One of the lack of PowerPoint is that it was not created with collaboration in mind despite it has review menu, notes and other revision features. Here is where other presentation software saw an opportunity, for example Zoho applications and Google Docs with it built in collaboration system that lets users collaborate and edit the …
PowerPoint animations enable you to add animations to presentation elements including text, graphics, charts, and more. It is important to notice the difference between transitions which are applied to slides and animations which are applied to presentation elements. Here we will see some of the animations types available to use in PowerPoint presentations. This can …
You can add comments to PowerPoint by using a kind of sticky notes that are embedded on the slides. This can be a very convenient way to keep important notes in the slides for your own reference or for future review or collaboration with a team. In order to add comments, you need to first …
Marimekko Charts are widely used in finance projects, economy and also in MBA courses like in Harvard Business School. Marimekko charts are also widely adopted in Marketing for example to analyze customer segmentation and market segmentation. Here we will show you how to build a Marimekko Chart in PowerPoint. Once you have chosen the chart type, you need …
Hiding slides in PowerPoint is a good way to skip slides during a slideshow presentation without removing the content. By hiding slides in your PPT presentation, you can bypass certain slides without deleting them. This can be very convenient, for example, if you need to finish the slide design or content at a later stage. …
US vector maps may be required in some presentations especially if you need to make presentations specific for a US State. For example let’s imagine that we need to make a California donate car PowerPoint presentation, then a map of California State may be very useful. There are other business situations where a US map …
Lotus Symphony Presentations is a free alternative for presentations software applications like Microsoft PowerPoint that is provided by IBM’s office suite. Symphony is a free presentation and editing application that is compatible with Microsoft’s Office PowerPoint and Lotus SmartSuite file formats including ODP files and PPT. It’s based on the core of LibreOffice (the successor of OpenOffice) …
Either for e-learning courses, online web presentations or other applications, it may be useful to convert your PowerPoint or any other presentation file to Adobe Flash, even if there are better solutions around just like the new HTML5 approach (see PowerPoint to HTML5). In order to convert your PowerPoint presentations to Flash you can use …
Maybe you noticed that we claim to have free PowerPoint templates but surprising after downloading our templates you will be shocked why the files are saved as .ppt files instead of .pot or .thmx? .thmx is the new extension for PowerPoint Themes since PowerPoint 2007 and 2010. The reason is simple, most people still refer …
Shapes are powerful tool in PowerPoint, we have discussed about this in Using Shapes in PowerPoint . Using shapes we can not only make 2D figures and illustrations but also complex 3D spheres and designs, applying format options and gradients. Here we will show you how to convert 2D shapes in a simple 3D sphere …
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