PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Formatting Picture Placeholders

Keeping the look of your picture slides (actually, all slides) consistent adds value to your presentation. When you use different pictures in successive slides of your presentation, you’ll want their position, formatting, and size to be the same in all slides. While you can achieve this by working on each slide individually, you will have to spend an inordinate amount of time making sure that the pictures look consistent — and even then, you may not be too happy with the results. You can get over this problem by using a new slide layout with a Picture placeholder. In this tutorial we’ll explore how to work with a Picture placeholder you add to a new slide layout.

Learn how to format a Picture placeholder in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2011
Tagged as: Office for Mac, Pictures, PowerPoint 2011, Templates, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Mini Toolbar

Making edits to your slide objects quickly can be an asset for your time — but awesome slides are created painstakingly, and use a large amount of time. Slide designers often play around with different fill options to make their slides look awesome — or even make umpteen changes to how their text appears. PowerPoint 2013 does provide most editing options to make these alterations within the Ribbon tabs, and you can also populate your Quick Access Toolbar with frequently used commands. Yet, all of these involve moving your cursor above the Slide Area and back continuously. While this may not really result in Carpal tunnel syndrome for your palms, it helps to know that PowerPoint 2013 also includes the Mini Toolbar, a floating toolbar that spawns right next to the cursor — and it is also available instantly with a right-click!

Learn about the Mini Toolbar in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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

emaze: Conversation with Motti Nisani

Motti Nisani is the CEO of emaze, a company that produces a tool of the same name. With emaze, you can create presentations in virtual 3D worlds or simply in slides. He has a B.Sc. degree in Engineering from Tel-Aviv University, Israel.

In this interview, Motti discusses about emaze.

Geetesh: Can you tell us more about Emaze. Is it like PowerPoint or Prezi?

Motti: emaze is at the sweet point between PowerPoint and Prezi. The presentations you create with emaze are much more attractive and professional than PowerPoint. And it is much easier to use than Prezi and without the head check. emaze enables you to create amazing presentations in minutes. With emaze, you can create presentations in virtual 3D worlds or simply in slides like PowerPoint. As it is an online presentation tool using cutting-edge HTML5 technology, you can use it on all devices: PC, tablets, and smartphones. emaze turns your ideas into stunning live stories.

Geetesh: What’s the learning curve required to create presentations using emaze — also what are the prerequisites for running emaze?

Motti: emaze is very easy to use. There are no prerequisites. Just sign in to the website, and start creating amazing presentations in minutes. Everything is already made for you. You choose a template for the presentation and for each slide, you have a rich layout gallery to choose from. All you need to do is to enter your content.

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Filed Under: Interviews
Tagged as: Interviews, Online Presentations

Handmade Slides: Pushpins for PowerPoint – 08

These PowerPoint ready pushpin graphics are fun to use – they can help you “pin” a picture, or a note, or a letter to your slide surface! When you use these ready-made pushpin graphics, you create a real world look on your slides that makes a picture, shape, or anything else appear as if it has been pinned! This new set of pushpin graphics in 5 colors has been added to our existing set of pushpin graphics on your slides! All pushpin graphics are contained within the PowerPoint slides that you will download. Just copy them and paste them on the edges of pictures in your presentation.

Download and use these pushpins in your slides.

Filed Under: Presentation Bank
Tagged as: Design, Graphics, PowerPoint, Presentation Samples

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Normal View

PowerPoint 2013 for Windows continues providing several views that enable you to view and edit your slides. Unarguably, Normal view is the default and most often used view. This view displays one slide at a time in the Slide area, and is used mainly for editing and creating slides, and shows PowerPoint’s typical tri-pane interface that includes the Slides pane, the Slide area, and the Notes pane. If you cannot see the Slides pane in Normal view, scroll down to read a tip that will help you restore that pane.

Learn about Normal view in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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