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101 Tips Every PowerPoint User Should Know
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Craft Memorable Content
- The role of persuasion and emotion in training New
- How to create a self-running presentation New
- How to promote deep processing and transform attitudes New
- Outline for PowerPoint & presentation workshops New
- Create a looping ending for your PowerPoint presentation
- Question your thinking to communicate more clearly
- Why both stories & a storyline are important for your presentations
- 4 keys to successfully teaching a complex subject
- Organize an action plan presentation like a soldier
- What problem do you solve?
- Using presentations for decision-making
- Free PowerPoint alternatives: OpenOffice.org
- Free PowerPoint alternatives: Microsoft Office Web Apps
- Free PowerPoint alternatives:: Google Docs
- Free PowerPoint alternatives: Prezi
- Successful preparation is the basis for a successful presentation
- Improve your presentations 80% in 20% of your time
- PowerPoint keyboard shortcuts
- How do you organize and structure your presentation content?
- PowerPoint and the military
- Garr Reynold's top ten tips
- A good introduction/opener
- Write for your audience—and a delicious recipe
- Protect a PowerPoint file from changes
- 3 Components of an effective presentation
- Audience: Choose words for your audience
- Audience: Create slides from audience input
- Base content on your audience
- Beyond Bullet Points by Cliff Atkinson
- Beyond words
- Bullets: How many bullets should I put on a slide?
- Bullets: Quickly get rid of bullets
- Create a fast-moving presentation
- Create a hover-over effect on a slide
- Convert PowerPoint to video (SWF - Flash movie format)
- Custom Shows: Add flexibility with custom shows
- Education: PowerPoint principles for education
- Expand one slide into two
- Using hyperlinks
- Hyperlink to slide in another presentation/location in a file
- Hyperlink to other presentations and return
- Introductions: A good introduction/opener
- Introductions: Create a looping introduction
- Is PowerPoint evil?
- Menus: Create a drop-down menu
- Menus: Create a visual menu
- Menus: Design a Web-style presentation
- Notes: Add notes during a presentation
- Outlines: Organize content with an outline
- Organization: Mind Mapping® to organize your presentation
- Pecha Kucha: Stay focused with pecha kucha
- Presentation thought leaders
- Protect a PowerPoint file from changes
- Put one point on a slide
- Quizzes: Create a quiz in PowerPoint
- Relevance: Add relevance with layers of meaning
- Repurposing: Repurpose presentations for a kiosk or the Web
- Research: Do the research!
- Sections: Create section markers
- Speeches: Understand the types of speeches
- Stories: Tell a story, or where's the point in all this?
- Use an audience-centered structure
- Summary slides: Choose titles for a summary slide
- Summary slides: Use a Summary Slide for questions & answers
- Support your statements
- Text: Export all presentation text
- Text: Import text from Word or Notepad
- Use copywriting principles for your presentations
- Use presentations for high-impact, low-cost marketing
- What makes a successful sales presentation?
- WebQuests: Create a WebQuest in PowerPoint
Design Compelling Graphics
Animation & Transitions
- Illustrate a story on a PowerPoint slide New
- The wonderful Selection pane: Hide, select, rename objects New
- Dynamic transitions help you connect two slides
- Animate an image from color to black & white
- Use animations & transitions to emphasize change or contrast
- PowerPoint idea: Introduce a panel of speakers
- Duplicate animation
- Animate a bouncing ball
- Animation for entertainment
- Create a video effect
- Animate a chart or table
- Animate a revolving earth
- Animate text on top of text
- Animate a table or chart in 2007 & later
- Cascading animation
- Circle an object
- Create a pop-up window
- Create a slide show that really slides!
- Create the effect of a line drawing itself
- Dissolve one image into another
- Highlight important words
- Introduce a panel of speakers
- Magnify an image
- Make an object disappear behind another object
- Match a motion path end to the beginning of another
- Motion path animation effects
- Multimedia animation techniques
- Put Flash animation in PowerPoint
- Quickly change text color line by line
- Synchronize animation with music
- Text animation techniques
- Tutorial on animation and best practices
- Undim bulleted text
- Use advanced animation to show growth & motion
- Use triggers to create interactive charts
- Timing, animation, or sound problems in a presentation with hyperlinks
Backgrounds & Color
- 2 PowerPoint 2013 secrets New
- Use a texture as a frame for your slides New
- Create a textured PowerPoint background that changes colors New
- Cool, Zen-style PowerPoint backgrounds with Background styles
- Get a designer look: Abstract images for slide/shape backgrounds
- Free PowerPoint backgrounds and how to make your own
- Transparency gradients
- Using mid-range colors
- Find PowerPoint color scheme colors (theme colors) with kuler
- Choose colors based on desired results
- Choose fonts and colors for legibility
- Copy colors from a Web site
- Create a better PowerPoint template
- Create a radial gradient background with a highlight effect
- Create a theme in PowerPoint 2007 that changes colors
- Create an instant background from a photo
- Create a simple border
- Create multi-color gradients
- Create a changeable radial gradient background theme
- Remove an image background in PowerPoint 2010
- Use Web page backgrounds in PowerPoint
Charts, Tables & Diagrams
- Create a table in PowerPoint New
- Shortcut to complex shapes with SmartArt in PowerPoint '07 & '10 New
- How to Create a Chart-Graph in PowerPoint from Excel Data-Part III New
- Tips for turning your Excel data into PowerPoint charts New
- Create a PowerPoint chart/graph with 2 Y-axes and 2 chart types New
- Insert a live Excel spreadsheet onto a slide New
- Easily create flexible diagrams that look professional
- Make quick, professional diagrams with SmartArt (2007 & 2010)
- Business concept diagrams: Group 1–Working together
- Animate a chart or table
- Create effective graphs/charts
- Create a timeline/agenda in PresentationZen style
- Designing chart titles
- Formatting bar charts
- Push PowerPoint charting options to the limit
Design Principles
- Design for quick changes–because changes always happen New
- How to create a poster in PowerPoint 2007 & 2010 New
- Design a first slide that stands out and matches your brand
- A quick way to design better photo slides—the 3-side rule
- 6 steps to a quick PowerPoint makeover
- Improve your presentations 80% in 20% of your time
- How do you convince your colleagues to present well?
- A Quick Lesson in Effective Presentations
- Best practices for PowerPoint presentations in Second Life
- Beyond Words
- Design guidelines for web conferences
- Design: The importance of design
- Design: Try design variations
- Put one point on a slide
- Simplicity and understatement
- Tell 'n' showSM slide design
- Use presentations for high-impact, low-cost marketing
- What makes a successful sales presentation?
Hyperlinks
- How to create a self-running presentation New
- Link to a specific slide from Microsoft Word or Excel New
- Timing, animation, or sound don't work in a presentation with hyperlinks
- Create invisible buttons
- Hyperlink to slide in another presentation, or location in a file
- Link to other presentations and return
- Using hyperlinks
Images
- Use PowerPoint to create buttons for slides or a website New
- 2 PowerPoint 2013 secrets New
- Anatomy of a custom graphic New
- Create training courses with screenshots within PowerPoint New
- Illustrate a story on a PowerPoint slide New
- Shortcut to complex shapes with SmartArt in PowerPoint '07 & '10 New
- How to format photos that are cut off — like part of an arm New
- Photo-editing features in PowerPoint 2010 New
- Create clear, iconic illustrations in PowerPoint with (gasp!) clip art New
- Slides that pop! Using 3D-Part III: Collages & 3D scenes New
- Slides that pop! Using 3D on a slide–Part I: Shadows New
- Make your communication personal with photos New
- Finish quickly with selection shortcuts
- A quick way to design better photo slides—the 3-side rule
- How to resize and crop pictures in PowerPoint
- 6 steps to create cool stickout photos in PowerPoint
- Free photo-editing tools
- Format photos to look like old-fashioned snapshots
- Add your own sketch to a slide
- Highlight one part of an image in color
- How to combine images so they look like they belong together
- Create a video from photos in PowerPoint
- How to get a Photoshopped look by fading in an image
- Stop automatic compression of images in PowerPoint 2007
- Use PowerPoint as a graphics program
- Change a picture in PowerPoint 2007
- 3D: 3D and reflection technique
- Colorize a photo for a background
- Cool contour shadows
- Crop around an image
- Emphasize a section of text or an image
- Find free photos
- Import art into the Clip Gallery
- Inside secrets to making your visuals look professional
- Magnify an image
- Manage graphics to reduce size
- Recolor bitmap images
- Recolor graphics in PowerPoint 2007
- Resize your presentation
- The Magic of False Backgrounds
- Turn AutoShapes into pictures
- Where and how to insert an image
Multimedia: Music, Sound & Video
- Invisibly control when a sound plays on a slide New
- How to create a self-running presentation New
- My sound won’t play! Embed audio to send a presentation to others New
- Create a video from photos in PowerPoint
- Video: Put a YouTube video in PowerPoint
- Convert PowerPoint to video (SWF - Flash movie format)
- Insert video in PowerPoint
- Music: Convert iTunes M4P (and other) sounds to MP3
- Music: Play music continuously in a Web-based presentation
- Music: Play music or narration throughout a presentation
- Music: Synchronize animation with music
- Secrets for successfully narrating a presentation
- Video: Control movies with buttons
Shapes & Text Boxes
- Use PowerPoint to create buttons for slides or a website New
- 3 ways to make objects equidistant in PowerPoint New
- Shortcut to complex shapes with SmartArt in PowerPoint '07 & '10 New
- Slides that pop! Using 3D--Part II: 3D rotation New
- Create professional-looking 3D effects with bevels New
- Finish quickly with selection shortcuts New
- Create your own graphics & icons: Part II-Line art from scratch New
- Create your own graphics & icons: Part I-Clip art New
- How to create cool shapes with Custom Shapes: Part IV-Combine
- How to create cool shapes with Custom Shapes Part II-Intersect
- How to create cool shapes with Custom Shapes Part II-Subtract
- How to create cool shapes with Custom Shapes Part I-Union
- Get a designer look: Abstract images for slide/shape backgrounds
- Getting a shiny Web 2.0 look in PowerPoint-Part II: Highlights
- Getting a shiny Web 2.0 look in PowerPoint-Part I: Reflections
- Create iconic people in PowerPoint
- Create a visual summary slide
- PowerPoint idea: Introduce a panel of speakers
- Using the ink pens—and I learn something new about PowerPoint
- Transparency gradients-an update
- Create soft shadows
- 3D effects with radial gradients
- Attach objects exactly
- Change the default for new objects
- Create Bezier curves
- Create cutouts
- Create multi-color gradients
- Create soft edges
- Create text reflections
- Cycle through overlapping objects to select them
- Layer two fill effects
- Rotation tips
- Use materials and lighting for interesting fills
- Use transparency gradients
- Turn AutoShapes into pictures
Slide Layout
- 3 ways to make objects equidistant in PowerPoint New
- Create consistent slides with layouts
- Create a product catalog with custom layouts
- Garr Reynold's top ten tips
- Align objects perfectly
- Beyond Words
- Create a custom layout
- Create a grid for perfect layout
- Nudge objects slightly
- Put objects exactly on top of each other
- Reapply the slide layout
Slide Masters, Templates & Themes
- Creating a slide master--or two--in PowerPoint
- Create a changeable radial gradient background theme
- Create multiple slide "Masters" in PowerPoint 2000
- Create your own template
- Get rid of a template
Text & Fonts
- Adjust font spacing — both vertical and horizontal New
- Add slide numbers to your slides
- Animate text on top of text
- Choose fonts and colors for legibility
- Choose the most readable font
- Control text shadows
- Emphasize a section of text or an image
- Fit more text in a Placeholder or AutoShape
- Highlight important words
- Quickly change text color line by line
- Set vertical alignment of text
- Text animation techniques
Deliver with Confidence!
- Avoid the 8 deadly sins of webinars New
- How to store your presentation in the cloud New
- Set up your show New
- How to create a self-running presentation New
- View your slide show in a window so you can see another program New
- Compress a presentation handout New
- What you miss when you print slides using the default settings New
- Add a QR code to your presentation New
- Pause when you display a new slide New
- The blessed B key New
- Do you give out prizes when you train? Do you sing and dance? New
- Presenter View: Your secret presentation tool New
- Create a looping ending for your PowerPoint presentation
- Use your remote to switch to another presentation (2007 & 2010)
- Harness the back channel during your presentations
- Keep your screen alive during presentations
- Is the presentation dead?
- 3 things you must avoid when delivering to a live audience
- Store your presentation in the cloud--for embedding & more
- Why you need to get your presentations on the Internet-and how
- Create a handout from selected slides
- Presentation handouts: Yes or no, what kind, and when?
- Post your PowerPoint presentation as a video to YouTube
- How to Become an Outstanding Speaker
- Improve your presentations 80% in 20% of your time
- PowerPoint keyboard shortcuts
- Speech tips from Tripp Frohlichstein of MediaMasters, Inc.
- Get your audience's attention by adding anticipation
- How to become a good speaker
- Garr Reynold's top ten tips
- Yes, you can present without PowerPoint
- From PowerPoint to PDF
- Create an electronic handout with a PDF driver
- What makes a successful sales presentation?
- Add taped narration to a presentation
- Ask the audience questions
- Create a timeline/agenda in PresentationZen style
- Comedy! Life after death by PowerPoint
- Create a timer
- Custom shows: Add flexibility with custom shows
- Display a quarter-size slide show view
- Feedback: Collect information or feedback
- Feedback: Have a conversation with your audience
- Feedback: Use feedback to complete the communication cycle
- For a professional image: Good-bye filler words & hello eye contact
- Handouts: Create a background for printed handouts
- Handouts: Export the text in a presentation
- Handouts: Make great handouts
- Rehearsal: Rehearse with narration
- Handouts: Print in black & white or grayscale
- Education: PowerPoint and the Future of Education
- A good introduction/opener
- Import a PowerPoint presentation into Flash
- Let's have a Distraction Summit!
- Manage the process: Conception to rehearsal to handouts
- Add notes during a presentation
- Create a slide list
- Create a compact list of notes
- Create notes as you deliver in PowerPoint 2003
- Black out the screen and other delivery tips
- Go to the previous slide when you have text animation (builds)
- Play sound or music without clicking
- Presentation styles
- Quizzes: Create a game quiz (similar to Jeopardy®)
- Repurpose: Put a presentation on a CD that runs automatically
- Reduce the size of your presentation files
- Should you say “thank you” at the end of a presentation?
- Speaking: 12 steps to becoming a charismatic speaker
- Speaking: Don't look at the screen!
- Speaking: Public speaking is the number 1 fear -- How to beat it
- Start a presentation at a specified time
- Successfully print presentations
- Turn off pop-ups when presenting
- Use presentations for high- impact, low-cost marketing
- What makes a successful sales presentation?
