5th Annual Outstanding Presentations Workshop
The 5th Annual Outstanding Presentations Workshop begins September 9th. PowerPoint MVP, Ellen Finkelstein, has gathered another great line up of presentation experts this year. The series focus is on how to sharpen PowerPoint skills, clearly communicate the message, design powerful slides, and much more. I definitely endorse this as one of the most economical and easy ways of getting quality presentation information (and I was honored to be a presenter in past workshops).
Get the details here. There are 7 live webinar workshops, 1 hour each, and only $10 for the entire series!
Workshops are scheduled every Tuesday, starting next week, through the end of October! And things start off with a good friend Nolan Haims, one of the newest Microsoft MVPs for PowerPoint (MS has awarded only 32 globally) and he has a lot of great insights into presentation design and messaging. See you there!
– Troy @ TLC
Labor Day 2014 – Free PowerPoint Template!
Free for all to use is a Labor Day themed PowerPoint template.
– Designed by TLC staff designer Josh Clarke
– PowerPoint 2007-2010-2013 (.pptx)
– 16×9 (widescreen)
– Download here: LaborDay2014
– Troy @ TLC
Welcome to the WP Version of ThePowerPointBlog!
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A bit of a bumpy conversion for us from the legacy blog platform that was used for the past 7 years to our Word Press platform with a coordinated layout and styling to the TLC Creative.com site. Now give me a week or so to get familiar with the new interface and options and we will be back with PowerPoint tips, tricks and examples!
– Troy @ TLC
16×9 in a 4×3 world
If you have a 16×9 aspect ratio presentation like this:
This is what it looks like when projected on to a 4×3 screen:
The presentation is vertically centered and goes left to right. The top and bottom are not used (but the projector will show black in these areas). This is called Letter boxing.
– Troy @ TLC
4×3 in a 16×9 world
If you have a 4×3 aspect ratio presentation – like this:
This is what it looks like when projected on to a 16×9 screen:
The presentation is vertically centered and goes top to bottom. The left and right sides are not used (but the projector will show black in these areas). This is called Pillar boxing.
– Troy @ TLC
Showsite in Denver
It has been a great week here in Denver. Thanks to Paul for the great photos (I take no credit for any photos this time) and to my nephew Justin for stepping in as our last minute camera op!
– Troy @ TLC
Using PowerPoint’s Shape Merge (3)
Part 3 of the Shape Merge real-world, presentation design examples is a Key shape.
BATTERY
Goal is to create a single PowerPoint shape of a classic battery that can be stylized in any way using Point’s features.
Shape(s) 1 – two rounded corner rectangles to create the battery shape.
Shape 2 – the power/lighting shape is a standard shape in PowerPoint. Rotate, size a position on battery shape (color does not matter – we are going to delete it in the next step).
Shape 3 – select the battery shape, then the lightning bolt shape, use the Shape Merge SUBTRACT. Note: PowerPoint does some interesting things, in this example, the final shape is created visually in the correct orientation, but is actually rotated 326′.
– Troy @ TLC