PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Working with Guides

Guides form a moveable grid on your slide that can be altered — multiple guides can be added or deleted as per the design requirements of your slide. We have already explained how you can make guides visible on your PowerPoint slide, and how you can add multiple guides. Guides have snap options turned on by default — so you cannot turn snapping to guides on or off. Once the guides are made visible on the slide, all objects that venture close enough to them snap. Along with rulers, guides can help you position your slide objects with more precision.

Learn about how guides can help you in aligning your slide objects in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

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

Concept Slides: Investment Pyramids

Investment pyramids let you decide which investments are the most and least important facets of your portfolio. Typical investment portfolios use the classic pyramid diagram, but sometimes this may not work best – especially since the area available for text diminishes as you go from the base to the tip of the pyramid. This problem can be easily rectified by using another variant of the pyramid diagram available within the SmartArt graphics of PowerPoint. The Before example in this slide deck shows a typical pyramid, and the After example shows a slightly different pyramid diagram.

Download and use these slides for your own presentations.

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

Learn PowerPoint 2010: Adding an Animation

In one of our previous tutorials, we explored what animation is, and guidelines to follow before you add an animation to a slide object within PowerPoint. PowerPoint allows you to animate any slide object that can be selected on your slide — these include pictures, shapes, text, bulleted lists, SmartArt graphics, charts, etc. Once the animation is applied to your slide object, you can tweak how the objects on your slides appear, move, and disappear. However, you must first add an animation to the slide object.

Learn how to add animation to a slide object in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Animation, PowerPoint 2010, Tutorials

authorSTREAM on mobile: Conversation with Dinesh Awasthi

Dinesh Awasthi is Product Manager for authorSTREAM.com. In addition to developing the strategic product roadmap and implementation of various features on authorSTREAM, he works with the development team and keeps an eye on user feedback to formulate new releases. Dinesh holds a Masters degree in Computer Applications.

In this conversation, Dinesh discusses the new authorSTREAM mobile site.

Geetesh: Tell us about the new authorSTREAM mobile site, and how it will help users view and share presentations via their mobiles better?

Dinesh: Our new authorSTREAM mobile site lets users search through presentations and view any presentation right from their mobile phones, anytime and anywhere. We’ve tailor-made the site for the smaller screens of mobile devices and have added Facebook Like, Google +1, Twitter buttons for users to easily share the presentations.

Users don’t have to switch from mobile phone to desktop computer or laptop, they can view authorSTREAM presentations shared by their friends or colleagues on smartphones.

Geetesh: What are the benefits of showing presentations off smartphones compared to tablets and desktops – and how does the new authorSTREAM mobile site take advantage of these benefits? Also will the presentations work on mobiles that do not support Flash?

Dinesh: Smartphones are handy and easily accessible. Everyday hundreds and millions of people check email and browse Internet and access content from their smartphones.

Our idea of bringing presentations to smartphones was to give our users a quick access to their presentations on authorSTREAM. So they could run and share their presentations without switching platforms.

Whether it’s an impromptu meeting, or event, users can now view and share their presentations from their phones anytime and anywhere. Even the private presentations in their inbox run on the smartphones.

authorSTREAM presentations work on all devices that do not support Flash, including iPhone and iPad. Currently, we do not support animations, sound and other special effects. Considering that the use of these effects makes a slide show interactive, we would soon be adding these capabilities for Android compatible devices.

See Also: Share PowerPoint Presentations on authorSTREAM: Conversation with Dinesh Awasthi.

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.

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Tagged as: authorSTREAM, Interviews, Online Presentations, PowerPoint

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Adding More Guides

When static guides are enabled in any presentation, they show up in the same position on all other slides. You’ll find that only two Static guides (one horizontal and one vertical) are visible at first, and these two guides intersect at the center of the slide. Most of the time, this might work for you, but to help you in positioning slide objects better across successive slides, you can add more guides.

Learn how to add more guides in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

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