PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

PowerPoint and Presenting News: June 2, 2015

We first explore whether you should even create widescreen slides? Then we bring you an interview with Matteo Cassese who discusses his popular SlideShare presentation, The Magic Play Book. Then Leon Conrad discusses the new Odyssey – Dynamic Learning System, which is also the name of a book he co-authored.

PowerPoint 2013 users can learn about Slide Layouts and switching views between multiple presentations. The latter tutorial can also be found for users of PowerPoint 2011 for Mac. 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

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Insert Flash Movies Using the Developer Tab

PowerPoint 2013 allows you to insert video (and also online videos) files within your presentation — one of the file formats that you can use for these video options is Flash SWF. You can also use the Developer tab of the Ribbon to insert Flash SWF movies. First of all, make the Developer tab visible as it is not visible by default. You also need to have the updated version of Adobe’s Shockwave Flash ActiveX control — to make sure, you have the current version installed, go to this site using Microsoft Internet Explorer.

Learn how to insert Flash movie into PowerPoint 2013 for Windows, using Developer tab.

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Tagged as: PowerPoint 2013, PowerPoint Flash, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Switch Views Between Multiple Presentations

When you are working with one or two presentations in PowerPoint, you can easily access slides within any of them, compare the presentations and edit the content. And it is also easy to copy or move slides from one presentation to another. However, the situation may not be the same always. Let’s imagine you have four presentations open — and presently you can only see the one that is active. What about the other three presentations? How do you navigate to those presentations without having to close or minimize the active presentation? In this tutorial, you will learn how to switch between multiple open presentations in PowerPoint 2011, which is different from how you do so in PowerPoint for Windows.

Learn how to switch views between multiple open presentations in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

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Tagged as: Office for Mac, PowerPoint 2011, Tutorials

Should You Create Widescreen Slides?

On a webinar that I was watching on a phone, the presenter shared a slide with numbers. There were many numbers, and they were small. The same goof-up had happened at a destination conference a few months ago! The text size on the slide was teeny-weeny, and you could not see much, even if you squinted your eyes. This time, the problem was not that the presenter had used 8 point text on the slide; this text was 20 points, and that did not make it too small. Even then, in a large room, you still could not read the text!

Make sure that you know whether you must create widescreen or standard slides for your next presentation.

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Tagged as: Aspect Ratio, Delivery, Opinion, PowerPoint, Presentation Skills, Standard, Widescreen

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Switch Views Between Multiple Presentations

If you want to work with more than one presentations in PowerPoint — you can easily open two or more presentation next to each other which makes it easy to compare presentations and edit them as well. This is also helpful when you want to copy or move slides from one presentation to another. Let’s imagine you have four presentations open and you can only see the one that is active. What about the other three presentations? How do you navigate to those presentations without having to close, or minimize the active presentation? In this tutorial, you will learn how to switch between multiple open presentations in PowerPoint 2013. With this option you can easily switch in between different presentation windows.

Learn how to switch views between multiple presentations in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Tagged as: PowerPoint 2013, Tutorials