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We’ve all been in the audiences of far too many presentations that unleash all the bells and the whistles of slideshow animation with a frenetic, pyrotechnic display that challenges a Fourth of July celebration or a night at Disneyland.
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Shapes are the building blocks of most of the content you create in PowerPoint. Did you know that a text box that you add to your slide is also a shape that has no fill applied? To work better with shapes, you must start with the very basics, and there’s so much to learn even at this foundation level. The first task you need to do is to insert a shape. Fortunately, PowerPoint makes it easy to do this task.
Learn how to insert shapes in PowerPoint 365 for Windows.
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Jerry Weissman is the founder and president of Suasive, Inc., formerly Power Presentations, Ltd. Jerry founded Suasive in 1988 and quickly established himself as the coach for Silicon Valley CEOs delivering critical presentations for their IPO roadshows. He taught them to tell their company stories through the eyes of their investors, and in so doing, significantly increased the valuations of their companies. He amassed an elite client list and soon widened his focus to helping public and privately held companies develop and deliver all types of business presentations.
Today his methodology has helped thousands of companies on every continent deliver mission-critical presentations with clarity, confidence, and maximum persuasion. Jerry is the author of five books on presentations, among them the recently released trilogy: Presenting to Win, The Power Presenter, In the Line of Fire, and regularly blogs for Forbes.
In this conversation, Jerry talks about the recently released 2nd edition of The Power Presenter.
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We begin by featuring a new book on public speaking, but this one is different because it is intended for kids. However, there’s no reason why grown-ups cannot learn a technique or two. One of the authors, Amy Wolff tells us more about why she wrote this book.
We also bring you an updated list of PowerPoint 365 keyboard shortcuts. We also bring you quotes, press releases, and templates from the last few days.
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What does the word “shape” mean to you? Do you imagine a square, a circle, a heart, or even a smiley face? Yes, those are shapes, as are the hundreds of other recognizable outlines or figures that we also call shapes in our daily conversations. Shapes play a significant role in any slides you create for your PowerPoint presentation. In many ways, shapes are like the building blocks of almost anything you do on your PowerPoint slides.
Learn about different types of shapes in PowerPoint 365 for Mac.
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