PowerPoint 2013: Pick up where you left off in your presentation with Resume Reading

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Have you ever reopened a presentation and tried to find that slide you were working on when you last closed it? Well, you are going to love the new Resume Reading feature in PowerPoint. If you’ve been using PowerPoint 2013, you may have noticed a new callout appears on the right edge when you open a presentation:

This helpful little callout lets you know the last slide you had open in the presentation, when you were there last, and clicking on it will take you right back to that slide:

The coolest thing about this new feature: these bookmarks will follow you wherever you go as long as you are logged into Office. For example, if you open a file from SkyDrive on your laptop at school and later open the same file on your desktop at home, you’ll be able to jump back to where you last were on your laptop. It couldn’t be easier!

Happy 2013!

-Daniel Altin
Program Manager, PowerPoint

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Presentation Summit 2012

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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 10th 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 their slides.

I always return with an increased understanding of how I can improve my own communication skills, and a list of things that we can do to make our customer’s lives easier when using our software. This year was no exception.

There was, however, one thing that was different about the conference this time around: there were a number of times when someone would sit down with me to show me a problem they were running into, and I could finally say “we’ve fixed that.” It’s such a good feeling to see the smile on someone’s face when we show them the new version of PowerPoint working exactly the way they want it to work.

There are a lot of things that are better than they have ever been before in PowerPoint 2013, and it’s thanks to direct feedback from customers like you, many of whom we’ve met in person at the Presentation Summit over the years. There’s no better way to make the right changes than to develop real relationships with real customers. We’ll be working hard to keep this up, and we can’t wait to jump into some of the suggestions we picked up this time around.

To everyone who was there with us this week: we can’t wait to see you again next year in Fort Lauderdale. To everyone who has never been or who wasn’t able to make it this time: we hope you’ll be there too. We love seeing how you use the product, and we are intrigued by the interesting ways you use PowerPoint to share ideas and change the world. If you can’t wait a whole year to talk with us, please feel free to comment and share your story here on this blog, and let us know what you think of the new version, which was released to manufacturing today.

See you next year!

-Christopher Maloney

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Slides, Links, and Questions From my MAX 2011 Presentation

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Short presentation: Save effort, you use a template (video)

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Sure, lots of professional presentations look like they took forever to design. You may want yours to look professional too, but few of us really have lots of time to spend on design.

Use a template and that design work is done for you. Take just a quick elevator ride and you'll see how to instantly help give a professional look to your presentation.

 

 

To get more details on using templates, see Apply a template to your presentation. If you frequently make similar presentations, you can even create your own template.

Check back for more episodes of PowerPoint Elevator Pitch. If you might find either of the other episodes to date helpful, push the "up" button:

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Keep it clean, people: organize your slide presentation in sections (video)

In PowerPoint 2010 films, much like you would use folder, to your files organize organise the new sections feature. You can assign named areas to track groups of slides and colleagues to delete, when you work together owned areas. If you start with a blank slate, you can even sections to outline the topics in the presentation.

Check out this video to see how it works:

If you are looking for more info about sections, click on the following links:

--Erik Jensen

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Presentation slides & notes happy living together (video)

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In this video, I’ll show you how to drag a PowerPoint presentation into OneNote and take notes next to the slides.

Find out more about how OneNote and PowerPoint are better together!

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Color me distracted: main color carefully in your presentation (video)

Use many color in your PowerPoint presentation to inspire and your target audience. Right? Not necessarily.

Too much color can be really annoying. Remember, your audience to you want to hear what you say. You want to be too distracted from what to much text, and Yes, even too much color of your message can distract your slides.

Check out this video, part of SlideFest, for more savvy DOS and prohibitions on the use of color, including the use of built-in themes look to keep professional presentation.

More information on SlideFest, including a chance to win a trip to 2012 TEDActive Conference in Palm Springs with the submit your best presentation, please visit http://www.microsoft.com/office/powerpoint-slidefest/.

And for more information to the color in your presentation, you will find under Monday's post from guest blogger Bruce Gabrielle.

--Erik Jensen

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Have you made a polar point presentation? A what?

I was going through the new urban dictionaries for the Windows phone app , when I came in a term that I had never heard. Now, that's what Urban Dictionary is: riffing on hip jargon of today, but still the word of the day for March 22 for a loop me took:

If the temperature in a conference or meeting room is way refused to ensure that no one can nod off during a meeting.

Is hosed again man, the temperature in this space? My fingers were deaf to end this meeting in an employee!
No, I saw it the temperature up to about 20 degrees right jack began before the meeting. Bob rock to sleep each if they increase a polar point presentation.

You have it, or better yet, it is done? Let us know. How about any other Urban Dictionary definitions: Powerpoint Monkey, Powerpoint coma, PowerPoint Mono tonics, Powerpoint picnic, Excel Ninjaor Outlookdyscalendaria?

--Doug Thomas

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Instant interactivity: insert a PowerPoint presentation in your blog (video)

Set the PowerPoint web app , interactive presentations in their contributions to bloggers who may want to engage in new, creative ways for their readers use. Great for a team photo album or product overview presentation. Even better is, viewers need to have Office to film through. The Web-app has you all built in and all they need is the browser on your computer or phone. Jevon Fark Office shows us how.

Here the presentation, the Jevon in his demo, is embedded in the Office blog (just click on the slide, things kick-off) here showed:

MOM 2.0 Conference participants and fabulous foodie Robyn was embedding a presentation a vortex as part of the pre-Conference promotions. Check out the look on her blog, Robyn's online world. You can do the same thing to an Excel spreadsheet. Still, my heart data-driven.

The Web apps team have a few examples of each on their blog.

For complete instructions, see:

MOM 2.0 in New Orleans: see all posts.

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Submit your best presentation for a chance to go to Palm Springs (video)

Today is the day start your favorite presentations provide for a chance to win a trip to Palm Springs to visit TEDActive. The competition is part of SlideFest, an effort, show you how to create a great presentation, and so create a lousy presentation with tips to avoid the latter. Like this tip, for example via the common practice of the over-using key points:

And here is an eye opening post, especially in these tough economic times - it seems that employers want to create more and more potential candidates and a presentation in a standard job interview go through. If you interview are the principles can certainly help SlideFest.

--Erik Jensen

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Come for an interview in your area: the presentation of the job

She had only a great interview. You think you have the job, now all you have to do a presentation Is…make. That's what does Chris Cunningham, co-founder and CEO of Appssavvy with its candidates. As he States in the New York Times large corner office column:

Every candidate must present to five to seven persons as a last step before we hire them. We give them a real example of our company and ask to make a presentation. This is literally where you only make or break it, and find out whether they are an all-star or whether you only avoided making bad hire safe.

As sounds, the? For some pretty scary. But it makes sense: public communication is today a must in business. We are not only memos and one proposal type. We are online, create videos, trying to connect to gain influence. And a presentation in the interview process is way to show your new employer that you bring itto a Johnny on the spot. I expect that this become a trend.

Perhaps you have your presentation skills to improve:

--Doug Thomas

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