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Countless voices will tell you that it’s a sin to make your audiences suffer with slides that are populated with bullets, but ask for a solution and the voices will diminish to just one or two. And even then, you may not be able to use all the advice!
So, here’s one option: a no-bullets alternative that uses callouts as an alternative to bulleted lists. Make sure you notice ways to get in your pictures, charts, and tables within this callout style. Also this question and answer (you can just call it a “conversation”) format will help you involve your audience much better, especially if you animate the callouts and their connectors sequentially one after the other. Even better, use the Push transition effect for your slides to get the most from this style.
Download the sample presentation and use as required.
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Tagged as: No Bullets, PowerPoint, Presentation Samples
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Want an old fashioned PowerPoint alarm clock? Yes, it’s fun but it can also be put to so many practical uses — and none of them will wake you in the morning! And then you might want to try using an old scanner to bring in some visual imagery for your slides. We have these covered in this issue of the newsletter along with exclusive conversations and guest posts too — read about Ellen Finkelstein’s amazing Outstanding Presentations webinar series. And there are the usual lists of newly released PowerPoint tutorials for both Windows and Mac users. Have a great week.
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PowerPoint and indeed all Microsoft Office programs allow you to work with a particular slide object only if it is selected. For example, you select a shape to make changes to the shape. You similarly select a chart to edit the chart. And yes, you can select a text container object such as a text placeholder, a text box, or even a shape — and then make changes to its position, formatting, size, etc. However, this changes the entire object — and leaves the actual text content within that object largely unchanged. To make changes to the actual text, you first need to select the text and then make changes by using the options available within the Home tab of the Ribbon or the Mini Toolbar.
Explore various ways of selecting text in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.
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PowerPoint 2010
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Joan Babinski is vice president of marketing for Brainshark, Inc. Brainshark’s cloud-based software lets users create online and mobile video presentations — using simple business tools like PowerPoint and the phone or computer microphone — and share and track their content. Brainshark is also the creator of the free SlideShark app for viewing, presenting and sharing PowerPoints on the iPad and iPhone.
In this conversation, Joan discusses “Mad for the iPad” survey data that Brainshark is releasing today, from a survey of 1,320 iPad owners.
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Tagged as: Brainshark, Interviews, iPad, iPhone, Joan Babinski, Online Presentations, PowerPoint
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Theme Fonts, Theme Colors, and Theme Effects are individual components contained within each Theme in PowerPoint – these influence how individual slides in your presentation look. Note that while all the slides differ in terms of colors, fonts, and effects applied, their text content is still the same. When you apply a different Theme to your PowerPoint presentation, the fonts, colors, and effects applied to your slides change. Unless you override this on a per slide basis, these changes show up in all slides in the presentation. The resulting slides all look consistent.
Explore how you can change the active Theme Fonts set in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
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PowerPoint 2011
Tagged as: Fonts, Office for Mac, PowerPoint 2011, Themes, Tutorials
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