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PowerPoint Concept Slides: Three Petals Circle

These Three Petals Circle graphics are part of our Petal Circles series that add stylized tips to your circle shapes. These two tip styles: Rounded and Pointed make your circles look different from conventional segmented circle graphics. They also break the monotony of text heavy slides, and help you explain concepts better to your audiences. Using these circle shapes also convinces your audiences that you care enough about them to make the slides look appealing and comprehensible. What’s more, these shapes are also so much fun to use!

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

Changing Location of Slide Numbers in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows

Insert Slide Numbers on your slides, and you may discover that the location of the Slide Number changes depending upon the active Theme of your slides. With some Themes, the Slide Number may be placed at the bottom right — with other Themes, it may be located at the top right, or even the bottom center. As you can observe, the location of the Slide Number may seem to be influenced by the Theme — and that’s almost true. However, a Theme is a larger concept — it’s only the Slide Master within your Theme that’s influencing the position of your Slide Numbers.

Learn how to change the location of Slide Numbers in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2010
Tagged as: Masters, PowerPoint 2010, Templates, Tutorials

Planning Makes Presentations Effective

By Dan Davenport

Large and small companies today express themselves in many ways, including presentations. Sometimes well, sometimes not. The best way to make sure ideas are understood is to organize goals and thoughts before attempting to create a presentation. As any good builder would tell you, you need good plans to create a good home.

Image: Yay Images

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Tagged as: Dan Davenport, Guest Post, Presentation Skills

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Add Secondary Value Axis

Sometimes just one Value axis is not enough! Of course that observation is only true if your data demands a second axis. Our example data for this tutorial pertains to the average temperature and rainfall in London across the 12 calendar months of a year. The temperature is depicted in Celsius and the rainfall is in millimeters. What you should note carefully is that the value range of temperature spans between 30 and 70, whereas the range for rainfall is in between 0 to 12 (approximately). A chart that results from this data doesn’t live up to the comparison — it’s almost like comparing apples and oranges — we are comparing items that cannot be compared!

Learn how to add a Secondary Value axis to charts in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

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

PowerPoint Heaven eConvention 2012: Conversation with Shawn Toh

Shawn Toh is the founder and webmaster of PowerPoint Heaven. He is a Microsoft MVP for PowerPoint (Most Valuable Professional) and a certified Microsoft Office Specialist. He is a presentation consultant and has worked with various companies such as Hewlett-Packard and eBay on project consultations and has conducted several PowerPoint workshops for the education sectors. Shawn is based out of Singapore, and runs the PowerPoint Heaven site.

In this discussion, Shawn discusses the PowerPoint Heaven eConvention 2012.

Geetesh: Why did you organize the PowerPoint Heaven eConvention 2012 – and what does this online event mean for the participants?

Shawn: PowerPoint Heaven eConvention is an annual online convention where PowerPointers get together to discuss, review and submit their latest PowerPoint works. The purpose of the eConvention is not only to showcase magnificent works from the international PowerPoint community, but also to further reach out to local communities in China and Korea.

This year, we have also appointed our own Korea-PPTH and China-PPTH ambassadors who will be responsible for bridging the communications and building a closer ties among these communities. By participating in the eConvention, participants are therefore allowing their submissions to be seen on both local and international levels thus gaining a broader exposure. Similarly, such exposure will also be highly beneficial to all communities in learning and development for the long run.

Geetesh: You did mention that you were blown away by the creativity of some entries – can you share your thoughts?

Shawn: This year’s eConvention is by far one of the largest submissions pool that we have received. The PowerPoint community in China for instance, has improved tremendously in recent years in both skills and the number of members. We are also able to see several breakthroughs in PowerPoint works which were achieved via collaboration. An example would be the 8 months collaboration work, ‘My Photo Album’ by Xing Yu and his members, which tells the heartwarming story of him and his mother. At the same time, it also demonstrates how a large scale PowerPoint work could be put together and made possible thanks to different people, each with their own specialized talent. Another example of breakthrough would be the strategy game, ‘Future: Escape from Xope’, which showcases a movie-styled introduction and comes packed with sophisticated mini-games which took several months to complete.

Likewise in the Korea communities, we can also see breakthroughs such as Touhou Project artworks by Zzangdol, which went viral few months back, as well as new PowerPointers who have several ingenious works to showcase. These works that have been submitted, along with other individual contributions from PPTH, thus made this year’s eConvention one of the most breathtaking ones so far.

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.

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Tagged as: Contest, Interviews, PowerPoint