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When you “hide” a slide in PowerPoint, it doesn’t display while scrolling through the presentation in Slide Show mode. So, why in the world would you ever want to do that … have slides in your deck that the audience can’t see? In this article, we’ll look at several wonderful reasons that can greatly increase your flexibility and effectiveness as a speaker, giving talks a more personalized, conversational, audience-friendly feel.
Robert Lane explores how hiding slides can help presenters.
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Tagged as: Guest Post, PowerPoint
A line (outline) in PowerPoint contains both points and segments. You already learned about the three types of points in PowerPoint within a previous tutorial. I now show you how segments (the line area between one point and another) work, and the two types of segments: straight and curved. You can edit these segments and also convert a straight segment to a curved segment and vice versa, as you will learn in this tutorial.
Learn what the Curved and Straight line segments are within PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.
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PowerPoint 2010
Tagged as: Lines, PowerPoint 2010, Shapes, Tutorials
Newer versions of PowerPoint, especially PowerPoint 2010, have marvelous tools for helping even the “artistically challenged” among us get beyond bullet points and create effective, graphically appealing, downright professional-looking visual slides. That’s fantastic! Now the question is … how should we use those tools? Most of us have never been trained as graphic artists and don’t necessarily know the rules for making visually attractive and meaningful content. Because the discussion of “effective visual communication” might fill an entire book, let’s narrow the focus here to concentrate solely on the use of color in PowerPoint. What are good, and not so good, ways of using color on slides?
Robert Lane explains warm and cool colors, and color blindness.
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Tagged as: Color, Guest Post, PowerPoint, Robert Lane
Herb Rubinstein has been involved in computer graphics for over 15 years as founder and CEO of ReGraphix, an award winning creative house for graphics and design. The past few years, Mr. Rubinstein has taken his presentation graphics experience and applied it to developing presentation techniques for the Courtroom. He has worked with the FBI, DEA, U.S. Customs Service and other government agencies, as well as many law firms across United States. In this conversation, Herb talks about his book, PowerPoint For Court.
Geetesh: Tell us more about your book, PowerPoint For Court and how can it help PowerPoint users in the legal profession.
Herb: I created PowerPoint for Court almost 10 years ago. At that time there was very little written about presenting digital material in a court of law. Since then there is much more material available but not that much concerning the actual presentation of electronic material in court.
Many use Document Management systems like Sanction and Verdict. Those programs are designed to easily access and display documents only when it is time to display a presentation of some sort, they usually call up PowerPoint to do the heavy lifting.
There is so much more digital material out there now than there was even a few years ago. With surveillance cameras everywhere, with most cell phones capable of recording video all this has translated into a wealth of digital material that needs to be presented in a court of law in a compelling and easy to understand manner.
PowerPoint has evolved too! The latest versions of PowerPoint have some powerful features for the legal community.
One feature that is overlooked or the power of it is not properly understood. That is the Photo Album Feature.
Let’s say you are putting together a “Day in the Life” presentation to show how your client was affected by his accident. You may have a large quantity of pictures that you want to present with a caption or explanatory text nicely formatted on each one.
With the Photo Album feature, you simply put all the photos that you want in that presentation in one folder, you can arrange them by simply naming them in numerical order, then designate that folder in Photo Album and PowerPoint creates a slide for each photo, centers the photo and allows space for you to annotate or add a caption. This alone can save you hours of tedious slide presentation. It will organize hundreds of photos in a couple of minutes!
Geetesh: What sets PowerPoint presentations created for legal use as different from those created for conventional, business use?
Herb: In my book, PowerPoint For Court, my focus is on legal presentations. Business presentations are a bit different as we have more leeway as to formatting and graphic design.
Let me illustrate the difference: years ago I was asked to produce a Cast of Characters exhibit (my very first courtroom graphics project). I produced a nice slide with pics of the 10 or so defendants. And for the slide background, I used a blow-up of a federal prison. Boy did I get in trouble for that! The judge blew his top. In a courtroom setting, we can’t use any kind of prejudicial graphics.
PowerPoint for Court is updated every year and comes with five (5) years of email support. I personally answer any of your legal presentation questions.
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Tagged as: Books, Herb Rubinstein, Interviews, Legal, PowerPoint
You have already seen how to apply reflection effects to the shapes in PowerPoint 2010. After you apply a reflection effect to a shape, you can edit the reflection properties to suit your creative freedom — for instance, you can change the transparency, blur, distance etc. of the reflection, as you will learn in this tutorial.
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PowerPoint 2010
Tagged as: Effects, PowerPoint 2010, Shapes, Tutorials
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