PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Learn PowerPoint 2010 for Windows: Format Font Styles

The appearance of text makes a huge difference to any presentation. The font typeface used in your slides is dictated by the active Theme or Theme Fonts set of your presentation — you can certainly override these defaults and choose another font typeface and also change the font size. However, there are times when you need to highlight a word or a phrase contained within your text so that it stands apart and commands attention. To do so, you can apply font styling options that let you make your text bold, italics, underlined, etc. Often, slide titles in PowerPoint are formatted bold to attract attention; italicized text is mainly used to add emphasis or to mark foreign words. And you can underline text, add shadows, and even strike through any selected text. Read more to learn more about these font styles.

Learn about applying various font styles such as bold, italics, underline, etc. to format fonts in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2010, Uncategorized
Tagged as: Fonts, PowerPoint 2010, Text, Tutorials

9Slides: Conversation with Ruchit Garg

Ruchit Garg is Founder & CEO of Seattle based 9SLIDES, an online platform which helps professionals capture and share experience of being there in the presentation room. Prior to founding 9SLIDES, Ruchit spent more than five years at Microsoft Corporation, where he most recently program managed XBOX Live and Windows Phone 7 integration.

In this conversation, Ruchit discusses 9SLIDES.

Geetesh: There are more than a dozen online presentation sites today –- so why did you create 9SLIDES? Was there something you wanted to do different and better?

Ruchit: True, there are lot of services out there today which are meant to share presentations online, but they enable sharing of slides, and not presentations. There is lot of difference between sharing slides and sharing presentations. Let’s look at the real world to understand this well. When you give presentations to a live audience, what makes you successful is your persona, your passion, and your delivery style. Slides are just a tool you use to emphasize your points and cater to people who are into reading more than hearing. But most of the online services today let you share just slides and not presentation, making your online presentations weak and ineffective.

9SLIDES allow users to capture experience of “being there” in the presentation room and share it over Internet to PC, Mac and even iPad. Synchronized video and slides enable professionals to effectively convey your message to colleagues, stakeholders and even potential customers. In three simple steps, (1) Upload, (2) Synchronize, and (3) Publish, one can create amazing interactive presentation experiences online.

We as professionals often praise the beauty of TED presentations, which comes from the wonderful content and experience created by folks who record and publish high quality video presentations. However, it costs thousands of dollars and many long weeks before one can publish those online. 9SLIDES enables professionals to create much more interactive experience at a fraction of the cost.

Upload some good content and see the magic.

Geetesh: Tell us about some user experiences at 9Slides – when have you been pleasantly surprised in ways that 9Slides has been used?

Ruchit: We see a very wide spectrum of users on 9SLIDES. On one end of the spectrum, we have Fortune 500 CEOs using our system to announce recent merger and acquisition deals, and on the other side of the spectrum we have 4th grader who is using 9SLIDES to present his classroom project.

I believe the value 9SLIDES is bringing to the table is tremendously higher than many solutions which have ever existed, and its ease of use, flexibility and affordability is what is making it very popular. People have been using it for pitching their startups, announcing new organizational changes, class room lectures, product demo and many flavors where you can think of presentation getting used.

We are very excited about response we have received from presentation professionals so far, and we have new exciting offerings hitting market this year to complement what you already see it on our website.

The views and opinions expressed in this blog post or content are those of the authors or the interviewees and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of any other agency, organization, employer, or company.

Filed Under: Interviews
Tagged as: Interviews, Online Presentations, PowerPoint

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Animation Speed

Once you add animation to a slide object, you will want to change some of its parameters — for instance, you might want to set the animation event so that the animation happens on a click or automatically. In addition, you can also set the speed of the animation. Every animation you add within PowerPoint 2011 has a fixed, default speed — also known as its duration. This speed or duration is typically shown in seconds or part thereof, and differs from animation to animation. For example, the default duration of a Fade animation is half a second (00.50) whereas for the Wheel animation, it is two seconds (02.00). You can change these default timings as required to anything from a split second to a longer time by increasing or decreasing the animation speed.

Learn how to set Animation Speed (Duration) in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2011
Tagged as: Animation, Office for Mac, PowerPoint 2011, Tutorials

PowerPoint Text Effects – 06

Make titles and larger sub-titles on your slides stand out by applying these text effects to them. The presentation you will download includes 12 different text effect styles that can be applied to any text in PowerPoint 2007, 2010 or higher on Windows (and also PowerPoint 2008, 2011 or higher on Mac). Most of these text effects are subtle, yet beautiful – and all text styles are Theme aware. When applied to your slide titles, headings, sub-headings etc., they can enhance the value of your slides. Once you have downloaded the sample presentation, all you have to do is copy text attributes of the sample text using Format Painter button, and then paste them on to your text.

Download and use the text effects from this presentation.

Filed Under: Presentation Bank
Tagged as: PowerPoint, Presentation Samples, Text

Learn PowerPoint 2010 for Windows: Font Types and Sizes

When you type text within PowerPoint, the appearance of your text, such as its font type and size is based on the Theme which is applied to your presentation. So if you use PowerPoint’s default Office Theme, then anything you type into a text object may be in the Calibri typeface. You can easily change the Theme Fonts set altogether for your presentation, and all text instances will change to the default typefaces of the new Theme or Theme Fonts set. However, there may be times when you want to override these defaults and choose a typeface that is different — or even a different font size. In this tutorial, we use the terms typeface and font type interchangeably – let us now explore how you can choose different font types and change the font size of the selected text on the slide.

Explore how you can change font types and sizes in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2010
Tagged as: Fonts, PowerPoint 2010, Text, Tutorials