PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Irregular Shapes for PowerPoint: 06

It’s great to have stuff neatly lined up – but your slide layouts can look more pleasing and aesthetic with a personal touch. It’s the same with geometric shapes – they look organized, but why stay with just organized when they can also look more human with a shape that’s slightly irregular? 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

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Insert Online Pictures

It’s always been possible to add pictures from an online source within PowerPoint. For more than a decade this online source has been the pictures available online at Office.com — in most previous versions, this was achieved through the Insert Clip Art option. Now in PowerPoint 2013, this option has been greatly enhanced — and you are no longer restricted to content from just Office.com. Of course, this also has a new name now, and it’s called Online Pictures. This feature is very helpful as you are not limited to just the pictures available on your system. You get variety of other picture sources to choose from.

Learn how to insert an online pictures on a slide in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Pictures, PowerPoint 2013, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Playing Custom Shows

The purpose of creating custom slide shows is to present them to your audience. To do that, you could access the Custom Shows dialog box, and then select a show and then choose to play it — but yes, that’s a long process indeed. In this tutorial, we will show how you can access the same custom show in a easier way. And then, we will also show you how you can set any custom show as the default, which means that when you actually play your presentation in Slide Show view, only the slides within the custom show you select will be shown.

Learn how to play custom slide shows in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

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

Business Presentations Survey 2014

We rarely do surveys – in fact the last one we did was the Business Presentations Survey 10 years ago! And you will agree that 10 years is a long, long time – so that’s the reason why we wanted to do this survey again. Yes we wanted to ask you the same questions that we asked a decade ago, and this will help us all (that’s all of us) in determining what’s changed in a decade!

So, follow the link, fill out the survey and we will give you an opportunity to grab yourself an amazing gift!

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Tagged as: Business Presentations Survey, Survey

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Creating Custom Slide Shows

Has it ever happened that you wanted to include just a few slides in your slide show rather than displaying the entire presentation? Then you need not delete the slides that need not be shown — nor do you need to create a whole new presentation containing only the slides to be shown. All you need to do is to create a Custom Slide Show! So, what’s a custom slide show? Think of your individual slides as songs within a playlist — using the playlist analogy, your custom slide show is a playlist of those songs — you just substitute songs for slides!

Learn how to create custom slide shows in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

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