PowerPoint

Webinar by Troy – PowerPoint 2013, What’s New, Better, and Different

AudioSolutionz has asked me to present a live webinar on PowerPoint 2013. It will be this Wednesday, February 19 at 10am PT/1pm ET.

I have a large list of features that are new for the application, the designer, and the presenter.

Knowing where the PowerPoint 2013 new features are, how to turn them on, and how to use them can be a frustrating experience of trial and error. This is a one-stop overview the new features demonstrated and explained. Session Highlights:
• Learn what is new with video: playback, export and usable formats
• Discover 6 menus that are no longer pop-up dialogs – and have added formatting features
• Instantly apply any color on the screen to a shape or text in 2 clicks!
• Explore all the new slide transitions
• What are Smart Guides, and what is “Equidistant?” – they are both in PowerPoint 2013
• Widescreen is now the default, but it is not the same as the old widescreen
• Presenter View is now useable
• Learn how to zoom in on a slide – during a presentation
• and more, plus Q&A

Details and registration is here.
Use the promo code “Troy 20” for a $20 discount.

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-08-10T09:51:01-07:00February 17th, 2014|PowerPoint, Resource/Misc|

PowerPoint for Website Mockup

This year, TLC Creative Services finally updated its website (which is still in process). I am very happy with the new site and additional information it provides. When developing applications, and websites, PowerPoint can be a great tool in the initial stages.

For example, here is the TLC website mocked up in PowerPoint.

Each item is a separate, and editable, PowerPoint shape. The navigation labels can be revised, their order adjusted and the drop down menus revised.

Just another example of using the flexibility of PowerPoint to accomplish more than just “slides.”

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-08-10T10:10:49-07:00October 30th, 2013|Portfolio, PowerPoint, Resource/Misc|

Video of Animated Map From PowerPoint

Here is an amazing video showing a 1000 years of border history in Europe.

[original video no longer available from source]

Yes, you could fairly easily develop this video in PowerPoint. It would be what we internally call a “Flip Book” animation. One static slide per border change. Then set all slides to auto transition (with the CUT transition) and .01 to .05 seconds for the AFTER setting. When played, it will give the same effect as the above video – although sourcing the data and customizing the country shapes to each border would be a very large project! The video creation would be a simple as FILE>>EXPORT>>CREATE A VIDEO.

Here is a quick video I developed in PowerPoint using the Flip Book animation styling with a vector map of the United States (which was missing in the above video) and exported as a video.
[youtube src=”https://youtube.com/embed/Fpqd3v9gl7A?rel=0″]
57 slides, no animation, auto transitions, exported as video.

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-08-10T10:15:18-07:00September 27th, 2013|PowerPoint, Resource/Misc|

PowerPoint is my Creative Suite

“PowerPoint is my Creative Suite” is my first session I am busy preparing for the Presentation Summit that is this October in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

I have been pulling real projects from the archives to use as examples. It is going to be a great session with lots of examples and, I will be in the Help Center over the 3 day event to talk about projects and PowerPoint design options.

Hope to see you there! Here is The Presentation Summit info page.

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-08-10T10:19:05-07:00September 6th, 2013|PowerPoint, Resource/Misc|

Promo Reel of Prezi Presentations

Many projects start with “Do you create Prezi presentations?”

Yes, TLC Creative Services develops Prezi presentations! We apply years of professional presentation design to the unique capabilities of Prezi so presenters have something dynamic and different than other presenters. Here is a promo reel that shows a sampling of Prezi presentations we have developed.
[youtube src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/-iRdyRQ60Jc?rel=0″]

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-08-10T10:22:26-07:00August 23rd, 2013|Portfolio, PowerPoint|

Multi-City, Streaming, Presentations

Last week, I developed the presentation graphics and ran the presentations fort his is the show. It was unique in that I first developed the full animation and dynamic presentations. This was used for the local audience. I then developed a webcast (LiveMeeting) version of the same slides (fewer styling and animation effects to be compatible with the system). Last, was confirming the internal streaming TV system was able to capture and broadcast all without issue. The presentations ran on separate systems that I setup with a central remote to control all for simultaneous presentation control. The overall meeting had the local plus 3 remote sites, local and remote presenters (who took control of the webcast presentation and I followed for the local audience), telepresence cameras and a lot of group interactivity. All ran smoothly and it was a great show!

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-08-10T10:28:23-07:00July 22nd, 2013|Personal, PowerPoint|

PowerPoint 2013’s Updated Slide Sorter

There are a number of visual enhancements to PowerPoint 2013. Some I like, some not as much… One I really like is a small update to the slide sorter when reordering slides.

Now, when a group of slides are selected, they minimize to a small stack icon (here I have grouped 29 slides displayed as a single icon). This is a small update, but it makes it much easier to move large sets of slides and quickly see where the slides need to move to.

– Troy @ TLC

By |2016-08-16T08:45:49-07:00February 11th, 2013|PowerPoint|
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