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
Created in PPT 2010 in less than 5 minutes – download here. (51K)
2012 is going to be a great year – and the regular blog posts resume this week!
– Troy @ TLC
Here is the end result:
This great 3D icon was developed entirely in PowerPoint 2010. Using standard shapes, 3D Perspective and the Shape Combine tools.
Here are steps to create:
1. Insert the tear drop shape from the shape menu.
2. Rotate the shape until the point is pointing down.
3. Change the color to a gray, and remove the outline.
4. Insert an oval shape, holding down shift to make it a perfect circle. Holding ctrl, it will expand from the center and place in middle of the tear drop shape.
5. Remove the outline from the circle, if there is one.
6. Select both shapes and group.
7. For the 3D rotation, we will need the group selected.
8. Select “off axis 2 left.”
9. For the 3D effects, we only need the tear drop shape selected.
10. Height: 19.5 pt, width 0 pt, depth 5 pt, material special effect >> soft edge, lighting >> three point, angle 190.
11. Now you have a 3D tear drop shape.
Design requests are always diverse and some things can still be developed more dynamically in video editing vs. PPT. TLC Creative Services did slide makeovers for all the presentations at this meeting, but I spent some time in the video edit suite to develop this quick animation to kick off one of the meeting segments.
[youtube src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/buUOoE7jucc?rel=0″]
– Troy @ TLC
This is a fun video I created that shows a mid-size show being loaded in (setup) I was the graphics/PowerPoint designer and operator on (thanks to Paul Chrisope of Video Resources for sharing the photos).
[youtube src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/5Y7mAk4x5ZE?rel=0″]
Check out the next post were I show how the video was created with PPT.
– Troy @ TLC
If you can head to Arizona this week, this Saturday, November 5 is the Desert Code Camp event. This is the first year it is offering an MS Office specific track – thanks for several Microsoft MVPs, including my friend Kathy Jacobs (OneNote MVP and former PPT MVP). The event is in Chandler, Arizona.
Get the details here.
– Troy @ TLC
Using the Shape Combine/Subtract/Union tools TLC Creative designer, Jennifer, developed this great pumpkin entirely from standard PPT shapes.
[youtube src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/yiD1hSN3cdM?rel=0″]
The development was basically 30 steps, which we captured as individual slides to create the video directly from PPT.
Here is what the slide looks like, which you can download here (47K) .
– Troy @ TLC
Wanda, one of our talented TLC Creative designers, developed this great Halloween themed template we are sharing with everyone.
The template is native to PPT 2010, 16×9 aspect ratio and features several layouts including a great animated title slide (Note: All elements on the title slide from the background to the cauldron and hat were created in PowerPoint).
[youtube src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/pcN6Gtf4UuM?rel=0″]
Download the full template here:
– Troy @ TLC
There is a lot of mouse movement when designing slides in PowerPoint (and while I really like the ribbon layout, I feel there is more mouse movement now than in the legacy toolbar interface). Adjusting font size is a common design need and can easily be done with keyboard commands.
To increase a font size:
To decrease a font size:
– Troy @ TLC
While on a show in Miami this month (great show with fantastic presentation design requests – more about this next month), the crew dinner was at “Burgers and Beer Joint.” The food was great in a very crowded place and the menu featured the hamburger made with 10lbs of ground beef (plus another 10lbs of bun and condiments). Now that was a presentation!
Note: That is an impressive and huge hack saw being used to cut “The Mother Burger” into servings.
– Troy @ TLC
As a follow up to the previous post, Steve Rindsberg of PPTools has some how-to info for those that are willing to delve into VBA coding.
Sub VertTheDominantParaLegal()
With ActivePresentation.Slides(1).Timeline
With .MainSequence.Item(1)
.Timing.Duration = 108000
End with
End with
End Sub
Note 1: Steve’s info was specific to PPT 2007, so not certain how it works in PPT 2003 or 2010.
Note 2: I do zero VBA coding, so I am no help with how to use this code or trouble shooting it (I leave that to the code pro’s like Steve).
– Troy @ TLC