PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Cookie Cutter Shapes

After Bruce Gabrielle posted the original technique on his blog, we created this alternative or complementary sequence of steps for creating Cookie Cutter shapes in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows – Bruce’s video shows you how you can create a triangular table in PowerPoint by either creating a picture of the table itself (which makes the table non-editable) or by creating a picture of the table with just empty cells so that you can place a transparent table with figures or words over it. While both techniques are amazing, we wanted to use a process whereby not only is the table editable, but the ending shape need not be limited to just a triangle – and we wanted this technique to work for PowerPoint for Mac users as well.

Learn how to make cookie cutter shapes in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

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

Slide Executive xPoint Web Edition: The Indezine Review

Like Slide Executive xPoint Desktop Edition, an add-in that we have already reviewed, the Web Edition of the same add-in searches and inserts slides and images from the web, straight into your PowerPoint presentations. The add-in installs as a tab of the Ribbon within PowerPoint providing access to a local and/or a central slide library in the cloud. xPoint includes free online search capabilities — and subsequent insertion of slides and images from the internet. In addition, xPoint also enables you to use SlideFinder, a PowerPoint search engine that scours the web for slides. Whether you choose to purchase xPoint or not, you will have the full search capability of SlideFinder inside your local version of PowerPoint.

Learn about Slide Executive xPoint’s web edition, a PowerPoint add-in that lets you index your PowerPoint presentations online, and then re-use them.

Filed Under: Add-ins
Tagged as: Add-in, Digital Asset Management, PowerPoint

Learn PowerPoint 2010: Motion Path Animations

The three basic animation types in PowerPoint: entrance, emphasis, and exit animations are something we have already explored. The fourth animation type is called Motion Path animations, and this is something more advanced in nature than the basic animation types explored so far. Motion Path animations determine the route (path) and the direction in which the animated slide object moves across or around on the slide. For example, you can move the slide object up, down, right, or left — on a preset or created motion path.

Explore Motion Paths animations in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

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

Indezine News Released

There’s so much you can do with a blank slide! Yet, most users will create a list on those blank slides — yes, I just call them “lists”, but others may call them bulleted lists. It’s just another name, and yet there has to be a reason why 9 of 10 PowerPoint users seem to be so comfortable creating all sorts of lists on their slides? Now when I say 9 of 10, I haven’t done a survey or research — just something I have explored. Experts seem to agree with my observation though and they also believe that bulleted lists are a huge problem. Many presentation design experts seem to believe that bullets may cause “death by PowerPoint”.

Read the newsletter here.

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

Animated Slide: Lines All Over – Textured

The slides in this presentation use the same shapes as our Lines All Over sample presentation, but that’s where the similarity ends. All shapes in these slides are filled with seamless textures from the Ppted Texture collection. And they are animated so that each shape starts as a double-sized specimen that reduces to its original size. It then grows again in size, and reduces as long as the slide is showing. We used PowerPoint 2010 to create this presentation, and it works best in either that version or in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

Download and use this slide for your own presentations.

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