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Animated GIFs used to be very popular like twenty, or twenty-five years ago, because they were small in size, and worked well in a lower-bandwidth world. They were created using multiple images, which were similar to each other, but still had some differences. As the images played like a flipbook, they provided an easy illusion of movement. And, as suddenly as they had become popular, the animated GIF faded away.
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Tagged as: Animated GIFs, Graphics, Jamie Garroch, PowerPoint, Resources
Millions of presentations are created, and you may have seen at least hundreds of presentations in your lifetime. Yet, how many of them do you remember a few days or weeks after you have seen them?
You may see the occasional, amazing slide that you remember, but for most of us who are not PowerPoint designers, the bad slides are similar to what a Google Images search for the same term shows up, as you can see in Figure 1, below.
Figure 1: A search for ‘bad slides’ on Google Images
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Tagged as: Guidelines, Pictures, PowerPoint, Promoted, Techniques, Text, Tips
Did you receive a PDF from someone that needs to be converted into a PowerPoint presentation? Or did you lose the original PowerPoint file, and only have a PDF version left? Maybe you received an InDesign or Quark file that needs to do double-duty as a PowerPoint deck? Or there may be any number of reasons to create an editable PowerPoint slide deck from a PDF.
Products that create PowerPoint presentations from PDFs are aplenty, and Adobe’s own Acrobat Pro XI or a newer version can do the trick. But when you need something more than just basic conversion, you can look at PDFelement 6 Pro. What’s so special about PDFelement 6 Pro? To start with, did you know that if your PDF has scanned pictures of text, other products will retain the picture as it is within the converted PowerPoint file. But PDFelement 6 Pro can also convert the text within a picture into editable text so that you don’t have to type it all over again!
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Tagged as: PDF, PDFelement, PowerPoint, Review
Originally, this started with a discussion in an internal group exploring solutions that would allow one click on a remote to advance two presentations at the same time. Why would anyone want two presentations to move ahead at the same time?
There are many reasons why presenters may want to move to the next slide in two decks at the same time:
If you are presenting to a multilingual audience, you may want to present the same content in two languages.
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Tagged as: Delivery, Hardware, PowerPoint, Troy Chollar
A few days ago, I needed to demo some animation effects in a training class. I happened to open one of my older presentation decks, and this one was probably created using PowerPoint 2002 or 2003. The animation was just what I needed. With a few tweaks, this deck could save me hours of work. There was just one small problem. The slides were all 4:3 Standard resolution, and the new deck needed to be 16:9 Widescreen resolution.
Figure 1, below shows one of the slides from the old deck.
Figure 1: Slide before using the Slide Size command
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Troubleshooting
Tagged as: PowerPoint, Slide Size, SuperThemes, Theme Variants
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