100. PowerPoint Magic to Make Your Audience Say "Wow, How Did You Do That!"
Mar 23, 2021
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Celebrate the 100th episode with ninja PowerPoint tips to impress your audience. Learn about under-used transitions, stock icons, and cut-out people for creative slides. Dive into advanced 3D models and Canva-style designs to enhance your presentations.
Utilize the AI-powered Microsoft Designer Tool for design suggestions to enhance slide aesthetics and create visually appealing layouts.
Enhance slide movement continuity with the Morph transition feature in PowerPoint, offering a balanced and visually appealing transition effect.
Deep dives
Celebrating 100 Episodes of the Presentation Boss Podcast
After reaching the milestone of 100 episodes, the hosts, Kate and Thomas, plan to celebrate in Brisbane and invite listeners to join them. Thomas takes the opportunity to express his gratitude towards Kate for her commitment and contributions to the podcast. The celebration marks a significant achievement and reflects the dedication they have shown over time.
Enhancing PowerPoints with Microsoft Designer Tool
The Microsoft Designer Tool, an AI-powered feature in PowerPoint, offers design suggestions to enhance slide aesthetics. It helps in creating visually appealing title pages and layouts by analyzing the elements on the slide. This tool assists in generating creative design ideas, making it beneficial for users looking to improve the visual impact of their presentations.
Animating Presentations with Morph Transitions
The Morph transition feature in PowerPoint enables seamless animations between slides, offering a balanced and visually appealing transition effect. Morph enhances the slide movement continuity and makes it challenging to identify typical PowerPoint presentations. It provides a middle ground between simple transitions and overly complex animations, enhancing the visual flow of the slides.
Incorporating Stock Imagery and Cut Out People in PowerPoint
PowerPoint's insert icons option presents a library of stock images and cut out people, allowing users to easily integrate professional visuals into their presentations. The collection includes a variety of icons, illustrations, and animated cut out people, offering creative elements to enhance slide content. Users can leverage these resources to add diverse and engaging visuals to their slides.
Celebrate episode one-hundred of The Presentation Boss Podcast! We've made it, folks, all the way to our goal of 100 weekly episodes of our podcast. A commitment to sharing the best skills, speeches and experts with you for nearly two years. And in this triple-digit episode, we are bringing some flair, ninja skills and hidden features of PowerPoint that will impress your audience (without distracting from your effective preparation).
Thomas spends a fair amount of time staying up-to-date with PowerPoint and finds a use for features that most don't even know about. This episode is best listened to if you can play along with PowerPoint in front of you while we walk you through seven secret PowerPoint tools that will make your presentation look creative, professional and have your audience asking you how you did that!
100th Episode Celebration Details:
Kate and Thomas will be inviting the guests from the show and having a little gathering in Brisbane. We understand travel is hard, but if you're a listener from Brisbane, we'd love to meet you.
Lock into your calendar the evening of 9 April. Join us for a drink in the beer garden of The Plough Inn, Southbank between 5:00pm and 7:00pm.
In This Episode:
• Kate and Thomas briefly discuss our milestone of reaching the centenary of episodes
• The best transition available that is under-used and makes slides not look like slides
• Where to natively find a massive resource of stock icons, photos and unconventional shapes
• How PowerPoint is implementing features from Canva, Google Slides and Prezi
• Adding and using 3D models to your slides
• The internal AI that will build your slides for you - in one click!
Resources and Links
• Email us: podcast@presentationboss.com.au
• The Presentation Boss Podcast: https://presentationboss.com.au/podcast/
• Show your support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/presentationboss
• Join our online community: Presentation Bosses Facebook Group
• Kate on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kate-norris/
• Thomas on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-krafft/
• Presentation Boss on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/presentationboss/
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