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You have learned how to make gridlines visible on your PowerPoint slide, and how you can change settings for grids in PowerPoint 2010. Once you have these settings in place, you must play around with the Snap to Grid option to determine how it can help you position slide objects with more precision.
Learn how the snap to grid option works in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.
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In PowerPoint 2011, some of the views remain unchanged from PowerPoint 2008. However, the Presenter View has gone through a complete makeover, and looks entirely different. PowerPoint 2011 continues to provide seven different editing views — in addition, there are two more views, the Outline and Slide Show views. You can switch between all of these nine views with a click or two, or even by using keyboard shortcuts.
Learn about the different editing and display views in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
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Once you have the gridlines visible on your slide in PowerPoint 2010, you can use them to easily position and snap slide objects uniformly on a single slide, or even across successive slides using the Snap to Grid option. To access the Snap to Grid option, and to make changes to the way it works, you need to access the Grid and Guides dialog box.http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif
Learn how the gridlines snap and help you position slide objects in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.
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Andy Zimmerman is the vice president of product marketing for Brainshark, Inc., overseeing the company’s marketing strategy, content, and partners. Brainshark’s cloud-based software enables users to create online and mobile video presentations – using simple business tools like PowerPoint and the telephone – and then share and track their content. Thousands of companies use Brainshark to improve the reach and results of their business communications, while dramatically reducing communications costs.
In this conversation, Andy discusses Brainshark’s new QR code capabilities, and how to apply QR codes effectively with Brainshark.
Geetesh: What are quick response (QR) codes, and how will this technology incorporated within Brainshark make a difference to smartphone users?
Andy: Thanks to the explosion in smartphone usage, QR codes – like the one below – are becoming increasingly popular in marketing campaigns, advertisements, and promotions. They are two-dimensional barcodes that, when scanned, reveal digital content such as website material, applications, vCards, coupons, videos, and more. In order to scan a QR code, you’ll need a smartphone with a camera, as well as QR reader software on your device. There are many free readers available for download.
To help our users leverage this technology and connect with their mobile audiences, Brainshark has now made unique QR codes available for new and existing presentations. This applies to content created both by our enterprise customers, as well as users of the free myBrainshark site. Upon scanning the QR code, you’ll instantly be presented with a Brainshark video presentation.
To access the QR code for a given presentation, simply click the “embed/link” button. From there, you’ll be able to access both high-res (for printed materials) and low-res (for online use) versions of the QR code, which can be scanned, saved, or printed. Here’s an example of the screen you’ll see. Scan the QR code, and you’ll see it leads to a myBrainshark demo.
Geetesh: How can Brainshark users start working with QR codes for their presentation content?
Andy: There are lots of great opportunities for Brainshark users to maximize presentation visibility and reach by using QR codes. Users can incorporate QR codes on web pages, print collateral, product packaging, manuals, and more – leading viewers to presentations with product information, demos, etc. There’s definitely a “fun factor” with this technology, and people often get excited to scan the QR codes and see what they reveal. So, when they do, of course, users will want to have something highly engaging to share…like a Brainshark!
In addition, with many companies now in tradeshow season, they can use Brainshark to generate QR codes to make conference badges, event signage, and pre-tradeshow mailers more engaging. For example, you can see below the signage we recently used at a healthcare tradeshow, which contains a QR code.
Another benefit of using QR codes with Brainshark is the tracking capabilities we provide. With Brainshark’s technology, users can track the views that originated from their QR code placements and see how viewers are interacting with their content. We encourage our users to try out this new QR code capability and are thrilled with the success they’ve encountered so far.
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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Guides in PowerPoint 2010 are not visible by default, and you have to manually make the guides visible on the PowerPoint slide. When the guides are made visible on any slide, they show up in the same position on all other slides within the http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifpresentation. You’ll find that only two guides — one horizontal and one vertical guide 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 you can actually add more guides since these can help in positioning slide objects better across successive slides.
Learn how to add more guides in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.
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