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Monday, February 2, 2015

PowerPoint keyboard shortcuts for presenters

There isnt any doubt that every speaker tries his best to have long lasting effect on audience. Everyone wants it to do the way Steve Jobs had been doing all his life. In addition to the right content, your communication skills, its your presence of mind, ability to engage the audience, a right and pronto use of technology that gonna lead to a successful presentation.

If you are going to use Microsoft PowerPoint to deliver your presentation in next conference, use Presenter view and following keyboard shortcuts to be in control of things:

Go to slide number: number+ENTER [During presentation you might have to jump to particular slide, just press the number and hit enter key]
Display a blank black slide, or return to the presentation from a blank black slide: B or PERIOD [ You can use this when discussing something not on slide]
Display a blank white slide, or return to the presentation from a blank white slide: W or COMMA[ You can use this when discussing something not on slide]
Stop or restart an automatic or rehearsed presentation: S
Return to the first slide: Press and hold Left Mouse button for several seconds

Shortcuts for audio/video

These shortcuts work on media inserted (embedded) from file and not on online embeds of YouTube etc.

Stop media playback : ALT+Q
Mute the sound: ALT+U
Toggle between play and pause: ALT+P
Increase the sound volume: ALT+Up
Decrease the sound volume: ALT+Down
Go to the next video bookmark: ALT+END
Go to the previous video bookmark: ALT+HOME

Besides these are standard keyboard shortcuts which many of you already know and use like F5 to start a slide show, backspace or next arrow to move forward and Ecs key to end the slideshow. To view complete list of keyboard shortcuts press F1 function key during slideshow mode.

Infographic PowerPoint software usage and market share

Here is an infographic on PowerPoint usage and market-share:

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Easily migrate from PowerPoint 2003 to PowerPoint 2007

Most of PowerPoint users still prefer to use PowerPoint 2003 or XP because of learning curve involved. Its bit difficult to locate your favorite menus, commands in 2007 as Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 has different interface and few commands and options have been relocated under different menus.

That being said, PowerPoint 2007 is much rich in features as compared to PowerPoint 2003 or XP and migration to 2007 is easy with the help and tutorials available online.

Go through PowerPoint 2003 to PowerPoint 2007 interactive command reference guide from Microsoft. This interactive flash content will help you locate Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 commands in PowerPoint 2007.

Keyboard shortcuts available in PowerPoint 2007 will help you start easily.

Keyboard Shortcuts in PowerPoint 2007

Command	Keyboard Shortcut
Open new blank presentation	Ctrl+N
Insert new slide	Ctrl+M / Enter key
Open existing PowerPoint	Ctrl+O
Slideshow
Start Slideshow	F5
Next animation/ Slide	Spacebar/ Enter
Return to the previous slide	Backspace
Go to a slide number	number + Enter
Return to first slide	1 + Enter
Jump to the first (or last) slide	Home (or End)
Change pointer to a pen	CTRL+P
Display the shortcut or right click menu	SHIFT+F10
Go to the first or next hyperlink on a slide	TAB
Change pointer to an arrow	CTRL+A
Erase the screen annotations	E
End Slideshow	ESC
Formatting
Justify a paragraph.	Ctrl + J
Centre a paragraph	CTRL+E
Right align a paragraph.	Ctrl + R
Left align a paragraph.	Ctrl + L
Copy formats (Format painter)	CTRL+SHIFT+C
Paste formats(Format painter)	CTRL+SHIFT+V

See complete list on Microsoft website

PowerPoint templates

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Video support in PowerPoint 2010

Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 offers great support for videos. Besides letting you insert video files, PowerPoint 2010 has in built facility to let you insert embeds of video sharing websites. Also, with PowerPoint 2010 you will be able convert PowerPoint files in WMV format video files.

Embed videos in PowerPoint 2010

You need not to go go through complex steps of adding shockwave flash object. Just copy video embed from some video sharing website(say YouTube) and click video option provided under insert tab in PowerPoint 2010. Select " Insert video from online video site", paste embed and click insert.

Besides video embeds you can also use some other flash embeds; just try embeds of PowerPoint sharing websites and those embeds will play just like they play on some blog or website.

Convert PowerPoint to video

Video has become one of the most powerful content formats lately. Video content provides you wide range of audience. In todays scenario, if you have to convert your PowerPoint to video, either you have to purchase some PowerPoint to video software or use some online PowerPoint to video website. This all is going to change to some extent with PowerPoint 2010.

PowerPoint 2010 will let you convert your PowerPoint presentations with timings(rehearsed or narrated) in WMV video format. PowerPoint 2010 even converts PowerPoint presentations without timing. You just need to select "Time to spend on each slide". If some slides are having animation effects then total duration of those slides in video will be sum total of animation timings.

How to embed record insert edit audio in PowerPoint

We all love and admire presentations jazzed up with multimedia elements. Who would not love a custom PowerPoint greeting having audio message from someone you love or a PowerPoint photo album with right blend of sound and music?

Even a business presentation can have long lasting effect with right kind of music or sound appearing at right point. However, many of us find it difficult when it comes to adding music, sound or record our own voice. PowerPoint has different ways and properties to handle audio files. Let us discuss them one by one.

Recording your own voice in a PowerPoint slideshow (Narrations)
If you just want to record audio on one slide or when audio sync is not that important with animations or slides this can be a good option:

Click on insert tab on PowerPoint 2010 ribbon and then click on audio drop down.
Select "Record Audio" option. A dialog box with option to record will appear
Click record button to record audio. Recored audio will get embedded on current active slide

If you want to record narrations in 2010 synced with animations and slides (in slideshow mode): This video tutorial will help you understand the steps involved in recording narration:

Record narrations in 2007

Insert music

Inserting music or audio file in PowerPoint is quite easy.

Click on insert tab on PowerPoint 2010 ribbon and then click on audio drop down
Select "Insert from file"
Select the audio file from you system and click insert to add it to slide
You can set different properties for this audio file by double clicking the sound icon
Click on playback tab and set the options as desired

Play across slides and loop small audio until last slide

If you want to play some music or sound continuously when slideshow is in progress, you can set the audio property to loop until last to play it across slides.

Edit audio inserted in slide
Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 lets you trim the audio files inserted so that you can set the start and end time for a audio file which is quite long and just a smart portion of it make sense for your audience:

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