PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

STAMP Accessibility Add-in for PowerPoint

Microsoft has made available STAMP (Sub-titling text add-in for Microsoft PowerPoint), a free add-in for PowerPoint that enables you to create captions for video and audio files within your PowerPoint presentations. In addition to manually adding captions, you can also work with any media files that have associated Timed Text Markup (TTML) files. This add-in lets you import the TTML files directly into your presentation. If you don’t have a TTML file, you can still add captions directly in your presentation. Having said so, TTML captions allow some extra niceties since they can be easily formatted to use text color, text alignment and other styling elements for the captions.

This add-in works in PowerPoint 2010, 2013, and non-Office 365 versions of PowerPoint 2016. All these are versions that run on Microsoft Windows.

Learn about STAMP, a PowerPoint add-in that enables you to create captions for video and audio files.

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Tagged as: Accessibility, Add-in, PowerPoint, STAMP, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint 2010 for Windows: Creating Half Circle in PowerPoint

An Indezine reader asked me if he could create three circles next to each other, and make sure that they looked like this: The first circle should be filled-in full (entirely), the second circle should be half full, and the third and last circle should have no fill (empty). The first and third circles are easy — all you need to do is ensure that the first circle has both an Outline and a Solid Fill, and that the third circle has only an outline and No Fill. The second circle (half circle) is an easy challenge that I’ll teach you to create in this one page tutorial using PowerPoint 2010.

Learn to create a half circle in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Graphics, PowerPoint 2010, Shapes, Tutorials

Brainshark Mobile Capabilities and Enhancements: Conversation with Andy Zimmerman

  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 new mobile offerings and enhancements, which Brainshark is announcing today.

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Tagged as: Android, Andy Zimmerman, Brainshark, Interviews, iPad, iPhone, Online Presentations, PowerPoint

Learn PowerPoint 2010: Target Diagrams in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows

In previous tutorials, you have learned how PowerPoint provides a collection of ready-made shapes that you can easily insert with a click or two. You can go ahead and add multiple shapes on the same slide and then flip, rotate, reorder, or group them as required to create your own combined diagrams and designs within PowerPoint. These combined shapes help create more involved diagrams such as a target — in this tutorial I’ll show you how simple it is to create a target by placing circles of various sizes one on top of the other using the techniques of formatting shapes already explained.

Learn how to draw a target diagram with multiple circles in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Graphics, PowerPoint 2010, Shapes, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint 2010 for Windows: Creating Semi-Circles in PowerPoint

Just like PowerPoint 2007, PowerPoint 2010 also does not provide the semi-circle as a basic shape within the Shape gallery. In this tutorial you will learn how to draw a semi-circle in PowerPoint 2010 using the Pie shape.

Learn how to create a semi-circle in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2010
Tagged as: Graphics, PowerPoint 2010, Shapes, Tutorials