PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Overcoming Clichés in Pictures

How many times have you seen the same globe visual used within a slide or even a picture of shaking hands? Or a picture of a phone operator, or even some people smiling while working in an office? These are clichés, but clichés on their own are not bad as a starting point to evolve further. Don’t stop there though, and don’t decide that you have reached a conclusion with that predictable visual thought. In fact, there is not one but four ways to discover more original thoughts that go beyond clichés!

Learn about clichés in using common pictures, and how you can overcome them.

Filed Under: Pictures and Visuals
Tagged as: Clichés, Graphics, Opinion, Pictures, Visuals

Learn PowerPoint 2010 for Windows: Reordering Sections

Sections in PowerPoint are not just meant for managing your slides easily, but they can also help you quickly reorder large sets of adjacent slides. For example, you can create a Section including all slides you want to reorder, and then move that Section along with all the slides that it contains to the required position. In this tutorial we’ll show you how you can reorder Sections within PowerPoint 2010.

Learn how to reorder Sections in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

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

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Format Text Attributes Within the Mini Toolbar

Text in PowerPoint presentation needs to be edited in many ways — sometimes you need certain words to be in a different color, or even bold, italics, or underlined. Whatever the option required to format your text, you’ll find that the Mini Toolbar is a great location to do these changes easily — it really saves you from dragging your cursor repeatedly to the Ribbon area since it pops up right next to the selected text that you want to format.

Learn how to format text attributes conveniently using the Mini Toolbar in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2013
Tagged as: PowerPoint 2013, Text, Tutorials

Prezi Nutshell

The folks at Prezi have created a new product that’s called Nutshell. Is this a presentation program? Or is it a video creator? Or is it a little bit of both and more? Let’s find out. Until recently, Nutshell was in beta, but now anyone can sign up for it — well, “sign up” is probably not the right word, because you actually first need to download the app on your phone or tablet. OK – did we forget to tell that Prezi is an app that runs on Apple iOS devices? As of now, Nutshell is iOS only, but they may release apps for other platforms too?

Explore Prezi’s new Nutshell app.

Filed Under: PowerPoint All Versions
Tagged as: Prezi, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Selecting and Changing Text

Although PowerPoint does include options to use pictures, SmartArt, charts, sounds, and even video clips, we rarely see presentations that have no text at all. Nothing conveys a message better than text, and even pictures do need captions in the form of text. In PowerPoint, several slide objects can include text — these include text placeholders, text boxes, shapes, tables, SmartArt, charts, etc. In this tutorial though, we are only exploring selecting and editing text within text placeholders, text boxes, and shapes.

Learn how to select and change text within text placeholders, text boxes, and shapes in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2013
Tagged as: PowerPoint 2013, Text, Tutorials