PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Bing Images Search by Date

Each minute, millions of pictures get posted on the internet. And within this high-traffic driven and constantly changing network, finding a picture which was published a few hours ago, a month ago, or even a year ago may at first seem like a difficult task. But Bing’s Image Search can help you tackle this problem and get all the fresh visual content that you need. This process of narrowing down your search is achieved by using Bing Image Search’s Date filter. As the name itself suggests, the Date filter allows you to search pictures based on hours, days, months, etc. This is an immensely useful search tool for people who need to search for pictures related to current affairs.

Learn how to search images in Bing using the built in Date filters.

Filed Under: Clip Media
Tagged as: Bing, Clip Media, Graphics, Pictures, PowerPoint, Tutorials

PowerPoint and Presenting News: September 3, 2013

In this issue, we bring you an exclusive interview with Andrea Meyer, co-author of Present Yourself: Using SlideShare to Grow Your Business. We then look at options available to open your files in Office Mobile for iPhone, and how you can use workarounds to create a new PowerPoint presentation within the same phone environment. We also explore Bing’s amazing search option for identifying people in pictures — and how this can help you locate suitable pictures. PowerPoint 2013 for Windows users can learn about selecting and deselecting shapes, and how shapes can be miraculously duplicated by dragging. PowerPoint 2011 for Mac users can learn about creating flowcharts. And finally, do not miss the new discussions and templates of this week!

Read Indezine’s PowerPoint and Presenting News.

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

Using SmartArt for Simple Flowcharts in PowerPoint for Mac

While you can create flowcharts of all types in Microsoft Office applications quite easily using techniques explained in our Basic Flowcharts in Microsoft Office tutorial, there are ways in which you can create linear, non-branched flowcharts even more easily with just one click! These one-click flowcharts let you convert a bulleted list to a flowchart in an instant using the SmartArt diagramming feature. Before we proceed further, let us tell you that these SmartArt flowcharts are only useful for very simple concepts – they also have several limitations.

Learn how to use the SmartArt graphic option to quickly create simple flowcharts in Microsoft Office, including PowerPoint for Mac.

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

Outstanding Presentations Workshop 2013: Conversation with Ellen Finkelstein

Ellen Finkelstein is a Microsoft PowerPoint MVP and author of several PowerPoint, Flash, and AutoCAD books — she just announced the 2013 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.

Geetesh: Your Outstanding Presentations series of webinars has been very successful – can you tell us more about the upcoming series this year and your line of speakers?

Ellen: This year we have a group of very experienced communication experts:

1. Troy Chollar is a top multimedia expert and a PowerPoint MVP. He’ll be speaking on Multimedia in PowerPoint — September 10
2. Tom Mucciolo is a well-known visual communication and business presentation consultant. His topic is Develop high-quality communication skills — September 17
3. Dave Paradi is a business communication consultant and author as well as a PowerPoint MVP. His topic is Make your presentation compelling, not annoying — October 1
4. Lisa B. Marshall is a communication consultant and author. She’ll talk on Engagement: 13.5 ideas to gain attention — October 8
5. Tom Kuhlman, VP of Community at Articulate, is well-known for his amazing PowerPoint tutorials. He’ll be speaking on PowerPoint’s no longer a slide show freak — October 15
6. Chantal Bossé is a consultant with Aspire Communications, author, and PowerPoint MVP. Her topic is Build a flexible presentation so you can adapt to your audience’s needs — October 22
7. Ellen Finkelstein — Finally, I’ll speak on High-persuasion PowerPoint presentation secrets — October 29

Geetesh: You always get another set of great speakers each year — tell us about what happens behind the scenes — do you have any experiences to share?

Ellen: At the end of each year’s sessions, I ask participants which speakers they would like to hear the following year. I also maintain many connections with people in the presentation industry. And I ask for introductions. For example, after you interviewed Tom Mucciolo, I asked you to introduce him to me. Then I just ask people to speak. The speakers have been amazingly generous with their time and expertise.

All of the speakers are well-known in their field (some are downright famous!) and they’ve chosen very interesting topics as well. I think the workshop will be very exciting!

The views and opinions expressed in this blog post or content are those of the authors or the interviewees and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of any other agency, organization, employer, or company.

Filed Under: Events
Tagged as: Interviews, Outstanding Presentations Workshop, PowerPoint, Presentation Skills, Training

Duplicate Shapes Using Keyboard Shortcuts in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows

You learned how to duplicate shapes by dragging in an earlier tutorial, but while that’s a nice way to duplicate five or ten shapes, it’s not the best way to create ten, twenty, or more copies. We all know that you can press Ctrl C to copy any shape in PowerPoint to the clipboard, and a resulting Ctrl V always pastes a copy from the clipboard to the slide — what many people don’t realize is PowerPoint has this almost supernatural keyboard shortcut called Ctrl D (yes, the D stands for duplicate), and this Ctrl D shortcut does more than just duplicate; in fact it creates a pattern of evenly-spaced and symmetrical shapes! Follow these steps to explore for yourself.

Learn how to duplicate shapes using the Ctrl+D command in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2013
Tagged as: PowerPoint 2013, Shapes, Tutorials