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PowerPoint and Presenting News
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5 Steps to Creating a Killer Pitch Deck When
Raising Funds
There are lots of different opinions on what makes a good deck, much of it misguided and rooted in opinion rather than data. There are
also a number of bad industry habits that are endemic and often harmful to the investment process. This article takes my experience of
successfully funding around 50 companies and combines this knowledge with research completed by DocSend to find the perfect formula for
an engaging, compelling and ultimately easy to digest deck.
Read more with John Auckland.
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PowerPoint Concept Slides: Organic Shapes with Brush Edges
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.
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.
These shapes will help break the monotony of text heavy slides, and assist you in explaining difficult concepts better to your
audiences. Using these organic shapes also convinces your audiences that you care enough about them to make the slides look appealing
and comprehensible. What's more, these shapes are also so much fun to use!
Download these Organic Shapes for just $99.
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Crazy Competitions: Conversation with
Nigel Holmes
Born in England, Nigel Holmes studied illustration at the Royal College of Art in London and then freelanced
for magazines and newspapers for 12 years in London before moving to New York in 1978 to work for Time Magazine. He became graphics
director and stayed there for 16 years. Since 1994 he has run his own business, Explanation Graphics, explaining all sorts of
things for a variety of clients and publications. In this interview, Nigel discusses his new book, Crazy Competitions: 100 Weird
and Wonderful Rituals from Around the World.
Read the conversation here.
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Top 5 Tips For Remote Presentation
Design
In order to think about designing for web presentations, you need to understand the three ways that web conferencing programs
may show your visuals.
Read more here.
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List of Double-byte Fonts
We do have some extensive content on what Unicode encoded fonts are, and how the remaining ASCII encoded fonts are of two types:
single-byte and double-byte. However, our readers want more info—they have asked for a list of common double-byte fonts. Yes, we feel
your pain, and will provide a list of double-byte fonts we see in our systems. However, if you see more double-byte fonts, do comment
below and we will update this list.
Read more here.
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Presenting Quotes
One of the Most Important Functions: by Leonard Mlodinow
This is a book that makes you think. It combines psychology and our everyday lives and delivers results in bite-sized chapters
that you can benefit from. It’s so amazing that Leonard combines research done two hundred years ago with new findings, and
presents it in a way that you can use anywhere, from e-commerce to presenting!
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Learn PowerPoint 2016 for Windows
Views
Your slides remain the same, yet the various views in PowerPoint make exploring those same slides a little different. This
approach makes sense because viewing slides in Slide Show view gives an entirely different perspective than editing them in
Normal view. Further, it’s easier to reorder and work with multiple slides in Slide Sorter view and make changes to individual
slides in Normal view.
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Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows
Insert Symbol
Do you want to add an infinity symbol on your slide? Or do you want to add one of the mathematical symbols? Or even the Yen or Rupee
symbols? PowerPoint provides several ways to add such symbols, but the most straightforward option is to use the Symbol dialog box.
Let us now explore how you can add symbols within your text containers in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.
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Learn PowerPoint 2016 for Mac
Manipulating Shapes by Dragging Yellow Handles
There are many different types of shapes PowerPoint provides, and you can format these shapes by resizing, rotating, flipping,
etc. Other than these basic formatting tasks, you must explore the yellow square handles. When you select most shapes in
PowerPoint 2016 for Mac, you can see eight resizing handles and a single rotation handle.
Text Alignment
Text is an important element in your PowerPoint slides, and most of the time, text alignment is taken care by the defaults set in
your presentation template. You type or paste some text in a placeholder, and the text may align left, right, or even center, based
upon the choices made in the template or Theme of the presentation. However, there are times when you want to make alignment choices,
not just for text in placeholders, but also for text in text boxes, shapes, charts, tables, and anywhere else.
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