PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Movie Shape

In PowerPoint, your inserted movie clip is always placed as in a traditional rectangular shape, which is exactly what most users expect since it does seem safe and conventional. However, PowerPoint 2011 allows you to crop your movie to various shapes such as a circle, an oval, a wave, a triangle, or any of PowerPoint’s default shapes. However, while selecting shapes for your movie clips, do remember that most of the shapes other than a Rectangle may crop out some parts of your movie clips. That’s why you can play around with shapes such as a rounded rectangle — but ponder a lot before you place a movie within a semi-circle or a pointed star!

Learn about Movie Shapes in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2011
Tagged as: Movies, Office for Mac, PowerPoint 2011, Tutorials, Video

authorSTREAM’s Facebook App: Conversation with Dinesh Awasthi

Dinesh Awasthi is Product Manager for authorSTREAM.com. In addition to developing the strategic product roadmap and implementation of various features on authorSTREAM, he works with the development team and keeps an eye on user feedback to formulate new releases. Dinesh holds a Masters degree in Computer Applications.

In this conversation, Dinesh discusses authorSTREAM’s Facebook app that brings new abilities to share PowerPoint presentations on Facebook.

Geetesh: Tell us more about your new Facebook app that lets users upload PowerPoint slides right from within the app.

Dinesh: Our Facebook app provides people an easy way to upload, share, and play their presentations on a Facebook timeline. Facebook users have been looking for such a feature — they have been sharing photos, messages, and videos all the while, but sharing presentations on Facebook was an extremely difficult task.

With the authorSTREAM app, it’s now possible to run PowerPoint slideshows right from your timeline. An animated presentation will play like a YouTube video on your timeline since we support animations, music, narrations, rehearsed timings, and other PowerPoint effects.

Although authorSTREAM users always had the alternative to grab the URL of a presentation and post it on their Facebook wall, there were many who wanted to share directly from Facebook. They can do that now with this app — upload presentations directly from Facebook and share them on their timeline, pages or groups.

We believe we have finally put the missing brick on the Facebook wall with this app. Users can now enjoy sharing presentations the way they enjoy sharing videos.

Geetesh: Do uploads via Facebook also sync with a user’s authorSTREAM account – also does this mean that a user needs to be an authorSTREAM member to use the Facebook features?

Dinesh: Syncing is optional. One need not be a member of authorSTREAM to upload and share PowerPoint presentations on Facebook using our app. Facebook users can continue to upload and share presentations on Facebook as long as they wish without creating an account on authorSTREAM.

However, creating an account on authorSTREAM and syncing your Facebook uploads with it has its own advantages. It will enable automatic cross posting of public presentations on Facebook and authorSTREAM. In other words, any presentation uploaded on Facebook instantly gets uploaded on authorSTREAM too and vice versa.

Besides saving upload time, your Facebook presentations are also watched on authorSTREAM generating more traffic and they also get indexed in search engines resulting in more shares and views.

See Also: authorSTREAM HD Video Output: Conversation with Dinesh Awasthi.

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

Filed Under: Interviews
Tagged as: authorSTREAM, Facebook, Interviews, Online Presentations, PowerPoint

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Slide Master View

Slide Master view is a very important view within PowerPoint — if you make any changes or edit within this view, these modifications will influence all slides within your presentation. For example, if you want to make your company logo appear on all the slides, you will have to add the logo within the Slide Master — or if you want the font size of your slide titles to be a little larger or smaller, then those edits also need to be made in the Slide Master.

Learn about the Slide Master view in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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

Share PowerPoint Presentations Online using SkyDrive

In a previous tutorial, we showed you how you can Share PowerPoint Presentations Online using the Microsoft Office Web Viewer. That option works great if you have your own domain where you want to upload and share PowerPoint presentations (or even Word and Excel files). However, if you already use Microsoft’s SkyDrive to create and edit your presentations, then it makes sense to use a similar sharing option that is already built within the SkyDrive service.

Learn how to share PowerPoint presentations online, using SkyDrive.

Filed Under: PowerPoint All Versions
Tagged as: Online Presentations, PowerPoint, Tutorials

PowerPoint and Presenting News: April 30, 2013

We first explore how you can share PowerPoint slides with anyone who has an online connection, and how they can view your slides with full fidelity even if they have no PowerPoint installed, thanks to the new Microsoft Office Web Viewer. We then explore some cool VBA code that lets you remove underlines from descenders — read more to understand this well. We also look at common video and audio formats, and which versions of PowerPoint are compatible with each of these formats. PowerPoint 2013 for Windows users can learn about the new Guide options, whereas PowerPoint 2011 for Mac users will explore cool stuff you can do with videos (movie clips).

Read Indezine’s PowerPoint and Presenting News

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