How To Correctly Capitalize Each Word
Capitalize My Title is an online app that applies the professional typesetting rules to title capitalization. You paste in a sentence and get back the same sentence updated to each word capitalized based on Title Case, AP/APA/Chicago/MLA style, UPPERCASE, lowercase, and more.
The top tabs select which typography rules to follow (I recommend APA or Chicago as these are the most common/universal)
The bottom set of tabs is the selection of Capitalization option.
- Title Case
- Sentence Case
- UPPER
- Lower
- First Letter
- AIT CaSe
“Title Case” is the option I recommend using, as this is where many do not know the rules and ultimately have slides with content that is not aligned to the professional typesetting standards. A good rule of thumb is to capitalize words that are more than 3 letters long, unless it is the word at the beginning of a sentence, and unless that word falls into one of the many special instance rules.
1. Manually type or paste text into app. Text is automatically updated based on the top tab option and bottom tab option.
Note: tabs can be changed and see if any of the different rules or titling options change the results. As example: on this sample sentence I would capitalize “Out” but the official rules do not…
Tips for PowerPoint text
(From Christie on the TLC Creative design team) The first item I check on any presentation is going through all my titles to ensure consistencies. A helpful tip for medical presentation is to look for any disease, medical terms, drug names, etc. that should never be capitalized. Because the web app will not recognize these words, after I go through all slide titles using the “Capitalize My Title” website, I do a quick review to double check the specialty words are capitalized correctly as it was intended since the
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Podcast 83
A new episode of The Presentation Podcast is available today! This episode join Troy Chollar of TLC Creative, Lori Chollar of TLC Creative. Richard Goring of BrightCarbon, and Tara Sheffield of SlideRabbit for a conversation about the experience of taking (and passing!) the Presentation Guild, Specialist Level Presentation Certification. , Nolan, and Sandy is available today!
Episode, 83 – We Took The Presentation Professional Certification – and Survived! is a must listen to for anyone considering taking the new presentation industry certifications. Listen in on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify and Soundcloud – just search for “The Presentation Podcast” – or go direct to the episode page here: https://thepresentationpodcast.com/podcast/83
Skype For Businss Official Retirement Date Set
Well, after the previous post, this is timely, although not eminently soon.
I just received an email from Microsoft announcing Skype for Business is officially being retired and we must move to Teams. The good news is, it is almost 2 years away (July 31, 2021)! I am hopeful that the Microsoft Teams interface will be streamlined (eg. to not take up nearly an entire monitor) before we are forced to switch over.
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Give Me Back My Sykpe for Business!
Microsoft is making the move to Microsoft Teams. But if you looking to stick with Skype for Business a bit longer, Microsoft does not make it is easy to find. These steps worked for us (as of today):
– Log into your O365 account
– Click settings GEAR
– Click INSTALL SOFTWARE
– Ignore the list of installable apps and click SKYPE FOR BUSINESS link on the left
– Pick 32 or 64 bit (match to your version Office) and install
– You have Skype for Business again! Previous settings should be preserved, but you may need to log in and adjust app preferences if not retained.
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Windows Emoji Keyboard
Microsoft Windows added a very cool emoji keyboard, or at least a dialog to point and select emoji’s. To open, click the Windows Key and the period key.
Click any emoji and it will be added to virtually any app text box selected (😎🤷♂️👍, see I just added three emoji’s to this blog post – but being over the age of 35 I have no idea what I just said…).
There are 3 tabs; Emoji (full color), Kaomoji (traditional ASCII emoji’s), and Symbols (well, symbol characters)
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The PowerPoint Icon Library Adds a Search Feature (YAY!)
The included icon library in PowerPoint (and all Office apps; Word, Excel, Outlook) recently received an update. There are more icons, the meta tagging appears to have more refinement, and there is SEARCH BAR, so no longer a need to endlessly scroll looking for an icon.
Old insert icons dialog:
Updated insert icons dialog:
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The Microsoft Office Insider Newsletter – Get It.
The Microsoft Office Dev teams have been doing a good job of getting new release and Tips & Tricks posted on the Microsoft Office blogs. But it is a separate blog for every product and some products have more then one blog… I really like the Microsoft Office Insider (Email) Newsletter, which is a nice summary of the hottest news and announcements on the many Office blogs compiled into a nicely formatted HTML email.
I find this a great resource for reading not only about PowerPoint and Excel features that are a part of my daily work life, but seeing info about other apps I generally do not subscribe to their blogs, such as Android and IOS releases, Dynamics, and others. You can sign up to have the free Microsoft Office Insider newsletter show up in your inbox here.
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