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As presentation training gets more commonplace, you see more presenters who do everything by the book – and some of them do take this quite far. One of the worrying trends is too much practice – I have seen presenters who rehearse everything – from their body movement to their talk, and I suspect some of them even rehearse when they should smile and cough! Contrary to what you may read in the books, too much practice for your presentation is not necessarily a good thing. Yes, it’s great to practice your slides – try speaking what you want to say during the time that each slide is being shown – but you must stop after a while, and let your natural personality take over.
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When you insert a picture on your PowerPoint slide, there may be situations when you feel that the picture needs some corrections. Maybe the picture is too dark or too bright, and you want to give it an average look — or sometimes you may want to make some changes to it so that it stands apart. In this tutorial, you will learn how to make corrections to the pictures in terms of its brightness, sharpness and contrast values.
Learn about the Correction option for pictures in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
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Nancy Duarte has been a Principal of Duarte Design since 1990. Her firm is in the heart of the Silicon Valley and the client list is loaded with Fortune 500 companies. Her passion for business communications that are clear, meaningful and attractive has opened doors for her in a business world full of cluttered and complex visual communications.
In this conversation, Nancy discusses the new Diagrammer initiative.
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Motion paths may be paths on which slide objects animate, but for all other practical reasons, they are essentially just ordinary paths (or lines) that have curves, points, etc. If you are familiar with the drawing tools in PowerPoint (Line, Curve, Scribble, and Freeform) — or if you use a graphic illustration program like Adobe Illustrator or CorelDRAW, you know that paths can be either open or closed. A circle is a good example of a closed path, whereas a curve is an open path.
Learn about open and closed Motion paths in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.
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The person who said ‘talk is cheap’ never imagined a five-minute presentation. Speaking at a clip of 160 words a minute, five minutes gets you about 800 words.
With this kind of verbal economy at play, talk is not cheap.
Of all the live presentation events, Ignite is one of the most popular. The love child of Brady Forrest, Bre Pettis and O’Reilly Media, a Silicon Valley technical publisher, Ignite is more like SXSW than TED.
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