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Julie Terberg is a Microsoft PowerPoint MVP (Most Valuable Professional) and one of the top presentation designers around. She is well-known for her incredible animations and special effects, which look as if they were done in Adobe Flash or a high-end animation program. They’re all done in PowerPoint. She has created a stunning [...] A great way to emphasize and draw attention to an object on a slide is to circle it. Of course, the easy way is to insert a circle, and use the Appear or Fade entrance animation. Be sure to format the circle with no fill. I like to use a red outline and [...] On the popular TV show, NCIS, scenes end with a still shot that starts in color and then becomes black & white. In a discussion on the LinkedIn group, Great Communicators! Effective Presenting & PowerPoint, this technique was suggested as a fun section transition for a presentation. Here’s how the technique looks:
[...] Sigh! Although I write about communicating in a visual manner all the time (see 5 Steps to Slide Design for Non-Designers, for example), sometimes it becomes clear that certain presenters will never get there. I’m working with the organizer of a conference for physicians. The organizer has asked them all to use PowerPoint, [...] John Ringold e-mailed me asking how to enlarge part of an image that is encircled within an oval. Here’s a slide with a map on Long Island. The idea is to magnify the section inside the oval. a map on Long Island I came up with two techniques. Contest! If you can [...] You’re familiar with drop-down menus in software applications and on websites. You can create a drop-down menu in PowerPoint, too. The main menu button is used as a trigger, so that when you click it, the animation starts. If you want the dropped-down menu to disappear for the next use, the method is a [...] You can create the illusion of growth and motion using the technique of frame animation. Frame animation duplicates the same object in slightly different positions or sizes and then quickly displays one after the other. This is how old-fashioned movie animation was done. Remember, though, that this process was very labor-intensive. Good animation is [...] Bulleted text elicits a lot of animated, opinionated discussion. I’ve covered the pros and cons of bulleted text and provided some tips for working with, or without, them: * Quickly get rid of bullets * Cliff Atkinson’s Beyond Bullet Points Sometimes, you can’t think of a way to avoid bullets. So, how do you [...] A while ago, I asked my subscribers what they want from this site, and the responses were contradictory. Some of you wanted basics and others wanted advanced techniques. In this tutorial, I’ll provide a basic tutorial of animation along with best practices that even advanced users should find valuable. Happily, animation in PowerPoint [...] |
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