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Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Rehearse Slide Timings

After creating your presentation slides, you may be satisfied with the outcome. And now it’s time to practice your presentation delivery. You need to practice your slide timings, your pace, and most importantly, you need to be comfortable with your slides. And what better to help you than PowerPoint’s powerful Rehearse feature that we will explore within this tutorial.

Explore the Rehearse feature in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2011
Tagged as: Office for Mac, PowerPoint 2011, Slide Management, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint 2010 for Windows: Rehearse Slide Timings

If you are happy with the presentation slides you created, you should then move towards practicing your presentation delivery, your timing, and your pace. More importantly, it is time to be comfortable with your slides. PowerPoint itself can help you better handle this job via it’s PowerPoint’s powerful Rehearse Timings feature that we will explore within this tutorial.

Explore the Rehearse Timings feature in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

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Tagged as: PowerPoint 2010, Slide Management, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Reset Slide

Sometimes we are exposed to slides that can be so hazardous to our vision! One look at a slide, and it really doesn’t matter if the content is great or not — because this slide has nothing understated about it. Such loud slides can ensure that audiences look more at the look of the slide rather than the content. You might end up with such slides even with no fault of yours, because someone else mis-designed them for you! Fortunately, there is an easy, one-click process to restore the sanity in the slides — it’s called the Reset button. Remember, the Reset button is your friend.

Learn how to reset your slide formatting with one click in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Tagged as: PowerPoint 2013, Slide Management, Tutorials

Office Timeline Plus Edition: Conversation with Tim Stumbles

Tim Stumbles is the co-founder of Office Timeline, a start-up focused on making project presentations simple. Office Timeline offers timeline maker and Gantt chart software, natively built for Microsoft PowerPoint. With Office Timeline, over 500,000 PowerPoint users easily create impressive project presentations for important client and executive meetings.

In this conversation, Tim discusses the Plus Edition of Office Timeline.

Geetesh: How is the Plus Edition of Office Timeline different than the regular version?

Tim: Office Timeline is a PowerPoint timeline maker that makes it incredibly simple for anyone who has a project of any size to communicate it visually. There are two versions of the add-in, a Free version and a Plus Edition. The Free version is fully functional, and the Plus Edition unlocks sophisticated features.

We are fortunate enough to have a broad customer base using the Plus Edition. Many of these customers use it because it enables them to import data and transform it into beautiful timelines or Gantt charts instantly. The Plus edition also has the functionality they need to make busy project schedules really easy to understand and easy to present.

Some other favorite Plus features include the ability to show percentage complete for project tasks, additional timeline and Gantt chart templates, and the intelligence that Office Timeline Plus has to dynamically manage the layout of detailed slides.

Geetesh: Can you tell us more about the new features that you have added to this Plus Edition?

Tim: Our customers are passionate about it and have provided a steady stream of requests, many of which we delivered in the 14 releases we published last year. Some of these were behind-the-scenes innovations, such as a new algorithm that better manages layout and how timeline slides are rendered in PowerPoint.

Other Plus edition developments increased functionality, such as the ability to style any timeline object in multiple ways and the addition of more templates. We also expanded our importing options, most recently integrating with Smartsheet. And finally, we tightened our integration with PowerPoint, so slides created with Office Timeline are easily shared with colleagues, managers, or clients who have PowerPoint.

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Tagged as: Add-in, Diagrams, Interviews, PowerPoint, Tim Stumbles

Adobe Presenter: Publish Options

After you create your eLearning project using Adobe Presenter within PowerPoint, you will no doubt want to publish your content in a format suitable to deploy. Adobe Presenter provides various publish options, and you can opt to publish locally, or even host via the Adobe Connect Server. You can also publish to SWF, HTML5, leading LMSs, and video sharing sites like YouTube or Vimeo. Let us explore how you can use these Publish options.

Explore various publish options within Adobe Presenter.

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Tagged as: Add-in, Adobe Presenter, PowerPoint, Tutorials