PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Making the Most of Your Potential

By Aine O’Neill, Toastmasters International

Do you have times when you feel frustrated and regret not taking up an opportunity that came your way?

If so, it’s good to remind yourself of the song sung so memorably by Whitney Houston:

Give me one moment in time
When I’m more than I thought I could be
When all of my dreams are a heartbeat away
And the answers are all up to me

And then remember a time when you have grasped an opportunity. A time when you have used your talents and showed the inner potential that you have – perhaps surprising yourself as well as others.

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Filed Under: Guest Posts
Tagged as: Guest Post, Toastmasters

Using the Morph Transition with Characters in PowerPoint 365 for Windows

We have explored how you can animate words between slides using the Morph transition effect. But what if you want to take this technique further to a kinetic typography level where a hundred text characters need to animate to different positions and styles in the next slide? This sort of animated effect is surprisingly very easy to achieve in PowerPoint, as we will learn in this tutorial.

Learn how to morph between individual characters on successive slides in PowerPoint 365 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 365
Tagged as: Microsoft 365, Microsoft Windows, Morph, Office 365, PowerPoint 365, Transitions, Tutorials

PowerPoint and Presenting News: June 28, 2022

We first feature Andrew P Bennett of Toastmasters who talks about how an attractive, dynamic speaking voice lies in something we all do – breathing! We also feature Liran from SOS Click, a PowerPoint add-in that lets you save your files in multiple locations including online clouds at one go.

We also feature John Rahmlow and Julie Terberg as part of our interviews series for the Presentation Summit. We also bring you quotes, press releases, and templates from the last few days.

Stay informed about updated tutorials and happenings related to PowerPoint and presenting.

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

SOS Click for PowerPoint: Conversation with Liran

  Liran is from SOS Click, a PowerPoint add-in that lets you save your files in multiple locations including online clouds at one go, so that you always have an accessible copy of your file. SOS Click also provides similar add-ins for Word and Excel.

In this conversation, Liran talks about SOS Click for PowerPoint.

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Filed Under: Interviews
Tagged as: Add-in, Interviews, Save

Presentation Summit 2022: Conversation with Julie Terberg

      Julie Terberg is a designer, author, speaker, and business owner. Her company, Terberg Design, focuses on crafting presentations and related materials. With decades of experience in the presentation industry, Julie has trusted partnerships with other presentation professionals and valued clients around the world. Since 2005, she has been recognized as a Microsoft PowerPoint MVP for her contributions to the presentation community. Julie enjoys teaching others at industry conferences, including the Presentation Summit and the Present to Succeed conference. She served as a founding director of the Presentation Guild and cohost of the Inspired by Design webinar series. With Echo Swinford, Julie co-authored the book on templates: Building PowerPoint Templates V2, available on Amazon.

In this conversation, Julie talks about her participation at the upcoming Presentation Summit 2022, being held on location in San Diego, CA, and virtually this year from October 9 to 12, 2022.

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Tagged as: Events, Interviews, Julie Terberg, Presentation Summit