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

Stack of Nexus 10 Tablets

Friday we were loading a completed interactive brochure project onto Nexus 10 tablets to be shipped to the client’s tradeshow event (can you guess which tablet is our staff test one…).

So how was PowerPoint involved in a 300+ page interactive brochure? The full project was storyboarded as a slide deck so the client could review and do copy edits before moving to the HTML5 coding.

– Troy TLC

By |2016-08-10T10:41:24-07:00June 3rd, 2013|Resource/Misc|

Google and its New Image Searches

Click here to read the full commentary article on Google’s new/refined image search process.

“I did a Google search for the image” has become a standard phrase I hear a lot. It is said without thought of image quality (which often is why I am asking where the image was sourced from, in hopes of getting a higher resolution image to work with), ownership or copyright issues. Recently, Google has revised its image search display process to simplify the process. For presenters, this may be helpful, but I can definitely understand the loss of website recognition and ease of “borrowing” images.

Example of the “old” Google search results (shows source website in background):

Here is what is seen from a Google image search today (shows only image, mage specs, and related images):

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-08-10T10:42:19-07:00April 22nd, 2013|Resource/Misc|

Is This Dangerous – or Bad?

AV equipment is pretty amazing. It is shipped all over the country, connected-unconnected continuously (unlike the cable monitor on your desktop that was connected once and then ignored for its life) and usually setup and used in fairly dark venues. With all of this use in harsh environments, I get to see some pretty spectacular uses and failures.

This poor cable has met the end of its life (although it was setup for me to connect one of my show computers too). And just like in “A Christmas Story,” this may be a scary power setup.

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-08-10T10:42:47-07:00April 19th, 2013|Resource/Misc|

Guy Kawasaki and Me

At a recent show, the keynote presenter was Guy Kawasaki, who remains a fantastic speaker. I did some refinement of his presentation slides, made sure the multimedia worked in PowerPoint, enjoyed his talk, and received a very nice thank you for the effort.

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-08-10T10:43:25-07:00April 15th, 2013|Personal|

Microsoft Launches New MVP Award Website

I count being awarded as a Microsoft MVP for PowerPoint since 2004 as one of the “career” recognitions I am very proud of. The PowerPoint MVPs are fantastic, good friends and people you can trust to provide real answers to presentation questions.

Today, Microsoft launched a new version of MVP Award public website at https://mvp.microsoft.com. And this year is the 20 year anniversary of the program (pretty big accomplishment considering most software companies have not been around for 20 years yet).

Not a lot for you to see, but it is a good resource if you want to see who the MVPs for any Microsoft application are, and something I am humbled to be listed at.

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-08-10T10:43:49-07:00March 25th, 2013|Personal, Resource/Misc|

Widescreen Presentations – Size Matters

PowerPoint 2013 has updated itself to use widescreen presentations as its default (which I believe is good). And the PAGE SETUP has changed as well. The aspect ratio is the same (16:9). My friend, and Microsoft PowerPoint MVP, Echo Swinford has a great description of the page setup change here.

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-08-10T10:44:08-07:00March 20th, 2013|Tutorial|
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