PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Set Standard 4:3 Aspect Ratio as Default

In previous tutorials, we explored and complained about how PowerPoint 2013 has made widescreen (16:9) as the default aspect ratio for new presentations. Although you can change all these new presentations from widescreen (16:9) to standard (4:3) aspect ratio quite easily, it can be a pain to remember doing so each time you create a new presentation! Of course, if you are happy with 16:9 slides, then you need not read the rest of this tutorial — for everyone else, we’ll show how you can set your default aspect ratio to standard (4:3).

Learn how to set the standard 4:3 aspect ratio as the default for new presentations in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Tagged as: PowerPoint 2013, Tutorials

Indezine News: October 2, 2012

We get you several concept slides this week — there’s a new Polygon series with segments. The first slide in this series is a segmented triangle. We also bring you an eight segment circle to finish our Segment Circles series. There’s an amazing article by Tom Mucciolo called Presentations Perspective — Tom talks about how presenting anf PowerPoint have evolved over the years. We then discuss the new Presentation Gallery in PowerPoint 2013, and how that version now defaults to widescreen 16:9 slides. There’s a review of Raptivity 7.3, an elearning product. Enjoy reading this issue and share your thoughts with us.

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Tagged as: Ezine, Indezine, News, PowerPoint

Learn PowerPoint 2010 for Windows: Advanced Presentation Properties

In a previous tutorial, we learned how to view and edit Properties of the current presentation in PowerPoint 2010. All the Property fields are saved as metadata — this can be very useful in cataloging and searching presentations and individual slides. In addition to editing or adding the Property content in Backstage view, you can also bring up the same Properties with the the Document Panel, an interface option within PowerPoint 2010 which directly appears above the active slide, and below the Ribbon. Additionally, you can use the Advanced Properties option.

Learn how to view and edit advanced presentation properties in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

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Tagged as: PowerPoint 2010, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Dummy Text

Sometimes, you may need some dummy text to quickly add to your slides so that you can ascertain how some body of text looks or fits within a certain text box or placeholder. Microsoft introduced an undocumented feature in PowerPoint 2011 that lets you achieve this with just a few keystrokes, and once you are used to these shortcuts, you’ll learn to appreciate them so much!

Learn how to insert dummy text in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

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Tagged as: Office for Mac, PowerPoint 2011, Text, Tutorials

Animation Guidelines

Animation is movement, and nothing captures attention of the human eye like a “little” movement. More movement does not get more attention; in fact too much animation results in distraction. Even if you decide to use just a wee bit of animation, that can still be an approach that will go astray if your animation is not relevant to your slide content. Also animation needs to be part of your story. Something that you plan from the moment you develop your slide content, and not something that you add at the last moment to bring in some pizzazz! Clearly there are a few guidelines that you must be aware of before using any animation in your slides. Here are some thoughts to get you started.

Explore guidelines that will help you use animation more effectively in your slides.

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Tagged as: Animation, Guidelines, PowerPoint, Tutorials