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
May the Fourth Be With You!
Some of the TLC Creative presentation design team having some Star Wars inspired fun on this day!
Podcast Release – Troy & Lori talk about being a travel PowerPoint designer
Are you at the computer each day working on PowerPoint presentations? What if your daily job was working on PowerPoint presentations in a different location every day – or every week? Troy and Lori of TLC Creative Services talk about being a travel presentation designer.
MS PowerToys – File Explorer Image Preview (super powers!)
Window file explorer, while I prefer it over the Mac OS Finder, it has a lot of missing options. PowerToys adds a few!
MS PowerToys – Color Picker
PowerPoint has a built-in Color Picker tool, which is great. But I need a color picker not only for presentation design, but web projects, social media media and more. I am using the PowerToys color picker more and more as my go to tool.
Microsoft PowerToys – Cross Hair Target
This is another nifty tool that works for presentations, demos and training videos. Similar to the Find My Mouse highlight, or spotlight, this one adds a full screen target cross hair where the mouse is located.
Podcast Release – Can AI Create Better Presentations?
AI is coming to presentation design – and every aspect of the internet, computing and the world. It is not something that just suddenly was created, but is a major evolution of technologies, and very recently packaged into consumer facing interfaces for general public use. Troy and Nolan talk about their experience with AI tools, where they see AI in presentation design, and how Microsoft’s AI powered Copilot is going to enhance presentation development, and everyone should be ready to embrace AI in presentation design – soon.
Listen here.
MS PowerToys – Find My Mouse
This is the feature that caught my attention about Microsoft PowerToys. It is something I have used while presenting and find it to be a great tool, for presenting, instructing, creating how-to videos and more.
-Troy @ TLC
Microsoft PowerToys and PowerPoint
This is a free set of Windows OS utilities that is put out by Microsoft. I have had these installed for a while and use many of the features and I have a mini-series on some of these great features that work with presenting.
These are FREE for Windows 10 and 11 OS computers. Search “PowerToys” – 1 word – in the Microsoft App Store to install.
Once installed, all of the tools and features are available. The only parameter is PowerToys needs to be running (on my computers I have MS PowerToys automatically run when the computer starts).
– Troy @ TLC