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Here you’ll find links to all of my blog posts (over 600), organized by category–Content, Design (with several sub-categories), and Delivery.

Content

  • Creating and using a strong call-to-action slide
  • Choosing a platform for your online course
  • Why you need a story for your presentations
  • Collaborate with others in real time using PowerPoint on the Web
  • Think BIG to create high-impact presentations
  • It’s about the audience
  • How to start a presentation
  • The flipped presentation: A different way to present and create handouts
  • How to speak like a leader
  • Do you tell, teach, or train?
  • Easily create a menu slide with the Zoom feature
  • Increase understanding and retention with the Tell ‘n’ ShowSM method
  • Why almost all presentations should be persuasive
  • Review of “Start strong – 3 gripping ways to open your talk” by Craig Hadden
  • 9 tips to design presentations for webinars
  • Add power to your message with better slide titles
  • Speaking to inspire
  • Keep your audience riveted by adding anticipation to storytelling
  • Import text from Word or Notepad
  • Corporate training-The never-ending course
  • The why of presentations–getting results
  • Create a system for your message
  • Create handouts for data-heavy decision meetings
  • How to copy a PowerPoint slide to Microsoft Word
  • How to present when there’s no time to prepare
  • Speaking with integrity
  • 2 ways to collaborate with others on your presentations-Part II
  • 2 ways to collaborate with others on your presentations-Part I
  • Stupidity, lies and coverups = literal Death — by PowerPoint, or not?
  • Start your presentation BIG
  • Engage: How to avoid becoming a human tranquilizer by Paul B. Evans
  • 7 quick fixes to your slides based on my experience with clients
  • Create a tabbed presentation for longer presentations with lots of topics
  • Put all benefits on one proposition slide
  • Intrigue your audience
  • Compare options with the Balance SmartArt layout
  • Use the 4 principles of meaningful communication
  • Free video training: How to Turn Your Organization’s Leaders into Powerful Presenters
  • How to convince executives that presenters need presentation skills training
  • The role of persuasion and emotion in training
  • Death to agenda slides!
  • The difference between a persuasive and an informative presentation
  • The #1 thing employers want most in a new hire
  • 3 changes you should make in the Options dialog box of PowerPoint
  • How to create a self-running presentation
  • Add a QR code to your presentation
  • How to promote deep processing and transform attitudes
  • Create a looping ending for your PowerPoint presentation
  • Question your thinking to communicate more clearly
  • Why both stories and a storyline are important for your presentations
  • 4 keys to successfully teaching a complex subject
  • Make your communication personal with photos
  • Andrew Dlugan speaks at the Outstanding Presentations Workshop
  • Is the presentation dead?
  • 2 steps to presenting persuasively: What problem do you solve?
  • Organize an action plan presentation like a soldier
  • Using presentations for decision-making
  • A good introduction/opener
  • Successful preparation is the basis for a successful presentation
  • Improve your presentations 80% in 20% of your time
  • How do you organize and structure your presentation content?
  • PowerPoint and the military
  • Garr Reynold’s top ten tips
  • Write for your audience—and a delicious recipe!
  • What makes a successful sales presentation?
  • Create a hover-over effect on a slide
  • A Death by PowerPoint story from Karen Carleton
  • Why do 60% of students find their lectures boring?
  • What’s your worst experience watching or delivering a PowerPoint presentation?
  • What do you do when you run out of time?
  • What goes on the last slide?
  • Presentation thought leaders
  • Hi-impact, lo-cost marketing with presentations
  • Write your ending
  • President Obama’s speech on health care
  • Support your statements
  • Use copywriting principles for your presentations
  • Put one point on a slide
  • Highlight important words
  • How to design more effective slides with the Tell ‘n’ Show(SM) method
  • Export all presentation text
  • Use an audience-centered structure
  • Create section markers
  • Do the research!
  • Protect a PowerPoint file from changes
  • Stay focused with pecha kucha
  • Create a visual menu
  • Create a drop-down menu
  • Create a looping introduction
  • Add flexibility with custom shows
  • How many bullets should I put on a slide?
  • Beyond Words
  • Using hyperlinks
  • Link to other presentations and return to the original presentation
  • Hyperlink to a specific slide in another presentation, or specific location in another file
  • Using a Summary Slide for a Question & Answer Session
  • Choose titles for a summary slide
  • Tell a story, or where’s the point in all this?
  • Understand the types of speeches
  • Repurpose presentations for a kiosk or the Web
  • Add relevance with layers of meaning
  • Easily create a quiz in PowerPoint using Visual Basic for Applications
  • Organize content with an outline
  • Mind Mapping® to Organize Your Presentation
  • Add notes in PowerPoint in Slide Show view
  • Designing a web-style, menu-based presentation
  • Is PowerPoint evil?
  • Expand one slide into two
  • PowerPoint principles for education
  • Quickly get rid of bullets
  • Cliff Atkinson’s Beyond Bullet Points
  • Base content on your audience
  • Create slides from audience input
  • Choose words for your audience
  • 3 Components of an Effective Presentation

Design

Animation & transitions

  • Create an animated intro for videos in PowerPoint
  • Circle an object
  • Use triggers to create interactive presentations
  • Slow image animation for a cinematic look
  • How to animate 3D objects in PowerPoint
  • Easily create a menu slide with the Zoom feature
  • Wishing you & the world all the best in 2017!
  • Visualizing concepts-24-hour protection
  • 4 steps to create a video from PowerPoint slides
  • Create cool animation with Morph in Office 365
  • Create an animated announcement
  • Create a lightbox or mask effect in PowerPoint to focus attention
  • Add pop-up text to explain a slide
  • Create an animated announcement
  • Annoying animation–don’t make people wait for the text to appear!
  • Your presentation deserves the same respect as your website and brochures!
  • Easily sync lyrics with a music video in PowerPoint
  • Sync animation with a video or audio
  • Create a video zoom effect from photos in PowerPoint
  • Animate with transitions for cool effects
  • Happy New Year — 2014!
  • Use text as a graphic
  • Illustrate a story on a PowerPoint slide
  • How to create a self-running presentation
  • The wonderful Selection pane lets you easily hide objects, select them and even rename them
  • Dynamic transitions help you connect two slides
  • Insert a live Excel spreadsheet onto a slide
  • How to use your remote to switch to another presentation in PowerPoint 2007 & 2010
  • Quick takeaways from Presentation Summit 2011–Day 1, Part 1
  • Wishes for a peaceful, happy, healthy & successful New Year!
  • PowerPoint idea: Introduce a panel of speakers
  • Use transitions and animation to emphasize change or contrast
  • Recording available for the training webinar: Animation and Video in PowerPoint—Advanced Techniques
  • Create a swinging bell or pendulum in PowerPoint
  • Animation for entertainment
  • Duplicate animation
  • Animate an image from color to black & white
  • Quickly change text color line by line
  • Highlight important words
  • Magnify or enlarge an image
  • Create a drop-down menu
  • Create a looping introduction
  • Use advanced animation to show growth & motion
  • Undim bulleted text
  • Tutorial on animation and best practices
  • Match the end of a motion path animation to the beginning of another
  • Make an object disappear behind another object
  • Animate a table or chart in PowerPoint 2007 & later
  • Animate a bouncing ball
  • 3 text animation techniques
  • Animate Text on Top of Text
  • Animate a chart or table
  • Use triggers to create interactive charts
  • Synchronize animation with music
  • Putting Flash animation in PowerPoint
  • Multimedia animation techniques
  • Combine animation techniques to create stunning PowerPoint slides
  • Create the effect of a line drawing itself
  • Create a slide show that really slides!
  • Create a pop-up window
  • Create a cascading animation effect
  • Animate a revolving earth

Backgrounds & color

  • Get a designer look with abstract images to create backgrounds for slides and shapes
  • Use contrast to make your text and colors pop!
  • Create a mood or duotone look in PowerPoint
  • 5 principles for easier and faster slide creation
  • Working with multi-speaker presentations
  • I’m redesigning ellenfinkelstein.com! What does rebranding mean for my presentation design?
  • Apply a slide master to a presentation
  • Create a quick texture background
  • Customize the default theme to instantly get the look you want
  • Hide background graphics for design flexibility
  • 2 PowerPoint 2013 secrets
  • Use a texture as a frame for your slides
  • 8 steps to add branding to your presentations
  • Photo-editing features in PowerPoint 2010
  • Create a textured PowerPoint background that changes colors
  • Design a first slide that stands out and matches your brand
  • Highlight one part of an image in color
  • Creating a slide master–or two–in PowerPoint
  • 6 steps to create a quick PowerPoint makeover
  • Create a theme in PowerPoint that changes colors
  • 10 steps to create a better PowerPoint theme
  • Find colors for your PowerPoint color scheme (theme colors) with Adobe kuler
  • Choose colors based on desired results
  • Animate an image from color to black & white
  • Choose fonts and colors for legibility
  • Create multi-color gradients in PowerPoint
  • Using web page backgrounds in PowerPoint
  • Create an instant background from a photo
  • Create a simple border
  • Copying Colors from a Website
  • Backgrounds: Using mid-range colors

Charts, tables & diagrams

  • A simple, 4-step guide to beautifully visualize data in your presentations
  • Changing the order of items in a chart
  • Integrating Live Power BI Dashboards into PowerPoint
  • Switch rows and columns in a chart
  • Use PowerPoint like a flip chart–draw as you speak
  • Create a table from Excel data in PowerPoint
  • Customize the colors in your slide master
  • Moving the axis labels when a PowerPoint chart/graph has both positive and negative values
  • My latest SmartArt faves
  • Slide design rules for effective presentations
  • Compare options with the Balance SmartArt layout
  • Adjust the location of the X (horizontal) chart axis in a PowerPoint chart
  • How to display equations and formulas in PowerPoint
  • Create a table in PowerPoint
  • Shortcut to complex shapes with SmartArt in PowerPoint 2007 and 2010
  • How to Create a Chart-Graph in PowerPoint from Excel Data-Part III
  • Create a PowerPoint chart/graph with 2 Y-axes and 2 chart types
  • Easily create flexible diagrams that look professional
  • Insert a live Excel spreadsheet onto a slide
  • Create quick, professional diagrams with SmartArt in PowerPoint
  • Business concept diagrams: Group 1–Working together, parts of a whole, integrating the parts
  • 6 steps to create a quick PowerPoint makeover
  • Support your statements
  • Push PowerPoint charting options to the limit
  • Create a timeline agenda in PresentationZen style
  • Animate a chart or table
  • Formatting Bar Charts
  • Designing chart titles
  • Create effective graphs/charts

Design principles

  • 3 techniques for putting less text on your slides
  • Presenting remotely: Avoid the 8 deadly sins of webinars
  • Think BIG to create high-impact presentations
  • It’s about the audience
  • The flipped presentation: A different way to present and create handouts
  • Why branding is essential for your presentations
  • Layer images and shapes for stunning slides
  • Increase understanding and retention with the Tell ‘n’ ShowSM method
  • Using BIG circles on slides to make a bold, modern statement
  • 5 principles for easier and faster slide creation
  • 10 tips for modern design in 2017
  • A neat little psychology trick for quickly laying out messy slides
  • 9 tips to design presentations for webinars
  • Icons are hot now — how to get, make, and use icons
  • I’m redesigning ellenfinkelstein.com! What does rebranding mean for my presentation design?
  • Design an e-book or report cover in PowerPoint
  • 3 tips to make your slides more persuasive
  • Create a tile menu with hyperlinks to slides
  • Create handouts for data-heavy decision meetings
  • Presentation design trends
  • Your presentation deserves the same respect as your website and brochures!
  • Do you present with printed slides? What if your slides were the size of your paper?
  • Stupidity, lies and coverups = literal Death — by PowerPoint, or not?
  • Create a tabbed presentation for longer presentations with lots of topics
  • Slide design rules for effective presentations
  • How to top or bottom align slide titles
  • What’s your design style?
  • Free video training: How to Turn Your Organization’s Leaders into Powerful Presenters
  • How to convince executives that presenters need presentation skills training
  • Death to agenda slides!
  • Using PowerPoint for Best Educational Outcomes
  • Slides that pop! Using the 3rd dimension on a PowerPoint slide–Part III: Collages and 3D scenes
  • A quick way to design better photo slides–the 3-side rule
  • Discover 3 reasons most presentations fail and 3 easy ways to fix them
  • Quick takeaways from Presentation Summit 2011–Day 1, Part 1
  • Presentation: Slide Design for the Artistically Challenged
  • Interview with visual language expert Connie Malamed
  • How to add design flair with a “belly band”
  • Getting a shiny Web 2.0 look in PowerPoint-Part I: Reflections
  • 6 steps to create a quick PowerPoint makeover
  • Improve your presentations 80% in 20% of your time
  • How do you convince your colleagues to present well?
  • What makes a successful sales presentation?
  • Addendum to “I have seen the worst slide in the world”
  • A Quick Lesson in Effective Presentations
  • Why do 60% of students find their lectures boring?
  • I have seen the worst slide in the world
  • Thoughts on why bad presentations don’t go away
  • New video lesson on YouTube!
  • What I’d like to see in PowerPoint design in 2009
  • Put one point on a slide
  • Create a fast moving presentation
  • How to design more effective slides with the Tell ‘n’ Show(SM) method
  • Try design variations
  • The importance of design
  • Best practices for PowerPoint presentations in Second Life
  • Beyond Words
  • Simplicity and understatement
  • Design guidelines for Web conferences

Hyperlinks

  • Easily create a menu slide with the Zoom feature
  • Create an interactive menu in PowerPoint Office Mix
  • Quickly create a grid of tiled images
  • Create a quiz in PowerPoint
  • Create a tile menu with hyperlinks to slides
  • Link text to an Excel cell to dynamically update data
  • Create a tabbed presentation for longer presentations with lots of topics
  • Switch to another presentation seamlessly
  • How to create a self-running presentation
  • Link to a specific PowerPoint 2003, 2007 or 2010 slide from Microsoft Word or Excel
  • Create a looping ending for your PowerPoint presentation
  • My training webinar: Present interactively-your audience expects it!
  • Create a looping introduction
  • Using hyperlinks
  • Link to other presentations and return to the original presentation
  • Hyperlink to a specific slide in another presentation, or specific location in another file
  • Create invisible buttons
  • Use timing, animation, or sound in a presentation with hyperlinks
  • Create a WebQuest in PowerPoint

Images

  • Using PowerPoint’s cartoon people
  • 3 ways to use images
  • Use icons to create a list
  • 3 techniques for putting less text on your slides
  • Using PowerPoint’s new illustrations
  • PowerPoint has photos again! And a lot more…
  • How to create a logo in PowerPoint
  • Think BIG to create high-impact presentations
  • It’s about the audience
  • Create an infographic in PowerPoint
  • Layer images and shapes for stunning slides
  • 4 ways to change a picture in PowerPoint without losing formatting
  • Create a mood or duotone look in PowerPoint
  • Using BIG circles on slides to make a bold, modern statement
  • 3 techniques to copy formatting in PowerPoint
  • How to insert 3D into PowerPoint
  • Create a soft look with semi-transparent images in PowerPoint
  • Inserting icons in PowerPoint 365
  • Become a master cropper–PowerPoint cropping secrets
  • 4 secrets to choose the best images for your slides
  • Format quotations to get attention
  • Icons are hot now — how to get, make, and use icons
  • Create a screenshot and screen recording in PowerPoint
  • Design an e-book or report cover in PowerPoint
  • Quickly create a grid of tiled images
  • Make a collage of photos
  • Don’t use placeholders for images, unless…
  • Create a vignette effect to make a photo more powerful
  • Office Clip Art gallery is going away
  • Your presentation deserves the same respect as your website and brochures!
  • Create a checklist graphic in PowerPoint
  • How to specify the position of an image or object on a PowerPoint slide–precisely
  • Format multiple headshots for consistency
  • Create a quick texture background
  • Add multiple images to an existing presentation
  • How to show paper forms or software screens on a PowerPoint slide
  • A complete repertoire of image treatments
  • How many uses for PowerPoint can you think of? (my 500th post!)
  • Use text as a graphic
  • Crop a picture by an exact measurement in PowerPoint
  • Using picture treatments to portray diversity or hide identity
  • 4 ways to get the right people images
  • Use PowerPoint to create buttons for slides or a website
  • 2 PowerPoint 2013 secrets
  • Anatomy of a custom graphic
  • Create training courses with screenshots within PowerPoint
  • Illustrate a story on a PowerPoint slide
  • Shortcut to complex shapes with SmartArt in PowerPoint 2007 and 2010
  • Design for quick changes–because changes always happen
  • Create clear, iconic illustrations in PowerPoint with (gasp!) clip art
  • Photo-editing features in PowerPoint 2010
  • How to format photos that are cut off — like part of an arm
  • Slides that pop! Using the 3rd dimension on a PowerPoint slide–Part III: Collages and 3D scenes
  • Slides that pop! Using the 3rd dimension on a slide–Part I: Shadows
  • Congratulations to the winners of the “stickout” photo contest!
  • 6 steps to create cool stickout photos in PowerPoint
  • How to resize and crop pictures in PowerPoint
  • A quick way to design better photo slides–the 3-side rule
  • Finish quickly with selection shortcuts
  • Make your communication personal with photos
  • Create your own graphics and icons for PowerPoint: Part II–Creating line art from scratch
  • Create your own graphics and icons for PowerPoint: Part I–Using clip art
  • Free photo-editing tools
  • Highlight one part of an image in color
  • How to combine images and make them look like they belong together
  • Add your own sketch to a slide
  • Format photos to look like old-fashioned snapshots
  • Create a video from photos in PowerPoint
  • How to get a Photoshopped look by fading in an image
  • How to create unique picture placeholder shapes
  • Stop automatic compression of pictures in PowerPoint 2007
  • Remove an image background in PowerPoint
  • Add drama with PowerPoint’s shadows
  • Support your statements
  • Dissolve One Image into Another
  • Change a picture in PowerPoint 2007 and 2010
  • Animate an image from color to black & white
  • Use PowerPoint as a graphics program
  • Magnify or enlarge an image
  • The Magic of False Backgrounds
  • Recolor graphics in PowerPoint 2007
  • Cool contour shadows
  • 3D and reflection technique
  • Emphasize a section of text or an image
  • PowerPoint Tips: Turn AutoShapes into Pictures
  • Where and how to insert an image
  • Resizing Your Presentation
  • Recolor bitmap images in PowerPoint 2002 & 2003
  • Managing Graphics to Reduce Size
  • Inside secrets to making your visuals look professional
  • Importing art into the clip gallery
  • Find free photos and images for PowerPoint
  • Crop around an image in PowerPoint 2003
  • Colorize a Photo for a Background
  • Reduce the size of your presentation files

Multimedia, music, sound & video

  • Create an animated intro for videos in PowerPoint
  • 4 steps to create a video from PowerPoint slides
  • Create an interactive menu in PowerPoint Office Mix
  • Create a screenshot and screen recording in PowerPoint
  • Side-by-side speaker video and slide content for a live presentation feel
  • Discover PowerPoint Mix for interactive online lessons
  • Easily sync lyrics with a music video in PowerPoint
  • Sync animation with a video or audio
  • Create a video zoom effect from photos in PowerPoint
  • Happy New Year — 2014!
  • Start a video with a remote
  • Invisibly control when a sound plays on a slide
  • How to create a self-running presentation
  • My sound won’t play! Embed narration or music so you can send the PowerPoint presentation to others
  • Resource for free sounds and sound effects
  • Secrets for successfully narrating a presentation
  • Hi-impact, lo-cost marketing with presentations
  • Put a YouTube video in PowerPoint
  • Convert PowerPoint to video (SWF – Flash movie format)
  • Convert iTunes M4P (and other) sounds to MP3
  • Insert video in PowerPoint
  • Create a video effect
  • Control movies with buttons
  • Play music or narration throughout a presentation
  • Playing Music Continuously in a Web-Based Presentation

Shapes & text boxes

  • Get a designer look with abstract images to create backgrounds for slides and shapes
  • 3 techniques for putting less text on your slides
  • Making text stand out with text formatting techniques
  • Use contrast to make your text and colors pop!
  • How to create a logo in PowerPoint
  • Create a mood or duotone look in PowerPoint
  • How to animate 3D objects in PowerPoint
  • Create beautiful numbered lists in PowerPoint
  • 2 ways to save time and effort by setting default shape formats in PowerPoint
  • Using BIG circles on slides to make a bold, modern statement
  • 3 techniques to copy formatting in PowerPoint
  • Inserting icons in PowerPoint 365
  • Visualizing concepts-24-hour protection
  • Format quotations to get attention
  • Create a lightbox or mask effect in PowerPoint to focus attention
  • Create a numbered list with shapes
  • Use PowerPoint like a flip chart–draw as you speak
  • Create a quiz in PowerPoint
  • Create a tile menu with hyperlinks to slides
  • Link text to an Excel cell to dynamically update data
  • Place an open circle around something to emphasize it: Creating open shapes
  • Rotate objects precisely
  • Create a checklist graphic in PowerPoint
  • How to specify the position of an image or object on a PowerPoint slide–precisely
  • Create your own graphics with bursts and stars
  • Create a quick texture background
  • Results of Extreme Shapes contest!
  • Customize slide objects to the extreme
  • 7 quick fixes to your slides based on my experience with clients
  • Create a torn edge effect–with video tutorial
  • Slide design rules for effective presentations
  • How to top or bottom align slide titles
  • Reorder objects in the Selection pane in PowerPoint 2013
  • Use PowerPoint to create buttons for slides or a website
  • 3 ways to make objects equidistant in PowerPoint
  • Space objects equidistant from each other
  • Shortcut to complex shapes with SmartArt in PowerPoint 2007 and 2010
  • Congratulations to the winners of the summer 3D contest!
  • Slides that pop! Using the 3rd dimension on a PowerPoint slide–Part III: Collages and 3D scenes
  • Slides that pop! Using the 3rd dimension on a slide–Part II: 3D rotation
  • Create professional-looking 3D effects with bevels
  • The wonderful Selection pane lets you easily hide objects, select them and even rename them
  • Finish quickly with selection shortcuts
  • How to create your very own cool shapes with the Custom Shapes tools: Part IV-Combine
  • How to create your very own cool shapes with the Custom Shapes tools: Part III-Intersect
  • How to create your very own cool shapes with the Custom Shapes tools: Part II-Subtract
  • How to create your very own cool shapes with the Custom Shapes tools: Part I-Union
  • How to create unique picture placeholder shapes
  • Getting a shiny Web 2.0 look in PowerPoint-Part II: Highlights
  • How to add design flair with a “belly band”
  • Getting a shiny Web 2.0 look in PowerPoint-Part I: Reflections
  • Create iconic people in PowerPoint
  • PowerPoint idea: Introduce a panel of speakers
  • Using the ink pens—and I learn something new about PowerPoint
  • Create soft shadows
  • Use materials and lighting for interesting fills
  • Create text reflections
  • PowerPoint Tips: Turn AutoShapes into Pictures
  • Create multi-color gradients in PowerPoint
  • Use transparency gradients
  • Rotation tips
  • Layer two fill effects
  • Cycle through overlapping objects to select them
  • Creating Soft Edges
  • Create cutouts
  • Create Bézier curves
  • Changing the Default for New Objects
  • Attach objects exactly
  • 3D Effects with Radial Gradients

Slide layout

  • 3 ways to use images
  • Think BIG to create high-impact presentations
  • Layer images and shapes for stunning slides
  • 4 layouts that always look good-video training
  • Using a slide layout template for infinite variations
  • Working with multi-speaker presentations
  • A neat little psychology trick for quickly laying out messy slides
  • Design an e-book or report cover in PowerPoint
  • Quickly create a grid of tiled images
  • Create a tile menu with hyperlinks to slides
  • Do you present with printed slides? What if your slides were the size of your paper?
  • Show the current time on your PowerPoint slides
  • 7 quick fixes to your slides based on my experience with clients
  • 3 ways to make objects equidistant in PowerPoint
  • How to create a poster in PowerPoint 2013
  • Create consistent slides with layouts
  • Presentation: Slide Design for the Artistically Challenged
  • Create a product catalog with custom layouts
  • Resetting a slide: A quick fix for awful slides
  • Improve your slide design by trying layout variations
  • Add slide numbers to your slides
  • Beyond Words
  • Reapply the Slide Layout
  • Put objects exactly on top of each other
  • Nudging Objects Slightly
  • Creating a grid for perfect layout
  • Create a custom layout
  • Align objects perfectly
  • Quickly get rid of bullets

Text & fonts

  • Making text stand out with text formatting techniques
  • How to create a logo in PowerPoint
  • Import text from Word or Notepad
  • Getting the line spacing just right
  • Embedding fonts in a presentation with non-standard fonts
  • Show the current time on your PowerPoint slides
  • My latest SmartArt faves
  • 7 quick fixes to your slides based on my experience with clients
  • Slide design rules for effective presentations
  • How to top or bottom align slide titles
  • Use text as a graphic
  • Collaborate on a PowerPoint file by inserting comments
  • How to display equations and formulas in PowerPoint
  • Adjust font spacing — both vertical and horizontal
  • 3 changes you should make in the Options dialog box of PowerPoint
  • Add slide numbers to your slides
  • Quickly change text color line by line
  • Highlight important words
  • Emphasize a section of text or an image
  • Choose fonts and colors for legibility
  • 3 text animation techniques
  • Animate Text on Top of Text
  • Set vertical alignment of text
  • Fit More Text in a Placeholder or AutoShape
  • Controlling Text Shadows
  • Choosing the most readable font

Delivery

  • Add a customizable, live web feed with Cameo
  • Creating and using a strong call-to-action slide
  • Interview with Barry Shore on the Joy of Living
  • Interview with Alfred Poor: Better Online Presentations
  • Practice your speaking skills with PowerPoint’s Presenter Coach
  • Communication skills for online success
  • Equipment for Speakers
  • Presenting remotely: Avoid the 8 deadly sins of webinars
  • The flipped presentation: A different way to present and create handouts
  • Transcribe or translate your live talk in PowerPoint with a Star Trek twist
  • Create presentation handouts using Notes pages
  • Easily create a menu slide with the Zoom feature
  • Increase understanding and retention with the Tell ‘n’ ShowSM method
  • Beyond storytelling: Create an experience
  • 9 tips to design presentations for webinars
  • Anticipate the next slide with transitional statements
  • Watch my PechaKucha presentation!
  • 2 reasons and 5 easy steps to convert a PowerPoint presentation to EXE
  • Using a window instead of full screen for Slide Show view
  • Single-source publishing with PowerPoint–use PowerPoint for all versions of your training!
  • Turn a presentation into a report or e-book
  • Use PowerPoint like a flip chart–draw as you speak
  • Experiences from the presentation trenches
  • Handouts for data-heavy presentations
  • How to zoom into a slide and choose another slide in Slide Show view–PowerPoint 2013
  • How to present when there’s no time to prepare
  • Make your webinars super interactive
  • An inspiring speaking story — from disses to raves
  • Presentation delivery tips for the greatest impact
  • Engage: How to avoid becoming a human tranquilizer by Paul B. Evans
  • Create a tabbed presentation for longer presentations with lots of topics
  • Public speaking and training via webinars
  • Put all benefits on one proposition slide
  • Start a video with a remote
  • Extend your reach as a speaker or trainer with webinars
  • Tips from my first professional Pecha Kucha
  • Presenter roles: What role do you play?
  • Free video training: How to Turn Your Organization’s Leaders into Powerful Presenters
  • How to convince executives that presenters need presentation skills training
  • Share presentations online to create instant meetings
  • How to store your presentation in the cloud–for embedding, collaboration, or marketing
  • Set up your show
  • The #1 thing employers want most in a new hire
  • Switch to another presentation seamlessly
  • Using PowerPoint for Best Educational Outcomes
  • How to create a self-running presentation
  • Which projector do you recommend?
  • The blessed B key
  • Pause when you display a new slide
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