Prezi Desktop review: Animate your presentations, even when you're away from the cloud

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Once you notice your colleagues are catching up on their sleep during your PowerPoint presentations, you know you need Prezi Desktop. Using this software, you can wake up your presentations using animation that doesn't suck. Forget transitions and effects like dissolve and fly-in, Prezi Desktop focuses in on your important points within your slides, like actually visually focuses in.

Many of Prezi Desktop's 50+ templates include 3D animation. In this one, you start out in a forest and then move through the trees.

Prezi Desktop is similar to the online Prezi, but as you might guess from the name, it doesn't require an Internet connection after the initial registraion. This means that any storage limits are on your end, not on Prezi's cloud. It's also awfully handy to work offline when you're incorporating last-minute changes on a flight or at the slightly-too-rustic site for the company retreat.

The program opens with over 50 slide templates to choose from, all of which include animation built right in, and many of which include photo-realistic graphics or 3D aspects. You add text, images, and YouTube movies to areas of the slide and create a path for the animation to follow. Prezi flows seamlessly between these areas.

Filling in Prezi Desktop slides in a simple click-and-type affair.

Some of Prezi's 3D effects are better than others, with a few giving the impression of rotating the base image rather than actually occurring in three dimensions. You can add shapes and drawings from Prezi's library but they are not editable, so if you want to create a very unique Prezi you'll also need software to create PDF, PPT, or image files to import. And you may want to stick to a very basic Prezi if you're presenting to the National Association of Motion Sickness Sufferers, because the flow of the presentation can be disconcerting.

With credit card information in hand, Prezi Desktop offers a 30-day free trial of the Enjoy ($59 annually) or Pro ($159 annually) subscription, as well as the completely free (no credit card needed) Public version. Once the 30 days are up, only the Pro version supports Prezi Desktop. Your presentations are all public with the Public version of Prezi, and you get only 100MB of storage per user. With Prezi Desktop Enjoy and Pro subscriptions, you can keep your presentations private, eliminate the Prezi branding, and receive 500MB (Enjoy) or 2GB (Pro) of storage space.

You can tweak the text formatting in your Prezi Desktop slides.

Prezi Desktop can get pricey, and it won't fix a really bad presentation, but it will certainly help keep your visuals—and your audience—focused. Plus you'll never be bothered by snoring during a presentation again.

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Attend Access 2013 presentations in Denver on July 2 and July 11

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Join our own Kevin Bell as he takes a break from his summer vacation to show off the new Access 2013! Kevin will present to the Denver Area Access User Group meeting on Tuesday, July 2 at 6-9pm MDT and to the Colorado SharePoint Users Group on Thursday, July 11 at 6-8pm MDT. 

Both meetings will be held at the Microsoft office located at 7595 Technology Way, Suite 400, Denver, CO 80237.

Access 2013 web apps allow you to quickly create a database in Office 365, but if you are familiar with traditional Access desktop development, you may encounter some limitations. One of the best features in Access 2013 is that web apps created on Office 365 use SQL Azure to store their data. Unlike traditional SQL Server databases, SQL Azure is cloud-based, so your data can be accessible anywhere. However, every byte of data requested from the Access client is now traveling over the internet, so you need to be very diligent about returning the least amount of data possible. Kevin will show several techniques to help you convert your existing desktop applications to an Access 2013 'hybrid' app. Go to www.daaug.org to learn more about the Denver Area Access User Group.  

With the new Microsoft Access 2013 and Access Services 2013, anyone can build SharePoint Apps backed by SQL Azure in just about 60 seconds. In this presentation, Kevin will show you how easy it is to create, share, and collaborate with Access 2013 in an IT managed environment. The new Access allows you to satisfy the need for agile development from your business units and still rest assured that the data is secured, backed up, and managed appropriately. Kevin will also talk about how legacy Access desktop applications within your organization can be brought forward to the web on SharePoint and SQL Azure. Go to www.cospug.com to learn more about Colorado SharePoint Users Group. 

Kevin Bell is a test engineer on the Microsoft Access team in Redmond, Washington. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2008, Kevin was a partner in a consulting practice in Colorado that specialized in building software solutions for small businesses and departments in large corporations, primarily working with Microsoft Access and SQL Server. Over the years, Kevin has been a member, officer, and frequent presenter at the Denver Area Access User Group and now regularly presents at the Seattle Access User Group and the annual Portland Database Designers Conference. This past November he had the pleasure of presenting at the 2012 UK Access Groups National Seminar in London.

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Review: Prezi makes it easy to create cinematic presentations with zoom and pan effects

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Prezi Prezi is fun to use, and the presentations you can make with it are fun to watch.

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Traditional slide-based presentations are just that: Traditional. You could have fantastic visuals, but no matter how fancy (or austerely minimalistic) each slide is, it remains a slide. Prezi (various prices, starting at free) tries to change this by turning your presentation into a wide-open canvas on which you can draw your ideas spatially, and then presenting them by zooming and panning all over the canvas. Used well, the end result feels cinematic and engaging in a way traditional presentations rarely are.

Prezi offers over 50 templates to get you started.

To get you started, Prezi shows a list of templates you could use. There are an ample number of templates, but there is no way to preview what a template looks like except by starting a project with it. If you start a project with a template and find out it doesn't work for you after all, you can switch over to a different template midway through, but you will have to adjust things to work in the new template.

Prezi uses a canvas, but makes it easy to see how a presentation flows.

Prezi's canvas-based nature means that you create the presentation where you'll be showing it. If you want to zoom and pan somewhere when presenting, you'll have to zoom and pan while editing, so you instantly get a feel for what your audience will see. Instead of "slides," Prezi uses "path points": saved states for your presentation, where the viewport shows a portion of the canvas.

It is easy to insert images using a built-in Google Images search, or from your local computer.

As you present, you move through a progression of these path points, with Prezi automatically animating things as needed. If a given path point covers a small area of the canvas, Prezi will smoothly zoom into it, revealing new details as needed. If the next path point is all the way across the canvas, Prezi will smoothly pan there.

Prezi offers built-in diagrams.

I found Prezi easy and intuitive to work with, without much of a learning curve. When I had to insert an image, it let me search Google Images right from within Prezi, and I could tell it to only look for images that are okay to use commercially. You can also embed YouTube videos, as well as content from your local computer. A recent Prezi feature is the addition of sound: You can now upload sound clips to go along with your presentation, or even narrate the entire presentation so that it can stand on its own.

Instead of slides, your presentation flows along path points, which you can change and edit as needed.

Internet connections have a tendency to flake out at just the wrong moment, especially in a busy convention center. To avoid potentially embarrassing situations, Prezi lets you download your presentation for offline viewing. The presentation is packaged as a Zip archive, with a small executable player.

Prezi lets you present to others online.

Prezi is available in three different plans, starting with a free Public plan. I tested the $4.92/month Enjoy plan. The $13.25/month Pro plan is the only one that lets you work offline.

A big part of Prezi's appeal is that it's still unusual. It is likely your audience is used to slide-based presentations, so Prezi's cinematic nature would wow them. In time, if Prezi or similar products become commonplace, it may lose its visual edge. Until that happens, Prezi is an almost surefire way to create an engaging, surprising, and beautiful presentation.

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PowerPoint 2013 comments: facilitate cooperation presentations

Presentations are often a group effort. Sometimes they gemeinschaftliches-real - as bears in each. On other occasions, there is a person who can lead the charge, while others check and advise. In both cases the ability to communicate and specific feedback in the presentation, frame, can significantly improve the experience of cooperation and the quality of the content.

Comments are not new to PowerPoint-in previous versions, you could add a comment. But were in different ways, which significantly improves the communication with others, much more intuitive and conversational comments. In other words, comments are simple add, display and manage and are therefore more effective. In addition you can thanks to the PowerPoint web app, now get the feedback from virtually anyone.

You can add a comment to a slide over the tab, check on the PowerPoint Ribbon in the comments group.

The new comment will be shown in the new comments, where you can begin to type in your comment. To simply know it, which refers to comment to make on what part of each new comment is associated with a comment note will be displayed top left on the slide. You can move the note by pulling it, and visually map the comment with a particular area or shape on the slide.

Once you add in your comment in the comments field, is it a friendly time stamp (recent comments show how recently they, were added in contrast to a certain date) accompanied. There is even a picture of the person and their presence information (available in a call, etc.). The presence information is included for enterprise customers who use Lync server or services and Skype for the home user who Office associated with your Skype account.

They can your comments simply by clicking or tapping on the text of the comment edit or delete them with the X in the upper right corner of a comment.

The new comment goes not just to leave comments for others, but also offers you the possibility, have rich conversations right where it does not matter she meisten-- in the context of the content, you are talking about. You can easily respond to the comment by entering in the field of response . The thread will be easy to build in the area of comments clearly emerge, who replied to whom and when. The comment reference is updated to display multiple comments on the same subject.

One of the advantages of the comment area is that there are certain at one point all the comments for a film-have shows not every comment individually to open. You can also initiate new comments there answers on existing and quickly skim the feedback in the comments in the entire presentation. Use easy to go and continue buttons back in the comment field of a comment to the next.

Mach you worry you about that many comments in a slide. A comment and a hint are visually connected: If the respective comment will the mouse pointer over a comment tip, highlighted in the area s comment. and umgekehrt-- if you have your mouse over a highlighted comment in the comment section that is relevant commentary note on the slide.

Thanks to recent improvements to the PowerPoint web app, comments are now also supports full of it. In Edit view, you can add new comments to existing answers and enjoy the comments pane in the PowerPoint web app .

Just to see the comments, don't even have to editing view-go can range as open in the reading view comments .

Improvements to the PowerPoint web app comment the addition which means that you can questions of everyone for feedback, even if they have not the latest PowerPoint installed. If you the presentation on SkyDrive or SharePoint * store, it's easy to share directly in the behind the scenes (file > parts > people) by you their email addresses and assign Edit permissions.

Happy commenting!

Valley Krzypow

* 2013 SharePoint and SharePoint provide online sharing with people outside of your organization, but have the correct positioning and permissions can be defined by your IT Manager.

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PowerPoint 2013: Widescreen Presentations

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The rise of high definition (HD) brings the widescreen aspect ratio of 16:9 to televisions, computer screens, and projectors in homes and workplaces all around the globe.  And yet, there are bazillions of PowerPoint slides crafted in the relatively square, 4:3 shape. There is some logic to this: Many devices are still square shaped, such as classic projectors and monitors, certain touch computers – I’m sure there’s even an old phone somewhere out there. Widescreen, however, is skyrocketing. It’s finding its way onto most laptops and desktops, many modern projectors, nearly every TV on the planet, and, most recently, our own beautiful Surface device. Now, it’s taking over PowerPoint, too:

Widescreen, also known as 16:9, HDTV, 720p, 1080p, 13.333”x7.5”, among other names, is the new default aspect ratio in the new PowerPoint. To make your experience with the new dimensions pleasant, we’ve built a brand new set of themes specifically targeting this aspect ratio, and we’ve improved our conversion code so that you can easily make the switch to widescreen from other aspect ratios.

PowerPoint and widescreen were made for each other. Let’s take a quick look at the old standard (4:3) aspect ratio compared to the new widescreen (16:9) aspect ratio:

In the widescreen shape, there’s lots of horizontal space. The moment you start building a presentation in widescreen, you’ll start to notice some very cool things about the format. In widescreen there’s space for all kinds of content, pictures, and even design elements – content that flows naturally across the slides:

It’s perfectly fine to have a presentation in the 4:3 format. If you present on a widescreen TV or projector, PowerPoint fills in the extra space with black bars on the left and right of the screen, so the projection space appears smaller:

If you want to make use of the extra space, switching between aspect ratios works better than ever in the new PowerPoint. Simply go to the Design tab and click the Slide Size drop down:

On the dropdown menu, select Widescreen, and you’re on your way. All new PowerPoint themes have designs that are specifically crafted for both 4:3 and 16:9 which are automatically applied when you change slide size. This lets you switch between aspect ratios without stretching the background and design elements, and it prevents you from running into annoying layout issues:

When it comes to scaling your content from 4:3 to 16:9, each object’s dimensions stay proportional, and related items stay together so that your message retains as much of its original meaning and beauty as possible:

If you’re working with a widescreen presentation and you encounter a 4:3 projector, you have a couple of options. One option is to simply start your slideshow, and PowerPoint will letterbox your presentation – that is, PowerPoint will add black bars to the top and bottom of your slides.  With letterboxing, you end up with something like this:

You might think, “It’s not really using all the space.” You might even try converting from widescreen to standard, which is your second option, and if you are using a PowerPoint 2013 or higher theme, you’ll get a premium experience. However, we on the PowerPoint team have found the widescreen format so much better in terms of layout that we find it hard to switch to 4:3. Just look at how well the content is balanced in the 16:9 slide below. It naturally forms regions of interest right around the areas where it makes sense to place content:

Yes, you are sacrificing some space on the square projector, but you’ll also be able to use that available space more creatively and strategically, thanks to inherent layout advantages of the widescreen aspect ratio. Also, your presentation will shine on modern devices like HDTVs, tablets, and newer projectors, where the screen’s aspect ratio matches your presentation.

Many common paper sizes are relatively close to 4:3. In fact, when you subtract the commonly-used one-inch margin from North America’s standard letter size paper (8.5”x11”), you end up with a printable area that is exactly 4:3 (7.5”x10”). Standard (4:3) slides fill the space perfectly. The same is almost true of the international standard A4 paper. However, having some extra empty space at the top and bottom can be nice if you’re taking notes, as is the case when printing widescreen slides onto these paper dimensions. Interestingly, we’ve found that when you print two widescreen slides per page, they fit quite perfectly (unlike standard slides), so you can print twice as much info on a single page, and you can save that many more trees, along with whatever it is that makes ink:

If you open a work template or a pre-existing file, we will of course honor the aspect ratio specified in the file. If you’re making a lot of new files and you need to continue working with 4:3 or any other aspect ratio, here’s how you set the default for a new presentation:

Convert a blank presentation to 4:3 (or to a custom aspect ratio) Save the theme by clicking on the Design tab, then on the main gallery drop-down, and then on the “Save Current Theme…“ button Your saved theme will appear in the main gallery if you save it to the default folder. Right-click the theme in the main gallery and choose “Set as Default Theme”

We hope you enjoy this wonderful world of widescreen. Here’s to better presentations all around the world!

-Christopher Maloney
Program Manager, PowerPoint

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Embedding presentations into your website using the PowerPoint web app

We have to do better than ever updated the embed experience in PowerPoint web app. The new design is fully interactive and all your content plays back right in the embedded object. That is, all the animations, transitions — even audio and video files! Even better, all the presentations you embedded automatically upgraded according to the old version to the new experience - have needed no work you!

In this post, we will embed a presentation in your blog or your website in three easy steps foot through:

Generate the CodePreview to embed, select the embed code to your OptionsCopy and paste into your blog or Web site

So you have completed work on a great presentation and would now in your blog to show how impressive it is embedded. The first thing you want to do that, what is click "Embed" from the "File" menu. Sure to click on "Generate", if you are prompted to do so.

Figure 1 - start by viewing the presentation

Figure 2 - PDA menu "File", "Share", "Embed"->

Figure 3 - you click on "Generate", when you are prompted

Next, you will see an interactive preview which the presentation will look like and a box with the code copy. You'll also notice a number of customization options: four different sizes and an option to enable the autoadvance.

Figure 4 - choose the size and options for your presentation

For the embedded presentation in this post, I've turned '610 x 480' size and autoadvance. Note, that autoadvance switch only works if your presentation autoadvance contains settings (if you don't want that your presentation automatically begin playing a blog or a site that you when someone loads autoadvance can omit).

Right click Copy the embed code for your presentation check box. From there, you can insert in your blog or Web site.

Figure 5 - embed code copy and paste in your blog or Web site

The embedded presentation is linked to the original, so also all made will appear on the embedded presentation (also note that if you delete the original presentation embedded one no longer works).

Dan Swett
Program Manager, PowerPoint

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Participation on Tuesday Office 15-minute Webinar: better PowerPoint presentations

This week Webinar, we show you some nuggets for better PowerPoint presentations. We start to 9: 15 A.m. follow Pacific time with a Q & A. Click on the link below or go to http://aka.ms/offweb for more information on the webinar series.

Attend online meeting

https://Join.Microsoft.com/Meet/dougt/F274WBQZ

There are two ways, you can join: full sound and video, use the Lync participants free of charge. If you are using the Web browser, you must call for audio,: (888) 320-3585, Conference ID: 84172528.

A video of the webinar will be announced soon after completion.

What you learn Webinar on Tuesday:

How PowerPoint as your resume with the notes is in PowerPoint using Presenter view in PowerPoint tips section for the presentation in a conference room

References for this Webinar:

Learn more about Office 15 minutes Webinar series at http://aka.ms/offweb.

--Doug Thomas

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Make use of PowerPoint slide layouts, presentations

By guest blogger Ellen Finkelstein, PowerPoint MVP and author of numerous books of PowerPoint knowledge. Learn more about her books, and go free tips and reports to www.ellenfinkelstein.com.

If all your slides look alike, can your entire message blurred. At the end of the presentation you want your audience to the most out your main points, and if they remember some details, this is a plus. To distinguish important films, can you help to follow people and keep the content of your presentation.

Special films especially to handle

Two types of films deserve special treatment:

Organizational slides:This mark, when sections of the presentation start and end. The first slide, section slides and your last slide are the most important examples of organisational slides.Main point slides:These include the main points; in general you should for two to four important points, because people have a hard time more than four remember.

How to make you a film from other films withdraw? One of the most important techniques is the layout varies.

You choose the layout you want

PowerPoint layout function allows to choose a layout for every kind of film. PowerPoint has, for example, a section layout for the first slide in each section. If you select a specific layout, layout select with the right mouse button, click the background of the slide, not to an object (such as does not have a text placeholder), on the menu as you see here, and select the desired.

Layout point slides for main

Create a striking layout for your most important points, I recommend I often put the slide title on the left side and a vertical photo on the right, as in the following example shown.

Layouts for the first and last slides

You use a full slide photo one to create clear start and end for the first and the last films, as you see here.

Layouts for content slides

Finally, you can use a layout title & content or title only for the rest of the slides. These films are ideal for most of your content, because it details easily and flexibly to create.

Creating custom layouts

If you cannot find an existing layout that fits your needs, you can create your own. Click on the View tab, and then click the button slide master in the master views Group. The slide master is displayed.

Select on the slide master tab,in the Edit group masterinsert layout. A new layout is displayed in the left pane. Again on the slide master tab,in the master layout group, click on the placeholder Insert button down arrow and choose one of the eight wildcards. Drag on the slide to size and set the placeholder. Place another wildcard, put them out as needed. When you are finished, click the layout in the left pane you have created, and show the slide master tab. In the the edit master group, click the Rename button. Give a name and then click Rename. Your presentation now contains the new layout, and you can use it the same way you would choose one of the standard layouts for each slide. If you want to use the layout in the future, save the file as a template (POTX or POTX-, if it contains macros) or design (Thmx).

Example presentation layouts

In the simplified representation below I've labeled different types of slides, so you can see how everyone a layout and appearance of their role is in a presentation.

My recommendations are only suggestions; should be from a variety of ideas to see which works best for you. It aims, the slides with your most important content have the most striking design-make and you can see here, such as layout, an integral part of the overall design is film.  With this layout techniques slide helps more than create good looking-it helps your audience to ensure understanding and remembering your key messages and your content to walk away.  Now, they are off to try it!

--Ellen Finkelstein

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3 Tips for making powerful presentations of the Government

This contribution to the presentation of Government and other authorities is the second in a series of occasional contributions from guest expert Mike Parkinson's to use PowerPoint in different sectors and for different target groups. Mike is an internationally recognized visual communications experts, multi-published author and partner at 24 hour company, a premier proposal and presentation graphics company. 2 Steps to change the world with PowerPointis titled his first post for the PowerPoint blog.

I am not the only person who grow my business to help with PowerPoint. The Government often requires PowerPoint presentations that can win organization best suited to contracts with a value of millions or even billions of dollars. Many government officers procurement tell me that PowerPoint makes it easier to understand, solutions. In contrast to written proposals Government judges the speaker questions can questions about their solutions and answers immediately during the presentation. Plus they refer graphics, and notes often on slide in their handouts for greater clarification.

PowerPoint makes it easy to use visuals, the learning and retention and also increase the likelihood that the audience with the leader agreed solution and choose there are proven. Often, the profit of the company's solution, people and livelihoods impacts all over the world. I have designed and worked closely in many presentations to the Government, proposing solutions to difficult challenges such as hunger, disease control and the provision of medical aid. Accompanied by well-designed and presents PowerPoint slides, a company's oral proposal evaluators educates on breakthrough solutions and thousands of jobs (opening a new Centre) create, saves lives (assistance to countries in need, first responder solutions, military protection), and help our world be a better place (NASA, NOAA, etc.).

Here are three tips for the presentation of Government and other authorities:

Reflect your audience in your presentation. People are drawn known colors, images, words, and so on. In the following you will find two slides from a presentation in the United States Army. A slide used army images and colors. The balls are focused on their relationship with the army. Slide b uses the Corporation colours and shows business images. The spheres mentioned not the army. The film would be einprägsameren to the audience?

Use a template. Before I create all of the design work on a presentation for a Government proposal, I have a template slide with graphics and text style guides, colors and sample images. For more details, the better. Continue to add icons and update the styles as necessary. Often, I work with a team of designers on a proposal from a fast turnaround. Using a template races helps to consistency and consistency to ensure trust. Choose colors and images that reflect your audience or its goals again, if possible. (White and blue in the title bar below the band-in red, notice.) (Government respond reviewers well to patriotic symbols like the flag, the Eagles, military personnel, etc., so long, how it relates to your topic.)

Make your film profit driven. Close features or content to a specific benefit to your audience a reason, listen and care. Their audience research to find out your film needs to address, what questions. Security their priority, is if built up a new network for remote offices? Cost or schedule the most important factor in providing a new u-boot? Be civilians or military use the product or service? Below is a sample graphic from a presentation to a government agency. We highlighted our functions to facilitate advantages and discriminator, to understand why our solution is the best for our audience.

--Mike Parkinson

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Create rich media based presentations with producer (it's free!)

Do, to do more with the video in your PowerPoint 2010 presentations?

Should rich, media presentations that can be accessed and displayed in a Web browser from virtually anywhere?

Would you capture and synchronize audio, video, PowerPoint slides and images, and then in the Preview view and publish your presentations?

If you have answered any of these questions with Yes, you are in luck. Use Microsoft Producer, and take your video to the next level.

It is true that PowerPoint 2010 includes the possibility to make your presentations in videos. But if one more editing control, producer is an excellent tool to synchronize audio, video, slides and create images, committed and effective rich-media presentations.

And producer offers a variety of content creation changes, no matter whether you have a content and media professional or started just using PowerPoint.

The Crown, is it even for free.

Producer works with PowerPoint 2010 (32-bit), PowerPoint 2007, PowerPoint 2003 and PowerPoint 2002, and it is compatible with Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP and Windows 2000 Service Pack 3.

Two quick things to note:

See more about video in PowerPoint Bill shade incredibly popular post of the last month- ready, to test your Hollywood skills? Create impressive video presentations in PowerPoint.

And a quick note that the new PowerPoint homepage is up on Office.com.

-Joy Miller, for the PowerPoint blog team

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Video background help, new stories in PowerPoint presentations (video)

See something unexpected is a good way, your audience hook. When I earlier this month showed this film at a Conference, were muttering of "What is it?" Granted, this is not groundbreaking, but it is enough to for people be different. The cool thing is to do what people with this new type of the result slides.

I am speaking of video backgrounds in PowerPoint. It is a part of the updated photo and video tools in PowerPoint 2010 and see something this year are you more in these blogs about.

Let's break it down. If a template, you can use this, it is in order:

But hang out, it's a video:

I combine the video and write the text and the bottom line is far more convincing.

Download this video template , you can (or find some other video templates) on Office.com. Each template contains detailed instructions for creating and modifying it (such as the amount of time between the individual points). Or you want to give only the text for the presentation (the text is already properly distorted and size for each row), as I here for this short video on the photo and video tools in PowerPoint:

Go read more about video in PowerPoint on Office.com and find an index of articles about the photo tools in Office 2010, including remove background and artistic effects.

--Doug Thomas

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New PowerPoint tools allow new forms of (better) presentations (video)

With the photo and video tools in PowerPoint 2010 and Office for Mac 2011, you can tell better stories in your presentations. For example, you can now create video wallpapers and video is a no-brainer - no longer to start and stop your PowerPoint must show a video.

Do give it a try? Download a free trial version of Office 2010 or Office for Mac 2011 now. Switch to the Office.com to read more about video in PowerPoint, see an index of articles about the photo tools on the Office 2010 including remove background and art effects.

Our see the Roundup MOM 2.0 coverage here.

--Doug Thomas

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