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By Jim Harvey
As a guy who works with lots of big corporates, writing speeches, and rehearsing speakers for big pitches and presentations, I’m forever coming up against the Template Trial. The corporate PowerPoint template which everybody must use when creating presentations, but which creates real problems for the speaker who wants to use them in support of their speech.
Of course, the corporate template provides brand synergy across all communications. I respect and understand that, but the problem is that most of them are rubbish as visual aids. Most of them are designed as templates for written documents, and as Nancy Duarte or Garr Reynolds, or I might say:
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In this issue, we start with a new set of Pushpin graphics. Next, Nolan Haims shows you how you can use gradient boxes and vignettes in PowerPoint to do amazing things with your graphics. We also explore how you can add services to connect PowerPoint 2013 with your Flickr, Facebook, or LinkedIn accounts. We have exclusive conversations with Tim Stumbles of Office Timeline and Ashley Farmer of Heartbeat Ideas. And finally there are cool tutorials for PowerPoint versions on Windows and Mac!
Read all this and more in Indezine News.
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Whichever slide objects you place on your PowerPoint slide, their position and alignment matters a lot — be it shapes or even the many inserted pictures. If you see randomly placed pictures on a slide, then you need to explore alignment and distribution options. In some cases, a non-aligned, haphazard arrangement may work — but most of the time you will have to align objects in a proper way on your slide.
Learn to align and distribute pictures in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.
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If the data required for your chart is already within Excel, then you can create your chart in Excel itself, and then copy-paste it into a PowerPoint slide. Alternatively you can directly insert a new chart within PowerPoint. And there are three ways to insert a chart in your PowerPoint slide! To learn more, follow these steps.
Learn how to insert a chart in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
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Want to play a Jeopardy-like game using PowerPoint slides? Yes, this is absolutely doable but making PowerPoint slides with all the interactivity and layouts takes too much work. Fortunately, we have done the work for you — just download our Jeopardy-like 25 (5×5) question PowerPoint template — replace the placeholders provided for questions, answers, and categories — and you’re done! You’ll still need a real human being to track scores — and you could soon be playing this amazing game as part of a fun exercise, a training program, or even a quiz show.
Download and use these Jeopardy-like slides.
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