PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Learn PowerPoint for iPad: Running PowerPoint for the First Time

After you install PowerPoint for iPad, the next thing you want to do is run it! However, running the program for the first time is a little different and requires that you understand about creating an account, signing in, etc. And yes, you can still use the program without signing in – but in the long run, if you want to use PowerPoint to its optimum – then you must make yourself familiar with these tasks.

Learn what happens when you run PowerPoint on iPad for the first time.

Filed Under: PowerPoint for iPad
Tagged as: iPad, PowerPoint, Tutorials

Andreessen Horowitz Shows How to Avoid the Worst Death by PowerPoint

By Jerry Weissman

Of all the many bad raps against PowerPoint—TMI (Too Much Information), MEGO (My Eyes Glaze Over), Data Dump, Show up and Throw Up, and “Just mail me the deck!”—the worst is The Laundry List, in which the slides in a presentation have all the continuity of a deck of cards shuffled by a Las Vegas dealer. We’ve all been there: “First, I’d like to talk about…then I’d like to talk about…then I’d like to talk about… then I’d like to talk about…and last, but not least…”

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Tagged as: Death by PowerPoint, Design, Guest Post, Jerry Weissman, Opinion

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Using the Pen and Highlighter Tools in Slide Show View

While presenting and interacting with your audience, annotation on a slide can play an important role – and PowerPoint provides you with useful Pen and Highlighter tools that can change your static slide into a whiteboard upon which you can doodle and write! In this tutorial, we will learn how these tools can be helpful.

Learn how to use the Pen and Highlighter tools within Slide Show View in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Tagged as: PowerPoint 2013, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint for iPad: Installing PowerPoint

For a long time, PowerPoint and other Microsoft apps were absent from Apple’s App Store, and tons of wannabe programs filled in the vacuum created by the absence of PowerPoint on the iPad. Of course, this situation has since changed! To install PowerPoint on your iPad, you must first be sure that your iPad is compatible. At the time of writing, you need a device that runs Apple iOS 7 or later.

Learn how to install PowerPoint on an iPad.

Filed Under: PowerPoint for iPad
Tagged as: iPad, PowerPoint, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint for iPad: Ribbon and Tabs

One of the most important parts of the interface within PowerPoint for iPad is the Ribbon – a typically orange area that sports Tabs with options and commands. Now this Ribbon works almost the same in PowerPoint for iPad as it does in PowerPoint instances anywhere. The main difference here is that you will have to tap to make something happen rather than click! Of course, since the options available on the iPad are fewer, you end up with a thinner, more compact Ribbon as well.

Explore the Ribbon in PowerPoint for iPad.

Filed Under: PowerPoint for iPad
Tagged as: iPad, PowerPoint, Tutorials