PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Learn PowerPoint 2010: AutoCorrect Options

The AutoCorrect feature in PowerPoint corrects common typos and spelling errors of text within your PowerPoint slides — automatically as you type. Have you ever wondered how PowerPoint knows that a particular word is spelled wrong? Does it refer to some resource as a reference? Also do you find some AutoCorrect options such as the capitalization of some words unnecessary? Several researchers working in different scientific fields actually have to use some words that cannot start with a capital letter, and the first thing they want to do is turn off the automatic capitalization. Yes, it’s possible to make AutoCorrect work just the way you want it to — as long as you know where to change these options.

Explore AutoCorrect options in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

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Tagged as: PowerPoint 2010, Text, Tutorials

Presentation Assistant Pro: The Indezine Review

Presentation Assistant Pro is the professional edition of Presentation Assistant — both are on-screen presentation tools that work like an assistant when you are delivering a presentation, or doing a training session. In this review, we are looking at the Pro version of Presentation Assistant. Presentation Assistant Pro provides various tools that equip you to make your audience attentive — some of these tools such as zoom can enlarge portions of the screen. Other tools such as spotlight, curtain, screen digital clock, arrow point, magnification, screen capture etc. offer significant assistance in explaining processes or steps to an audience.

Read the Indezine review of Presentation Assistant Pro.

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Tagged as: Add-in, Delivery, PowerPoint, Review

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Align Text Within Shapes/Text Boxes

After you add text within a shape in PowerPoint 2011, you can do basic edits like adding, deleting, or replacing existing text but if you want more control over how your text has been placed within the shape or a text box, you’ll need to access text editing options within the Format Text dialog box.

Learn how to align text within a shape or text box in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

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Tagged as: Office for Mac, PowerPoint 2011, Shapes, Text, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint 2010: What is AutoCorrect?

The AutoCorrect feature in PowerPoint fixes hundreds of common typos and spelling errors within your PowerPoint slides — automatically as you type any text. AutoCorrect also lets you map specific keys to a symbol, such as replacing two en dashes with an em dash the moment you hit the Enter key. The best feature within AutoCorrect is that it works so seamlessly that you may even take it for granted — conversely, AutoCorrect can also be a pain sometimes! You may for example not want the two en dashes to automatically change to an en dash — in this tutorial you will learn how you can take advantage of AutoCorrect, and also how you can override its options as required.

Explore AutoCorrect options in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

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Tagged as: PowerPoint 2010, Text, Tutorials

Duarte.com/edy: Conversation with Eric, Doug, and Corey

Soon after we did the Halloween Pumpkin Contest conversation with Nancy Duarte, we planned another one with her about Duarte.com/edy. However, she graciously mailed back saying:

Duarte.com/edy is the creation of Eric Albertson, Doug Neff, and Corey Rothermel. I’ll let them answer your questions directly.

Thank you, Nancy.

Geetesh: Duarte.com/edy’s teaser trailer describes itself as a series of videos that teaches the ABCs of great presentations. What motivated this series, and is there a “comedy” factor somewhere?

Eric, Doug, and Corey: It all started about two years ago when the two of us who work at Duarte (Doug and Eric) discovered we shared a passion for all things ‘puppet’. We started meeting in the mornings before work to practice together and teach each other what we knew. That sounds a lot more focused and productive than it actually was in the beginning. Each rehearsal pretty much boiled down to which of us could make the other one laugh the hardest by the end. So, comedy has always been at the core of what we’re doing. I think we’d find it hard, in fact, to have puppets without trying to make it funny.

The project itself stemmed out of the question, “So how do we take this thing we love to do and make it into something we can share with others?” We really wanted to share what we love about puppetry. I’m not sure which one of us suggested it first, but at some point the idea of blending what we do before work with what we do at work became obvious.

At Duarte, Inc., we live on the cutting edge of the presentation world. Puppetry gave us a new (softer and fuzzier) cutting edge to play with, and Duarte.com/edy was born. We pitched Nancy on a series of short, Sesame Street style episodes that would teach the ABCs of good presentations to a variety of audiences Duarte, Inc. might not normally reach, from schoolchildren all the way up to executives.

Once we got the go from Nancy, we pulled in Doug’s partner Corey to be our director and help us bring this craziness to life. And here we are now, two years later.

Geetesh: Can you share some insight into what topics we can expect to be featured on Duarte.com/edy?

Eric, Doug, and Corey: Since Nancy literally wrote the book on presentations, our topic list was easy. We plan to draw heavily from the lessons in both of her books, Slide:ology and Resonate, for our skits. So expect to see episodes about avoiding clichés, moving your audience, and using S.T.A.R. moments in the coming months.

You May Also Like:

• Slide:ology – The Nancy Duarte Interview
• Resonate: The Nancy Duarte Interview

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