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PowerPoint is a very resourceful tool that can help businesses achieve more. Unfortunately, there are several possibilities within PowerPoint that people don’t know. The only thing that people know is how to design the presentations, but they don’t know they can use certain tools to better enhance those presentations and achieve more. Some people will complain how they hate PowerPoint and others say that PowerPoint does not help them in achieving what they wanted. Here are some of the three things that you need to know about PowerPoint that will help you learn how to use PowerPoint in more resourceful ways.
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.
In order to think about designing for web presentations, you need to understand the three ways that web conferencing programs may show your visuals.
Outline View in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows
December 06, 2018
If you have worked aplenty with text in PowerPoint, you must be aware that you cannot rotate text within a shape by 180°. What's surprising is that you can rotate text by 90° and 270° within a shape, but not by 180°! But why would you need upside-down text that is rotated 180°? Many users do need this upside-down text to explain advanced concepts.
Learn how to rotate text 180° within a shape in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac.
December 05, 2018
Here are a bunch of Countdown Timer slides that you can use to create or embed in your own PowerPoint presentation slides. This entire kit contains 5 different styles of Countdown Timer. We made these available in two slide sizes for both standard (4:3) and widescreen (16:9) resolutions. You can get this kit for only $5.
Download and use in your slides.
December 05, 2018
The Outline view in PowerPoint 2016 provides access to your presentation’s text outline through the Slides/Outline pane on the left side of the PowerPoint interface. The Outline view displays all the text contained within the title and text placeholders of your slides, and is one of the ten views in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.
Learn about the Outline View within PowerPoint 2016.
December 04, 2018
We first feature John Auckland, who shares his experience of successfully funding around 50 companies, to share with you, 5 Steps to Creating a Killer Pitch Deck When Raising Funds. Nigel Holmes, a celebrated illustrator talks about his new book, Crazy Competitions: 100 Weird and Wonderful Rituals from Around the World. If you explore through the pages of his book, you will discover so many ideas on how you can make illustrations work better for you in PowerPoint. Even if you don't use the inspiration in PowerPoint, the book is an amazing read and watch! We then feature Ken Molay, who shares Top 5 Tips For Remote Presentation Design. This is a must-read if you deliver webinars. Finally, we did not find a list of common double-byte fonts anywhere, and with so many requests pouring in, we decided to create a list on our own.
PowerPoint 2016 for Windows can explore the many Views in the program. PowerPoint 2013 for Windows can learn how to Insert Symbols. PowerPoint 2016 for Mac users can learn about Manipulating Shapes by Dragging Yellow Handles, and Text Alignment. And if that wasn’t enough for this week, make sure you do not miss the quotes, press releases, and templates released in the last week.
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