PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Working With Picture Slide Layouts

PowerPoint’s, Slide Layouts are a very useful feature because they let you use a boilerplate arrangement of placeholders repeatedly, resulting in slides that are laid out consistently. And, you can also create your own custom Slide Layouts. While very few users create their own custom Slide Layouts, even fewer will create a custom Slide Layout with pictures! That’s unfortunate since Picture Slide Layouts can make your slides look so unique. In this tutorial, we will show you how you can easily create your own Picture Slide Layout in PowerPoint 2011.

Learn how to work with Picture slide layouts in 2011 for Mac.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2011
Tagged as: Masters, Office for Mac, Pictures, PowerPoint 2011, Templates, Tutorials

Public Speaking Resources on Udemy: Conversation with Josh Leskar

Josh Leskar is a Marketing Specialist at Udemy — a global marketplace for teaching and learning that gives people everywhere the opportunity to advance their careers, change professions, develop a personal passion, or simply learn something new. He is passionate about changing the world of education as we know it, hoping to make it more affordable and accessible around the world. In his spare time, he is an avid baker, runner, positive peer-pressurer and former competitive public speaker.

In this conversation, Josh discusses the Public Speaking resources available on Udemy.

Geetesh: Why is Public Speaking so important? And do tell us about the resource page you created at Udemy to highlight Public Speaking?

Josh: Public speaking is one of the most valuable “life skills” someone can have: no matter what profession you enter, there are always instances where you’ll be required to speak to people. Sometimes it will be one-on-one with a manager or colleague, other times it will be in a presentation format to a group. Regardless of the scenario, it’s important to be comfortable and confident so that your message doesn’t get lost in a nervous delivery. The best part is: anyone can become a better public speaker! And that was the inspiration for our resource page.

We talked with students and professionals in the public speaking world, and the feedback we got was that people wanted to be able to see improvement more than anything else. So, we decided to find videos of some of the most famous public figures making the most common speaking mistakes, and how they have improved since then. These people weren’t always the phenomenal speakers that they are today. It takes practice and perseverance, but when you set your mind to learning a skill, anything is possible. We also wanted to address some of the common mistakes that these speakers have made in the past, and offer tips on ways to avoid them. By doing so, we can offer examples of improvement and tips on how everyone can become a better speaker.

Geetesh: Tell us more about the Public Speaking courses at Udemy – can you share some learnings from your favorites?

Josh: We have over 150 courses on public speaking, presentations and language: it’s hard to pick one! One of the best parts about our courses is that they all offer something different. There are courses for beginners, intermediates, and advanced speakers; courses addressing fear and courses addressing storytelling; courses for children and courses for college students; courses for talking to a camera and courses for talking to an audience. The list is nearly limitless! I think the best learning I have is to take the course that’s right for you at your current level of comfort.

Filed Under: Interviews
Tagged as: Interviews, Training

Learn PowerPoint for iPad: Account and Sign In

To really use and benefit with PowerPoint on an iPad, you will have to sign in with your Microsoft Account. So what is a Microsoft Account? It is essentially the email address that you use with Microsoft services such as Hotmail, Live.com, Xbox, etc. When you run PowerPoint for the first time on your iPad, you are asked to sign in – if you already did so at that point of time, then you need not do anything else now since you are already signed in. On the other hand, if you continued that time without signing in, you can choose to sign in at a later time.

Learn how to sign in to your Microsoft account in PowerPoint for iPad.

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

Learn PowerPoint for iPad: Apply Themes

You might think that PowerPoint on the iPad may be underpowered compared to its siblings on the desktop – but that’s not true at all since Microsoft has managed to fit in a high level of aptitude even in a version that runs on a tablet. Yes, you won’t find every single option here – but you can certainly change Themes for your presentations, as we shall learn in this tutorial.

Learn how to apply a new Theme to your presentation in PowerPoint for iPad.

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

Learn PowerPoint 2010 for Windows: Ink Tools

When you use the pen and highlighter tools to annotate in PowerPoint 2010, you are provided with an option to save those annotations when you exit Slide Show view. If you do opt to save them, then you will actually open doors to new capabilities that will allow you to edit these annotations – in fact you can also change these annotations to shapes and work more with them!

Learn how to edit your pen and highlighter annotations in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2010
Tagged as: PowerPoint 2010, Tutorials