PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Language Options on the Status Bar

In PowerPoint 2013 when you select any text container such as a text placeholder, shape, or text box — then you may (or may not) see which language is specified for the text container on the Status Bar. However it is quite possible that you may not be seeing any language specified on the Status Bar — and this can happen for one of two reasons.

Learn how to make the Language Option visible on the Status Bar in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Tagged as: PowerPoint 2013, Text, Tutorials

50 Million Prezi Users: Conversation with Scott Kabat

    Scott Kabat is CMO at Prezi. He is passionately committed to growing and engaging a global community of diehard Prezi enthusiasts. When he’s not taking orders from his young kids, Scott spends his free time doing various endurance sports, reading history, ranting about the dysfunctional state of American politics, and wasting critical brain space by filling it with obscure movie quotes.

In this conversation, Scott discusses Prezi now encompassing more than 50 million users.

Geetesh: Prezi has become a hugely popular presentation platform with 50 million plus users. What does this popularity or these numbers mean to you?

Scott: When Peter, HP, and Adam started Prezi back in 2009, they embarked on a mission to empower people around the world to share their ideas in an engaging, compelling way. Over the years, the Prezi community has grown, and we are so thankful to everyone who has joined us on this journey.

Even more inspiring than the numbers, though, are the stories behind them, from the classroom to the boardroom. There’s the story of Miranda Wang and Jenny Yao, two high school seniors who discovered a strain of bacteria that can break down plastic waste and presented their revolutionary findings at TED with a Prezi. There’s Robert, who leads mobile strategy at Salesforce and uses Prezi to inspire audiences and teach them about his company’s mobile offerings—after switching from slides to Prezi, he’s seen a 28% increase in audience satisfaction in the surveys he conducts after each presentation.

These stories—along with the numbers behind them—motivate us to continue making Prezi better than ever, so that we can help everyone currently in our community and many millions more continue to engage, delight, and inspire audiences with their ideas.

Geetesh: Whereas most presentation programs tried to become clones of established programs that used the slide metaphor, Prezi did this differently – do you believe that’s one of the reasons for Prezi’s success? Tell us more.

Scott: Absolutely. Slide-based software has remained the same for the last thirty years. We and our growing community of users believe that it’s time for a change.

Prezi allows you to show the relationship between your ideas. Instead of moving from slide to slide, you can put your ideas in context and take your audience on a visual journey. As a result, your presentations are far more engaging and memorable—something that we hear all the time from our growing community.

At the end of the day, presenters care about being successful, whether that means winning the pitch, impressing the boss, or inspiring the room. We want to help anyone giving a presentation feel more confident and effective. The Prezi movement is growing, and we’re thrilled to see so many people empowered to share their ideas in a way that gets the job done.

See Also: 20 Million Prezi Users: Conversation with Drew Banks

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: Interviews, Online Presentations, Prezi

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Find and Replace Words

If you created a long presentation for a particular event or concept and then realize that you used the wrong terminology across the presentation, then what would you do? Yes, you can manually find the problem word and replace its each occurrence. But what if you have more than a few slides? Or even then, you might miss out locating the problem word in some occurrences. Your best choice is to do replace using the Find and Replace option in PowerPoint 2013, as explained in the following steps.

Learn how to find and replace words in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Glossophobia

Did you know what is scarier than death and darkness to an average person? No, it’s not the fear of heights or even claustrophobia, the fear of confined spaces. It is actually the fear of speaking in public, also known as glossophobia!

Learn what glossophobia is, and why it should be overcome.

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Tagged as: Delivery, Opinion, Presentation Skills

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Setting Spell Check Options

Has it ever happened that you know that a particular word is misspelled, but PowerPoint’s spell check doesn’t seem to think so! That may be because your word may be in all CAPS, or it may contain some numbers — in these cases, and in several other instances, PowerPoint just ignores any misspellings. Fortunately, you can turn off the options that instruct PowerPoint to ignore these misspellings. Remember though that changing these options will apply to all Microsoft Office 2013 applications you have installed on your computer including Word, Excel, and Outlook.

Learn how to set spell check options in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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