PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Remove and Copy Highlighting for Text in PowerPoint 365 for Windows

Once you have highlighted your text in PowerPoint, you may need to remove the highlighting at some point in time. How you remove the highlighting may differ, depending upon whether you are working with contiguous or non-contiguous segments of text. We will explore both options.

Learn how to remove highlighting for text in PowerPoint 365 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Highlighter, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Windows, Office 365, PowerPoint 365, Text, Tutorials

How to Develop a Service Ethos That Will Enhance Your Career

By Marcus Grodentz, Toastmasters International

I called the customer helpline without any great expectations. My spirits rose when I got the following response from the customer service representative: I am truly sorry that I don’t know the answer. Leave this with me and I will call you back today to tell you what the answer is. And yes, she called back within the hour, and happily, the issue was resolved.

Exceptional customer service raises any business above its competitors. It tends to be the exception rather than the rule so when we experience it leaves a lasting impression. So, if you want to impress your boss why not review your work through the lens of service. Ask yourself how well am I serving my customers and my co-workers?

Image: Yay Images

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Tagged as: Business, Guest Post, Toastmasters

Using Exclamation Named Objects with Morph in PowerPoint

So, how does the Morph transition effect in PowerPoint work? You duplicate a slide and then modify the existing slide objects so that a tween effect is created based on the differences between two or more slides. You can also create your own shapes to Morph rather than use PowerPoint’s pre-built shapes. However, what if you take two completely different slides and apply the Morph transition effect? The results will be unpredictable because although PowerPoint does have artificial intelligence, it still cannot define which objects should morph from the first slide to the second slide. To overcome this problem, PowerPoint allows you to use exclamation-named objects in your slides.

Morph between two disparate slide objects by using named objects with exclamations added.

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Tagged as: Microsoft 365, Microsoft Windows, Morph, Office 365, PowerPoint 365, Transitions, Tutorials

Highlight Text in PowerPoint 365 for Windows

Before we explore highlighted text in PowerPoint, let’s ask ourselves why do we need to highlight any text? If you want to emphasize some important words, phrases, or sentences within your slide, then highlighting may indeed help draw the audience’s attention. What’s more, highlighting text is as simple as dragging and drawing. You can highlight a single block of text, also known as contiguous text. You can also highlight non-contiguous text, or text sections that are not next to each other.

Learn how to highlight text in PowerPoint 365 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Highlighter, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Windows, Office 365, PowerPoint 365, Text, Tutorials

Effective Ways to Use Presentation Tools for Teaching and Learning

By Douglas Hartman

Like most professors, I research, teach, and serve. Because I work at a Research 1 university, most of my effort focuses on research … which I then communicate through teaching and act upon by serving others. Most of my research focuses on the question, What are effective ways to use digital technologies for teaching and learning?

I’ve narrowed the question in recent years to What does research indicate are effective ways to use presentation tools for teaching and learning?

Why? Because PowerPoint, Google Slides, Pear Deck, Keynote, Nearpod, and Prezi are ubiquitous in many school and university classrooms worldwide. I’ve only come across a few cases in North America where a presentation tool was not used at some point during a lesson, unit, module, lecture, project, activity, class, workshop, seminar, course, assembly, meeting, or conference. Even in remote Kazakh oblasts, outlying Afghan provinces, and isolated Pacific islands, presentation tools are used. I haven’t found hard data on educational usage worldwide, but the number of slides produced daily by educators must be enormous.

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Tagged as: Douglas Hartman, Guest Post, Presentation Skills