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June 13, 2018
Color as a solid swatch may be an absolute value such as red, blue, green, yellow, etc. but to take a picture and then decide a color for that picture is an objective task! Can you just allot one color for a picture of a garden that shows a blue sky, green meadows, and multi-colored flowers? Probably not. Or maybe, you can just choose green as a dominant color in that case! Whatever choice you make, there will be times when you need a picture that has a predominant red value or a primary grey value, or a foremost value of some other color. Fortunately, Bing’s Image Search has some great filters that let you percolate your search results to any color!
Learn how to search images in Bing by using the built in color filters.
June 12, 2018
We first bring you an exclusive interview with Mitch Grasso of Beautiful.AI, who talks about their amazing, intelligent presentation platform. We then bring you Carmine Gallo in another exclusive feature, where the celebrated author discusses his new book, Five Stars: The Communication Secrets to Get from Good to Great. Jerry Weissman brings us another thought-provoking post, where he puts forth five questions that will make your meetings more productive. And in yet another exclusive, Brian Washburn talks about his new book, PowerPoint: Your Co-Facilitator, that is published by Association for Talent Development.
We have updated our Bing Image Search series tutorials, and this week we explore Bing's Search by Image Size option. PowerPoint 2016 for Windows users will learn so much from our Reordering Sections and Viewing Sections tutorials. PowerPoint 2016 for Mac users will benefit from our Insert Pictures tutorial. And if that wasn’t enough for this week, make sure you do not miss the quotes, press releases, and templates released in the last week.
Stay informed about updated tutorials and happenings related to PowerPoint and presenting.
June 12, 2018
When you insert a picture on your PowerPoint slide, you are doing a task that is frequent and commonplace. And to you, this may look like an activity that's simple, but behind this simple task, there are options you may not be aware of. You can link to a picture rather than insert one. This means that if you make changes to your original picture, PowerPoint will update its copy on the slide!
Learn about the options available for inserting and/or linking pictures in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac.
June 11, 2018
You may have heard—30 million PowerPoint presentations are created daily. Everyone quotes that figure! And the amazing part is not that 30 million is a big number. What I find more interesting than just the number is the fact that this big figure was first mentioned almost seventeen years ago.
June 11, 2018
Unlike in Windows versions of PowerPoint, there is no option in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac to insert online pictures. If you must use online pictures, you could use two workarounds, and both of them are not perfect but can help in some cases.
Explore options for inserting online pictures in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac.
June 8, 2018
Brian Washburn is the co-founder and CEO of Endurance Learning, a boutique instructional design firm whose vision is that every presentation can be engaging and lead to change. His goal in life is to rid the world of the scourge of poor learning experiences. In this interview, Brian discusses his book, PowerPoint: Your Co-Facilitator, published by ATD.
June 8, 2018
When you search for pictures on Bing’s Image Search site, the resultant page provides various filters to fine-tune and narrow down your results. These filters are located in the top area of the Search Results page. Bing’s Image Search by Image Size filter allows you to search pictures of various resolutions. Essentially, there are six size options.
Learn how to search images in Bing using the built in Size filters.
June 7, 2018
Mitch Grasso is a serial entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience building and leading design-orientated technology companies from early stage ideation to market leadership. The consummate problem solver, he has spent the bulk of his career building tools in his sweet spot-- the intersection of design, technology, and productivity. He is currently CEO of Beautiful.AI, a Shasta Ventures, First Round Capital, and Trinity Ventures-backed company that aims to democratize design using artificial intelligence to help people build visually stunning documents. Prior to Beautiful.AI, Mitch founded SlideRocket, a cloud-based presentation productivity software focused on team collaboration, analytics, and multimedia content authoring. In this conversation, Mitch talks about Beautiful.AI.
June 7, 2018
While Google may have the largest and most up-to-date search index, other search providers like Microsoft’s Bing need to up the ante by providing more usability options so that visitors can get more optimum and narrowed-down results. And that’s exactly what Microsoft seems to have done with Bing’s Image Search options. Everything is streamlined and you can filter and sort results with so much dexterity; it’s almost like you are sorting numbers in Excel – just that this is also so much more visual!
Learn how you can search images using Bing’s amazing image search functions.
June 6, 2018
Carmine Gallo is a keynote speaker and bestselling author. His new book, Five Stars: The Communication Secrets to Get from Good to Great, teaches readers how to master the ancient art of persuasion to thrive in the world of AI. Carmine is a global communication advisor who has transformed leaders at the world’s largest and most admired brands. He also written eight other books including Talk Like TED, The Storyteller’s Secret, and The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs. In this interview, Carmine talks about his new book, Five Stars: The Communication Secrets to Get from Good to Great.
June 6, 2018
If you have a presentation with a large Section, containing many slides, then you may find that this one Section makes it difficult to see all the other remaining Sections. This is because these many slides cover up so much screen real estate making it difficult for you to see other stuff, such as slides in other Sections. And if you want to drag a slide from one Section to another, you may be at a loss to comprehend what you will end up with.
Explore viewing Sections in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.
June 5, 2018
We first re-explore our updated article on how Office 365 programs are updated. We also focus on an interview with Jerry Weissman from a decade ago and find it amazing that everything he said is valid even today.
PowerPoint 2016 for Windows can learn so much about Sections, such as getting started with them, adding and renaming, moving slides between sections, and removing them. PowerPoint 2016 for Mac users can explore Theme Fonts. And if that wasn’t enough for this week, make sure you do not miss the quotes, press releases, and templates released in the last seven days.
Stay informed about updated tutorials and happenings related to PowerPoint and presenting.
June 5, 2018
Eyeful Presentations, a leading presentation design consultancy and the people behind the internationally acclaimed book The Presentation Lab, announce the launch of their annual Eyeful Insights Journal. Presentations are a key tool in the C-Suite communication toolkit, yet widely misunderstood and too often seen as a process to be run by junior team members rather than embraced by business leaders.
June 5, 2018
In a presentation, both pictures and words are important, and they both play complementary roles. If you had to choose just one of them; then seeing is a much more important part of presenting. Presentations, by their very nature, are meant to be seen since they evoke actions such as project, display, or broadcast; and all of these actions represent visual media. Text and speaking are important too, but you can be more effectively heard and remembered if your content includes both text and pictures.
Learn how to insert a picture on a slide in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac.
June 4, 2018
When business people hear “Let’s schedule a meeting,” they react the same as they would when they hear “Let’s schedule a root canal.” Meetings have long been—and continue to be—the Bermuda Triangle of business. In 2004, Patrick Lencioni offered his advice to make meetings more productive in his bestselling book, Death by Meeting. This week, conflict-resolution mediator Priya Parker will publish her advice in The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters. With all due respect to these accomplished authors, let me offer five additional solutions to that chronic problem in the form of rhetorical questions that each leader, as well as each attendee, must be able to answer before and after a meeting—but especially during.
June 4, 2018
In PowerPoint, Sections are not just for effective and easy management of your slides, but they can also let you quickly reorder large blocks of adjacent slides. All you got to do is to place all slides you want to reorder within a single Section, and then move that Section.
Learn to reorder Sections in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.
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