Tech Soup

JULY 10, 2012

The slides serve as the anchor, but all the details can happen outside the slides, such as on the flip chart, through your own storytelling, and interactions with the audience. Third: Add charts, graphics, and animations that are relevant, and omit the gimmicky stuff. Reduce the number of slides and increase the number of interactions.

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Tech Soup

MAY 8, 2012

I'll be speaking in a webinar, Creating Better Presentations with Microsoft PowerPoint , on May 24 at 11 a.m. One of the things we'll be covering is the SmartArt feature , which Microsoft introduced with Office 2007 and improved in Office 2010. As PowerPoint Ninja bluntly put it, SmartArt is dumb. Pacific time.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 29, 2013

The new Office 2013 products offer a number of new features and benefits over Office 2010, including direct integration with SkyDrive, new graphics options, the ability to open and edit PDFs in Word, plus syncing across several devices. Free Webinar! Office Professional Plus 2013 (admin fee: $32). Take a tour of the new Office.

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