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Thanks to Sandy Johnson who gave this as her Pro & Tech Tip on episode 168 of The Presentation Podcast! This applies to everyone that has multiple accounts, or tenants, on Microsoft teams.

Within Microsoft Teams, if there are multiple accounts, click on your name and available accounts are shown in the dropdown.

Microsoft Office now has the option to choose what account, or tenant, Office is using (no more signing out of one account to sign into another, it is now a dynamic selection!). Within PowerPoint, if there are multiple accounts, click on your name and available accounts are shown in the dropdown.

Troy @ TLC

Episode 167 of The Presentation Podcast releases today! Troy, Nolan and Sandy welcome returning guest, David Blatner from the CreativePro Network. They talk about the upcoming Design + PowerPoint online conference, and then chat about a really interesting design philosophy, “All Design is Creating an Experience for a User.” Listen here.

Listen, and join the conversation, as Troy, Nolan and Sandy share their 13 bold presentation predictions for 2023! Listen here.

Those on the TLC Creative Christmas was designed in-house (thank you Lori!). In addition to fun, creative design and holiday message, we included a 5-question online survey. Here are the results received to date, Happy Holidays!

As a follow up to the previous blog post (Edit Presenter Notes Live While Presenting!), I have been leveraging Microsoft Teams real-time collaboration (which I find an amazing tool!) for updating presenter notes for quite a while. The process is very easy, assuming you are running Office 365 and have a Microsoft Teams account. The presentation file is uploaded to Microsoft Teams. I open the PowerPoint file using the OPEN > OPEN IN APP, so desktop PowerPoint is used (vs. Teams or PowerPoint for Web). The SAME presentation is opened on the show computer (the computer running the slide show) and on my production computer. The only limitation is the internet connection speed (which is a constant concern while working in a hotel ballroom!). My goal is to NOT touch the show computer, I like it to just present – never lose focus on the slide show, never escape out of slide show.

I make edits on my production/design computer, and they show up on the presentation computer – including presenter notes!

Troy @ TLC

The ability to edit presenter notes, while presenting, is now available on both Windows and Mac desktop apps!  In edit view, presenter notes are added, and edited here:

And when presenting, those notes display here in Presenter View:

What is new is the ability to in Presenter View click into the Presenter Notes area. The notes area gets a white outline, indicating the focus is there. While the notes area is the focus, the presenter notes can be modified!

This is great for all presenters and a great addition to the functionality of PowerPoint!

Troy @ TLC