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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. In addition, you can use Microsoft Word as well.
Learn how to create outlines for presentations in Microsoft Word 2008 for Mac.
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It used to be that when you needed to embed a PowerPoint presentation on your site, you had to upload the PowerPoint file to a site like SlideShare, authorSTREAM, or SlideBoom and then use their embed code to show a Flash file on your blog or website. However, Microsoft has added new abilities to its OneDrive-hosted PowerPoint Web Application that lets you to create embeds of the original PowerPoint files with no conversions required to Flash or any other format. Change your source PowerPoint file and the embeds update instantly too!
Learn how you can upload your PowerPoint presentations to Microsoft OneDrive.
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A participant in one of my training sessions wanted to create a simple animation that shows the flow of elecricity through a thin tube — this presentation was created as a result of that question. Each animated tube is actually a long rectangle placed one over the other — and only the top one is animated with a wipe animation. A small shape such as a circle or rounded rectangle was animated simultaneously on a Motion Path to sync with the wipe — you could even use the lightning bolt shape within PowerPoint’s shapes instead of a circle!
Download, view, and use this presentation!
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An outline encompasses the text content within your presentation slides. In many ways, this text is the story or the structure of your presentation and forms an ideal starting point for a bunch of slides. PowerPoint can import outlines created in many applications, and we have already shown you how you can create outlines for PowerPoint presentations in Word 2007 and Word 2003.
Learn how to create outlines for presentations in Microsoft Word 2010 for Windows.
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Nancy Duarte has been a Principal of Duarte Design since 1990. Her firm is in the heart of the Silicon Valley and the client list is loaded with Fortune 500 companies. Her passion for business communications that are clear, meaningful and attractive has opened doors for her in a business world full of cluttered and complex visual communications.
Nancy’s much awaited book Resonate has just been released, and is a prequel to her best-selling book, Slide:ology. In Resonate, Nancy looks at the concept of creating better stories so that you can end up with more effective presentations.
In this Indezine exclusive interview, Nancy discusses Resonate and more.
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