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Thoughts and impressions of happenings in the world of PowerPoint and presentations, continuously updated since 2003.
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Typically, there are three common ways in which you can create slides in PowerPoint. All these three ways can be combined with each other but it is best to start with creating an outline for your presentation in another program. Mac users can create outlines in TextEdit. Alternatively, you can use Microsoft Word as well. In this tutorial, we’ll show how you can use Word 2011 for Mac to create an outline for a PowerPoint presentation.
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PowerPoint All Versions
Tagged as: Outline, PowerPoint for Mac, Tutorials, Word
I have already covered the concept of differences between text placeholders and text boxes using PowerPoint 2008 on Mac. Now we will explore the same within PowerPoint 2011 in Mac. Let us start with these thoughts: Aren’t text boxes and text placeholders the same? Are they really different? And why should I bother even if they are different? All these are valid questions, and the answers to them form one of the most important foundations in learning to create more structured presentations in PowerPoint.
Learn about differences in text placeholders and text boxes in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
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PowerPoint 2011
Tagged as: PowerPoint 2011, Tutorials
Scott Schwertly calls himself a storyteller. He owns and operates Ethos3, a Nashville, TN-based presentation boutique. Alongside his talented employees, he continues to provide professional presentation design and training for national and international clients ranging from Fortune 100 companies like Google and Pepsi to branded individuals like Guy Kawasaki. He is also the author of How to Be a Presentation God.
In this interview, Scott discusses Hook, a presentation conference that he is organizing in Nashville in March 2011.
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Interviews
Tagged as: Events, Hook, Interviews, PowerPoint, Scott Schwertly
Slides in a PowerPoint presentation are akin to a blank paper — you add your content to the slides in much the same way as you use your imagination to populate a piece of paper. However unlike a blank piece of paper, PowerPoint categorizes each slide type into one of its prescribed layouts — examples of such layouts include the Title layout, the Title and Content layout, the Title Only layout, the Blank layout, and several more layouts.
Learn how you can change the slide layout in PowerPoint 2007 for Windows.
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PowerPoint 2007
Tagged as: PowerPoint 2007, Tutorials
A typical PowerPoint presentation comprises a bunch of slides and I like to think of these slides as akin to a blank canvas — you add your content to the slides in much the same way as you use brushes to create strokes of paint to color a canvas. However unlike canvas, PowerPoint does not like to provide you a non-structured freedom — and this can be good in many ways. Primarily, PowerPoint categorizes each slide type into one of its prescribed layouts — examples of such layouts include the Title layout, the Title and Content layout, the Title Only layout, the Blank layout, and several more layouts.
Learn how you can change the slide layout in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.
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PowerPoint 2010
Tagged as: PowerPoint 2010, Tutorials
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