PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Creating and Editing Custom Dictionaries in PowerPoint 365 for Windows

Although PowerPoint provides a spelling dictionary that contains a list of the most common words, you might be working on a particular project that uses uncommon words not found in everyday parlance. You could edit a custom dictionary or load ready-made third-party dictionaries within PowerPoint. However, have you thought about creating a dictionary yourself that includes a set of words for a particular project? If you need to do a legal presentation for a client once a year, you could create a separate dictionary for just this one project, and then edit it as required within a text editor such as Notepad.

Learn how to create and edit custom dictionaries in PowerPoint 365 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 365
Tagged as: Dictionaries, Microsoft Windows, Office 365, PowerPoint 365, Proofing, Spelling, Text, Tutorials

Design Toolbars: Conversation with Davo Sime and Trenna Wall

  Davo Sime is the CTO and co-founder of Design Toolbars, an Australia-based company that creates a PowerPoint add-in that provides one-click slide design tools.

  Trenna Wall is the COO and co-founder of Design Toolbars.

Both Davo and Trenna worked in the London office of a large management consultancy company in the mid-1990s – one after another – so they didn’t get to meet until many years later. Then Davo joined Trenna and the Australia Graphics team in Sydney in 2011 and together, they created thousands of consulting slides over the next 6 years!

In this conversation, they talk about Design Toolbars.

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Filed Under: Interviews
Tagged as: Add-in, Davo Sime, Interviews, PowerPoint, Trenna Wall

Find and Replace Words in PowerPoint 365 for Windows

Let’s imagine that you created a long presentation with many slides, for a particular event or concept. They, you realize that some incorrect terminology was used across the presentation. What could you do to resolve this issue? Yes, you can manually find the problem word and replace every occurrence. However, with so many slides, it’s easy to miss out on some occurrences. The best option is to use the Find and Replace option in PowerPoint.

Learn how to find and replace words in PowerPoint 365 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 365
Tagged as: Microsoft Windows, Office 365, PowerPoint 365, Replace, Text, Tutorials

How to Create Value for the Audience When Chairing a Panel Discussion

By Jon Lam, Toastmasters International

Very often conference and event organizers are looking for people to chair a panel discussion.

This is an excellent opportunity to contribute and to demonstrate your skills.  But what does it take to make sure that you oversee a successful panel discussion?

Image: Yay Images

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Filed Under: Guest Posts
Tagged as: Guest Post, Jon Lam, Public Speaking, Toastmasters

Creating Formatted AutoCorrect Entries

We explored differences between formatted and unformatted AutoCorrect entries in our Saving and Sharing AutoCorrect Entries tutorial. While you can use some preset formatted AutoCorrect entries in PowerPoint, you cannot create them in PowerPoint. Also, you cannot use all sorts of formatted content in PowerPoint. While some content with formatted text and dingbat fonts may work, and even this is a big “if”, other content such as images, tables, etc. work only in Microsoft Word, and not in PowerPoint. In this tutorial, we will look at both these scenarios.

Learn how to create and use formatted AutoCorrect entries.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 365
Tagged as: AutoCorrect, Microsoft Windows, Office 365, PowerPoint 365, Text, Tutorials