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| February 24, 2026 |
| PowerPoint and Presenting News |
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| Focused Across Platforms |
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| In an era where presentations travel across platforms and attention spans are shorter than ever, this issue focuses on keeping your audience engaged with clarity and accessibility. We begin by showing how to open a PowerPoint presentation in Google Slides, helping you collaborate seamlessly and present without
technical barriers. Then we dive into strategies to prevent your online audience from getting distracted, sharing techniques that keep attention where it belongs—on your message. Finally, we explore how creating PowerPoint outlines in Excel can strengthen your structure before you even build a slide, ensuring your core ideas are organized and impactful. Together, these insights help you communicate with confidence, wherever your presentation takes you. |
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| How to Open a PowerPoint Presentation in Google Slides? |
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| Did you receive a PowerPoint presentation, and now you have been asked to make edits to the PowerPoint slides within Google Slides? Why? It could be that you no longer have access to PowerPoint. It may also be that the program used to work with slides in your organization or educational institution is Google Slides, and you are expected to work
within that program. |
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| Explore three ways to open a PowerPoint file inside Google Slides |
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| Life’s too short for lousy presentations |
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Life’s too short for lousy presentations. Fortunately, you can learn from so many industry stalwarts at the upcoming Present to Succeed
2026 in-person and online conference, being held in London on May 21, 2025, and in Sofia on June 12, 2025.
Register now! Indezine readers can save an amazing 20% with promo code: INDEZINE20
For example, if you choose the Global Access tier for online access, the normal price will be €199. Then, you can add the promo code to get 20% off! You end up paying only €159.20 rather than €199. But hurry and snap these tickets now because prices could increase very soon. |
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| How to Prevent Your Online Audience from Getting Distracted |
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| Whilst we’ve all had to get used to online meetings the biggest issue remains the same. How do we engage our audience members and retain their attention? According to a survey by Prezi and Harris Poll, while attending an online presentation 28% of the audience sends text messages, 27% check their emails, and 17% fall asleep. So, the question becomes
how you keep your audience involved and prevent them from being distracted? |
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| Read this post by Haritosh Srivastav of Toastmasters International |
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Our Verbal Mind Does Not Work Without Our Visual Mind: by Ekaterina Walter and
Jessica Gioglio
"Our verbal mind does not work without our visual mind. Those of us raised in the western educational tradition find that terrifying. Pictures trivialize, drawings are silly, doodles patronize, art is decoration. These are the things we’re told in school. In this marvelous book, Ekaterina Walter and Jessica Gioglio show us how wrong we are. Thinking in pictures is our nature. Sharing those pictures has long been our dream. With the arrival of global social media,
we have a whole new set of tools to make that dream come true."
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| Creating PowerPoint Outlines in Microsoft Excel |
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| Typically, the last thing we would want to do is create our presentation outline in a spreadsheet program like Microsoft Excel. In one of our training sessions, we were showing participants how they could create presentation outlines for PowerPoint in Notepad or Microsoft Word, and one of the attendees wanted to know how he could create an outline
in Excel! We'll show you how an outline can indeed be created in Excel. This works on all versions of Excel for Windows and Mac OS X. |
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| Create outlines in Microsoft Excel, formatted for failsafe import into Microsoft PowerPoint |
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