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

PowerPoint Zoom – Overview of Options

PowerPoint’s newest feature is Zoom. It is a combination of Custom Shows, in-presentation hyperlinks, the Morph transition, and some new features like dynamic live updating content. It is available to Office 365 subscription PowerPoint 2016. Seeing Zoom in use is definitely the easiest way to explain Zoom, but today I want to go over the technical stuff. Check back all week as I have video demos showing how this new tool can be used.

Zoom_01

To get to Zoom, go to INSERT tab > LINKS section > ZOOM drop down.

Zoom_02

There are 3 options:

CREATE SUMMARY: Automatically adds sections to a presentation if they are not present and adds a new navigation slide with links to each section, and links default to go-to-location.

SECTION ZOOM: Only previously created sections are available and links are added to the slide currently being edited, and links default to Show-and-Return.

SLIDE ZOOM: Adds links to any selected slides, and links default to go-to-location.

Zoom_Post1_01

Once a Zoom is added to a presentation, the ZOOM FORMAT tab is available.

Zoom_Post1_02

    • Once a Zoom thumbnail is selected, the additional options become available under the Zoom Tab
    • Zoom Options: Settings include Change Image of thumbnail, Option to return to the Zoom slide (show-and-return), and the length/duration of the zoom transition
    • Stylize with borders or additional Zoom Styles and Effects become available from the drop down menu (basically any photo styling option is available to a Zoom thumbnail)
    • Option to remove the slide Zoom Background and fill with a different color or image from the Fill menu (this is a very cool new feature, look for a blog post on it coming up!)

Legacy PowerPoint

  • Yes, Zoom does work on non-Office 365 PowerPoint (eg. PowerPoint 2016 back to 2007)
  • Instead of the dynamic zoom effect, the destination slide transition is used

– Troy @ TLC

 

By |2016-08-26T12:04:51-07:00August 22nd, 2016|PowerPoint|

Blogs Infographic

Every now and then, I find something that is worth sharing. This infographic is not only well designed (lots of good ideas for iconography and layouts for presentations), but has lots of great information about coordinating and adding posts to a blog.

 

Check out this infographic at webmag.co “70 Tips to Boost Your Blog” and be inspired.

 

Boost your blog

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-08-19T09:28:31-07:00August 19th, 2016|Resource/Misc|

Hide the PowerPoint Ribbon

The PowerPoint Ribbon is super helpful in being in the same place on all installs of PowerPoint. Sometimes, it uses valuable screen real estate. Luckily, it is easy to hide the Ribbon, just click the small upper arrow on the right.

PowerPoint Ribbon 1

When the Ribbon is turned off, PowerPoint frees up all that space just by displaying the menu bar (and on my install, the QAT that is below the menu bar).

PowerPoint Ribbon 2

Any time a menu item is clicked, the Ribbon temporarily displays.

To make the Ribbon stay visible, click any menu item, then click the small thumbtack icon on the right.

PowerPoint Ribbon 3

-Troy @ TLC

By |2016-08-12T10:51:19-07:00August 17th, 2016|Tutorial|

Zoom Demo Webinar Today

Today at 11:00am PST / 2:00pm EST, The Presentation Guild is hosting a Free Webinar with a Microsoft Program Manager demonstrating a new PowerPoint Zoom tool – with Troy Chollar from TLC Creative Services as the moderator/host for this live demo. Hope you can join everyone!

Zoom Demo Webinar

Register and get details here.

Or, view the webinar recording here.

-Troy @ TLC

By |2016-08-24T07:16:50-07:00August 16th, 2016|Resource/Misc|

PowerPoint Content vs. Picture Placeholders

Inserting an image using the preset Picture Placeholders seems like a super shortcut, until things get frustrating with why images do not insert the same way every time a Picture Placeholder is used. The reason, almost always, is knowing there are two types of Placeholders – and each handles images differently.

Here is an explanation and example using a Content Placeholder vs. Picture Placeholder – and as a side note, neither option works the way I feel it really should…

CONTENT PLACEHOLDER

Inserting an image in the Content placeholder, identified by this icon, offers the option of inserting various elements: Tables, Charts, Smart Art, Video, and Images.

Insert Content icons

Inserting an image in the Content placeholder adjusts the layout to the size of the actual image. If you insert a small image, the placeholder shrinks to the small size image. If you insert a large image, the image will at maximum be the size of the slide and the placeholder will grow to that size. The downside is the preset position and size on the master layout is ignored and the slide content needs to be manually repositioned and sized.

Content placeholders

 

PICTURE PLACEHOLDER

Inserting an image in the Picture placeholder adjusts image to fill the size of the layout. The downside here is the image is often cut off and needs to be repositioned and resized using the Crop tool.

Picture placeholders

 

While both Placeholder options are pro’s and con’s, at least now you have an idea of what PowerPoint is doing and what to expect.

 

-Troy @ TLC

By |2016-08-09T18:15:45-07:00August 15th, 2016|Tutorial|

Video Demo of Zoom

PowerPoint is adding a new feature named ZOOM.

zoom 1

Zoom leverages the Morph transition and Sections to create a new way to quickly develop non-linear presentations with a new dynamic visual effect. Here is a quick demo of how easy it is to create custom shows within a presentation using Zoom.

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– Troy @ TLC

By |2019-10-31T22:13:10-07:00August 11th, 2016|PowerPoint, Software/Add-Ins|

FREE Microsoft Demo Webinar for PowerPoint Zoom

The Presentation Guild is hosting a FREE webinar next week, and everyone is invited! Derek Johnson, a Microsoft Principal Manager, is the presenter, and TLC Creative’s Troy Chollar is the moderator. Register for the event and get an advanced live demonstration of the new PowerPoint Zoom tool.

PowerPoint Zoom Webinar

The webinar is August 16 at 2:00-3:00 pm EST. It is free and open to everyone. Get details and register here. View the recorded webinar here. 

 

Check back this Friday for a quick video demo of one Zoom feature by TLC.

 

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-08-24T07:19:51-07:00August 9th, 2016|Resource/Misc|

Using Morph for Animations

The PowerPoint Morph transition is PowerPoint’s best new animation feature!

using morph for animations

We have been leveraging the fantastic new transition in lots of presentation projects since its release, including using Morph for animations. Here is another example where we used Morph as the animation effect. Our client wanted to show the above three statements. The real request was to emphasize each as they were addressed. Our first step was to convert the provided bullet list into a dynamic visual; the end result was the above slide.

For the “emphasize each” request, using the Morph transition as our animation, we created a dynamic “flip” animation effect. It also was something that did not look like “PowerPoint.” Below is a video of the final animation effect:

  • After the slide layout was approved, we duplicated the slide 3X.
  • On the first slide, we added the animated entrance effect for the 3 circles and text.
  • On the second, third and fourth slides, we simply horizontally flipped each circle. No animation on these slides. The Morph transition created the nice twirl, or flip, animation.
  • Done!

using morph for animations

 

– Troy @ TLC

By |2025-12-19T13:32:51-08:00August 5th, 2016|Portfolio, PowerPoint, Tutorial|

Probiotics Slide Makeover

This is a slide makeover from a recent presentation design project. For the project, we discussed the styling, end use, presenter style and content with our client. After developing a custom PowerPoint template, visual styling rules, and then a speaker support presentation based on the provided presenter script.

Slide makeover

Not only did we learn a lot about Probiotics, but we developed slides like this that simplified 4 paragraphs of text into a clear visual message.

-Troy @ TLC

By |2016-08-08T10:23:38-07:00August 3rd, 2016|Portfolio|
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