PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Microsoft PowerPoint Best Practices, Tips, and Techniques: Conversation with Chantal Bossé

    Chantal Bossé, president of CHABOS, is a presentation & visual communication leader, TEDx speaker coach, Microsoft Office Apps & Services MVP and expert trainer on the LinkedIn Learning platform. She helps speakers and small businesses improve their PowerPoint presentations and public speaking, and their Microsoft 365 & Teams skills. Her goal is to help clients increase their bottom line by leveraging the power of their Microsoft 365 applications. CHABOS’ mission is helping small businesses and end-users be more empowered and efficient with communication and collaborative technologies.

In this conversation, Chantal talks about her new book, Microsoft PowerPoint Best Practices, Tips, and Techniques.

Geetesh: Chantal, please tell us about your new book, Microsoft PowerPoint Best Practices, Tips, and Techniques. What motivated you to write this book?

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Filed Under: Interviews
Tagged as: Books, Chantal Bossé, Interviews

PowerPoint and Presenting News: March 28, 2023

We first look at the new feature for collapsing and expanding groups in PowerPoint using the BrightSlide add-in. Jamie Garroch of BrightCarbon talks about how this feature evolved and why it is such a time-saver.

We then look at the Format Painter feature in PowerPoint and how you can use it with multiple objects, even if the source and destination objects are on different slides or presentations. We bring you Format Painter tutorials for users of PowerPoint 365 for Windows and Mac, and also for PowerPoint for the Web users. We also bring you quotes, press releases, and templates from the last few days.

Stay informed about updated tutorials and happenings related to PowerPoint and presenting.

Filed Under: Ezine
Tagged as: Ezine, Indezine, News, PowerPoint

Change a Diagonal Line to a Horizontal or Vertical Line in PowerPoint 365 for Windows

In PowerPoint, you rotate shapes using the white rotation handle that appears when you select a shape. However, have you ever noticed that the open line shape in PowerPoint doesn’t show a white rotation handle? Yes, notice that the rectangle shape includes a white rotation handle whereas there is no such handle on the Line shape. Now, if you want to rotate any diagonal line to make it either perfectly horizontal or vertical, how would you do so?

Learn how to change a diagonal line to a horizontal or vertical line in PowerPoint 365 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 365
Tagged as: Microsoft 365, Microsoft Windows, Office 365, PowerPoint 365, Shapes, Tutorials

Collapse Groups with BrightSlide in PowerPoint’s Selection Pane

The Selection Pane in PowerPoint is a tool that allows users to manage the selection and visibility of different objects on your slide. With the Selection Pane, users can easily reorder, rename, show or hide, or even lock and unlock objects on a slide.

However, what if your slides have many objects, and some of them are within groups? You can see how the Selection Pane looks for such a slide in Figure 1, below.

Figure 1: Selection Pane with groups

Now, if we manually collapse all groups, your Selection Pane may look more organized, as shown in Figure 2, below.

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Filed Under: Add-ins
Tagged as: Add-in, BrightCarbon, Interviews, Jamie Garroch, Selection, Selection Pane

Format Painter in PowerPoint for the Web

What if you want to add new PowerPoint shapes with the same formatting as the existing ones? To some effect, you can duplicate slide objects in PowerPoint. You select a shape and press the Ctrl + D keyboard shortcut. if you are using Windows. Mac users will use the similar Cmd + D keyboard shortcut. However, such duplication copies everything: the shape, its text content, and its format attributes, such as all fills, outlines, and effects. However, you may only want to use those fill, outline, and effect attributes for other shapes you create. In other words, you do not want to copy the shape itself or the text it contains.

Learn to use the Format Painter effectively in PowerPoint for the Web.

Filed Under: PowerPoint for the Web
Tagged as: Formatting, Mac OS, Microsoft Windows, Office, Office for the Web, OneDrive, PowerPoint, PowerPoint for the Web, Shapes, Tutorials