Rotate Objects with Keyboard
There are many ways to do the same task in PowerPoint, and all Microsoft Office applications. Rotating objects is one that many find difficult and tedious when using the rotate anchor. Using keyboard shortcuts to rotate an object (or several objects at the same time) is an amazing shortcut to know about!
Select any shape
Use the keyboard to rotate the shape to the right with ALT + RIGHT ARROW. Hold the ALT key down and click the right arrow as many times as needed to get the rotation desired.
This is pretty much intuitive at this point, but ALT + LEFT ARROW will rotate the selected object(s) to the left. To go from the above rotation to the below rotation it was hold the ALT key and click the left arrow twice
Happy rotating!
Troy @ TLC
The Presentation Podcast Episode #55 Released Today!
A new episode of The Presentation Podcast with Troy, Nolan, and Sandy is available today! Check out the latest episode, #55 – Let’s Talk PowerPoint Templates (a Virtual Discussion).
PowerPoint Templates have lots of setup, design, distribution and end-use considerations. For this episode we have a virtual conversation with a number of presentation design experts volunteering their expertise and recommendations on everything PowerPoint templates.
Morph Any Shape to Another Shape While Creating A Presentation – Change Shape
Using existing assets is almost always faster than creating something new, or worse, creating something, again, and again, and again. Everyone should know of PowerPoints CHANGE SHAPE feature! For example, we have created a rectangle with a custom gradient. Now styling is going to be rounded rectangles. Easy, just do this:
Select the rectangle.
Under the Drawing Tools > Format Tab, click Edit Shape > Change Shape > Rounded Rectangle.
The rectangle will now be converted to a rounded rectangle. Done!
Repeat to convert all the already formatted, positioned and animated rectangles throughout the presentation to the updated rounded rectangle styling in minutes. Or, leverage that wonderful custom gradient by morphing the rounded rectangle to an arrow, or any other shape in the Change Shape library.
Tip: All TLC Creative design computers have the Change Shape drop down menu on our QAT for even quicker design and formatting.
Troy @ TLC
June is Hacking PowerPoint
Welcome to June 2018! This month we are having lots of fun geeking out on tweaks and hacks that can be done in PowerPoint!
Troy @ TLC
It’s A Bright Pink World Full of Animation!
Sometimes a presentation project is just all about the animation. In this case we were tasked with developing a 2+ minute motion graphics video to be used as a meeting opener, a short segment is here for preview. We developed the video all in PowerPoint, exported to video with a music track. It is not the tool that creates bad, boring and bland presentations – PowerPoint is just a canvas, and can accomplish wonderful results in the hands of professional design team.
Troy @ TLC
User Navigation Demo Using Animation
This is a unique project: it’s not a true slide presentation, but a presentation demonstrating potential user navigation flow within a theoretical app. Because this is setup to be presented, we developed a 16×9 version of the app, used oversize icons and simplified much of the content so the audience has large, easy to track content. It was a presentation, but not a presentation of slides, but the content was revised to be the same size (aspect ratio) as slides… got it?
Here is the final motion graphic styling, all developed using PowerPoint.
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For reference, the above video is from 7 slides:
There is a combination of on-slide animation and Morph transition to achieve all motion graphic effects:
Troy @ TLC
Social Media Landscape
Sometimes animation has become too easy. For example, during a recent project, it took longer for the animation request to be explained than to develop. Two slides, move logos, crop and let morph do everything for us with these social media landscape slides.
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Troy @ TLC