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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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Tricks
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
We explored how you can add 3D objects in PowerPoint using the new 3D feature available to Microsoft Office 365 subscribers. But until now, any movement happened using the Morph transition effect.
So what does “movement only through Morph” mean? It means that you could not animate the 3D object in 3D space without Morph. Any movement in 3D space was only possible using a Morph transition, and the biggest disadvantage of this approach was that you needed to duplicate your slide for any movement to occur. For a reasonably adventurous concept, you may even need more than two slides. I remember creating something with 3D models that spanned 5 slides, all with the Morph transition applied.
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New Features
Tagged as: 3D, Office 365, PowerPoint, PowerPoint 2016
An Indezine reader, whom I met in person described the PowerPoint double-byte font scare as a poisonous king cobra snake! Although this sounds like an exaggeration, this thought has lingered with me for many years. Let’s take this dramatic approach further. Sooner or later, you will see PowerPoint look at you like a cobra that’s showing its fangs, and is ready to bite. You want to make sure you are not bitten, and wouldn’t it be nice if the cobra quietly goes back to its hole and rests there in peace and leaves you alone?
Yes, there’s some play happening here between the words ‘byte’ and ‘bite’!
Image: Pixabay
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Guidelines
Tagged as: Double-byte, Fonts, Guidelines, PowerPoint, Single-byte
You all know that you can easily change the font for any selected text in PowerPoint, by choosing any installed font on your system. But did you know that you can use fonts that don’t exist on your system!
This is either a trick or a bug and is similar to the analogy of a glass, half full. Some would complain about the glass being half-empty while others would be satisfied with the glass being half-full! In other words, this is a two-edged sword.
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Techniques
Tagged as: Fonts, John Wilson, PowerPoint, Steve Rindsberg
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