This is the print version of this page. All content is copyright Indezine.com 2000-2026.
Thoughts and impressions of happenings in the world of PowerPoint and presentations, continuously updated since 2003.
See Also:
PowerPoint and Presenting Notes
PowerPoint and Presenting Glossary
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 Present Live, authorSTREAM’s broadcasting platform for presentation content.
Geetesh: What is Present Live, and how does it help ordinary users broadcast their presentations?
Dinesh: Present Live is an easy-to-use social presentation meeting tool that allows users to discuss their PowerPoint presentations with a selected group online. A user can invite anyone to the meeting by simply sending a unique Present Live link. It’s an entirely browser-based experience and you can use it while retaining graphics and animations in your presentation.
People belonging to all walks of life can use this feature. You can use it for:
Discuss different topics of education with the students online.
Useful for online learning as a student.
Share photos of different places you visited or places you found exotic with friends, family and co-workers.
Give an online demo of your product or service to your clients. You can also share and discuss information about different users
Share personal images or company pictures with friends, family or colleagues.
Geetesh: What does one need to use Present Live, and how much does it cost?
Dinesh: Present Live is Flash based technology so you just need to login to your authorSTREAM account using any modern browser with the latest Flash player installed to start a Present Live session. No downloads or installations are required to attend a Present Live session. Conducting or attending a Present Live session is absolutely free.
However, users who would not like their attendees to go through the hassle of registration and login on authorSTREAM can upgrade their plan to Pro. The Pro membership is available for less than $3/month and comes loaded with a lot more features apart from Present Live.
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.
Filed Under:
Interviews
Tagged as: authorSTREAM, Interviews, PowerPoint
Let us imagine that your shape in PowerPoint has effects, animations, and fills applied. Later you realize that you used the wrong shape to start with, or perhaps your boss wants you to change the shape but retain all the effects, animations, and fills! You may want to delete and start over again, and that is a long drawn process — but you can change any existing shape into another by following these steps in PowerPoint 2011.
Learn how to change one shape to another in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
Filed Under:
PowerPoint 2011
Tagged as: Office for Mac, PowerPoint 2011, Shapes, Tutorials
By default, PowerPoint uses the 1, 2, 3 numerical style for numbered lists. And since you can change bulleted list styles, it is only natural that you expect some changes to be allowed for numbered list styles too. PowerPoint allows you to change to several numerical styles — there are variations in digits, alphabets, and Roman numerical styles.
Learn how to change the numbered list style of selected text in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.
Filed Under:
PowerPoint 2010
Tagged as: PowerPoint 2010, Text, Tutorials
When you insert a shape within a PowerPoint slide, you can manipulate it in many ways. First, you can resize and rotate it. However, rotate just lets you turn the shape in another direction without mirroring it. If you want to mirror your shape in another direction, you need to use PowerPoint’s flip options that create a reverse or mirror image of any selected shape.
Learn how to flip shapes in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
Filed Under:
PowerPoint 2011
Tagged as: Office for Mac, PowerPoint 2011, Shapes, Tutorials
Whenever you add text to a placeholder in PowerPoint, it defaults to creating a bulleted list. Even when you import an outline in PowerPoint, all the content other than the slide titles ends up becoming bulleted text. While this may work in some situations, in others you may want to either remove the bullets altogether, or convert it to a numbered list.
Learn how to change a bulleted list to a numbered list in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.
Filed Under:
PowerPoint 2010
Tagged as: PowerPoint 2010, Text, Tutorials
Microsoft and the Office logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.