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PowerPoint's special effects can turn plain text into something worth staring at. Follow these tips to start off right.
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Great post about formatting text in PowerPoint. Tips, illustrations and notes about 6 options how to do it. 
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You suck at powerpoint! The power and importance of good design in your presentation.
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Learn from these slides what mistakes you should avoid making so that you wouldn't suck at PowerPoint! Sorry, this presentations has just been marked private. Too bad it happened now that many people have seen it.
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Fireworks are yet another cool trick you can use to spice up your PowerPoint presentations by combining simple shapes with animations. There are many different ways to create fireworks depending on...
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If you want to make your PowerPoint presentation more eye-catching, use fireworks effect.
Fenia's curator insight,
March 16, 2015 4:57 AM
A feature I didn;t know it existed in PowerPoint. Really useful.
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This is your SUPER GUIDE for putting YouTube videos into PowerPoint! Follow the links below to find the tutorial for your version of PowerPoint...OR...slowly scroll down the page to learn some adva...
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If you do not know how to embed a YouTube video in PowerPoint presentations, here is a useful tutorial for older and newer versions of the program. There is also a Troubleshooting guide to help you overcome any issues that arise.
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To get slides to the front animation sequence, visit my blog here: http://bit.ly/1ykmNUt . This video shows a super cool animation add-in that I wish I knew ...
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See how you can easily add animations to your PowerPoint presentations.
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My newest tutorial video about ways to make a cartoon of yourself in PowerPoint, including using CrazyTalk Animator, which is a separate software you can get...
David Swaddle's curator insight,
January 28, 2015 11:01 PM
CrazyTalk is so much fun! Here's a quick demo of what it can do.
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We have launched WizIQ Recordor: an amazing lecture-recording software designed exclusively for your teaching needs.
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A great add-in to PowerPoint that lets you create an audio lecture or a presentation syncing your narrative with the slides.
Murielle Godement's curator insight,
January 21, 2015 8:07 AM
Pour sonoriser des présentations PowerPoint.
Gust MEES's curator insight,
January 24, 2015 7:50 AM
We have launched WizIQ Recordor: an amazing lecture-recording software designed exclusively for your teaching needs.
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As you might have noticed on big monitors in public places such as train stations or airports, PowerPoint presentations can run independently with an audio commentary without an active speaker. In the following description we will show you how you can easily do the same by adding an audio track to your presentation Via PresentationLoad
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A very useful tutorial about how to add a narrative to your PowerPoint presentation.
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There are a million and one tips and tricks for using PowerPoint effectively, but what REALLY matters most? This presentation takes the 4 most important change…
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A great slide presentation with awesome tips for getting the most out of PowerPoint. If you can apply all the suggestions in creating your presentation, you'll be an ace!
Gianfranco Marini's curator insight,
October 25, 2014 3:27 AM
Una presentazione in power point pubblicata da Ned Potter su slideshare e composta da 61 slides.
Argomento: come trarre il meglio da power point illustrando 4 importanti regole con cui migliorare una presentazione.
Molto utile 
juanjovilar's curator insight,
November 4, 2014 8:08 AM
Presentación con unas reglas básicas para diseñar una buena presentación tipo Powerpoint.
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Alfredo Corell's curator insight,
September 28, 2014 8:38 AM
PowerPoint Alternative #1: Printed HandoutsPowerPoint Alternative #2: Flip-Boards / WhiteboardsPowerPoint Alternative #3: No SlidesPowerPoint Alternative #4: Mind MapsPowerPoint Alternative #5: Haiku Deck
Susan C. Freeman's curator insight,
October 16, 2014 3:42 PM
For those who fear death by PowerPoint (of whom I am not).
A GREAT PowerPoint is compelling, entertaining and memorable!
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When Used With Tact, These Techniques can Help to Make Your Presentations Fun and Engaging It'd easy to bash PowerPoint, especially given the poor uses we see
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Do you know what you can do with the good old PowerPoint? Perhaps you do. But maybe your students don't. This post by Kelly Walsh will remind you of the ways how to use PowerPoint for making better presentations.
Training in Business's curator insight,
September 17, 2014 6:40 AM
10 Pretty Awesome Things You Can do With PowerPoint 
Character Minutes's curator insight,
September 17, 2014 7:26 PM
Contains a few new ways to use PowerPoint
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Trade shows are crucial. Give your booth something extra with an interactive deck. Learn how you can make one using PowerPoint hyperlinks.
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A very useful piece of advice for PowerPoint users on how to put hyperlinks in your presentation that allow you to go to a specific slide directly.
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You don't have to have an art degree to make a beautiful Ebook! Here's how to do it in four, simple steps. You spend a lot of time making sure the content that goes into your Ebooks is unique and of high quality, right? So why wouldn’t you do the same with your Ebook design?
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This is an awesome tutorial how to make an ebook using PowerPoint. Perfect for students and teachers!
Tony Guzman's curator insight,
August 11, 2014 11:30 AM
Great tips to help you create an eBook via PowerPoint. |
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This quick guide shows how you can save your PowerPoint slides as high resolution images.
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Be professional when using PowerPoint for creating presentations with this useful tip.
Bob Connelly's curator insight,
April 9, 2015 11:33 AM
While Keynote makes it easy to export slides as high resolution images, it is a great tip for Powerpoint users.
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Before a presentation your nerves become fired up and your heart starts to pound. While the audience may be sizing you up, they are only hoping for an engaging presentation. They want you to succeed and quite frankly they need you to succeed. The infographic provided by Udemy walks us through the three critical points to creating a great presentation.
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Attractive and informative infographic on PowerPoint presentations. Thanks for the suggestion to Ivo Novy.
Fenia's curator insight,
March 24, 2015 2:37 PM
Useful guide to good presentations - not only for ppt but also for other presentation tools
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Did you know that you can create a quiz in PowerPoint? You can create a simple quiz in PowerPoint using just hyperlinks. It’s simple because it doesn’t require any programming and you can’t grade it. Students take the quiz in Slide Show view. When they choose the wrong answer, they go back to the question to try again. When they choose the right answer, they go to the next question.
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Check out how you can use PowerPoint not only for creating presentations but also for interactive quizzes.
Isabel García's curator insight,
March 10, 2015 11:44 AM
Sirve para crear test, encuestas, etc..., usando enlaces . Se elige una respuesta, si es la respuesta equivocada, regresas a la pregunta para intentarlo otra vez. No pasas a la pregunta siguiente hasta que no aciertes la pregunta.
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One of the most annoying and tedious PowerPoint tasks is aligning objects BETWEEN your slides so that stuff isn’t just floating around in your presentation…yes, everyone notices! So the question is...
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An excellent tutorial by Nuts & Bolts Speed Training on aligning objects in your presentations.
Bob Connelly's curator insight,
February 19, 2015 9:46 AM
I often obsess about alignment in my slides, even though they are usually minimalist, with little text or few objects. So something to make alignment between slides easier catches my attention!
I generally use Keynote over Powerpoint, so this won't be much help to me but might for those who do.
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Looking for some ways to make the arduous act of presentation-making faster and easier? Look no further than BrightCarbon's top five shortcuts!
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Watch this slideshow about PPT shortcuts and save your time when creating a presentation.
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Creating picture transparency is one of those zany things in PowerPoint that is technically impossible…you cannot directly add a transparency to a picture…but there just happens to be a workaround....
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A useful tutorial on working with images in your presentations.
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This simple technique is an easy way to turn those PowerPoint Slides into flipped course content. The presentation tool in Microsoft Office is one of the
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Learn how to add your voice to PowerPoint presentations.
rodrick rajive lal's curator insight,
December 21, 2014 10:45 PM
This is important advice for those who are into flipped class room teaching. Time and again, it has been reiterated that stand alone powerpoint presentations are not good enough unless they are backed by a voice over, or a verbal presentation, or a description short though it may be on each slide. The tips given in the article will help in preparing PPTs. with Voice Over.
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Typical presentations are dull affairs with text and corporate backgrounds providing little of interest. Microsoft knows this. They even released their own PowerPoint alternative called Sway.
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Useful tips for learning how to embed videos and other media in your PPT presentations.
John Gravitt's curator insight,
February 4, 2015 9:09 AM
Make sure you have a strong connection. Test before you present.
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There are so many great, hidden (or at least not as known) functions in PowerPoint. Without even leaving PowerPoint you can add great effects to your slides. …
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A quick tutorial how to make fonts transparent on a PowerPoint slide. Great for students, including beginners.
Alfredo Corell's curator insight,
November 30, 2014 10:44 AM
sometimes hidden tools to make the best of your power point!!! 
Maria Bañeres's curator insight,
September 20, 2015 4:13 AM
Presentacions interessants, millorarem els resultats...
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Bad PowerPoint design may be just as detrimental to your presentation as smelling like a horse. When you have poorly designed slides, a few things happen: your professionalism is questioned (because you essentially tell the people looking at your PowerPoint that you don't know how to create professional work); your audience members get distracted as they toggle between looking at your bad design and listen to what you're actually saying (and, in the end, they don't really ingest either); and you Via PowerPoint & Keynote Solutions from Chillibreeze
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A fantastic visual of the most common PowerPoint mistakes - everything you should not do when creating a PowerPoint presentation, displayed in a wise and witty way. Excellent resource for discussing with students.
PIRatE Lab's curator insight,
September 19, 2014 12:03 PM
Normally I hate "info graphics." This one is actually useful and good. Check this out. 
Angie Grace's curator insight,
September 19, 2014 3:34 PM
Make better PowerPoints by following these tips. 
Judih Weinstein Haggai's curator insight,
September 19, 2014 11:28 PM
very cool graphic. Helping us to stay in line!
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Baiba Svenca's insight:
An interesting post about the ways teenagers use PowerPoint to express themselves. Teachers may steal some ideas for classroom presentations.
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Training in Business's curator insight,
August 29, 2014 5:12 AM
10 Tips to Preventing PowerPoint Pitfalls |
Here are some great tips for that next PowerPoint Presentation, check them out.
Great tools, but please don't over do it. Remember you audience!