The PowerPoint® Blog

I work with PowerPoint on a daily basis and I am very honored to be a Microsoft PowerPoint MVP. We have a talented team of presentation designers at TLC Creative Services and ThePowerPointBlog is our area to highlight PowerPoint tips, tricks, examples and tutorials. Enjoy! Troy Chollar

Toyota Presentation- Before and After

Here’s another great client and example of a provided slide vs. the presentation makeover slides that were used in the final presentation. In this instance, after reading the script, we opted to divide the single slide into two more visually dynamic slides and take a long section of talking and break it into two visuals.

toyota-before-after

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-08-10T08:45:43-07:00January 15th, 2016|Portfolio, PowerPoint|

WWE Collector Poster Series

This is a print design project that spanned much of last year where we developed a collector series of large (24″x36″) posters featuring classic WWE superstars. Definitely makes things fun at TLC Creative when you walk around and have one designer working on a presentation about life saving medical treatments and the next designer developing a larger than life Hulk Hogan! Hope you were able to get to the 4 special WWE live events and collect all 4!!

WWE-collage

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-08-10T08:46:09-07:00January 13th, 2016|Portfolio|

The Magic Poof Tradeshow Booth

TLC Creative Services does a lot of graphic design projects outside the presentation world. Here is one fun, “traditional” graphic design project from last year. The creator of the Magic Poof (a great children’s book series) asked TLC to use our creativity to design a fun, imaginative and memorable tradeshow booth for the Las Vegas Licensing show. We brainstormed a few concepts and then worked with the book illustrator to get some custom character art to bring Ange-Marie’s bedroom to real-life scale as a photo op for attendees.

Magic Poof Tradeshow Booth

Print design for three 8′ tall large format banners, large format floor cling, event business cards and promo flyers.

– Troy @ TLC

 

 

By |2016-08-10T08:47:21-07:00January 8th, 2016|Portfolio|

A Really Wide PowerPoint Presentation

TLC Creative Services really likes making visually dynamic presentations, especially when they don’t fit the standard PowerPoint specifications. For an awards show, we were tasked with designing the projected 250 ft. wide backdrop and the “standard” 16×9 awards presentation. Working with the staging company, we developed this custom 10,750px x 1080px PowerPoint template. Then onsite, we made adjustments to ensure each screen was pixel accurate.

CC15_Ultrawide Screen Layout_v3

Onsite, TLC Creative’s graphics transformed the white screens into a fantastic awards show setting – the result of many projectors, some overlapping, some butt-aligned, and walls at different depths. Something more than “just PowerPoint” by the design team at TLC!

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– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-08-10T08:47:40-07:00January 6th, 2016|PowerPoint|

Have a presentation? We’ll Travel

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For January, The PowerPoint Blog is focusing on 2015 Portfolio Highlights. Looking at the 2015 project calendar, it was a busy year. Along with the number of presentation shows we get to support, comes lots of travel. It’s great to experience new parts of the world and build new memories.

Here are a few of the memorable destinations that took place in 2015:

  • Istanbul, Turkey
  • New Orleans, Louisiana (multiple times)
  • Bermuda
  • New York, New York
  • Orlando, Florida (multiple times)
  • Los Angeles, California (many, many times)
  • Singapore
  • Seattle, Washington
  • Many other ballrooms in cities across the U.S. and Canada

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-08-10T08:48:20-07:00January 4th, 2016|Personal, PowerPoint|

Happy New Year 2016 – A Resolution

Happy-New-Year-2016

Happy New Year! Everyone at TLC Creative Services is excited about 2016! Today is the 10 year anniversary of The PowerPoint Blog (Jan. 1, 2006 was the first post)!!

Our New Year’s Resolution has been in the works for a few months with the addition of new team members and a lot of planning for the blog and a few other presentation community projects this year. For The PowerPoint Blog, I have come up with 12 presentation  topics – one for each month of 2016, we have filled in the blog post titles for over 1/2 the 2016 posts, and we have over 30 posts ready to go! So, for 2016, look forward to PowerPoint samples, tips & tricks and tutorials every Monday-Wednesday-Friday!

Today’s photos are not of the TLC office (which does have some great holiday decorations too!), but of our Christmas lights at home – which is now a 10 year tradition.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-08-10T08:49:17-07:00January 1st, 2016|Personal|

Happy New Year 2016 Powerpoint Template

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2016 from TLC Creative.

Here is a full featured Happy New Year 2016 PowerPoint template. Credit to TLC staff designer Amber for the design and festive animation. This template is free for all to download and use! Enjoy! Download Here ↓(7.89MB)

New Year 2016 PowerPoint template

See a short video of the PowerPoint template.

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– Troy @ TLC

By |2019-10-31T22:18:37-07:00December 29th, 2015|Templates/Assets|

PowerPoint 2016 and the QAT (it doesn’t fit!)

I have been moving TLC Creative Services to Windows 10 and Office 2016 in small groups. The new OS and updated version of Office are stable and provide a great work environment (with a lot of customization of settings to be what I want!). One item I have not been able to figure out a solution for is how PowerPoint 2016 displays the QAT.

Here is my QAT with Office 2013 (captured last month) with PowerPoint full screen on a 1920×1080 resolution. There are 37 quick access buttons to make my design time more efficient. Note: The last button is close to the middle of the PowerPoint ribbon.

2016_QAT_3

Now here is the exact same QAT, on the exact same resolution monitor and full screen app. The only change is a move to PowerPoint 2016. Note: The last button on my QAT is not visible, the QAT buttons are incredibly spread apart and now span the entire ribbon width – and the last few buttons do not even fit, they are cut off!

2016_QAT_1

I do not have a solution (yet). I did think of the Touch Mode that adjusts the interface, but it does not affect the QAT, just the ribbon buttons. I will report back if (when) I find a QAT display solution.

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-08-10T08:51:16-07:00October 16th, 2015|PowerPoint, Resource/Misc|

The Pyramid Pie Chart

A few weeks ago, at The Presentation Summit in New Orleans, I was happily a part of the audience listening to Nigel Holmes give the opening General Session talk. Nigel is British, funny (in a British way), memorable (especially the vibrant blue rimmed glasses) and amazingly observant. In talking with Nigel later, he made it very clear that he is not claiming the below pie chart graphic as his, but I am giving him all the credit for weaving it into his talk since it was the first time I have seen it.

Nigel_Holmes

One of the TLC Creative designers recreated this amazing 3D perspective pie chart (from a photo I took of Nigel’s presentation) and it still makes me smile!

Pyramid_PieChart

Feel free to download the TLC Creative version of this slide Here.

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-08-10T08:51:42-07:00October 14th, 2015|Personal, PowerPoint|
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