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
Window file explorer, while I prefer it over the Mac OS Finder, it has a lot of missing options. PowerToys adds a few!
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.
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.
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.
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
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
This is fantastic information! Bookmark it, because at some point, we will all be asked to make a presentation that meets accessibility needs. Stephy put this great video on YouTube, and I am listing it here to let everyone know of it, and to keep it as a reference for our team to find it in the future!
Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p46jZ0q8blI
Troy @ TLC
PowerPoint tables – good, not good, and many tips on formatting and presenting tables from Troy, Nolan and Sandy on this episode of The Presentation Podcast. Join the conversation entitled “PowerPoint Tables are Not All Bad” here.
There were so many more fantastic slide designs that came from this internal project. A big thank you to Nolan Haims and The Better Deck Deck for the inspiration! We started with a slide design from Lori, and we are ending this series with another of the slides that Lori designed – because creativity is on display here! Using card 42 – Signpost, it takes amazing creativity to envision a signpost that not only replaces bulllets as it tells part of the story, but is a signpost underwater!
Jake on the TLC Creative design team also drew card #1 – Basic Chunking. The final slide on horror movie info not only converts the bullet points into chunks, but is an amazing visual that creates emotion and a story unto itself.
