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PowerPoint 2013 All This Month!

After many months of testing the new version of Office, a few weeks ago Microsoft released the Public Beta, which clears the NDA commitment and lets me do this series on the upcoming PowerPoint release. So the entire month of August will be posts about the new and exciting things in our presentation future!

Side note: I have been invited to present at this years Presentation Summit specifically about PowerPoint 2013. I am excited about the conference in general – it really is one of the best gatherings of presentation professionals in the country – and this talk will allow me to go into greater detail using PPT13 for live demos of real world presentation design and delivery scenarios. So, if you can be in Phoenix, AZ this October and want to talk about what the future holds for us in PowerPoint design and delivery, I look forward to seeing you at The Presentation Summit.

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-08-16T09:17:55-07:00August 1st, 2012|Personal, Resource/Misc|

Happy Birthday PowerPoint!

This day, July 31, is noted as the birthday of the PowerPoint application! It has come a long way since its humble beginnings as a grayscale Mac only app! Here is a great story and quick history of PPT from the inventor of the software, Bob Gaskins, in today’s BBC online.

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-08-16T09:18:18-07:00July 31st, 2012|Personal|

Friday the 13th “Doodle”

I am not superstitious, but the whole “Friday the 13th” thing is a phenomena that only happens a few times a year (actually 3 times in 2012 all 13 weeks apart in January, April & July – according to a quick web search).

This is my “doodle” in honor of today being Friday the 13th. It has nothing to do with any project, took less than 5 minutes, but is a fun visual using PPT 2010’s bevel, 3D perspective, shadows and other text style settings.

Download the single slide here, 40K.

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-08-16T09:21:47-07:00July 13th, 2012|Personal, Resource/Misc|

Billboard Design by TLC Creative Services

Highway billboards are like large scale presentation slides, designed for an audience that is far away, not focused on the screen (presentation = presenter, billboard = car in front of you) and made to be a message that can be understood in a few seconds.

This is one of 20 billboards showing up around San Diego right now that Lori from TLC Creative Services designed for our client. Of course, the huge GB size Photoshop image is a big difference from a slide design project.

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-06-23T14:49:34-07:00July 6th, 2012|Personal|

July and a New Start!

Greetings to all that think I fell off the internet. I did not fall off, just into more projects and work needs than ever expected, which is good, so I am not complaining (but whining a bit)!

July, with Independence Day and celebrations of Freedom, seems like a great time to get things back in motion. The new TLC Creative Services office is up and running, great design projects are in process, and I just finished a fantastic 2 week family holiday that gave me some time to relax and refocus. All together, things are good and I am excited to have a game plan for ThePowerPointBlog again!

A few adjustments have been put in place to assure things are steadily posted:
– 3 posts per week (generally Mon-Wed-Fri)
– The full TLC Creative Services staff is now a part of writing posts
– Posts by guests are in the rotation

So tomorrow, Monday, is the first PPT post, Wednesday is a great 4th of July themed template that anyone is free to download and use, and there are a lot of reviews, tutorials and example posts all created and queued up!

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-08-16T09:23:29-07:00July 1st, 2012|Personal|

Doctors, Videos, and Presentations

Amber and I spent the week in Chicago managing the presentations for 130 Doctors. Internal medicine has been revolutionized by micro video camera technology – unfortunately, the same cannot be said for standard video CoDecs and videos working smoothly in every presentation. Happy to report that with very few exceptions, our work pre-flighting (great term from my print designer days) resulted in seamless presentations.

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-08-16T09:24:06-07:00April 18th, 2012|Personal|

Greetings From My Table

Just another show, array of computers and nice view of the action from the “front of house” tech table.

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-08-16T09:24:43-07:00April 10th, 2012|Personal|

CloudOn Puts Full PPT on iPad

I have been experimenting with “CloudOn” for the iPad which launched just a month ago. The company description “Use the CloudOn workspace on the iPad to access your files and manage them.” “Edit, review and present docs in Microsoft Office” is a good summary of the offering.

Here are a few screen captures of designing slides on my ipad:

– This is the real PPT 2010, so the same ribbon interface and options (some features are disabled).

– The smaller iPad screen size was a factor in editing slides.

– I really like the keyboard CloudOn uses with all of the Function, CTR, ALT and other keys.

Basically, you are accessing a remote version of Microsoft Office 2010, just like you can connect to your computer through your iPad using LogMeIn or other remote access apps. Of course, the service means you must be online to work in PPT, so WiFi is good or your monthly bandwidth may get a lot more use. It is the real PPT 2010 interface, which is not touch sized (I tap on the wrong icon a lot) and has no gesture control.

For me, it is a fun novelty that does prove more valuable for presenting than designing slides.

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-08-16T09:28:29-07:00March 26th, 2012|Personal, Resource/Misc|

The new TLC Creative Services office – Behind the Scenes

At the end of 2011, we purchased our new office space, had a great contractor handle moving virtually every wall and door (consolidated a few of the workspaces and hallway into a large workspace for most designers to be in), followed by an IT contractor handling the network wiring (his only question was “Why do you need 43 data ports?”) and some creative planning with the IKEA office furniture app. We have settled in (even have art on the walls!) and are keeping busy doing what we enjoy.

Visitors are welcome (but I do tend to be working in a ballroom somewhere more than at the office).

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-08-16T09:29:38-07:00March 22nd, 2012|Personal|

PPT 15 – WOW!!!

That is the real program, although a buggy beta version. But it is real, it is installed on one of my test computers and I have a lot of great news, tutorials and examples to share — when it is publicly available and I am clear of my NDA obligations – sorry.

– Troy @ TLC

By TLC Creative Services, Inc.|2016-08-16T09:31:04-07:00March 16th, 2012|Personal|