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

TLC Creative’s 2019 Top 10 – #10

Sometimes things work together amazingly. This is a first for us – and it was great. Troy and Lori had separate shows in Europe, were able to coordinate an extended stay and enjoy a weekend in Vienna before flying back together!

By |2019-12-15T15:36:33-08:00December 16th, 2019|Personal|

TLC Creative’s 2019 Top 10!

We are wrapping up December, and 2019, with a look back at our Top 10 moments here at TLC Creative Services. Each day’s image for composited in PowerPoint (hey, it’s what we do!) and the last day of the year will be the animated version.

By |2019-12-15T14:54:24-08:00December 15th, 2019|Resource/Misc|

“New” Shape Styles Presets

So why the quotes around “new” for this post’s title? Well, this is not really a new feature in PowerPoint, but it has come up on conversations enough recently for me to realize this addition to shape styling that has been in PowerPoint since January of this year (maybe earlier), has not been noticed by everyone.

PowerPoint Format Presets
Shape styles are preset formatting options for PPT vector shapes. Color options are based on the template color scheme, accents 1-6 and either the light or dark background style. When content is moved to a new presentation, the colors auto update to that presentation color scheme. In the latest roll out of updates, Microsoft expanded to include a new level of these styles called “presets.”

New Shape Styles Presets 1

New Shape Styles Presets 2

New Shape Styles Presets 3

These new shape styles presets include five styles: transparent, transparent with colored outline, semi-transparent with no outline, colored fill with no outline, and lastly, gradient fill with no outline. These styles can quickly be applied to any shape with a click of a button. Happy stylizing!

 

-Troy @ TLC

By |2019-12-08T08:41:17-08:00December 12th, 2019|PowerPoint|

Using Morph As Part of the Slide Design

Morph is one of the most powerful animation/motion tools in PowerPoint. Most instances of morph I see leverage Morph for simple movement of content. Here is an example from one of the TLC Creative design team where morph is used for elements that make up each slides background styling and provide movement within the presentation that is not directly moving top level content. 

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There are 5 slides in this demo, and no on-slide animation, just Morph transitions.

As with all Morph effects, all content must be at the slide level. Content on Master layouts cannot be a part of the morph effect. And Morph relies on content being on the slides before and after the current slide (red arrows show images from slide 1 and where they go on slide 2. Yellow star is content end position from previous slide. Green stars are content start position for next slide).

Troy @ TLC

By |2020-04-20T20:16:34-07:00December 10th, 2019|Portfolio, PowerPoint|

Top 50!

Troy’s other passion project, The Presentation Podcast, began in 2016 and next month will start Season 5! No advertising and a conversation about visual design, who knew it would be a success!?

Last month the blog made it into the Top 50, based on Apple podcasts in the U.S., a huge milestone and accomplishment for a podcast is a very full category.

By |2019-12-03T00:42:44-08:00December 5th, 2019|Resource/Misc|

New Podcast Episode – What is the Presentation Designer Skill Set?

A new episode of The Presentation Podcast is available today! Troy, Nolan and Sandra explore “What is the Presentation Designer Skill Set?” in episode 91.

Listen on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify and Soundcloud – just search for “The Presentation Podcast” – or go direct to the episode page here: https://thepresentationpodcast.com/podcast/91

By |2019-12-03T00:46:45-08:00December 3rd, 2019|Resource/Misc|

Presentation Guild Event – Talk Presentations with Garr Reynolds

–UPDATE– This event was rescheduled for Sunday evening (yesterday), but the blog post was not able to be updated to reflect the new time. If you missed it (like I did), the Presentation Guild said a recording of the talk will be available soon —

This is Presentation Guild member only event (and you should be a guild member!) this week. Garr Reynolds is doing a 45 minute live web chat for “an informal discussion on his Presentation Zen book series.”

Wednesday, December 4, 2019

8:00am Kyoto, Japan  / 3:00pm PST / 6:00pm EST

Log in to the Presentation Guild website to register.

By |2019-12-03T22:50:58-08:00December 2nd, 2019|Resource/Misc|

Presentation Guild Membership Sale!

The Presentation Guild is one of the best advancements of the Presentation Industry this decade. If you are not a member, and you see this post before December 2, 2019, take advantage of the “Cyber Monday” sale on all guild membership options.

See all membership options and prices here (pricing does not reflect the sale prices): https://presentationguild.org/join/

Summary:

  • New member BOGO (Buy one annual membership, get one year free)
  • $25 off membership renewals
  • 20% off Group Memberships
  • 20% off Certifications (buy now, take up to 1 year from purchase)
By |2019-11-30T13:14:10-08:00November 30th, 2019|Resource/Misc|
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