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| July 21, 2026 |
| PowerPoint and Presenting News |
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| Start with the Structure |
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| Every presentation problem has a root cause. Most of the time, it's structure. Jerry Weissman's piece on writer's block makes the case for starting with your goal, not your slides. The note on converting text boxes to placeholders tackles a structural problem that quietly undermines thousands of decks. And Peter
Claus Lamprecht's PPTX Toolkit interview goes deeper still, into the XML layer that governs how placeholders behave when layouts change. Three topics at different levels of depth, all pointing to the same truth: get the structure right first, and everything else follows. |
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| Breaking Through Writer’s Block – I |
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| Writer’s block is not limited to aspiring and professional writers who are trying to craft their next article on deadline or write The Great American Novel. Presenters, too, are frequently faced with having to crank out their next great pitch. Their bar is not as high as that of a solitary writer staring at a blank computer screen or a yellow legal
pad. Most presenters belong to a team such as a business unit in a large company or a small start-up, and so, they have access to their colleagues’ slide shows. Therein lies the problem: businesspeople consider their presentations to exist primarily in their decks. |
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| Read more with Jerry Weissman |
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| Star Wars Style Credits Animation |
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| The Star Wars Style Credits Animation presentation includes a sample slide in which the credits animate in the Star Wars style. You can download this presentation and change the text in the animated text boxes as required. |
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| Download Star Wars Style Credits Animation Slides |
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| Convert Text Boxes to Placeholders in PowerPoint |
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| "Is it possible to change a text box into a Title in PowerPoint? I've got tons of slides that use text boxes instead of Title and Content placeholders, and I have no clue about how I can get started!" Yes, this is a genuine call for help we received from one of our readers, and we know that there are tons of users who face this problem. In fact,
even PowerPoint design houses have to convert text boxes to placeholders all the time in slides they receive from their clients. |
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| Learn how to quickly convert PowerPoint text boxes into proper placeholders using simple steps and helpful add-ins |
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| PPTX Toolkit: Conversation with Peter Claus Lamprecht |
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| Peter Claus Lamprecht is a presentation consultant based in Hamburg, Germany, with more than 37 years of experience. He helps self-employed professionals, sales and marketing teams, executives and consultants develop presentations that persuade and deliver results—from storyline to slide design to delivery. His specialty is
PowerPoint slide masters, that work flawlessly on a technical level, implement the given design precisely and thus save time when working in PowerPoint. With the PPTX Toolkit, he is currently building a tool for direct access to the XML structure of PowerPoint files. In this conversation, Peter talks about PPTX Toolkit. |
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| Read the conversation here |
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| End Note |
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