PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

NXPowerLite 1.0 for PowerPoint — Mac: The Indezine Review

Neuxpower NXPowerLite for PowerPoint 1.0 is the new version for Mac users — NXPowerLite has been available to Microsoft Windows users for several years now, and this new version marks their first product release on the Mac OS X platform. NXPowerLite for Mac optimize PowerPoint files with the file extensions PPT or PPTX. It shrinks the size of large PowerPoint files by removing unnecessary data and converting graphics into the most appropriate file format and resolution without losing the quality of the images. The optimized presentations then can be shared easily.

Learn about NXPowerLite for Mac users, which compresses your PowerPoint files to smaller sizes.

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Tagged as: Add-in, Office for Mac, PowerPoint

Learn PowerPoint 2010: Animation Events

Once you add an animation to any slide object, you can play the animation in Slide Show view by clicking your mouse cursor or pressing the spacebar on your keyboard. Another option is to use a button on a presentation remote — each of these options advances one animation at a time, or may even take you to the subsequent slide. While this approach works for slides that have an animation or two, you will quickly realize that this is certainly not the way to go if your slides have tens of animations, or more. If you add that many animations to any slide, you probably want your animations to be automatically sequenced — that’s exactly where PowerPoint’s animation events can help. PowerPoint supports three types of animation events.

Learn about Animation Events in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Animation, PowerPoint 2010, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Recolor Picture

Once you insert a picture on your PowerPoint slide, you can make several visual changes to it. You have already learned how to apply corrections to the inserted picture. In this tutorial let us explore the Recolor option for the pictures. Follow these steps to learn more. Open your presentation, and navigate to the required slide. Insert a picture, or if you already have a picture on your slide just select it and double click to activate the Format Picture tab on the Ribbon.

Learn how to recolor pictures in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

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

Presenter Impossible: Conversation with Marco Montemagno

For more than 10 years, Marco “Monty” Montemagno has dedicated his career to informing people about the opportunities offered by the Internet and technology by incorporating unconventional presentation tactics into his presentations. This includes ping-pong tables brought onto the stage, giving out rings to marry the Internet and handing out tennis balls to the audience to throw onto the stage, among others.

In this conversation, Marco discusses quirky ways of presenting, and his secrets to pulling off a successful presentation.

Geetesh: Tell us about your non-conventional, different, surprising, successful and desperate presentation scenarios -– and how you trumped all of them?

Marco: Well the basic point here is that over the last decade I’ve been touring everywhere to divulge internet opportunities to the public. I was forced to talk with audiences varying from old people to kids, from conferences to squares. So I had to invent my own presentation framework to survive 🙂

One of my more difficult and challenging experiences were when I had to present a presentation every day, two hours a day in the main centre and main square of Milan. I had to talk to strangers about the Internet, every day for 35 days in a row!

Geetesh: So what is the secret behind your unconventional presentation framework?

Marco: I can answer this question in two parts. Firstly you will need to:

Create your own presentation framework and be thoroughly prepared. I have an holistic view of my presentation, concentrating on when, where, etc. You can read more here.

Make use of the tools that are available to you. Use videos, digital and analogic objects, and even your guests and audience. Use whatever is available to you and adapt them to your audience, as your audience ultimately is your presentation. Most of the time, the first 10 seconds are the most important (also on this point I’ve prepared a mini guide available for free.

Geetesh: What is the single most important emotion that a presenter should possess to be successful?

Marco: On the one hand you have to act as though it’s always day one.

If you present in public you have to keep on learning, start from zero every time. On the other hand you have to be super prepared, but strangely enough, if you start a speech with a strategy it will become your biggest weakness.

It is really a balancing act between pulling off a great presentation and real time adaptation (you need to adapt your presentation according to the audience, and all the factors of the holistic presentation).

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, Presentation Skills

Learn PowerPoint 2010: Motion Path Animations — Lock and Unlock Motion Paths

A motion path is something along which you want animate a slide object in PowerPoint. Locking and unlocking motion paths are not much used options, and that may be because these options are not too well documented or even intuitive. However, it’s good to know more about these options since locking and unlocking motion paths can help you create better animations. You have already learned how to add a motion path animation to any slide object by either using a preset motion path or by drawing your own custom motion path. We also explained the concept of reversing paths and opening and closing paths. Now, follow these steps to learn how to access and use the Lock / Unlock options.

Learn how to lock and unlock motion paths in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2010
Tagged as: Animation, PowerPoint 2010, Tutorials