PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Create a New Sway

Once you sign into your Sway account, you can create Sways! Yes, the program and the files it creates are both called Sway. So what do you need to create Sways? You can either use the content from your local device, or any content from internet sources such as Bing, OneDrive, YouTube, and Facebook. These created Sways can be shared later as interactive reports, presentations, personal stories, and more.

Explore how to create a new Sway presentation or document in Microsoft Sway.

Filed Under: Sway
Tagged as: Online Presentations, PowerPoint for the Web, Sway, Tutorials

PowerPoint and Presenting News: September 1, 2015

We start with an exclusive conversation with Ben Decker and Kelly Decker. Their new book, Communicate to Influence: How to Inspire Your Audience to Action, shares real-world stories and tips from the C-Suite that apply to us all. In this conversation, they discuss their book.

We continue our tutorial series on Docs.com, Microsoft’s file sharing, curating, and document-viewing website. 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

Sign into Microsoft Sway

Before you start working with Sway to create your own digital presentations, reports, or documents, you must first sign in using your Microsoft account. A Microsoft account contains credentials you use to sign into any of Microsoft’s services such as Hotmail, Outlook, XBox, Live, Zune, etc. In this tutorial, we explain how you can sign into Sway.

Learn how to sign into Microsoft Sway.

Filed Under: Sway
Tagged as: Docs.com, PowerPoint for the Web, Sway, Tutorials

Presentation Summit 2015: Conversation with Ric Bretschneider

    Ric Bretschneider is a technologist, troublemaker, and problem solver. Professionally, he helps people raise the quality of their business communications, mainly presenting. At Microsoft, Ric spent 17 years working on PowerPoint, designing and molding the program that became a juggernaut in business communication. Shortly after leaving Microsoft, Ric was awarded PowerPoint MVP status, a recognition held by only a dozen or so people in the US. In his spare time, Ric runs the San Jose California branch of the Pecha Kucha presentation event, writes, blogs and podcasts. He’s also a huge geek, his obsessions are hidden away on his site.

In this conversation, Ric discusses his sessions at the upcoming Presentation Summit 2015 series.

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Tagged as: Interviews, PowerPoint, Presentation Summit, Ric Bretschneider

Getting Started with Microsoft Sway

Office Sway is a digital storytelling presentation program from Microsoft that’s now part of the Microsoft Office family. With Sway, you can create and share interactive reports, presentations, personal stories, and more by combining text and media to create an online presentation. Now the term “online presentation” may lead you to believe that Sway is an alternative to Microsoft PowerPoint, but really speaking that’s just not the case! You will learn more about Sway in this series of tutorials we are creating, and you will find Sway is an online program or app that sources content locally from the device in use, or from internet sources such as Bing, OneDrive, YouTube, and Facebook. It then mashes all this content to create a Sway.

Learn how to get started with Sway.

Filed Under: Sway
Tagged as: Online Presentations, PowerPoint for the Web, Sway, Tutorials