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QuickOffice Pro HD: Conversation with David Halpin

noreply@blogger.com (Geetesh) — Fri, 18 May 2012 04:00:00 +0000

David Halpin is a seasoned executive with over 15 years of core product development experience at manager, senior manager and executive staff levels. He has managed geographically distributed, multi-faceted teams, which delivered world-class software solutions to F1000 customers. Halpin joined Quickoffice in 2006 to help lead and grow Quickoffice's development operations, globally.

In this conversation, David discusses the new QuickOffice Pro HD release that adds new features for working with PowerPoint files in the iPad.

Geetesh: Tell us about Quickoffice Pro HD’s new PowerPoint editing features.

David: PowerPoint has long been an important part of Quickoffice’s mobile Office suite, given the team’s commitment to user productivity. We are constantly reviewing consumer feedback regarding additional features to shape software updates that address top requests. Many of our customers said they could benefit from even more tools to improve their presentation capabilities on the road. This spurred our Quickoffice Pro HD update on April 10, which brought the ability to create and edit 2007-2010 PowerPoint files.

We expanded the number of shapes users can select to over 100 shapes in five different categories, which will provide users even more options when creating slides. Users can also view, create and edit numbered lists in PowerPoint, a highly used formatting option that creates easy-to-read slides.

Most importantly, the Quickoffice Pro HD update brings an improved rendering and visual interface, allowing colors, shapes and text to appear crisp and clean for any viewer.

All of these new features and improvements, combined with five additional localizations – Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese and Dutch – create an enhanced, polished experience for the Quickoffice user, and should come as a welcome update to anyone that needs to utilize PowerPoint while on the go.

Geetesh: Tell us about features supported in the new Quickoffice Pro HD.

David: As more users work across multiple platforms and devices every day, we wanted to provide the most seamless experience to our customers that takes into account this evolving way of working. That’s why we recently launched Connect by Quickoffice, a new service that integrates the company’s market-leading mobile Office editors with our cloud platform.

Connect not only maintains a single interface, but also integrates connections into the most popular cloud services, allowing users to access any file and then continue their work throughout the document lifecycle. Connect synchronized the content across all of a users devices. Connect also enables remote access into any device and aggregated search across all cloud services and connected devices, regardless of operating system. Now, customers can take advantage of all the latest PowerPoint and other Office tools on each of their devices, without missing a beat. Connect includes a native mobile application for iPad, iPhone, Android tablet and smartphone, a desktop client for PC and Mac, as well as a web portal, for comprehensive file and account management. Connect is available as an all-in-one monthly subscription service.

And, not to be overlooked, Quickoffice also added native iPad email client support to Quickoffice Pro HD, delivering a top user request.

Categories: interviews, ipad, powerpoint

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Change Picture

noreply@blogger.com (Geetesh) — Fri, 18 May 2012 03:30:00 +0000

Imagine this scenario: you chose what you thought was a perfect picture. So you insert the picture, and then enhance it using the cool picture editing options available in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac. You may have gone further -- for example, you could have applied some of the Adjust Picture options, added a border, applied some Picture Effects, etc. You went ahead and added a perfect combination of both the Fade and Zoom animations, and also timed it to happen at the speed you want. And then you discover a better picture, or your boss asked you to change to another picture. You also need to retain all the effects and animations! You could delete the original picture and start all over again, and yes, that is a long process! Or you can change any existing picture into another with just a couple of clicks.

Learn how to change one picture into another in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

Categories: office_mac, pictures, powerpoint_2011, tutorials

Learn PowerPoint 2010: Build and Sequence Animations

noreply@blogger.com (Geetesh) — Thu, 17 May 2012 03:45:00 +0000

Animation is movement and a fine art at the same time -- using animation's powerful capabilities of attracting attention, you can effectively illustrate a concept, a process, or anything else. However there's a thin dividing line between mere movement and utter confusion. Imagine a training session where the presenter moves around the room explaining a concept -- as he or she moves, the eye of the audience members follows him or her. There is a clear focus in the room, and the subject of that focus is the presenter. Now imagine another situation where the presenter and all the audience members in the room start moving in disparate directions just for the sake of movement -- at this point of time, the movement has given way to chaos. The distinction between movement and chaos works similarly on PowerPoint slides -- at any point of time, movement needs to have focus and direction, and more importantly, a reason to move!

Learn to build and sequence animations in PowerPoint 2010.

Categories: animation, powerpoint_2010, tutorials

PowerPoint Text Effects - 01

noreply@blogger.com (Geetesh) — Wed, 16 May 2012 04:00:00 +0000

This sample presentation contains 12 different text effects that you can use with any text in PowerPoint 2007, 2010 or higher on Windows (and also PowerPoint 2008, 2011 or higher on Mac). Text effects range all the way from subtle to edgy, and from clean to grunge style. Some text effects may work better with larger text – play around to see which one works for you although none of these effects are suitable for body text. To use these effects, click on any of the sample text containers with the Format Painter button, and then click on the text where you want to copy these effects.

Download and use this slide for your own presentations.

Categories: powerpoint, presentation_samples, text

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Resize, Rotate, and Flip Pictures

noreply@blogger.com (Geetesh) — Wed, 16 May 2012 03:30:00 +0000

In this series of tutorials on working with pictures in PowerPoint 2011, you have already learned about adjusting picture options, and applying Picture Styles, Picture Effects, and Picture Borders that can help you to enhance the look of your inserted pictures. These skills will make your pictures look better and will provide you with ideas to make your pictures stand apart. Yet, there are some basic picture editing skills that are very significant -- these include learning how you can resize, rotate, and flip pictures.

Learn how to resize, rotate, and flip pictures in PowerPoint 2011.

Categories: office_mac, pictures, powerpoint_2011, tutorials

Learn PowerPoint 2010: Animation Delay

noreply@blogger.com (Geetesh) — Tue, 15 May 2012 03:45:00 +0000

Once you add animation to any slide object, you can set its animation speed and change its animation event. Other than speed and event, you can also alter the delay caused before the animation actually starts. So why would you add a delay? There are several reasons and primarily a delay can be beneficial if you want to maintain a time limit between two animations -- as in having the second animation occur 10 seconds after the first one has concluded. Of course, that was just a simple example and animation delay can be helpful in many other scenarios. This delay is calculated in seconds.

Learn about Animation Delay, a new option introduced in PowerPoint 2010.

Categories: animation, powerpoint_2010, tutorials

Create Dashed Line Borders in PowerPoint

noreply@blogger.com (Geetesh) — Mon, 14 May 2012 04:00:00 +0000

Have you seen a running stitch effect around an object -- especially an embroidered one? It's possible to create all sorts of such fancy effects, right inside PowerPoint -- without using any other program. In this tutorial, you will learn how to create this effect step-by-step -- and this should work in almost any version of PowerPoint released in the last 10 years.

Explore creating a dashed line border around a shape to create almost an embroidered edge effect.

Categories: templates, lines, outline, powerpoint, tutorials

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Picture Effects

noreply@blogger.com (Geetesh) — Mon, 14 May 2012 03:30:00 +0000

PowerPoint enables users to edit inserted pictures using the adjust picture options, and provides them with some preset Picture Styles which can be directly applied to the selected pictures. Also, they can add beautiful borders to the pictures. But, this is not the end -- they can also apply individual effects to the inserted picture like, a shadow, glow, bevel, 3-D rotation etc.

Learn about Effect options for pictures in PowerPoint 2011.

Categories: office_mac, pictures, powerpoint_2011, tutorials

10 Tips to Create and Present Pecha Kucha

noreply@blogger.com (Geetesh) — Fri, 11 May 2012 04:00:00 +0000

A few days ago, our PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff LinkedIn group had a great discussion on Pecha Kucha. It started with one of our members asking for some guidance on how to go about preparing for a Pecha Kucha presentation. To those of you who do not know what Pecha Kucha is, it is a presentation format that originated in Japan in the year 2003. In Japanese, Pecha Kucha translates to chit-chat or chatter.

Each Pecha Kucha speaker presents with a deck of 20 slides (or images) each. Each of these slides progresses automatically to the next one, after being visible onscreen for 20 seconds. This is the reason why Pecha Kucha is often called 20x20.

That’s a total time of less than 7 minutes, and explains why most Pecha Kucha slides are more visual than text-laden. Text heavy slides would take much more time to explain than the allocated 20 seconds, and will also get the audience reading the text rather than giving their undivided attention to the Pecha Kucha presenter.

Picture courtesy: Ric Bretschneider

Getting back to the question about how you can prepare a better Pecha Kucha presentation, the forum responses did bring in some awesome answers. With the permission of those who responded, I've compiled this list of 10 tips that will help you prepare for a better Pecha Kucha presentation.

Choose a simple topic

Many times, presenters get tempted to choose complicated topics that need so many facts to be explained even before you get to the topic. Let’s face it – not everything in this world is simple enough to be explained in less than 7 minutes. But you can simplify your topic, or you can choose another topic that is simple enough to be explained within that time frame.

Once you have chosen a topic, leave out the un-required and focus on your message – you should be able to condense the gist of your entire message in one, simple line. Then elaborate as required.
Start with an outline

As with generic presentations that are not limited to Pecha Kucha’s 20x20 rule, you should start with an outline. You can call your outline a structure, a story, etc. Charles Greene III prefers to call the outline an “analog”. He uses 3 x 5 inch note cards for his main ideas. He restricts to one idea per card, thus each card represents a potential slide. Under each main idea, he jots 3 quick sentences about that idea.

Using cards is a great idea – but if you want, you can even use some paper sheets, PostIt notes, an iPad or tablet, or even Microsoft Word, Evernote, or OneNote. Work with whichever medium makes you feel comfortable, as long as you end up with a rough outline.
Tweak your outline

It’s now time to reorder the content in your outline. Then remove what is not required – you may also want to combine some parts of the outline into one slide, or divide others as required. Whatever you do, think about your audience – you must include what they would like to hear rather than what you want to say.

Charles Greene III adds about how he works with his note cards: "The cards were sorted, shifted and removed until I had my final 20 slides that told my story. Strong visual images were selected to go with each topic. I developed my story flow from the note cards".
Make your slides

You are now ready to import your online into PowerPoint or any other slide program. PowerPoint can import outlines to create slides, but even if you do not want to import your outline, you can still create slides from your text content.

Most often, your text content will be restricted to your slide titles. You should end up with 20 slides – play them and watch them. Do the slides build up well with your message, one after the other? If the answer is no, then go back and redo them until you are happy – there’s no sense in moving beyond this step unless you are happy with the content and sequencing of your slides.
Add pictures

Add pictures to your slides that are relevant to what you will speak about. Ric Bretschneider, formerly a Senior Program Manager for PowerPoint at Microsoft advises: "Pictures! Graphics! Even black slides! Text used sparingly. The most successful Pecha Kuchas don't use much, if any text."
Practice

Then practice as much as you can. And practice again.

Charles adds: "I found that even with the little information that I had chosen to say, it was too much. In actual performance, the flow is very quick. To not have the sense that I was racing toward the 6minute 40 second mark, I had to take out some words. I also had three slides towards the end that covered one topic. This gave me a place where I could "hover" to adjust my timing and flow. I highly suggest a "hover" space."

Ric adds: "Do practice so you know one or two points that each slide brings to your story naturally. You can perform free-form easy if you know what you absolutely need to include to support your upcoming points."
To animate or not?

You’ll have to make a decision about this one – whether you should animate objects on your slide, or not. Also do you want to use slide transitions? Animation is movement, and movement pulls the eye of the audience away from you to the slides. 20 seconds is too short a time for them to refocus on you during that particular slide, and that explains why you must decide whether animation will add value to your slide, or otherwise.

Ric adds: "Do not animate. Aside from potentially messing your timings up, animations are an unanticipated pause in your presentation while another point is disclosed. Your slides are bite sized enough, use them exclusively for disclosure. OK, that said you can break that rule if you aren't using the animation to break out talking points, more ambient animation. But even so, challenge the assumption that you need to do that, because you do lose the audience a little each time they have to analyze a change to your visual."
Practice again

Yes, it is time to practice again. With less than 7 minutes to present, you can afford to practice more often. Even if you end up using 2 or 3 minutes more in a Pecha Kucha presentation, that won’t be acceptable or even possible using the format – so you must have time on your side, right down to the minutest level. That sort of sync with your slides can only be achieved with repeated practice.

Charles adds: "Afterthoughts – Practice, practice, practice! That's the only way to get the presentation to flow like a conversation. Give some "performance" to the presentation. Be a bit dramatic. Add your own personal flair. Hopefully, you are presenting a topic that you care about as your personal love for the subject will make a difference. Oh, did I mention practice?"
Love your audience

Ric raised a very significant issue, about being human with your audience.

He added: "With all this focus on the mechanical and your presence it's easy to forget to really talk to the audience. Make contact, converse, be warm, and be human. It's one of the more intimate presentation styles if you let it be."
Everything else

You already heard about the benefits of practicing but remember to let your free flow work as well -- depend 80% on practice and a script, but let the other 20% of being free within a framework also work for you! So in effect you will know your slides like the back of your hand, but you should be able to move your hands as you like.

Ric adds one last thing: "Find out if your start and end slides are considered part of the pres. Just something to know." Also, there are lots of videos from Ric's Pecha Kucha events on the San Jose site. Ric mentioned that Indezine readers in the Silicon Valley are welcome to contact him if they want to try out Pecha Kucha in an upcoming event.

Charles provided a link to his Pecha Kucha presentation on YouTube.

Categories: delivery, powerpoint, presentation_skills

Learn PowerPoint 2010: Control Animation Timings with Advanced Timeline

noreply@blogger.com (Geetesh) — Fri, 11 May 2012 03:45:00 +0000

The main advantage of the Advanced Timeline is to edit the timing and sequencing of your animations. You can easily control the start time, duration, and end time of your animation to the most minute level. In addition, you can also animate any slide object very slowly to span over a whole minute or more by just dragging the start and end points of any animation bar outwards in the timeline. We have already explored how to show/hide the Advanced Timeline within PowerPoint 2010, and in this tutorial, you will learn how to control animations with the help of Advanced Timeline.

Learn how to control animation timings with the help of advanced Timeline option in PowerPoint 2010.

Categories: animation, powerpoint_2010, tutorials

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Picture Borders

noreply@blogger.com (Geetesh) — Thu, 10 May 2012 03:30:00 +0000

Although it is so easy to insert a picture in your PowerPoint slide, you should almost always look at doing more with your pictures thereafter. Probably the first thing you can do to make the picture more effective is cropping. In addition, you can also adjust how the picture looks by applying adjust picture options. Thereafter, you may apply any of the preset Picture Styles available. However, PowerPoint packs quite a punch as far as picture edits are concerned -- you can even play with the borders that surround your pictures. In this tutorial, we will explore the Border options that allow you to add anything from a simple outline to a beautiful frame to make your pictures stand apart.

Learn how to add and edit Picture Borders in PowerPoint 2011.

Categories: office_mac, pictures, powerpoint_2011, tutorials

Slidevana for PowerPoint: The Indezine Review

noreply@blogger.com (Geetesh) — Wed, 09 May 2012 04:00:00 +0000

Slidevana is a presentation toolkit which provides over 150 ready to use slide layouts including charts, diagrams, tables, and frameworks. Slidevana slide layouts use a clean, minimal design, and are available in dark and light color schemes which can be edited to meet your specific needs. You can also customize logos, graphics, and color palettes, or even add an entirely new layout.

Slidevana is already available for Keynote for Mac, iPad and iPhone. In this tutorial we'll explore Slidevana for PowerPoint, that works on both Windows and Mac versions of the program.

Learn about Slidevana, a collection of slide layouts that can be used within PowerPoint.

Categories: powerpoint, templates

Learn PowerPoint 2010: Show/Hide the Animation Advanced Timeline

noreply@blogger.com (Geetesh) — Wed, 09 May 2012 03:45:00 +0000

PowerPoint 2010's default Animation Pane allows you to perform many tasks such as adding animation to any slide object, changing the animation event, and setting the speed of the animation, as required. Most of the time, that may be all you need -- but at times, you may want more minute control. You might want two animations to start at the same time, but you want one of them to start just two seconds before the other. In situations like these, you'll need to use the Advanced Timeline option. Unlike in PowerPoint 2007 and previous versions, you no longer need to change to the Advanced Timeline since that's the one that is active by default. However, you may have turned it off to enable the Basic Timeline -- read on to find out how you can make the Advanced Timeline visible or invisible by following these steps.

Learn how to make the Advanced Timeline for Animation visible/invisible within PowerPoint 2010.

Categories: animation, powerpoint_2010, tutorials

Indezine News Released

noreply@blogger.com (Geetesh) — Tue, 08 May 2012 04:00:00 +0000

Silhouettes are the topic for this week's editorial again -- we already looked at them last week, and this week we have more free silhouettes for you to download and use in your slides. What sets these silhouettes apart from the other silhouettes that you can get from stock photo sites is that these are all PowerPoint native graphics. This means you can select any of these silhouette graphics and use any of PowerPoint's fill, outline, and effect options to make the graphics look coordinated with the rest of your slides. Also let us explore more advantages of using silhouettes -- since these don't consume a large file size, the silhouettes can be animated easily, even if you use multiple animations happening at the same time.

Read more in the newsletter here.

Categories: ezine, powerpoint

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Picture Styles

noreply@blogger.com (Geetesh) — Tue, 08 May 2012 03:30:00 +0000

PowerPoint's adjust picture options enable you to customize inserted pictures in your slides in many ways. Additionally, PowerPoint also provides you with a collection of preset Picture Styles, which can be directly applied to any selected picture. Picture Styles are somewhat similar to the Shape Styles since they take just a single click to provide the selected picture with a great look -- but, that's where the similarity ends. Because, the Picture Styles are not Theme specific. They just make the picture stylish by applying a border, changing the frame shape, or, by adding some 3-D effects.

Learn how to apply preset Picture Styles to your pictures in PowerPoint 2011.

Categories: office_mac, pictures, powerpoint_2011, tutorials

Businesswoman Silhouettes for PowerPoint - 02

noreply@blogger.com (Geetesh) — Mon, 07 May 2012 04:00:00 +0000

These businesswoman silhouettes are ready to use within your PowerPoint presentation slides – and have been provided in both black and white colors. Both variations are contained within two separate slides in one presentation that you can download. In addition, you can use PowerPoint’s fills, lines, and effects to make these silhouettes appear coordinated with your slides.

Copy the silhouettes graphics (clip arts) of your choice from the downloaded presentation, and paste them into your PowerPoint presentation slides. All these silhouette graphics can be used and customized with Shape Styles just like any other PowerPoint shape. You can also paste them into a Word document, an Excel worksheet, or any other program.

Download and use this presentation.

Categories: graphics, powerpoint, presentation_samples

Learn PowerPoint 2010: Change an Animation

noreply@blogger.com (Geetesh) — Mon, 07 May 2012 03:45:00 +0000

Let's say you have used a Fade animation for a slide object, and now you want to use a Wipe animation instead. It's been observed that most of the time, typical users just remove an animation and apply another one rather than using the change animation option. This may be because in PowerPoint 2010, you see no Change option within the interface, but it's still a very easy one-click operation to change an existing animation to another one, as you will learn in this tutorial.

Learn how to change animations for a given slide object in PowerPoint 2010.

Categories: animation, powerpoint_2010, tutorials

Businessman Silhouettes for PowerPoint - 02

noreply@blogger.com (Geetesh) — Fri, 04 May 2012 04:00:00 +0000

These businessman silhouettes are ready to use within your PowerPoint presentation slides – and have been provided in both black and white colors. Both variations are contained within two separate slides in one presentation that you can download. In addition, you can use PowerPoint’s fills, lines, and effects to make these silhouettes appear coordinated with your slides.

Copy the silhouettes graphics (clip arts) of your choice from the downloaded presentation, and paste them into your PowerPoint presentation slides. All these silhouette graphics can be used and customized with Shape Styles just like any other PowerPoint shape. You can also paste them into a Word document, an Excel worksheet, or any other program.

Download and use this presentation.

Categories: graphics, powerpoint, presentation_samples

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Reposition Picture Fills with Crop

noreply@blogger.com (Geetesh) — Fri, 04 May 2012 03:30:00 +0000

In PowerPoint, shapes and pictures are important parts of a slide -- both of them are mainly used to add visual elements to your presentations. However, there are some problem areas when you use a picture as a fill for a shape. Primarily, you'll find that PowerPoint insists on filling the entire picture to a shape -- in the process, the picture itself may appear distorted. Figure 1 depicts an example -- on the left is the actual picture we used to fill the shape on the right -- note that the man's face is squeezed and squashed when used as a picture fill. This completely destroys the look we wanted to attain. Fortunately, regaining the proportion is an easy option, as you will learn in this tutorial.

Learn how to reposition the picture fill in a shape, using the Crop to Fill option in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

Categories: office_mac, pictures, powerpoint_2011, tutorials

Learn PowerPoint 2010: Animate Text

noreply@blogger.com (Geetesh) — Thu, 03 May 2012 03:45:00 +0000

In our ongoing animation tutorial series, we showed you how you can add an animation to any slide object in PowerPoint. However, there's more to text animation than just adding animation. By default, when you animate a text placeholder or text box, all the text contained animates at one go unless your text content is within a bulleted or numbered list -- in that case, all text animates in sequence. Even then, the animation is sequenced to first level paragraphs (first level bullets) -- and any sub-bullet levels contained in your text placeholders or text boxes animates along with its parent level. In this tutorial, you will learn how you can access some specialized options for animating paragraphs and bulleted text sequentially by words, by letters, and by paragraph levels.

Explore the extra options available for text animations in PowerPoint 2010.

Categories: animation, powerpoint_2010, text, tutorials

Resonate on iPad: A book that’s now become an experience

noreply@blogger.com (Geetesh) — Wed, 02 May 2012 04:00:00 +0000

When Nancy sent me a copy of her book, Resonate that has been recreated for the iPad, I knew that what I was looking through on my iPad was more than just a presentation book. In fact, this was more than a book -– it was Nancy sharing her thoughts, her encounters, and her inspiration with everyone.

The folks at Duarte did post about Resonate's new incarnation on their blog, and while I agree with them when they say "Resonate is the first interactive business book built using Apple’s iBooks Author", I don't think that iBooks Author is the only nuance that sets this book apart.

So what is it that sets Resonate on the iPad apart? And how did something that is so interactive happen? Also, did Resonate on the iPad happen because the iPad as a medium is a great way to share content? The answer to that question is both yes and no –- the iPad certainly facilitated this metamorphosis of a book to an experience but when you look (notice that I used the term look rather than read) at Resonate on an iPad, you will observe that Nancy and her team at Duarte have done so much more than using the iPad as a medium! There are small touches everywhere – like when Nancy talks, or when there is animation that’s soothing and resonating. Also loved the video in which sound waves create patterns using salt – yes, everything that I have discussed is available in the book, but then that’s just a book, this is an experience!

Also, you will notice how within the introduction video, there’s a flame or a source of light that moves almost in 3D space amongst 2D pictures (see the embedded YouTube video below) –- clearly the team at Duarte worked with this project with tons of planning and oodles of experiments. Go and get this book and enjoy -- it's not everyday that you get to look at a book, and feel an experience of this sort!

See Also: Nancy Duarte on Indezine

Categories: books, ipad, powerpoint

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Crop Pictures (Mask to Shape)

noreply@blogger.com (Geetesh) — Wed, 02 May 2012 03:30:00 +0000

You already learned how to play with all the different Crop options in PowerPoint 2011 -- all except the Mask to Shape option, which we explain in this tutorial. Mask to Shape can be immensely helpful if you want any picture to show contained within a shape. In other words, you start with a conventional, rectangular picture and end up a picture that's not contained within a non-rectangular shape.

Learn how to crop pictures using Mask to Shape option in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

Categories: office_mac, pictures, powerpoint_2011, tutorials

Indezine News Released

noreply@blogger.com (Geetesh) — Tue, 01 May 2012 04:00:00 +0000

Several issues ago, we discussed how silhouettes can be a great design idea. Let us explore some examples of why a silhouette can work better than typical pictures or even vector art. First of all, silhouettes are mainly neutral -- you cannot identify the race or nationality of a person based on their silhouettes. This makes silhouettes a very useable form of visuals for audiences that have a large international or racial representation. Silhouettes also do not call for attention, and can work as subtle graphics that complement and sync with the speaker or presenter rather than drawing attention. Imagine you use a picture of a very beautiful or an ugly person on your slide -- it is natural for the audience to look at that visual for a longer time at the expense of giving you attention!

Read the newsletter here.

Categories: ezine, powerpoint

Learn PowerPoint 2010: Animate Charts

noreply@blogger.com (Geetesh) — Tue, 01 May 2012 03:45:00 +0000

We have already explored how you can animate any slide object, and then tweak the animation speed and animation events. Although you add animation to a chart in the same way, PowerPoint provides some extra animation options that are applicable only to charts. For example, you can animate series and categories individually as required -- and you can also decide whether you want to animate the plot area or not. In this tutorial we'll explore how to apply animation to chart and also explore the various Chart animation options in PowerPoint 2010.

Learn how to animate charts in PowerPoint 2010.

Categories: animation, charting, powerpoint_2010, tutorials

Businesswoman Silhouettes for PowerPoint - 01

noreply@blogger.com (Geetesh) — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 04:00:00 +0000