This step-by-step series of tutorials will show you how to animate shapes and text to create a customizable patriotic slide with background music. This first tutorial focuses on drawing and animating the Red Bars shown below. Create the red bars: In this slide we’ve created two bars using rectangles...
I took a rather daring approach to business travel this past week. I hit the road with a my week-old Microsoft Surface Pro tablet and the newest release of Microsoft Office (2013). I travelled to Microsoft for a series of meetings at the annual Global...
PowerPoint Valentines Card Happy Valentines Day! Download and customize this Valentines Card created with PowerPoint. Enjoy!...
Creating Powerful PowerPoint Graphics Using PowerPoint Drawing ToolsI've been working exclusively in the business of creating PowerPoint presentations for others since 2001. Over the course of the past 12 years I’ve learned that PowerPoint users get their graphics from several sources that have their pros...
In a single day, two of my clients discussed strategies on how they would like sell to potential customers. They used the term "Insight Selling," citing the rationale that today's customers are engaging suppliers only after they have done significant due diligence to determine their needs, identify...
I am flattered to have been invited to present at the 3rd Annual Outstanding Presentations Workshop, hosted by fellow MVP Ellen Finkelstein. I'm among six other MVP colleagues and Rick Altman, the annual Presentation Summit host, that make up this year's 8-week webinar series. Ellen...
[caption id="attachment_93" align="alignleft" width="257" caption="Before: What's so important about the information on this slide?"][/caption] Take a look at the Before slide image here. It's not as bad as many of the slides I've seen in my day. There's a lot of white space and only a few short, succinct...
Step 1 Write your script or notes. Do this in PowerPoint's speaker's notes section. Write one note page per idea. DO NOT start writing on your slides. Step 2 Find a notebook (I have an 8.5 X 11 storyboarding sketchbook) and jot down your headlines, using each page...
Because she's willing to create presentations using the software that is most appropriate for an end-user, theWiz broadens potential business opportunities. It's the age-old issue: Mac vs. PC. Which is better? Designers will tell you that the Mac, hands-down, is better for fine design. I won't argue...