PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Getting Started with Motion Paths

Motion Path animations in PowerPoint enable you to make any slide object move within or outside the slide, and also make it move around on the slide in a particular path! PowerPoint provides dozens of Motion Path presets, in every shape that you can imagine. To add a Motion Path animation to any object on a PowerPoint slide, follow these steps.

Learn how to apply Motion path animations to slide objects in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Animation, PowerPoint 2013, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Animate Ungrouped Tables

Animating table components is something that you cannot do in PowerPoint. You can either set to animate the entire table at a time, or can’t animate it at all. The solution is to first ungroup the table using the workaround explained in our Ungroup a Table in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows tutorial and then animate the ungrouped components as required.

Learn how to animate an ungrouped table in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Animation, PowerPoint 2013, Tables, Tutorials

PowerPoint and Presenting News: July 15, 2014

In this issue, we bring you another collection of animated gears — you get 6 new styles that you can copy and paste in your slides for just $10 and above. We also bring you a new set of combine-and-use star shapes that you can get for any price, starting from $0! And Miguel Monteiro from Portugal explores whether PowerPoint is really as powerful as some people assume!

PowerPoint 2013 users can learn about adding animations, the different types, and specifically explore entrance, emphasis and exit animations. Charting tutorial for PowerPoint 2013 include how you can alter the gap width in charts, using the invert if negative option, changing the color of inverted elements, and also how you can vary colors for chart categories. And also learn how you can ungroup tables.

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: Motion Path Animations

The three basic animation types in PowerPoint: Entrance, Emphasis, and Exit animations are something we have already explored. The fourth animation type is called Motion Path animation, and this is something more advanced in nature than the basic animation types explored so far. Motion Path animation determines the route (path) and the direction in which the animated slide object moves across or around on the slide. For example, you can move the slide object up, down, right, or left — and even on a preset or a created motion path.

Explore Motion Path animations in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Animation, PowerPoint 2013, Tutorials

Shufflrr: Conversation with James Ontra

      James Ontra has specialized in digital presentations for over 20 years. In the early 90s, when PCs first offered sight, sound and motion, James developed applications implemented at high profile events like CES, the Olympics and exhibits in Epcot Center. As technology evolved and video became more mainstream, he developed presentation management platforms that could be used in everyday business scenarios. Through several businesses — iXL, Ontra Presentations, PPTshuffle and now, Shufflrr, James has solely focused on methods to manage all file formats, PowerPoint in particular, for better presentations.

In this conversation, James discusses Shufflrr.

Geetesh: What exactly is Shufflrr, and what motivated you to create this platform?

James: Shufflrr is presentation management — a document management system for presentations. We developed it simply because our clients asked for it. Over the years, clients from a range of industries all faced the same challenge: controlling their brand and message across a dispersed group of users, while at the same time, giving those same users a fast, easy way to create and share a presentation. Add reporting and other functionality, and you have a holistic approach to managing presentations. Corporations are waking up to the value of treating presentations as an important part of the marketing mix. And Shufflrr makes it easy for them to do so.

Geetesh: There are other Shufflrr alternatives out there, but you seem to have added features to make Shufflrr easier to use and share – can you tell us more?

James: We offer a holistic approach to presentation management, summed up best by our tagline, Share, Shuffle, Show:

Share

Sharing is on two levels. First, you can send links to anyone inside or outside the Shufflrr network, and/or collaborate in a folder with a colleague. Second, Shufflrr is business social. It is a closed network of your company colleagues who can share, like and comment on your marketing materials. It’s a great way for marketing department or corporate office to get spontaneous and direct feedback from their users in the field

Shuffle

Not only can you find and preview PowerPoint slides, but all files are formatted to present visually. So you can take PowerPoint slides, videos, pictures, PDFs and make a new up-to-date, legally compliant presentation in minutes that just works.

Show

Broadcast your presentation to as many people as you wish. Track viewers as they login, what slides/files they view and for how long.

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