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March 14, 2023
We first bring you a feature from Jerry Weissman, a celebrated author who talks about why first impressions matter. For presenters, he says, "you have a maximum of 90 seconds to engage your audience."
PowerPoint 365 for Mac users can learn about manipulating shapes using special handles. So, if you're ever feeling like you need a change, just grab one of these handles and go to town! We also bring you quotes, press releases, and templates from the last few days.
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You get 8 shape types plus lines as part of this Organic Shapes collection. Each of these 8 shape types have 10 variants. So you end up with 80 hand-drawn shape options! Again each of these 80 shapes have 12 brush stroke styles! Plus you get the lines and arrows in 12 brush stroke styles too. Combine all variations to end up with more than 3000 possibilities.
January 24, 2023
Meghan Dotter opened Portico PR to help companies improve presentations, meetings, and the behaviors around them. Portico PR offers on-site workshops to help organizations develop better presentations in less time, focusing on content, design, and delivery. Meghan has built her career around helping people simplify and convey their messages. Her experience includes public relations agencies (New York and Washington, D.C.), and in-house roles, leading external communications for a global Fortune 200 power company. In this conversation, Meghan talks about her book, The Reluctant Presenter.
Format Painter in PowerPoint for the Web
Manipulating Shapes by Dragging Yellow Handles in PowerPoint 365 for Windows
March 20, 2023
What if you want to add new PowerPoint shapes with the same formatting as the existing ones? To some effect, you can duplicate slide objects in PowerPoint. You select a shape and press the Ctrl + D keyboard shortcut. if you are using Windows. Mac users will use the similar Cmd + D keyboard shortcut. However, such duplication copies everything: the shape, its text content, and its format attributes, such as all fills, outlines, and effects. However, you may only want to use those fill, outline, and effect attributes for other shapes you create. In other words, you do not want to copy the shape itself or the text it contains.
Learn to use the Format Painter effectively in PowerPoint for the Web.
March 16, 2023
What if you want to add new PowerPoint shapes with the same formatting as the existing ones? To some effect, you can duplicate slide objects in PowerPoint. You select a shape and press the Cmd + D keyboard shortcut. However, such duplication copies everything: the shape, its text content, and its format attributes, such as all fills, outlines, and effects. However, you may only want to use those fill, outline, and effect attributes for other shapes you create. In other words, you do not want to copy the shape itself or the text it contains.
Learn to use the Format Painter effectively in PowerPoint 365 for Mac.
March 13, 2023
What if you want to add new PowerPoint shapes with the same formatting as the existing ones? To some effect, you can duplicate slide objects in PowerPoint. You select a shape and press the Ctrl + D keyboard shortcut. However, such duplication copies everything: the shape, its text content, and its format attributes, such as all fills, outlines, and effects. However, you may only want to use those fill, outline, and effect attributes for other shapes you create. In other words, you do not want to copy the shape itself or the text it contains.
Learn to use the Format Painter effectively in PowerPoint 365 for Windows.
March 10, 2023
In his international bestseller Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, author Malcolm Gladwell writes about how people make snap judgments based on first impressions. While Gladwell’s time frame for a first impression is just two seconds, I’ll give you a bit more leeway for your presentations: you have a maximum of 90 seconds to engage your audience.
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