PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Indezine News Released

Many of my clients, friends, and readers (including you) are super busy these days! And in between these busy days, you need to create slides, practice them, and deliver them to an audience. Very often, your work does not end there — you then need to remove any extra meta-information from these presentation slides and mail it to clients and colleagues. Of course, you may have to do this so often for the multiple presentations you need to deliver — and presenting may be just one of the tasks you do in your job role!

Read more in this issue of Indezine News.

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Tagged as: Ezine, Indezine, News, PowerPoint

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Open and Close Paths with Edit Points

The Shape gallery in PowerPoint contains an assortment of shapes, both open and closed. Most of the shapes in this gallery are closed shapes (rectangle, ellipse, and triangle are some of the closed shapes). There are also a few open shapes such as the straight point to point line. Line drawing tools let you create your own shapes — these can be both open and closed. These line drawing tools are Freeform Line, Curve, and Scribble. In addition, you can convert any closed shape to an open shape and vice versa, as you will learn in this tutorial.

Learn how you can open and close paths for shapes in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

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

Animated Slide: Spinning Snowflakes

Three snowflakes that move randomly with the breeze in PowerPoint – actually a clever combination of multiple animations and setting their timings make this look so random! We used the Spin, Grow and Shrink, and a Spiral motion path to create the effect. All colors used are Theme aware – so if you move this slide to another presentations, the colors may change! We used PowerPoint 2010 to create this presentation, and it works best in either that version or in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

You can download and use this slide for your own presentations — but please do let our credit link remain so that others can also know where the slides originated from.

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

Animated Slide: Hearts Perspective

This heart-full slide has several heart shapes that come onto the slide area, one after the other and then gradually become smaller until they drift into a perspective oblivion. All heart shapes are of a different size, are rotated at a different angle, and also use Theme colors. In addition, each heart has a 3D style applied that has more than one animation added so that the shape diminishes in size as it moves to an imaginary perspective point located off the top right part of the slide. All animations are set to repeat indefinitely so that the hearts keep moving until you navigate to the next slide.

Download and use this slide in your presentation.

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

Learn PowerPoint 2010: Language Options on the Status Bar

Typically when you select any text container such as a text placeholder, shape, or text box — then you may (or may not) see which language is specified for the text container on the Status Bar within PowerPoint 2010. It is quite possible that you may not be seeing any language specified on the Status Bar — and this can happen for one of two reasons.

Learn how to make the Language Option visible on the Status Bar in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2010
Tagged as: PowerPoint 2010, Proofing, Text, Tutorials