing custom Microsoft Office solutions for over a decade and we took that development experience and created empower v1.0 six years ago.

What you’ll find is that empower enterprise takes a holistic and practical approach to facilitating slide management, search, collaboration, productivity and brand consistency within corporations.

Geetesh: How is empower different than other similar slide management programs – what sets it apart?

Victor: First, unlike browser-based solutions you can access the slide library directly within PowerPoint as empower is an add-in. There is no need to open an additional application or browser to have access to everything that you need to create presentations. The adoption rate for our PowerPoint Ribbon is high while the user learning curve is low. In addition, empower enterprise has offline sync capabilities that lets you work offline while allowing the PowerPoint user complete access to the library.

Second, the empower library allows an admin to bulk update a slide that is in multiple presentations without having to open each presentation in PowerPoint. It will also notify a user if he or she is opening a PowerPoint presentation that includes an old slide and start a wizard to guide them through the differences. So no more outdated versions of slides company-wide!

Lastly, in contrast to other slide management programs, empower not only supports managing existing content but helps during the entire presentation creation process: with empower’s productivity tools, you can very quickly create striking, professional and impactful presentations. And with empower’s brand consistency capabilities, all PowerPoint content will match your brand guidelines.

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: Add-in, Digital Asset Management, Empower, Interviews, PowerPoint, Slide Management, Victor Rodriguez

Views in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows

Your slides remain the same, yet the various views in PowerPoint make exploring those same slides a little different. This approach makes sense because viewing slides in Slide Show view gives an entirely different perspective than editing them in Normal view. Further, it’s easier to reorder and work with multiple slides in Slide Sorter view and make changes to individual slides in Normal view.

All put together, PowerPoint 2016 provides you with ten different views. Eight of these views can be accessed from the View tab of the Ribbon.

Learn about various views that allow you to edit and show slides in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Interface, Office 2016, PowerPoint 2016, Tutorials, View

MacX Video Converter Pro: The Indezine Review

Everyone needs to convert a video from one format to another. Moreover, while there are dozens of programs that can do the conversion for you, most of them are cursed with a busy interface and a learning curve. MacX Video Converter Pro is helpful because it seems much easier to use, and it can download, convert, edit and record videos. MacX Video Converter Pro supports 320+ video and 50+ audio codecs. It also supports Intel QSV hardware acceleration technology that significantly accelerates video conversion speed. The folks who create MacX Video Converter Pro claim that their product can work 16X faster using this technology with no quality loss.

Explore MacX Video Converter Pro, an application that can download, convert, edit and record videos.

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Tagged as: Mac, Media Conversion, Review, Video

Hierarchical Guide Options in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows

Enabling Guides for your presentation slides helps ensure that your objects are easily aligned, and also in the same relative position in successive slides. But just enabling Guides is more like getting started. There’s so much more you can do, such as customizing the Guides themselves using hierarchical options.

Learn about the hierarchical Guide options in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2016
Tagged as: Guides, Microsoft Windows, Office 2016, Positioning, PowerPoint 2016, Tutorials, View