PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Learn PowerPoint 2010 for Windows: Animating Slide Objects While Media is Playing

Let’s imagine you have a 3 minute video or audio clip. Exactly after the clip has played for a minute, you want some text to appear super-imposed above the video clip, or just show on the slide while the audio clip is playing. All this while, the original audio or video clip should continue playing. It might seem difficult, but you can end up with these results quite easily using the Trigger Animation option. These Trigger animations typically happen as a result of a click on some other slide object — but in PowerPoint 2010, you can now cause Trigger animations to also happen on media playback through a Bookmark.

Learn how to animate any object on a slide in PowerPoint 2010 while a media clip on the same slide is still playing.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2010
Tagged as: Animation, PowerPoint 2010, Sounds, Tutorials, Video

Adobe Presenter: Add Presenters

Every presentation created has an intended presenter, who delivers the presentation. In Adobe Presenter you can assign a single presenter to all slides in a presentation, or assign different presenters to individual slides. You can not only assign presenter(s), but can also add detailed information about presenters such as the name, a photograph, their job title, a short biographical notes, a company logo, and also contact information. You don’t have to fill in all fields. Adding a presenter will make your presentation more credible.

Learn how to add presenters in Adobe Presenter.

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

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Comparing and Merging Presentations

If you are working on a presentation with your clients, or even a co-worker — then you might end up in a situation where you both did not work on the same copy, one after the other. Instead, you worked on two different copies. These copies contain changes done by you both — some similar and some different. Now you need to compare and merge these copies into a single, cohesive file without losing anything at all! Yes, you can manually compare side by side in PowerPoint 2013 — this option works great if there are very few changes. For anything more involved, you will want to use the Compare feature which was introduced in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows. This feature combines two presentations provided by you, and then shows you the differences between them. You can then decide which changes to include, or discard within the final version of your presentation.

Learn how to compare and merge presentations in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2013
Tagged as: PowerPoint 2013, Slide Management, Tutorials

Moving Slides Between Sections in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac

Your presentation slides become easier to manage when you create and rename Sections. By using Sections in your presentations, you can logically categorize your presentation slides. If you want to move a particular slide or set of few slides from one Section to another, you can easily do so in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

Learn how to move slides from one section to another in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

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

Irregular Shapes for PowerPoint: 08

To make your slides look more pleasing and aesthetic, you must add a personal touch. Using geometric shapes on your slides provides an organized look to your slides, but for that personal touch, your slides can use shapes such as these, that are irregular and organic. What if you could make all shape segments in your slides curved, slanted, and natural looking – as if they are hand-drawn? Won’t that look more organic? If you agree, then you will certainly love these new irregular shapes for PowerPoint.

Download and use these shapes in your slides.

Filed Under: Presentation Bank
Tagged as: Graphics, PowerPoint, Presentation Samples, Shapes