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New Podcast Episode Available! “Dollars and Designs: Essential Financial & Business Tips for Presentation Designers”

New episode of The Presentation Podcast now available!

Episode 215 of The Presentation Podcast has the hosts, Troy Chollar, Nolan Haims, Sandra Johnson, and Lori Chollar delve into the financial side of running a presentation design business. This episode is a treasure trove of insights on managing finances, from invoicing and insurance to business structure and studio operations. Listen on your favorite podcast app, or at The Presentation Podcast site here.

By |2025-02-07T16:14:17-08:00February 5th, 2025|Resource/Misc|

Add File Size to Teams

For February we are diving into Microsoft Teams with many of our internal uses, workflows, and managing presentation files and projects with Teams/SharePoint. We are starting the month with one of those annoyances of viewing folders and files within Teams, because the file size is not turned on by default (ugh!).

Microsoft Teams offers many options in its’ directory columns beyond the default view. These can help organize and categorize file information, making daily Teams use easier and more intuitive. As an example, one of the directory options we turn on for virtually every project is showing file sizes. To add a column which displays each file’s size is a simple process.

  1. Within the Teams directory, to the right of the column titles, select + Add column to reveal the Create a column

  1. In the lower left of this panel, select to Show or hide columns.

  1. The Edit view columns panel will appear on the right. The current visible columns will be checked and at the top of the list. Scroll down to find the File Size

Check the File Size box to show (or uncheck to hide)

  1. Don’t forget to click Apply at the top.

  1. That’s it! Your File Size column is now live and will display each file’s size (NOTE: individual files have size, but folders do not).

Look through the display options as other options may be helpful.

TIP: Columns can be rearranged to your preference by simple drag-and-drop (just click and drag any column name to move to desired position and unclick to “drop”). Everyone accessing the Teams folder will see the new columns, in the order you setup. And unfortunately, we have not found a way to apply this view to all folders by default…

Mike @ TLC

By |2025-02-02T21:41:35-08:00February 3rd, 2025|Resource/Misc, Software/Add-Ins|

TPP e214 – 2.5 Presentation Predictions for 2025

New episode of The Presentation Podcast now available!

Our three industry experts — Troy Chollar, Sandy Johnson, Nolan Haims — have a lively discussion about the future of presentation design in 2025. Each offering 2.5 presentation design predictions for this year, ranging from the impact of AI to the importance of accessibility and emerging design trends. Listen on your favorite podcast app, or at The Presentation Podcast site HERE.

By |2025-01-18T10:48:39-08:00January 22nd, 2025|Resource/Misc|

New Podcast Episode Available! “A Journey Through Time: Pro & Tech Tips Only”

New episode of The Presentation Podcast now available!

Welcome to a special episode of the Presentation Podcast, aptly titled “A Journey Through Time: Pro & Tech Tips Only”. In this episode, hosts Troy, Sandy, and Nolan take a journey through their favorite Pro and Tech Tips from past episodes. They share their curated list of apps, presentation formatting tips, and gadgets that have been game-changers for them, and listener favorites. Listen on your favorite podcast app, or at The Presentation Podcast site HERE.

By |2024-12-30T11:43:39-08:00January 8th, 2025|Resource/Misc|

My QAT is All Words! Give Me Back My Icons – Part 2

Back in July of 2021 our post “My QAT is All Words! Give Me Back My Icons” was visited a lot! Which we interpret to mean the PowerPoint update to the default QAT display affected a lot of people. In summary, we lamented how Microsoft PowerPoint’s update altered the visibility of the 37 icons in TLC’s standard QAT setup. After some research, we found the new setting and “fixed” the QAT bar. The solution was (note below is the new-new way to update the QAT bar text labels), right click an empty space on the QAT and use the new option, “hide command labels” to return the QAT to icons only. Yay – our QAT once again was icons vs. text labels. 

Fast forward three years to November 2024, and we have discovered that new command, “hide command labels”, has moved. Here is the new process – and solution if your QAT is showing long text labels and not icons:  

  1. Open PowerPoint and go to the File tab in the top-left corner of the window. 
  2. Select Options from the list on the left-hand side. This opens the PowerPoint Options dialog box. 
  3. In the PowerPoint Options dialog box, click on Quick Access Toolbar from the list on the left. 
  4. Under the Customize Quick Access Toolbar section, uncheck (or check) the box to “Always show command labels”.  

Hopefully this is helpful! And if you are looking to turbo charge your QAT, download and install the TLC Creative custom QAT – read about it and download here.

By |2024-12-18T21:26:07-08:00December 26th, 2024|Resource/Misc|

New Podcast Releases Today – “Our 12 Presentation Memories of 2024”

New episode releasing on The PowerPoint Blog today!

The final podcast episode of 2024, #212, releases today with Troy, Nolan and Sandy recounting their 12 most memorable presentation highlights of 2024. Listen on your favorite podcast app, or at The Presentation Podcast site here.

By |2024-12-16T11:26:45-08:00December 17th, 2024|Resource/Misc|

TPP e210 – Visual Leadership with Todd Cherches

New episode release at The PowerPoint Blog!

This episode, the conversation is about visual design and the application of visual thinking and communication in management and leadership. It involves using visual aids, metaphors, and storytelling to convey a vision and engage an audience effectively. As Todd Churches explains, leadership is about having a vision of a better future and communicating that vision so others can see it too!

Listen here.

By |2024-11-29T08:32:52-08:00December 3rd, 2024|Resource/Misc|

The Reluctant Designer’s Field Guide to PowerPoint – A Conversation with Stephy Hogan

In this podcast episode, Troy, Nolan, Sandy, and guest Stephy Hogan delve into the intricacies of where familiar Adobe tools are in PowerPoint. Stephy’s new book, “The Reluctant Designer’s Field Guide to PowerPoint” is now available, and is an amazing resource for both Adobe designers working in PowerPoint, and PowerPoint designers moving to Adobe Creative Suite apps. This episode is a treasure trove of insights and tips, listen now!

Join the conversation through your favorite podcast app, or at the episode 210 webpage that includes the shownotes, links to resources, and photos!

By |2024-12-18T12:49:59-08:00November 19th, 2024|Resource/Misc|

AI For Presentation ShowDown

At the 2024 Presentation Summit conference I was invited to be part of a fun event, “The AI for Presentation Showdown”. The goal was 5 event presenters each had 4 minutes to display a real-world application of an AI tool of their choice used for presentation – which could mean presentation design, presentation content creation, etc.

My AI tool was using Microsoft CoPilot, from within PowerPoint, to provide a 3rd party/unbiased review of the presentation and provide a summary of the content, based on the slide content. The prompt was simply “Summarize this presentation”. The idea is to review with the presenter and see if the external summary of the presentation message aligned with the message they planned.

I think this is a great use of AI as it provides an unbiased review and summary, which is a great conversation starter.

(note: I intended to have a video of my portion of this talk, but sadly no video was captured…)

Troy @ TLC

By |2024-10-24T07:51:54-07:00October 24th, 2024|PowerPoint, Resource/Misc|
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