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Today! The Presentation Ideas Online Conference

Join me (Troy Chollar) today at the Presentation Ideas Conference – it is FREE and a virtual online conference HERE. 

I am presenting today (November 28, 2018) at 11:00 AM (PST). My talk is all about “ultrawide” PowerPoint presentations, covering not only insights into the design process, but the technical how-to’s of developing super wide, super size presentations! 

Website: https://www.presentationpoint.com/presentation-ideas-conference/

When: November 28-29, 2018

Cost: Completely free!

Speakers:

  1. Chantal Bossé  – Your Key to Audience Engagement: PowerPoint’s Zoom Feature
  2. Troy Chollar – Really, Really BIG PowerPoint (Screen Size, Not File Size)!  
  3. Ellen Finkelstein – 9 Techniques to Make Your Presentations Modern — So You Don’t Look So Old!
  4. Garland Coulson – 10 Creative Ways to Use Data In Presentations
  5. Geteesh Bajaj  – 7 Secrets of Using Images in PowerPoint
  6. Kurt Dupont – The Simplest Way to Make Real-Time Data Presentations
  7. Sharyn Fitzpatrick – Best Practices on How to Transition to Online Presenting 
  8. Garland Coulson – The Lazy Man’s Method to Fast Easy Content Creation

 

By |2018-11-28T09:00:13-08:00November 28th, 2018|Resource/Misc|

The Presentation Podcast Episode #66 Released Today!

A new episode of The Presentation Podcast with Troy, Nolan, and Sandy is available today! Check out the latest episode, #66 – Scope Creep and the Boiling Frog.

  • All Presentation projects all have parameters; what is needed, when it is needed, who needs to approve, how you will be paid. Project scope can be very simple or very robust. One thing that is almost inevitable, the project scope changes before the final design piece is approved. Join Troy, Sandy, and Nolan as they talk about how they setup project scope, and stories of Project Scope that slowly expanded throughout the project timeline.
By |2018-11-19T13:12:01-08:00November 20th, 2018|Resource/Misc|

Quick Access to Slide Master

This is a re-post from earlier this year, originally posted on June 08, 2018.

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The Master Slide is where as presentation designers we try to keep clients away from. But as a designer, this is a fantastic shortcut to accessing the master slide!

As example, we want to change the background color across all slides. Easy, just update the Master Slide. The typical way of doing this is  View > Slide Master and the Master Slide view opens with that layout selected.

Directly to the Master Slide 1

However, we need to change the background color on the Master Slide, not the Master Layout. So now we need to scroll up and select the Master slide at the top. Too many steps for a busy presentation designer!

A quick and easy shortcut to achieve going directly to the Master Slide is to hold SHIFT + DOUBLE-CLICK on the NORMAL VIEW icon in the lower right bar.

Directly to the Master Slide 3

This is will automatically open the master to the top slide where you can quickly update all slide backgrounds.

Here it is in action, 1 click (okay a double-click) access to the Slide Master.

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Troy @ TLC

By |2019-11-06T21:55:21-08:00November 9th, 2018|PowerPoint, Resource/Misc|

New Book – A Trainer’s Guide to PowerPoint

Mike Parkinson, a Microsoft MVP for PowerPoint, has a new book available; A Trainer’s Guide to PowerPoint! 

The subtitle “Best Practices For Master Presenters” is almost misleading in that it seems to limit the scope of this great resource. This is 180 pages of professional tip, after professional tip – and it is as much about presentation design as it is about presenting. The book is officially divided into 3 sections; Discovery (identify the presentation goal), Design (create the presentation), and Delivery (present). BUT, the Design section could easily be 2 or 3 sections. It has fantastic tips on developing the presentation content storyline (very different from designing the actual slides) and then a huge number of design tips (developing the actual slides in PowerPoint).

Not bragging, but on a recent visit to Washington, DC, Lori and I spent an afternoon with Mike and Jen Parkinson, and received an autographed copy of “A Trainer’s Guide to PowerPoint”!

Check it out here at Amazon.

Troy @ TLC

By |2019-01-31T14:33:06-08:00October 24th, 2018|Resource/Misc|

Presentation Ideas Conference 2018

Presentation Ideas Conference 2018 is happening soon!

PresentationPoint makes some amazing software to use PowerPoint to control digital signage (and more). They are sponsoring an upcoming online presentation conference that has a lot of great topics, information, and is FREE to register to attend!

TLC Creative’s Troy Chollar will be presenting at this year’s Conference 2018 November 28th at 11:00 AM (PST). Troy is bringing examples of recent “ultrawide” PowerPoint projects for “Really, Really BIG PowerPoint (Screen Size, not File Size)” talk and covering not only insights into the design process, but the technical how-to’s of developing an ultrawide PowerPoint file. 

Website: https://www.presentationpoint.com/presentation-ideas-conference/

When: November 28-29, 2018

Cost: Completely free! Just register online to receive updates and reminders leading up to the event.

Speakers:

  1. Chantal Bossé  – Your Key to Audience Engagement: PowerPoint’s Zoom Feature
  2. Troy Chollar – Really, Really BIG PowerPoint (Screen Size, Not File Size)!  
  3. Ellen Finkelstein – 9 Techniques to Make Your Presentations Modern — So You Don’t Look So Old!
  4. Garland Coulson – 10 Creative Ways to Use Data In Presentations
  5. Geteesh Bajaj  – 7 Secrets of Using Images in PowerPoint
  6. Kurt Dupont – The Simplest Way to Make Real-Time Data Presentations
  7. Sharyn Fitzpatrick – Best Practices on How to Transition to Online Presenting 
  8. Garland Coulson – The Lazy Man’s Method to Fast Easy Content Creation
By |2019-01-31T14:33:20-08:00October 22nd, 2018|Resource/Misc|

2019 Presentation Summit (Location and Dates)

The Presentation Summit 2019 – Dates are reserved on my calendar!

Lori and I had a fantastic time at the 2018 presentation Summit hosted in San Diego, CA. Just putting out advance notice, the 2019 Presentation Summit website officially announces the location and dates for next year. Lori and I will be attending, hopefully presenting again and would enjoy seeing you there!

Website: https://www.betterpresenting.com/summit/

Who: 200+ attendees, 20 presenters, 14 Microsoft “PowerPoint” MVPs, a number of Microsoft PowerPoint developers and PMs, and representatives from many presentation industry companies

When: October 6-9, 2019

Where: San Antonio, TX 

 

Troy @ TLC

By |2019-01-31T14:33:21-08:00October 17th, 2018|Resource/Misc|

The Presentation Podcast Episode #64 Released Today!

A new episode of The Presentation Podcast with a group of international presentation designers gathered together to talk about PowerPoint, what they see in presentation use and design, and lots of  random topics. Join the conversation with Troy, Nolan, Glen Millar (from Brisbane, Australia), Chantal Bosse (from Quebec, Canada), Tom Howell – Mark and Sam (from Synapsis Creative in Sydney, Australia).

Episode, #64 – PowerPoint International Perspectives

 

By |2018-10-16T06:30:25-07:00October 16th, 2018|Resource/Misc|

The Presentation Podcast Episode #63 Released Today!

A new episode of The Presentation Podcast with Troy, Nolan, and Sandy is available today! Check out the latest episode, #63- Live From the 2018 Presentation Summit 

This episode is a live conversation recorded at the 2018 Presentation Summit in San Diego California. We gathered around a table and just the let conversation flow – so enjoy a fantastic everything presentation conversation among 10 presentation industry experts!

By |2018-10-01T07:34:27-07:00October 2nd, 2018|Resource/Misc|
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