PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Learn PowerPoint 2010: Drawing Lines in PowerPoint

PowerPoint has an amazing repertoire of tools that you can use to create awesome slides. However PowerPoint is primarily considered a presentation slides program in which you can bring in text, graphics, multimedia, animation, etc. to deliver a message or a story. Even many seasoned PowerPoint users completely miss the fact that PowerPoint is a great drawing program with tools and options that rival the top end graphic programs. This introductory tutorial shows you how to draw a simple line on the slide — subsequently, you will learn more advanced concepts.

Learn how to draw a line in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Lines, PowerPoint 2010, Shapes, Tutorials

The Best Story Wins – by Bess Gallanis: Part 2 of 2

This is a second in a series of guest articles by Bess Gallanis of Speaking with Power and Persuasion, an executive communications consulting firm based in Chicago. She is a communication coach, speaker, journalist, a student of yoga and insight meditation and the author of Yoga Chick (Warner Books, 2006). In this article, Bess finds an analogy between business storytelling and the new movie, The Social Network.

Bess Gallanis looks at SOCO, that stands for single, overriding communications objective to make your stories stand apart.

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Tagged as: Bess Gallanis, Guest Post, Opinion, PowerPoint, Stories

Symbol Slides: Icons (PowerPoint Clip Art) – Violet

Symbols for PowerPoint are ready to use clip-art style icons that you can use within your presentation slides. Although the icons you download from this page are violet in color (find more icons for PowerPoint here), they can be recolored using PowerPoint’s native options for fills, lines, and effects. These symbols are contained within a sample presentation you can download. Just copy the icon you like and paste into another PowerPoint slide, or even a Word document or Excel worksheet. Choose symbol icons from themes such as business, travel, music, etc. All these symbol icons are vector shapes, so you can easily edit them within your Microsoft Office program.

Download, view, and use the symbols in this presentation.

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Tagged as: Clip Media, PowerPoint, Presentation Samples

Learn PowerPoint 2010: Shape Effects

You have already seen how to apply different fill types for shapes and also how to format shape outlines in PowerPoint 2010. Now, lets move on to Shape Effects, the next option in Shape Styles group. Just like the Shape Effects PowerPoint 2007, there are six distinct Shape Effects available in PowerPoint 2010 as well.

Learn about shape effects that can be applied to selected shapes in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Effects, PowerPoint 2010, Shapes, Tutorials

The Best Story Wins – by Bess Gallanis: Part 1 of 2

This is a guest article by Bess Gallanis of Speaking with Power and Persuasion, an executive communications consulting firm based in Chicago. She is a communication coach, speaker, journalist, a student of yoga and insight meditation and the author of Yoga Chick (Warner Books, 2006). For more than 25 years, public and private company CEOs, senior executives, portfolio managers and financial advisors have sought out Bess to help them develop their leadership voice and to make an impact through skillful communications. In this article, Bess talks about how a story can endure.

Bess Gallanis explores stories, and how you can leverage the power of storytelling so that your story is better.

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Tagged as: Bess Gallanis, Guest Post, Opinion, PowerPoint, Stories