This is the second in a series of quick video tips for business managers by guest blogger Bruce Gabrielle, author of Speaking PowerPoint. In case you missed it, Bruce's first tip was about turning clip art into custom icons.  

Bring boring slides to life by adding pictures of people. Where do you find these pictures? You make them yourself in about a minute using free pictures available online.

 

-- Bruce Gabrielle

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Slight departure from our typical topics, as today we say a fond farewell to Program Manager Intern Mike Krieger. He's headed back to school next week and we wish him all the best. We like to give interns work experience on "real tasks." The same kind of work they would get if they were full-time employees. In the best case they'll get some feature work, somethiing that actually contributes to the shipping product. Mike pretty much hit the jackpot this summer. A quick review of his work that you...

With all of the attention on the new multimedia, transition, and animations, you might be forgiven for thinking that all we care about is fancy graphics. Not at all – nearly every PowerPoint presentation contains some amount of text, and in fact, we spend a lot of time making sure that it’s easy to add text to your presentations and that your text looks great. In that, we are aided by a large number of groups across Office. One of those groups is the Natural Language Team , who posted about improvements...

This is the eleventh in a series of quick video tips for business managers using PowerPoint by guest blogger Bruce Gabrielle, author of Speaking PowerPoint.

The easiest way to make sure your slides look professional is to pay attention to alignment. And PowerPoint has 3 great tools (Gridlines, Alignment commands, and Smart Guides) to make it easy for you.

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PowerPoint's not just for showing off fancy charts at board room presentations, especially this time of year when the calendar ticks down. Open PowerPoint at your desk (if it's open, you're working, right?) and tick off some holiday tasks. With these holiday templates, you can write that end-of-year newsletter, create an e-card or photo album, or go lunar.

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PowerPoint is a versatile communication tool, and millions of people use it every day in very creative ways. As engineers, we like to understand how customers use our product and how we can make it better. That’s why we flew down to Arizona this week to attend the 10 th annual Presentation Summit in Scottsdale. Experts from around the world gather every year to share techniques for creating effective presentations, and the attendees come away with a completely new perspective on how to approach...

Time flies. It's already been about a year since we released Office 2010, and we want to make sure you are getting the most out of it.

Since this is the PowerPoint blog, naturally we're here to talk about PowerPoint. Specifically, about how to get your presentation out to people in a way that's easy and cost-effective for you, using Broadcast Slide Show.

This is post #1 in the Ten Days of Office series to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the release of Office 2010 and provide you with tips and tricks to get the most from your Office experience. Tune in each week day for new tips and tricks!

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In PowerPoint 2010, use the Sections feature to organize your slides, much like you'd use folders to organize your files. You can use named sections to keep track of groups of slides, and assign sections to colleagues to make ownership clear when you collaborate. If you’re starting with a blank slate, you can even use sections to outline the topics in your presentation.

Take a look at this video to see how it works:

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This is the first in a series of quick video tips for business managers using PowerPoint by guest blogger Bruce Gabrielle. Bruce wrote a post last week encouraging businesses to schedule a PowerPoint training week in 2011.

Does clip art leave you uninspired? Bruce Gabrielle, author of Speaking PowerPoint, shows you how to turn PowerPoint clip art into professional-looking custom icons.

-- Mary Sobczyk, for the PowerPoint blog team

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Here's a great, short, instructive video about how you can broadcast your PowerPoint 2010 presentation over the Internet to a remote audience. While you present the slide show inside PowerPoint, your audience follows along in their browser -- they don't even have to have PowerPoint installed.

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