PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

The Intangibles That Make a Difference

By Claudyne Wilder

Now you have your presentation together and you feel good about it: but, as a presenter, is anything missing?

Have you considered all the following issues?

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Tagged as: Guest Post, PowerPoint

Handmade Slides: Using Scanned Pictures

Using pictures in your slides does not mean that you are limited to using photographs from stock photo houses. You can certainly use your own camera — either a digital camera or even the camera built within your phone to source your own pictures. You can also look at some unconventional sources, such as a scanner. A scanner? Yes, that’s a device that several of us have not used for many years now — but if you have one of these devices attached to your computer, do consider it as a source of visual content.

Explore how a scanner can be put to good use to add interest to your slides.

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Tagged as: Design, Graphics, PowerPoint, Tutorials

People Chain Silhouettes for PowerPoint – 04

This new set is part of the People Chain silhouette series comprises some variations of the People Chain metaphor that have been arranged in the form of a circle and an arc. In spite of being neutral, these silhouette graphics can provide your slide with an artistic look due to the way they have been arranged. Use them in your presentations with some creativity involved, and make your slides look amazing!

Download and use these silhouettes in your slides.

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Tagged as: Graphics, PowerPoint, Presentation Samples

Learn PowerPoint 2010 for Windows: Add Trigger for Sound and Movie Actions

An interactive PowerPoint presentation always interests audiences since it gets them involved actively navigating the slides. However, the audiences for whom these interactive slides are intended must be aware that some interactivity has been included so that they can click a slide object to cause an action to happen. With trigger animations, you click on a PowerPoint shape (or even an Action Button or any other slide object) to cause an audio or video clip on the same slide to play, pause, resume, or even stop.

Learn how to add trigger animations for sound and movie actions in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Animation, PowerPoint 2010, Sounds, Tutorials, Video

Concept Slides: Two Segment Circle

This two segmented circle can be used in your slides to explain a concept or an idea – you can also find more similar segmented circle slides. Most of these conceptual designs have been created with basic PowerPoint shapes. Also, some of them are imported from other graphic programs and converted to PowerPoint shapes. In the sample presentation that you download, you’ll find segmented circles within two separate slides — one with a picture fill, and the other with just a solid color fill. Copy these slides to your PowerPoint presentation, and change the fills and effects of individual segments as well as the thin donut shaped circle around the segment, using PowerPoint’s fills, fines, and effects. You can also try applying some animation to the circle segments.

Download and use this concept slide in your presentation.

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Tagged as: Graphics, PowerPoint, Presentation Samples