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Thoughts and impressions of happenings in the world of PowerPoint and presentations, continuously updated since 2003.
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PowerPoint and Presenting Glossary
This question has been asked so often: how many ways are there to create new slides. There may be many ways, but broadly speaking all these techniques fall into three separate ways. You can use either one of these ways, or all three! Here are the three ways: Add new slides, Import and reuse existing slides, and Import a structured outline.
Learn more about creating new slides.
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PowerPoint All Versions
Tagged as: Design, Outline, PowerPoint, Tutorials
The Slide area in PowerPoint includes the actual slide, the slide workspace (blank area surrounding the slide), and the scrollbars that let you navigate to other slides. Learn about the slide area in PowerPoint 2010, and what you can do to make your slide editing easier and more productive.
Explore the PowerPoint 2010 Slide area here.
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PowerPoint 2010
Tagged as: PowerPoint 2010, Tutorials
Microsoft’s MacBU (Mac Business Unit) has RTMed (Release to Manufacturing) the new Office 2011 for Mac suite of applications. They put up two very cool videos on YouTube that are embedded here.
The first video looks at the new features and highlights in Office 2011.
This second video is a fun clip — don’t take this too seriously 🙂
End Note: Watch out for my new, upcoming Microsoft Office 2011 All-in-One For Dummies — I co-authored this book with Jim Gordon, who is also a Microsoft MVP. In addition, two more Microsoft MVPs helped us create this book — more info to be shared soon! Amazon is already accepting pre-orders for the book.
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Apple Mac OS
Tagged as: Office for Mac
Many bad presentations are a result of not using PowerPoint as a slide creation tool at all. Does that sound like a cryptic statement? Then let me encrypt it for you: many PowerPoint users just think of PowerPoint as an extension to Word and Excel, the other program that Microsoft included free of cost in the Office box.
It gets worse. Not only do some users believe that PowerPoint is like Word or Excel, they even use it that way. Imagine approaching PowerPoint with a Word or Excel approach? Since Microsoft has kept the interface in all these three programs so similar, Word and Excel users are comfortable with PowerPoint from the minute they start using it. In fact, some of them don’t even notice that they are not using Word or Excel!
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Thoughts
Tagged as: Excel, Opinion, PowerPoint, Word
The Notes pane is the highlighted area that you can see in Figure 1 — right below the actual slide. This area provides space to add speaker’s notes that can be so helpful to the presenter while presenting — the Notes pane can be also used to write any sort of information about the presentation or individual slide. When there are no notes added for a particular slide, the Notes Pane just displays the “Click to add notes” boilerplate text.
a href=”https://www.indezine.com/products/powerpoint/learn/interface/notes-pane-ppt-2010.html”>Learn about the Notes pane in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.
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PowerPoint 2010
Tagged as: PowerPoint 2010, Tutorials
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