PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Countdown Timers for PowerPoint (Set 2: Updated)

We are happy to announce a second bunch of Countdown Timer slides. After the success of our first Countdown Timer series, here’s another set that contains longer countdowns (10 and 15 minutes each). Plus, we also include video clips in this series, if you want these countdown timers as video clips rather than slides. Additionally, this series includes 10 sample bonus presentations with ready-to-use countdown slides (just copy the first slide to your presentation).

Get these countdown timers now!

Filed Under: Presentation Bank
Tagged as: Animation, Design, Graphics, PowerPoint, Presentation Samples

Slides with Countdown Timers in PowerPoint 2016 and 2013 for Windows

Imagine that you are about to give a presentation that contains a certain number of slides, and you’ve got 15 minutes in all to complete the whole presentation and wrap up every detail. All in those 15 minutes! Or maybe, you have only 10 minutes? What will you do? Did you know that you can set up a small timer in your slides that shows a countdown as you present? Although this can be a little distracting, you can make it work if you place it discreetly, as we will show you in this tutorial.

Learn how to use countdown timers in PowerPoint 2016 and 2013 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2016
Tagged as: Animation, Countdown, Office 2016, PowerPoint 2013, PowerPoint 2016, Tutorials, Video

PowerPoint and Presenting News: March 3, 2015

Atoms make great graphics for explaining many concepts — they can also be combined with other graphics as shown in this new Atom Graphics collection. And if you want to record narrations within PowerPoint for Mac, we show you how you can set your microphone. Adobe Presenter users can learn how to add presenters to your eLearning projects. And for PowerPoint 2013 (Windows) and 2011 (Mac) users, we show you how you can remove existing Sections within your presentations. PowerPoint 2010 for Windows users can explore animating slide objects while some audio or video clip is playing. And finally, for all versions of PowerPoint we look at differences in using pictures within Content and Picture placeholders.

Read Indezine’s PowerPoint and Presenting News.

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Tagged as: Ezine, Indezine, News, PowerPoint

Package Option in Adobe Presenter

Adobe Presenter provides various publish options — and these work great if you have control over how your users will work with the eLearning content you create. However, there may be times when you do not have an idea about how and where the content will be used or distributed. In such scenarios, you can use the Package option that lets you publish the entire eLearning presentation along with all the assets and media within a single package.

Explore the Package option within Adobe Presenter.

Filed Under: Add-ins
Tagged as: Add-in, Adobe Presenter, PowerPoint, Tutorials

Pictures in Content or Picture Placeholders

Placeholders in PowerPoint make it easy for the users to insert any media file such as pictures, video, audio, etc. For Pictures, PowerPoint provides two placeholders Content and Picture. Although both placeholders enable you to insert pictures, there is a difference in the way that pictures behave when inserted within these placeholders. In this tutorial we’ll explore the difference in between Content and Picture placeholders.

Explore the difference in between content and picture placeholders.

Filed Under: Pictures and Visuals
Tagged as: Pictures, PowerPoint, Tutorials