Using the same slides as the previous Morph transition, this version of the Carousel Motion Effect uses big bold photos, and includes a nice PowerPoint reflection styling.
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The animation in the video was completed on 7 slides, with no animation pane “animation.” Also included in the animation effect was the progress bar – equally easy to setup and animate with Morph.
Troy @ TLC
Using the Morph transition and 3D models this “Carousel Effect” is quick and easy to create.
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The animation in the video was completed on 6 slides, with no animation pane “animation.” Note: Each car not only moves and resizes, but also rotates from a 3/4 front left view to a 3/4 front right view as it moves across the screen. All animation was as simple as re-positioning the images, adjusting the rotation of the 3D models and applying a Morph transition.
Troy @ TLC
PowerPoint animations often depend on which motion effect is needed. For this membership animation example, the request was to emphasis each segment of the pie chart for discussion points (again, we simplified the slide for the blog by removing client information, template and styling). Because the numbers are constantly updating, our goal was to animate the editable pie chart vs. creating custom shapes and animating.
The formatting was simple, adjust pie chart and callout text size/position. For this effect, the Morph transition really did not accomplish a clean modern motion effect. A series of Fade transitions was a bit nicer than the Morph transition, but it still did not achieve a visual we liked. Ultimately, using the Shape (circle) out transition achieved a visual effect we liked.
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Troy @ TLC
This is a membership animation slide from a recent project that demonstrates how to use animation to aid the presenter (we removed the nice template and styling). The message for the audience was that a very niche and exclusive association had exceeded all membership goals for the year. Rather than putting up a list of stats, we helped the presenter walk the audience through their 5 year story at their own pace with on-click animations and reveal the year-to-date total.
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The animation could be accomplished many ways, but the easiest way was to leverage Morph by splitting the original content across 7 slides, each slide transition being an animation. Easy to create, easy to manage, easy for the presenter to see the story flow.
Troy @ TLC
Note: this is a re-post, originally posted April 4, 2016. When planning the posts for this month it made sense to include this tutorial again.
Printing slides is a common need. But the Microsoft presets are not optimal. For example, let’s look at “2-up” printouts directly from PowerPoint and then we’ll look at my preferred option which is using Adobe Acrobat to create the 2-up PDF printout.
Using Microsoft’s PowerPoint preset:
1. Go to File > Export > Create PDF/XPS Document
2. In the PUBLISH OPTIONS section, change the drop down menu to HANDOUTS. Slides per page = 2. Keep HORIZONTAL setting. A print preview of the pages will be on the right.
Select OK and your PDF will be created.
But, these can be larger images of each slide if we do not use the PowerPoint preset.
To create 2-up printout using Adobe Acrobat (Note: This is a multi-step process, but the result is great):
1. Go to File > Export > Create PDF/XPS Document. This time don’t worry about the options, just create PDF with 1 slide per page (the default print setup).
2. Now we are going to print the PDF again. From the PDF of the slides, Go to File >Print
3. Select ADOBE PDF as your printer.
4. In the Page Sizing and Handling select MULTIPLE.
5. In Pages Per Sheet select Custom.
6. Set to 1 by 2, the small print preview should look like the below example.
7. PRINT.
As you can see, side-by-side, the Adobe Acrobat 2-up PDF printout on the left has larger slide images than the PowerPoint 2-up printout, the Adobe Acrobat 2-up takes up the page significantly more than PowerPoint does.
Just a simple option to provide better printouts.
-Troy @ TLC
Microsoft has a secret garage where lots of amazing things are thought up, and few escape into the public realm. One recent Microsoft Garage app is the PRESENTATION TRANSLATOR. The add-in is really multiple parts; powered by the “Microsoft Translator Live Feature”, part PowerPoint add-in, part mobile app, and part 3-things-in-1, this add-in has a lot to offer a lot of different people.
At its core, the Presentation Translator is an add-in from Microsoft that is designed to help presenters communicate with audience members who speak a different language, or may be deaf/hard of hearing. It does slide translation as automatic narration, live subtitling, and interactive live translation using mobile devices. While not perfect, it is impressive, and fun to use.
To install you need to download direct from the Microsoft Garage webpage here (no Office Store install option yet).
Live subtitling, one of the key features, allows the presenter to speak in 1 of 10 spoken languages while the add-in creates real-time, live subtitles translated into one of more than 60 text translation languages. The customized speech recognition feature uses the slide content to learn your language, helping ensure proper translation.
To start the live subtitles, go to the Slide Show tab and select Start Subtitles.
Click Accept to agree to the terms of use.
Walk through the overview by clicking Next until you reach the settings options. Select the speaking language and the subtitle display language. Check Customize speech recognition if you would like to use this feature, and select your microphone device.
You can also enter a presenter name, select subtitle locations, log in for authentication settings, and turn on or off the optional instructional slide by clicking Additional settings. When finished with all settings, click Next. Once loaded, your presentation will begin and subtitles will appear in the location you selected.
Here is one of our sample slides with the sentence “The Live Subtitles feature translates spoken content into subtitles” translated into English, French, German, and Spanish subtitles.
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Personal Translation: Through the add-in and corresponding mobile app, the audience members can also use a custom code to access personal translations, allowing them to follow along and communicate in their own language. The add-in also translates audience questions during an unmuted Q&A. If the audience members don’t speak one of the ten spoken languages, they can use one of the 60+ text based languages. In turn, those who are deaf or hard of hearing can more easily follow along with the presentation.
To use this feature, you will need to download the Microsoft Translator app on your mobile device and follow instructions provided during the presentation.
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Presentation Content Translation: the add-in also offers a tool to translate an entire presentation, while still maintaining formatting. See our original example here, in English.
To translate the content, go to the Slide Show tab and select Translate Slides
Select the current, slide language and the new language to translate to and click Translate Slides
Locate the folder you would like to save the translated version in, rename if desired, and click Save. Note the by default, an abbreviation of the new language is added to the end of the filename.
A new file will open with all content translated while still maintaining the original formatting. Here is our example after being translated to French, German and Spanish.
For some layouts, reformatting may be necessary to best display the translated content. For example, here is a slide that features large, stacked text of different sizes.
When translated into French, German or Spanish, the length of the words change and cause issues with the content fitting into the existing design. Notice that the word “wrap” may become two lines and some text ends up overlapping or off-slide.
By resizing and moving text, most of these layouts can still function after translation. Here is our French slide before and then after fixing the formatting.
The slide content translation was the feature of most interest to me, and for a standard bullet list style presentation it does a good job. As the examples above show, for more stylized layouts, there is still a lot of layout revision needs. And, because I do not fluently speak or read any of the languages used, I cannot say how accurate the translated text really was. The world is becoming much smaller all the time, and the PowerPoint Translator add-in is making it happen sooner than later.
Troy @ TLC
Word Clouds are images composed of words pertaining to a particular subject, in which the size of each word indicates its frequency and importance. They are a popular way to visualize a message and something we have integrated into many presentations.
Pro Word Cloud is a Microsoft add-in that is free and can create world clouds with your custom text directly in PowerPoint. To install go to INSERT > STORE > search WORD CLOUD > and ADD the Pro Word Cloud add-in.
Installing the add-in gives direct access to a side pane to quickly and easily convert on-slide text to stylized word clouds directly from within PowerPoint itself. The action pane provides a nice selection of styling features, including; custom font, many preset color scheme options, word case and size.
Creating a word cloud with Pro Word Cloud is not completely intuitive. First you need to add all of the words to a text box in PowerPoint. Then select all and copy, because the add-in uses the text copied to the clipboard, there is no text entry area in the app. In the Pro Word Cloud action pane, click CREATE WORD CLOUD. Now, right-click the small word cloud image and copy, then paste onto the slide.
Here is my example, with text I copied on the left and the Word Cloud the add-in created on the right.
A few observations:
Troy @ TLC
We continue our March Blog Posts on PowerPoint Add-ins with PowerPointLabs. When we tested PowerPointLabs it was FREE, and full of features, many we have not seen in any other offering. I do recommend spending time going through the tutorial walk-through that is available after the add-in is installed.
PowerPointLabs is an entire ribbon, with a lot of good design, layout and styling features.
For this post I am just going through one of several styling options that stood out. The Picture Slides Lab tool automates making text stylized over an image (inserted image or background image). This feature is in line with the PowerPoint Designer feature, in terms of take text only content and make it visual for me. It provides a number of preset styling options:
1) Frosted Glass TextBox Color (Option to add custom colors)
2) TextBox Transparency (Option to display multiple transparency options)
3) Special Effects (Options for how image is displayed)
4) Brightness (Options for image brightness by percentage)
5) Font Color (Options for custom font color)
6) Text Glow Color (Option to add custom glow color)
7) Text Position (Option to position your text in various positions on your slide)
8) Font (Option to choose a custom font. It doesn’t appear to load all fonts from your system.)
9) Font Size (Option to choose various preset font sizes)
10) Picture (This option allows you to add effects to your images)
Beyond the preset options, and a feature that always makes things better from my perspective, is the ability to use each preset as a starting point then customizing it.
Here is an example of the Picture Slides Lab in use:
Add a Blank Slide (to an existing presentation or new presentation)
Go to the PowerPointLabs tab and select Picture Slide Lab, then select Images to import.
We added 5 visual images to the presentation.
Select one of the imported images and select one of the preset styling options, then Apply.
There is a dialog with thumbnail to confirm the selected image and styling (okay, this step feels a bit redundant and not needed). Highlight the image (1) to add to the presentation and click (2) Select.
Everything is added to the presentation. And it is not a flat image, the text, image styling and graphic accents are all native PowerPoint content, so it can be modified in PowerPoint after inserted.
In addition to the content being editable in PowerPoint, another nice option to easily update the image and styling by going back to the PowerPointLabs tab, selecting Picture Slides Lab again and updating the image or styling options by clicking (1) Change Style.
Once you’ve selected your new style, click (1) Apply.
(1) Select slide to be inserted in your project – (2) Click Select.
Here’s the new style applied to the slide.
The PowerPointLabs add-in is good for both the non-designer (professional preset designs for all) and designer (instant formatting for faster production). Have fun formatting some visual slide layouts on your next presentation!
– Troy @ TLC
Previously, we looked at Adobe’s Image Search PowerPoint Add-In. Today, we’re looking at a similar tool, YAY Images. This add-in searches for images directly in PowerPoint and it has some advanced search filters to find the perfect image.
Go to th INSERT Tab> click the STORE button > search for “YAY.” Select “add” and after installed PowerPoint will open the YAY action pane.
Within the action pane, search for images using a variety of options: (1) search for similar images, (2) insert previews into your presentation, or (3) directly license and insert image.
Our favorite thing about this tool is the advanced search options (it would be great to see some of the “big” stock photo sites integrate some of these options), such as the search by aspect, number of people in the photo, and the “TextSpace” is a great option!
But as with most image licensing tools and websites, licensing any of the images requires a subscription plan. Signing up for the account is free but plans range from around $10 – $100 depending on the number of images you are downloading each month.
Enjoy!
AdobeStock is a large royalty free image resource offering. TLC Creative opted to make it our current project resource (we change out services every few years). Adobe has released a PowerPoint add-in for Adobe Stock. If you’re a Adobe Stock subscriber, you can easily access the image search directly in PowerPoint.
Install the Adobe Stock PowerPoint Add-in: Insert Tab > My Add-ins (or Store) > See All > Add
Click the Adobe Stock add-in button on the Insert tab to open the Adobe Stock action pane.
The process of searching, finding, selecting and inserting images onto a slide is very intuitive and easy. A few observations:
Enjoy!
