PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Creating Charts Using Excel Data

You may have started scratch with inserting a new chart on your PowerPoint slide. This of course brings up an instance of the Excel sheet with some dummy data — and indeed you can type in your own data to replace this dummy data. However, what if you already have some data that’s within an Excel sheet — can you use that data to create your PowerPoint chart? The answer is yes, and that’s what you are going to learn in this tutorial.

Learn how to use already available Excel data to create charts in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Charting, Excel, PowerPoint 2013, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Change Shapes within a SmartArt Graphic

The default look of SmartArt graphics works great, and you may not want to change a thing! Yet, it’s good to know that you can change your SmartArt graphics to other layouts, change the color of SmartArt graphics, or apply a SmartArt Style to make your SmartArt graphic appear distinct and unique. You can also change the actual shapes within a SmartArt graphic — for instance you can change some circles in your SmartArt graphic to squares with a mere click or two!

Learn how to change shapes within a SmartArt graphic in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Tagged as: PowerPoint 2013, SmartArt, Tutorials

Irregular Shapes for PowerPoint: 04

All shapes arranged with geometric precision – this can look very organized but also robotic and unnatural. What if you could make all these straight shapes look curved – almost as if they are hand-drawn? Won’t that look more organic? If you agree, then you will certainly love this new series of irregular shapes for PowerPoint. Perfect shapes and boxes everywhere, all neatly lined up! Yes, such arrangements look clean, but also monotonous! What if you could make all these shapes curved, slanted, and natural looking – 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.

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Tagged as: Graphics, PowerPoint, Presentation Samples, Shapes

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Playing Custom Shows

After you create custom slide shows, you will want to present them to your audience. Yes, you could access the Custom Shows dialog box, and then select a show and then choose to play it — but that’s a long process indeed. In this tutorial, we will show how you can access the same custom show more easily. And then we will also show you how you can set any custom show as the default — this 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 2013 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Delivery, PowerPoint 2013, Tutorials

Outstanding Presentations Workshop 2014: Conversation with Ellen Finkelstein

Ellen Finkelstein is a Microsoft PowerPoint MVP, a recognized expert, speaker, trainer, and best-selling author on PowerPoint, presentation skills, and AutoCAD. Her articles have appeared in numerous magazines, newsletters, and blogs. She just announced the 2014 incarnation of Outstanding Presentations Workshop, her webinar series that allows everyone to learn from renowned presentation experts.

In this conversation, Ellen talks more about this new webinar series.

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Tagged as: Ellen Finkelstein, Interviews, Outstanding Presentations Workshop, PowerPoint, Presentation Skills