by Geetesh Bajaj, April 29th 2014
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Presentation Summit 2014: Conversation with Rick Altman
Rick Altman is a California-based presentation consultant who has been helping organizations communicate better in public since before Microsoft developed PowerPoint. He has been hosting end-user conferences since 1989, and is the host of the annual Presentation Summit, now in its 12th season. He has authored 17 books on presentations and graphics, including the now-notorious Why Most PowerPoint Presentations Suck. In this conversation, Rick discusses the upcoming twelfth edition of his Presentation Summit conference, to be held in October 2014 in San Diego.
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Speaker, Leader, Champion: Conversation with Jeremey Donovan
Jeremey Donovan is Group Vice President of Marketing at Gartner Inc., the world's leading information technology research and advisory company with $1.6 billion in annual revenue. During his career, Jeremey has led successful teams focused on market research, new product development, marketing, acquisitions, and product management. He is a three-time TEDx organizer, a TEDx speaker, a coach for many TED and TEDx speakers, and long-time member of Toastmasters International. His other books include What Great Looks Like, How To Win the Toastmasters World Championship, and How To Deliver A TED Talk: Secrets Of The World's Most Inspiring Presentations. In this conversation, Jeremey discusses his new book, Speaker, Leader, Champion: Succeed at Work Through the Power of Public Speaking.
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Support for YouTube Videos in PowerPoint 2010 and 2013
 Microsoft has reinstated the support for YouTube
videos in both PowerPoint 2010 and 2013 for Windows. You may recall that the option to insert online YouTube videos was removed
a while ago due to code discrepancies in the syntax that Google started to use for YouTube embeds. During the time that this
option was no longer available in PowerPoint, users had to opt for a longer process or even do this entire task manually. Now that
automatic insertion is again possible, this will go a long way in making this task easy to accomplish.
Learn about support for YouTube videos now reinstated in PowerPoint 2010 and 2013 for Windows
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Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows
Changing Fill and Border for Chart Elements
The default fill and border (line) that PowerPoint applies to chart elements are perfectly adequate. If you want something
different, play with various Chart Styles available. While this works great most of the time, there will be occasions when
you may want to use a particular color for any of your data series that's not part of the Theme palette in your presentation.
In times like these, you can change the fill and border of chart elements manually using the techniques explained on this page.
PowerPoint, Word, and Excel 2013: Applying Themes
Applying a Theme to an existing presentation is easy -- and you'll find that plenty of Themes are already contained inside Office
2013. In PowerPoint 2013, these Themes can be found in Design tab of Ribbon. The same Themes that you apply in PowerPoint can also
be applied in Word and Excel -- in both of these programs, the way of accessing Themes gallery is different from that of
PowerPoint.
Types of Connectors
If you want to use a line that links two shapes together, you may then want that line to be always linked, even if move the
original shapes. This sort of linking is called connecting shapes. And to keep these shapes connected, you most certainly will
start by drawing a connector instead of a normal line. A connector looks like a line, but it stays connected to the shapes you
attach it to. There are three types of connector lines: Straight, Elbow (angled), and Curved.
Quick Layouts for Charts
While working with charts in your presentation, you may want to move the location of the legend, or you
may need to add a Data Table. Or perhaps the default layout doesn't work well for you. If you find any of
these scenarios familiar, you can always choose from different layouts for your charts using the pre-defined
Chart Quick Layouts feature. This essentially is a collection of some pre-arranged layouts containing various
chart elements. With just a couple of clicks, you can change the entire look of your chart, as explained in
this tutorial.
Drawing Connectors
Connectors are lines that link different shapes, and yet they are somewhat different from conventional lines because
- connectors, as the name implies stay connected to the shapes they link -- even if you move the actual shapes. You
have already learned about connectors, and the types of connectors in previous tutorials -- in this tutorial, you will
learn how you can draw connectors that link shapes.
Chart Area
Everything on a chart within PowerPoint 2013 is placed on top of the Chart Area -- this essentially is the entire area that encompasses your chart.
Thus, the Chart Area is that part of your chart which is placed beneath all other chart elements. By default, the Chart Area doesn't possess any fill
or any kind of formatting unless you have used a particular Chart Style. Even though this default status works well, you can opt to format as required.
You can change the fill, border, and effect of the Chart Area, change the size and properties of the chart, and also change the font attribute.
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Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac
Identify the Active Theme
Unlike the Windows versions of PowerPoint which shows the active Theme name on the Status bar,
the Mac version does not show the active Theme name anywhere on its interface. If you need to know the active
Theme's name for any open presentation, how do you find this information? You can find the name of the Theme
applied to the presentation following the steps explained here.
Change the Default Theme
Launch PowerPoint 2011 and you will typically see the Presentation Gallery -- you can accept the default Theme that shows up first or even click the
Cancel button in this gallery to open a blank presentation with a new slide based on the same default Theme. When you type text within the placeholders
of this slide, the text shows up in black over a white slide background. Most of the time this default look works, but you can change the defaults
to something else -- for example, you can use any other PowerPoint Theme, including a custom Theme as the default.
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Learn PowerPoint 2003 for Windows
Change the Default Template
When you launch PowerPoint 2003, it opens an empty presentation of just one slide. Typically this one slide has a title placeholder
and another placeholder for a subtitle -- typing any text within these placeholders shows black text over a white slide background.
This is the default template PowerPoint 2003 provides -- but you don't have to live with these defaults. You change this blank
presentation so that you get a slide that's part of your custom PowerPoint template. Or even any of the other templates built
within PowerPoint.
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