PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

PowerPoint and Presenting News: August 26, 2014

We begin with another set of Irregular Shapes — these will help you create quick cover slides with collages! We then get you oodles of inspiration to create better charts. And then we explore a review of Avopress Designer, a product that lets you create Themes for PowerPoint and other Microsoft Office programs. We also have an exclusive conversation with Jeff Robson of Prezentt. Prezentt is a tool that lets you get more from your PowerPoint slides.

PowerPoint 2013 users can learn about Smart Art and Slide Transitions. And we also explore Adobe Presenter.

And finally, do not miss the new discussions and templates of this week!

Read Indezine’s PowerPoint and Presenting News.

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Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Creating Custom Slide Shows

Do you want to show only selected slides from your presentation to a particular audience? The answer is not to delete the slides you do not want to show and thereafter saving as a copy. The answer is to create a custom slide show! So what’s a custom slide show? Think of your individual slides as songs — then a custom slide show is a playlist of those songs! Even better, since this is like a playlist, you do not have to delete the slides that are not used. And there’s more — you can create any number of custom slide shows!

Learn how to create custom slide shows in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Change between SmartArt Graphic Layouts (Types)

After inserting a SmartArt graphic within PowerPoint or converting some bulleted text to SmartArt, you might want to change the layout of the SmartArt. You can choose from various SmartArt graphics variations available within PowerPoint 2013. In this tutorial we’ll show you how to change any existing SmartArt graphic to any other layout (type).

Learn how to change from one SmartArt graphic layout to another in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Dynamic Content Transitions in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows

Dynamic Content transitions were first introduced in PowerPoint 2010 (these also work in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac). When these transitions are applied to your slide, the actual transition occurs on all areas of the slide except the backgrounds. This makes your content move independently on and off the screen. PowerPoint 2013 provides seven different transition effects within the Dynamic Content category — do experiment with these options for direction and timing to create some great looking presentations.

Explore Dynamic Content transitions in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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PowerPoint Animation: Gears, Yet Again (Series 03)

Here’s the new, third set of animated Gears — we call this one Animated Gears Yet Again! The previous two series can be found here, and here. Like the earlier series, these come in both animated & non animated versions. The time-consuming process of using Gears and animating them in PowerPoint is now made easy again. Watch the video on this page and explore how the gears animate perfectly in the slide.

Download and use these gears in your slides.

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