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Creating Word Clouds for PowerPoint using Word Cloud Generator
 Word Clouds provide creative ways to explore and explain a concept or a subject using relevant
terms that support a central idea. Even better, they create a visual from some words, and can be used effectively in presentation
scenarios, such as within your PowerPoint slides. However, creating such a Word Cloud in PowerPoint can be both a daunting and a time
consuming task! You will first have to insert text boxes and rotate them randomly until you are satisfied. And even then, the output you
achieve in PowerPoint may not be so appealing. To make this process easier, we will explore another site called the Word Cloud Generator.
Learn
how to create word clouds for PowerPoint in Word Cloud Generator
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Pond5: Search and Download Public Domain Content
 Finding perfect media for a presentation is no piece of cake, not to speak of being expensive as well. Although
there are a wide range of search engines that are capable of pulling up tons of information we need, there's always the hidden caveat that
such content cannot be legally used! Yes, there is always the sword of Damocles hanging over your head that a restrictive but invisible
license may be applied to the content you find via search engines, which later may result in copyright violations, and even legal
headaches. That brings us to the topic of this article - and that is how you can search and download Public Domain content via Pond5.
Explore, search and download Pond5's Public Domain content
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Office Timeline Plus Edition: Conversation with Tim Stumbles
Tim Stumbles is the co-founder of Office Timeline, a start-up focused on making project presentations simple. Office
Timeline offers timeline maker and Gantt chart software, natively built for Microsoft PowerPoint. With Office Timeline over 500,000
PowerPoint users easily create impressive project presentations for important client and executive meetings. In this conversation, Tim
discusses the Plus Edition of Office Timeline.
Read the conversation here
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Adobe Presenter: Publish Options
 After you create your eLearning project using Adobe Presenter within PowerPoint, you will no doubt want to
publish your content in a format suitable to deploy. Adobe Presenter provides various publish options, and you can opt to publish locally,
or even host via the Adobe Connect Server. You can also publish to SWF, HTML5, leading LMSs, and video sharing sites like YouTube or
Vimeo. Let us explore how you can use these Publish options.
Explore various publish options within Adobe Presenter
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Adobe Presenter: Local Publish Settings
 Adobe Presenter provides various publish options such as to publish locally, via the Adobe Connect
service, and also as an interactive PDF. Each of these options has additional settings such as appearance, playback, quality, and
attachments. Within these Settings, you can personalize the output. In this tutorial we'll explore the local publish settings.
Explore various local publish settings in Adobe Presenter
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Valentine's Day Animated Slides
 Do you want to create something cool this Valentine's Day? Then just load up PowerPoint, and get started
with this "idea kit". The download contains two animated Valentine's Day PowerPoint presentations. Detailed tutorial slides are within the
presentation that explains how you can create these Valentine's Day animated slides on your own.
Go ahead and spend a fun hour!
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Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Slides
Reset Slide
Sometimes we are exposed to slides that can be so hazardous to our vision! One look at a bad slide and it
really doesn't matter if the content is great or not - because the slide has nothing understated about it. Such loud slides can ensure
that audiences look more at the look of the slide rather than the content. You might end up with such slides even with no fault of yours,
because someone else mis-designed them for you! Fortunately, there is an easy, one-click process to restore the sanity in the slides -
it's called the Reset button. Remember, the Reset button is your friend.
Compare Presentations Manually
While PowerPoint does have an option to automatically compare presentations, sometimes doing this comparison manually can be actually more
effective, especially when you have fewer changes in the first place. You can place both presentations side by side and compare individual
slides.
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Learn PowerPoint 2010 for Windows: Slides
Rehearse Slide Timings
If you are happy with the presentation slides you created, you should then move towards practicing your presentation delivery, your
timing, and your pace. More importantly, it is time to be comfortable with your slides. PowerPoint itself can help you better handle this job via its powerful Rehearse Timings feature that we will explore within this tutorial.
Record Slide Show
Let's imagine that you cannot deliver your slides in person. You then want to do the next best option, that is to deliver
your presentation in front of your computer, almost as if you had a live audience present. All this while, all your narrations
are being recorded. Even the time you spend on each slide is recorded along with the time taken for each animation to play.
You can also record your laser pointer activity if you use PowerPoint's built in laser pointer. All of this can be saved as
part of your presentation that you can send to others - and they can see this at their convenience, with your voice
accompanying the slide show!
Reuse Slides Through Drag and Drop
Previously we explored how reusing your existing slides can be a great help, since it saves so much of your time. While bringing up the
Reuse Slides task pane enables you to add selected slides to the active presentation, there is another easier and more intuitive way to
reuse your slides. You can drag selected slides from the source presentation and drop them within the newer presentation. In this tutorial,
we'll show you how to reuse slides through this drag and drop process within PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.
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Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Slides and Sections
Rehearse Slide Timings
After creating your presentation slides, you may be satisfied with the outcome. And now it's time to practice your presentation delivery.
You need to practice your slide timings, your pace, and most importantly, you need to be comfortable with your slides. And what better to
help you than PowerPoint's powerful Rehearse feature that we will explore within this tutorial.
Record Slide Show
Recording slides is almost like delivering a presentation that you cannot deliver in person! Let's imagine
that you cannot deliver your slides in person. What you would then want to do is to deliver your presentation in
front of your computer, almost as if you had a live audience present -- all this while, your narrations are being
recorded. Even the time you spend on each slide is recorded along with the time taken for each animation to play.
In PowerPoint 2011, as far as interface is considered, there is no difference between the options available for
rehearsing slides and for recording a slide show. The only difference is that while recording a slide show, along
with the time spent on each slide, your narrations are also being recorded through the connected microphone.
Adding and Renaming Sections
Presentations with a large number of slides may be a challenge for managing unless they are logically divided into Sections. Even
presentations that do not have a large number of slides can benefit from Sections. However, just dividing slides into Sections will not
achieve much unless you create and name these Sections in a proper manner to represent what the slides within each Section contain. In this
tutorial, let us learn how to add Sections, and also how to rename them.
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Have you tried to draw a line or a circle with just holding a pencil
or marker in your hand?
You'll end up with a shape that may fail you in a geometry test but it still looks human, personal, and different -- just
like these organic shapes.
The entire Organic Shapes collection contains 8 shape types -- each type has 10 variants - so you
end up with 80 hand-drawn shape options!
Since these Shapes look scribbled, they attract more attention from audiences.
Additionally, since these behave like native PowerPoint shapes, you can fill them with solid colors, pictures, textures, and
gradients. And you can even type text within these shapes!
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