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Hi, everyone. And welcome to today’s webinar, Mind Blowing PowerPoint – No, REALLY. Hosted by HRDQ-U and presented by Richard Goring. My name is Sarah, and I will moderate today’s webinar. The webinar will last around one hour. If you have any questions or comments, please type them into the question area on your GoToWebinar control panel, and we’ll answer as many as we can during our time together today. And if you could just locate that questions area, type it out, hello where you’re coming from, get comfortable with that, because we’ll be using that a lot today to be able to answer all of your questions. And today’s webinar is sponsored by HRDQstore. HRDQ has provided research based off the shelf soft skills training resources for classroom, virtual, and online training for over 45 years. From assessments and workshops to experiential hands-on games, HRDQ helps organizations improve performance, increase job satisfaction and more. You can learn more at HRDQstore.com.
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Now, I’d like to introduce our presenter today, Richard Goring. Richard is a director at Bright Carbon, a presentation and e-learning agency. Richard is the proud leader of a team of experts creating presentations and e-learning that help businesses communicate, specializing in topics on impactful presentation and providing insights, knowledge, and mentoring to help you be successful. Thanks so much for joining us today, Richard.
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Thank you so much need, Sarah. Hi, everyone. Welcome into today’s session. As Sarah said, which is about really cool stuff in PowerPoint fact. We’ve gone so far as to say, Mind-blowing PowerPoint.
1:38
Let’s hope that continues.
1:40
I wanted to start off with a question, though, because, to be honest, we’re all using presentations or using PowerPoint. What is it about most presentations that are so, what’s the word?
1:52
Most presentations are, Let’s be honest, pretty terrible. And you’re sat there, wondering why they’re bothering, and there’s even a term for it, we call it, Death by PowerPoint.
2:00
When was the last time you had death by something?
2:02
You thought it was a good idea to keep going, other than chocolate, which is the exception that proves the rule. Anyway, one of the major contributors to Death by PowerPoint is using slides that spell out what you’re trying to say.
2:13
You personally is that the words you see, the words you here are all process than a single part of the brain. Something called the “phonological loop”, and that means that it’s virtually impossible for people to be able to read and listen at the same time. In fact, you get an interference effect going on, which is one of the underlying reasons why you wouldn’t really be confused, which isn’t really what you want. The other problem you got is that people just can’t resist trying to understand what’s in front of them. So, what tends to happen is, well, this…
2:43
And because of this…
2:52
So, you’ve all read the slide, you just want to move on, you don’t want to listen to me talk about it some more, but inevitably, the presenter will desperately try to add some value to whatever War & Peace is up on the slide, that means that 1 of 2 things is going to happen. either you gonna get ignored, which isn’t great, or you’re going to become really irritating neither of which you particularly want.
3:10
And so, the answer, as I hope is obvious from what I’m showing you here, is to get rid of text and bullet points, that’s for documents And instead, think about the way you can incorporate visuals, diagrams, and even animations to explain and reinforce your messages.
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Critically, if you can synchronize that up with the narrative from the presenter, you can encourage something called geo coding of information, where the audience can take on board with the visual, and the narrative stream from the presenter. And so the whole thing comes together to be much more engaging and much more successful.
3:42
That’s that’s kinda the premise of today’s session. It’s trying to help you all to work out, ways that you can communicate more effectively and using PowerPoint into the medium in which to do it. Now, most of the session today is going to be lots of live demo, hands-on things will be playing around with PowerPoint. And as a result of that, if you have any questions, thoughts, about, particularly, what’s going on, but also, anything to expand on it and use cases you have, please do share that in the chat in the questions panel of it, And Sarah and I will look through that and have a chat with you as we’re going through.
4:13
Also, because we’ll cover probably quite a lot of stuff.
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There is, of course, the recording for you to access afterwards, but also in the handouts panel, just towards the bottom of the chat, You’ll see a download there, which is a PDF, step by step instructions guide, covering all the techniques that we will be looking at today, along with links to really short, quick video tutorials about those techniques to. So, what I’d also encourage you to do is kind of have a bit of a sit back and think about the concepts, in general, which ones would apply most to you, to the kinds of things you’re doing. And then maybe try to focus on 2, 3, 4 of those, and apply them to what you’re doing that. So, please do shout out with questions, thoughts, and comments. And then we can kind of move through the various different bits and pieces.
4:59
I wanted to start off by talking about layouts, because actually, although you may not think of yourself as a designer, if you’re using PowerPoint to create content, you are forced to be. And if you think about some of the stuff from the world of graphic design, that’s genuinely considered to be important.
5:16
It’s stuff like beautiful photography, clear hierarchy, impressive fonts, white space. Then you take all of these different phrases and ideas, and you can start to put together slides that look really nice.
5:33
Problem is, I don’t think, that looks really nice.
5:37
It’s got a beautiful image, it’s got Claire Fonds. It’s got a good hierarchy. Has got whitespace boatloads of it down here on the bottom left.
5:44
The problem is that it’s got all the individual components just thrown onto the slide and it’s missing one vital thing, which is layouts. If you were to take all these components and simply change the layout of it, what you get is that.
6:02
And the reason this, I think now works significantly better than what was there before.
6:07
It’s because it’s using grid theory.
6:09
It’s aligning everything up to a grid in order to make sure that the layout works well.
6:15
And if you’ve not heard of grid theory, that’s probably not a big surprise, to be honest, because it’s quite niche. But you may well have heard of the rule of thirds from the world of photography.
6:24
And the rule of thirds is simply a 3 by 3 grid. And it helps you to compose a photo that works really well, and, in fact, on your smartphone camera, you probably have some of these grid lines already, to help you to set it all up.
6:36
Now, you can have any kind of grid you like, 3 by 3 is a classic and works really well. But often, a 12 by 8 grid, for example, or 12 by 12, grid works nicely.
6:45
And the point is that you can have this grid structure, and then you can re-use it in different ways to lay out your content in a consistent manner across multiple slides. But each individual slide is also composed Well.
6:59
The beauty of that in presentations, if you can set up a consistent grid by the time you put your content into it, it looks and feels so much nicer and so much better.
7:09
So in terms of building up a grid, I’m assuming that you’re all working in a corporate environment. And so you’ll have a PowerPoint template. This may be a bit like this. Perhaps a bit more exciting with a few more graphics, but probably some components like a title, and maybe your logo, and, you know, the date, and page number, and maybe some confidentiality or copyright notices, things like that.
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When it comes to building out content, you probably don’t want to put something there, for example, because it’s obviously, you gotta get in the way of the title. You probably don’t want something that because it’s obviously getting way in that unseen without that.
7:45
So it’s worth thinking about where you’re going to position your content, to where your working grid is going to be.
7:51
And so what I’d usually do is to create some margins around the outside of your slide, so you don’t have content going into it.
7:59
Then from there, you have your working space, and this is where you can build up a grid structure.
8:04
Now, when it comes to grids, there’s a few different ways that you can do it. You can just draw some, You know, dotted lines for example, and you can have one over here like this. Another one there, another one there, another one that, and then evenly space them out across the slide. So you’ve got your, your three columns there, for example.
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You can add in your own grid lines if you’d like by right clicking on the slide and choosing grid and guides from the popup menu.
8:28
Here, you got a few options. one of which is to add in the guides. And if you add in guides, you’ll now see that. you get a whole load of little gray dotted lines, and you can move these around. And so you can now position there so that it goes there.
8:41
And if you use the Control Key, you can then drag a copy of that, just over here like that. So now I’ve got, kind of, three columns going on there.
8:50
And the lovely thing about these dotted lines is that they are sticky, so you can draw something. And it will snap to those dotted lines. So you make sure you always, that.
8:59
It’s always kind of neat you lined up across the different slides, because I’ve got these here, And then they go there, as well. And you can take this to extremes, if you want to, or you can take even further, if you want to, you can add these into your slide master, so they don’t move around. You can add more of them, and so it works really nicely.
9:16
Once you’ve got that, also, it’s worth saying that actually your branding department may have already added in guidelines for you, and if they have, then use that, because it will have very carefully considered what grid structure you should be using.
9:29
So a variety of different ways for you to be able to get a grid structure in there from rough and ready, which is probably fine to something that’s a little bit more precise, a little bit more refined.
9:39
And then you can use that to try to solve the problem that you might face, ulf slides like this.
9:46
Now, there are two major problems with this. one is that there’s loads of text. And so you probably want to get rid of it and use visuals instead.
9:55
But the other thing that I suspect quite a few of you face is that you’re given slides like this by, say, a subject matter expert, and then told you have to keep all the text on the slide.
10:05
The subject matter experts insist upon it, or the compliance department insist upon it, or whatever, Like if your hands are tied. You have to keep all of the text on the slide.
10:16
So, let’s address that point first, because I know that it’s really common, and, in your world a lot, it’s hard to be able to deal with it. And so, how would you deal with this if you have to keep all the text, and we’ll do the visual stuff in just a moment?
10:31
I think most people would probably agree that what you do with a slide like this is change the font Comic Sans, and a lot of Clip art harar. No, clearly not. That’s how varied nineties there.
10:42
We need to do something a little bit different.
10:44
Interestingly, when you look at this, there are probably two things that people think about as a, to make it a bad slide.
10:52
First of all, it’s bullet points.
10:55
People fixate on these little black dots here, and they said, oh, it’s bullet points like intimately bad. And secondly, there’s quite a lot of text, even for a tech space bullet point slide, that people go to what he is to text. So how do we try to solve that?
11:08
Well, the first thing I’d probably do, if I’m honest, is, just to get rid of that for the moment, is get rid of the bullet points. They’re not really necessary in this here. So I can then get rid of those, turn them off.
11:20
The other thing that I’m going to do is split this out into columns of content.
11:27
When it comes to setting up a grid’s, most people would say that the column based structure is more important than the row based structure. Now that has a number of different reasons for it, but one of them is the length of the line of text.
11:42
With this here, this is taking up, you know, most of the width of the slide and on a laptop screen, Iran now, it might be fine to read, but if you’re projecting this on a large screen, it’s quite fatiguing for people to have to read long line lengths all the time, and so that’s quite difficult, quite tiring for that the eye movement to go across. And so that’s why in newspapers and magazines and stuff, you often see kind of short line lengths so that it’s easier to deal with.
12:08
So if we do something like that, kinda move these around, Position them here.
12:14
What you’ve then got is something that allows you to move this into different columns, shrink that down, and touch like that, there we go.
12:24
There what I’m also going to do with this is, say, right? Let’s change the font in, particular, like the Calibri Font. Let’s use the theme font that we should be using here so that that works well, and let’s change that font to say 60 or something. So we’ve got something that’s relatively decent. Maybe we can make it a team that will probably do. That’s fine. So, now, you’ve got some neat content, that mix columns for your content, and that creates a nice block, the content that like that.
12:52
So, that’s addressed the idea of the layout. And people thinking more bullet points are bad, but what else would you do with it? Because it’s still a bad slide with lots of text?
13:01
No, I would do to solve that. I would add more text.
13:05
I know that sounds really counter-intuitive, but what I’m going to do here is just add in something that Say’s innovative and add in something here that says, maybe inclusive. Let’s add something here that says accessible, perhaps, and this one is going to be maybe an expert.
13:25
And so, what you’ve got now is like a summary up here at the top of all of these pieces at the bottom.
13:31
The problem with all of this text is that it takes 20, NaN or so for people to read. Any other presenter is still talking.
13:38
If you make it so that people only have to read, you know, 4 or 5 words the top here, and not necessarily things at the bottom, they can read that in NaN and then continue to listen to your explanation of why it’s important.
13:50
Now, let’s add some hierarchy into this, You know, just adding the word, that might mean that people read that, but, it’s not intuitively obvious.
13:59
And so, one of the things that I’m going to do is reduce the size of most of this body text here. You know, 14 point is perfectly fine for a document, because it’s there for reference later on, but it’s obviously too small for a presentation.
14:10
And then, I’m going to take this and make it different unit. Let’s make it larger. In this case, we’ve got a heading font here, which is a different weight. So, let’s do something like that. Perhaps you can change the color of it as well, so it stands out of it more clearly. And then just apply those settings across there, And now all of a sudden, you’ve got a clear hierarchy about what it is you want to add in. And so now, it’s much more obvious to people that these are the main points, and obviously, that’s there for detail later on.
14:38
You could also, if you want to really encourage people to look at the top here, and really help them to have a glance at it and understand what’s going on by perhaps adding in some iconography.
14:48
In PowerPoint, if you go to the Insert tab on the ribbon, over on the left-hand side, you will find this little duck and leaf motif, and this gives you the ability to choose from all sorts of different icons that are built into PowerPoint.
15:02
So if I search for a couple, if I do light bulb, for example, let’s choose that one there, that works nicely, maybe choose Network, Whoops, let’s go to insert again, an icons. Let’s choose Network for that next one. Oh, yeah, I like that one. Tough, that’s, let’s choose something for the hands of being connected, that’ll do. And maybe something for, like an Atom for the expertise. Yeah, I like that, OK, so we’ve now got a couple of icons. What you can do now is bring these in.
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So they can set up nicely there.
15:38
And so let’s kinda line all of these up, like that, so they sit nicely.
15:44
Like, that’s, Maybe let’s change the color, so that they blend in kind of nicely with that, as well. So, you’ve got this nice setup now with these kind of visual anchors at the top to draw people’s attention to these pieces here, along with icons being really useful tools to give people a sense of what they should be doing.
16:05
Now, if you’re in a position like this with with most organizations where your, your PowerPoint template is a stark white, that kind of can work quite nicely. But sometimes there’s a little bit of a sense of like these things blurring together so that can be a bit harder.
16:18
So you could take this further and say, You know what, I don’t want just floating content here, what I’m going to do is draw maybe a content block that sits behind all of this like that. So let’s take this, let’s send that to the back.
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Let’s change all of this so that it goes like that.
16:41
And can we draw a couple of those? Yeah, let’s do 1, 2, 3, 4 like that.
16:45
Send these backwards and probably just shrink these down, just a touch so that it fits nicely, like, but that will probably give us the kind of spacing that we want.
17:01
And obviously, what you now need to do is change this, so that the text is white, changed the icons, so they’re white as well, and they stand out a bit more. So, something like that now looks and feels so much nicer, and so much better than it was before, and it’s clear that there are four points you want to get across.
17:18
You don’t just have to have squares. You know, you can change this if you want to, so that it can be different shapes. You can have like a, a rounded rectangle if you want something like that can look quite nice. You can make these a little bit tighter if you’d like as well. So that look a little bit more modern, a little bit more sleek. This is now a personal thing. But either way, the whole thing looks and feels really good.
17:38
So hopefully you get a sense of how you can go from something like this with just this kind of text and keep exactly that text and do something that looks and feels really different. And the idea of columns and hierarchy and iconography and content blocks, all help you to transform a slide so that now it’s much easier for people to be able to pass and assimilate and take onboard the information.
18:02
You can also use color to your advantage to like, just go to a different example here, we’ve got … already know. Why not have a gradient set of colors to? Maybe suggest that. This is a process, where you’re going from one to the next To the next, the next. Or Maybe, you know, all of these can be one lighter color like that. And this is the bit that reached, them. Now, that’s really important, something like that there, for example.
18:25
So, using color to your advantage can help lots to kind of really build these out.
18:29
Then, of course, in reality, what you should probably do is try to convince whoever it is, that you can take all this, put it in the Speaker notes, and then you can have something that’s much simpler, and then do all sorts of funky things with it, and like putting gradients on it if you want to really make it stand out by inverting this. So you’ve got to a dark background there with these kind of lighter things kind of popping up.
18:49
Lots of different options to play around with manipulate. But hopefully to give you an idea of text based stuff doesn’t have to feel like your traditional death by PowerPoint, Lots of text and bullet points on that column based structure is really useful.
19:05
And in terms of helping you to do that a bit more. one of the techniques that we might use a lot is just to have pre-made columns set out. So when I’ve got a slide here with these kind of rows, or sets of columns of content that are all set up nicely to that grid structure.
19:21
And then if someone says right, or you realize I’ve got four points that I want to make an a particular slide, great.
19:27
Here’s my four piece column, I’m going to copy that, paste it there, And then you can just manipulate this as you like. And so you can have like, your key message in here, for example, in that can be larger, and maybe bold.
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And, hey, you’re going to have all of your detailed content that goes in there like that. This can be left aligned and top, for example, and maybe change the color of these. so that it’s a bit later in the text this dark. You know, that kinda thing, really quickly and easily? You’re starting to build up your content And you’ve got it. They’re set up ready, because you have these pre-made kind of setup of just column based content, so easy to add it.
20:03
And then the other super quick thing that’s really good about column based content is that it’s also easy to change.
20:10
So, here, I’ve got up, you know, nice four column layout with some key ideas, top in some detail at the bottom. And then someone comes along and says, Oh, can you add a fifth?
20:19
Normally, when someone makes a request to completely change your content, you add 20% of it more. You think, Oh, this is just a pain.
20:26
Well, actually, I can take this column of content, if you copy it. So I’ve got two of them. And there I’ve just use the Control and the Shift key to copy and drag that object over here.
20:37
I can then select all of these, group them together on the keyboard shortcut. That is Control and G, And then you can just shrink that down to Fit nicely into the margins again. And now you’ve got five columns that it’s all just kind of re sized and scaled to work really nicely.
20:54
So just kinda nice, neat, simple things to do.
20:59
It’s also worth noting, though, that although column based content generally works well, do think about what the text is saying.
21:07
So here, I’ve got four bullet points in a slide, and you could rightly say, well, that she’s four columns, and do that same trick again.
21:15
But then you’d be missing a trick.
21:17
Because if you read the STM, I don’t expect you to do now. But this top bullet point here is more of an overarching thing. It gives you a sense of, kind of overall what happens.
21:26
And these three here are kind of specific things that happen within that Framework.
21:30
So four columns wouldn’t really give that sense of hierarchy of the difference between this top one and these bottom three.
21:37
So that’s where the whole grid structure comes in. The columns. and the rows, because what I can do now is have this one, is an overarching row, and then three columns underneath it. And so just that layout helps people to understand the relationship between the different things, again, nice, and quickly and easily.
21:55
So I didn’t want to dwell on it too much, but if anyone has any questions on that, please do.
21:59
But I hope that gives you a sense of how you can take purely text based content and start to make it look and feel and work so much better and help your audience to understand and assimilate content.
22:13
There are a couple of questions that I think have come in, and is now the time to pause and kind of answer those.
22:18
Yes, so We have a question coming through that came through from Sarah, who would like to know how. Are you changing the sizes and shapes so quickly?
22:27
I think that was when I had this set up here, where I had a whole load of different things that I’ve done already, and in that case, is just split out of a multiple slots.
22:37
So, I prepared beforehand, although, if you do have my squares here, you can select any object in PowerPoint, Go to the Shape Formats tab in the ribbon up here, on the left hand side, is a thing called Edit Shape.
22:52
And that allows you to change these rectangles in this case, to any other shape.
22:57
So I can choose an Oval for example, and that will now turn them into Circles.
23:01
So, that’s how you would do it on the fly. But, in my case, I had them prepared, which is why it was it was doing it.
23:07
And Tracy, you would like to know where the best place is to find a visual aids for your pet for PowerPoint? You are almost reading my mind. That is exactly what we’ll talk about next. That will come on.
23:19
And then Stephanie would like to know if the version of PowerPoint matters in order to be able to do these things?
23:26
For everything that I’ve shown you so far, no, you can do them in any version of PowerPoint ever, in fact, because that’s kind of what it was designed to do.
23:35
And there are, for the most part, everything that I’m going to talk about is compatible with probably 2003 onwards, although it will look quite different. But there are some things which are specific to Office 365, and I’ll reference I’ll show you what they are when we get to it.
23:55
And Greg would like to know what toolbox toolbar that you’re using, that’s showing the shapes, the text alignment, etcetera, at the bottom of the ribbon. Again, we can can we come on to that in just a couple of minutes, but that’s a great observation that we’ll do that. Yes.
24:10
All right. So I’m sorry. one more.
24:14
Just one more here. Kate would like to know, what was the name of the program that you used for layouts?
24:26
I don’t recall. I’m not sure that I understand, unfortunately.
24:32
Can you just clarify, then I’ll jump back to that one. If we hear any clarification from Kate Brilliant. Thank you so much need, OK. All right. So one of the questions was, where do you get all the iconography and the graphics and stuff from?
24:44
There are loads of places out there that you can get all this stuff from. The most obvious perhaps there’s something called The Noun Project. So, the noun project dot com, this is a brilliant site for literally millions of icons. Now, it’s not free. But you have to get a subscription to it. It’s not a lot, It’s about $30 a year, I think, which is really very good value for what you’re getting. There is a free version where you have access to a mere few thousand icons, so it’s still worth checking out. But if you want the biggest set of icons out that, the noun project absolutely has to be and the consideration. There’s also material designed from Google, so, material dot IO, and that has a huge collection of icons as well in different styles, which is nice to see. So you can go through and gather those.
25:30
And in that PDF guide, in the handout section, this is one of the pages that you’ll see.
25:36
So this has half a half a dozen different sites in the right-hand side there, which all give you access to either completely free or partially free icons, by which I mean, some of that library is free. So it’s well worth checking those out. And the lovely thing about all of these is that they are beautiful, high quality graphics that you have the rights to use.
25:56
Don’t go and do a Google Image Search or something because you won’t necessarily have the rights to use them because it’ll just scrape the web for stuff, So be very careful of that.
26:06
But it’s also worth noting that PowerPoint itself gives you the ability to add in lots of graphics icons. And so if I just go to quick blank slide here, if you go to the Insert tab like I’ve just done, and then the icons page, on the left-hand side, You’ve got here, all of these different icons. And these are all brilliant because, again, you can use them however you like in your presentations. This is only available for Office 365 subscribers. And you will have a limited subset, I think, in some of the other versions of PowerPoint from 2060 onwards. But, for the most part, it’s going to be Office 365, So this is where you got the full line.
26:44
And you can then search for particular things that you want, like a rocket, for example, inserted, And I’ve now got my rocket For what’s really nice about these, and what you should generally look for with icons is that they are vector graphics, A file format you want is an S V G a scalable vector graphic, because it means that you can make it larger and it won’t pixelate, and you can also do things like change the color of it and stuff. So that it just fits better with your brand and your style rather than just having, you know, whatever default black or gray icon they come up with.
27:15
So that kind of thing is really useful.
27:18
And so, as I said, you can explore more of that in the PDF guide to be able to find it.
27:24
We’ll come on to images in just a moment. But one of the things that I thought might be useful to talk about, just before we get images and more complex stuff is, if you aren’t going to show complex things, Being able to focus your audience attention is a really useful tool, and a very helpful technique to be able to build up content.
27:47
Now, here I’ve got a relatively simple chart, but nevertheless, there are still 12 data points on there.
27:54
And so if you put up a slide like this or even something more complicated in front of your audience, there’s a fairly decent chance you’re going to lose their attention.
28:03
Because they will be focusing entirely on trying to figure out the chart. They look at, you know, the axes to figure it out there, look at the data. They’ll look at the trends that look at the colors to look at all sorts of stuff. And they won’t be listening to your explanation about what it means.
28:17
And so a very useful technique is to be able to say, Look, here’s all the data that we’ve got, maybe give them a second or two to think about it.
28:24
But then if you want to focus on particular things, I would encourage you to draw a box over some of the content, and if you right click on it, and choose Format Shape from the Popup menu.
28:37
Here, you’ve got all these different options that allow you to change the fill and the design of that shape, including this little slider here called Transparency.
28:46
And if you add in a transparency, usually somewhere between 20 and 30% works well.
28:51
What that does is it has the effect of, like, knocking this into the background.
28:56
And if I then do that, copy drag the control key across all of those, like that there.
29:02
Now, what you have is the sequence of people just focusing on these there.
29:06
And in fact, I’ll talk about animation a little bit later, but if I add in a simple fade animation, what you can now have is you can introduce the entire thing.
29:14
So, look, here’s all the data stuff, but actually what I think we need to talk about today is click that they’re there.
29:21
And so, this technique is just very useful to be able to focus everyone’s attention, to look at the same thing at the same time. And so, I think as you are starting to build up content that’s more complex, that kind of technique works really nicely.
29:35
And it’s not to say that you just have to do it with semi-transparent White boxes.
29:39
Although you can do, but you know, if I were to do the same thing with these bullet points that we had before there, you know, you could have something like that.
29:47
And then maybe you take this and say right, we’re going to talk about just innovative first, for example.
29:53
So let’s maybe drop that back there and drop this back here.
29:57
So I’m just using a simple color change to be able to do it like that.
30:02
And so now, I’ve got a sequence where you have this, but actually click to the next slide. Let’s focus on this bit here, for example. So that idea of helping the audience to focus on the right bits, so you have a shared experience, is all really useful.
30:18
Then, you start thinking about how you do all this more quickly. So this is to address one of the other points of productivity. Like, how can you start to manipulate these more complex slides quickly and easily. Like, if you’re just doing text based stuff, then that’s probably all right. But what about anything else that’s more complex?
30:36
First thing to note is that there are a load of keyboard shortcuts in PowerPoint that are going to be really helpful to you. Again, in the PDF Guide, you’ll be able to download a copy of this, which is the 20 or so keyboard shortcuts that we use most frequently upright carbon when we’re creating presentations for our clients. And it’s well worth just knowing about a chunk of the, so I’ve talked about a couple of them already, So I’ve talked about the Group function. So there on the top right hand, corner, head group, and group control G. Control shift, and Gee, I’ve talked about the duplicating objects that copy track which is using the control key, and clicking, or moving things in alignment which is shift and drag, or control shift, and drag to be able to move things kind of it in multiple ways. So control shift and drag to these two together, I’m sorry!
31:24
So those kinds of tools are really useful. If anyone is using a Mac, your keyboard shortcuts are slightly different. So they are also available for download. This is what it looks like. So it’s just variations on it, So different kinds of techniques there. Essentially, it’s replacing control with command for most things, but you’ll, you’ll be used to that already.
31:44
But there are other things that are available to you to help you out.
31:48
one of which is, as you pointed out, the the quick access toolbar that I’ve got here, which is this set of icons below my ribbon.
31:57
Now, this is something that you’ve all got. But if you’ve never used it before, it’s going to be up in the top left-hand corner of your PowerPoint screen. It’s going to have just a couple of icons there, like save, undo, redo, that kind of thing.
32:11
You can add anything you like to this.
32:14
The first thing that I’d recommend you do, though, is to right click on one of those icons and choose Show Quick Access toolbar below the ribbon.
32:23
What that does, it brings it down closer to the slide, it minimizes mouse mileage and it gives you the full width of the screen that you can use.
32:31
The next thing you can do is populate it with any function you’re using frequently.
32:36
So, for example, I always use the alignment tools. Now, they are buried in a sub menu of a sub menu for somebody that’s really frustrating, because they’re really useful. So, you can go in and right click and choose add two quick access toolbar, and it will appear there. I’m, I’ve got that right there for you.
32:52
Now, I would encourage you to all do this and spend just a little bit of time, kind of building it all out. If anybody wants to, you can again go to the PDF guide where we have instructions for this.
33:03
But you can go to the Bright Karpen website.
33:06
So, the company that I work for. And here, we have a resource where you can download the quick access toolbar that we use at bright carbon, along with a short video tutorial on how to get it set up. So, I can put a link. Not, I can’t do a link to that, but you’ll, you’ll get it if you go to the bright. Com website brought carbon dot com and just do a search for quick access toolbar, Or You can, as I said, get in the PDF Guide that will then give you this as a starting point.
33:31
But, do see it as a starting point. You know, this is what we use. It might not be for you, like, we use lots of animation in our slides. You may not. So, don’t have those, and you can right click, and you can remove them. If you’re always using something else, like the recording functionality, for example, well, after the end, right click, and add to your quick access toolbar to be able to do it.
33:51
So just think very carefully about what functions you’re using frequently, and use it as a tool to boost your productivity.
33:59
You can also take things a step further with add ins for PowerPoints, so there are loads of different developers out there that have created additional tools that allow you to do all sorts of different things in PowerPoint. one such add in is called Bright Slide, and if we can, if you’ll forgive me a brief shameless plug.
34:17
Right slide is an add in that we are bright carbon have created, but don’t worry, it’s available completely for free. So, you can download from the bright com website. And, again, there’s a link in the PDF guide.
34:27
There are a few things that it does, but, again, I think we’ll just be really helpful to you when you’re creating content.
34:33
So, it appears as a new tab in the ribbon.
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one of the things that it does, I think, incredibly well, is it helps you set up that grid structure that we’ve talked about before.
34:42
You can do it manually if you want to. But if you go to the guide section on the right-hand side here, you can create your own guides at a slide Master Layout or normal view level. And I can choose Slide Master and you can choose things like your margins around the outside. You can choose how many rows and how many columns There are, You can choose the gutters around that if you want to. I’ve now just got that done instantly. So it’s just so much quicker and easier than trying to build up anything else.
35:08
If you’ve got a whole lot of content … Oliver slide like this, that’s fine. But they’re all different kinds of shapes and sizes of sizes. In bright slide, we have a tool that likes to match the size, so they’re all the same size.
35:20
The distribution tools that are so useful, we’ve added to them.
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So we’ve got something called Distribute to Grid, which allows you to choose how many rows or how many columns you’ve got and also how far apart they are, so that it’s evenly spaced on the slide for you. Again, you can do it manually, but this just save you quite a lot of time.
35:38
We talked before about the idea of changing the shape swell. Here I’ve got a picture which I like the shape I’ve I’ve got to kind of custom cramped that I liked the sizing and whatnot, and here I’ve got a whole lot of others.
35:48
Now, I could manually resize all these and re crop them and stuff, but we have a tool in bright slide called Match, which allows you to match a variety of properties, the size, the position, the format, the adjustments, which is the rounded corners, in this case, the animations.
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So, I can select this first picture, select all these others, undo match to first, and it will now match all of those. So that the same.
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So, it works for things like content, it works for images, it also works for charts and graphs.
36:17
Here, I’ve got a custom designed table. It could be a custom design chart as well.
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I’ve got a blank basic table here.
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I can use another tool called multi painter. It’s called exactly the same principles. It just works over multiple slides.
36:30
Select that, select this one here, and it will paste all of those different attributes onto this, for example.
36:38
And with tables, specifically, with Bright Slide, if you right click on A Table, there are options in the popup menu here. So, I can do all sorts of different things. Like, especially in the table: sorting, it, transposing the table. I love this one when we came up with it, transposing that table, so that it will just, then flip it around for you just all natively in PowerPoint, previously, had to do it manually. It was a real tight, or copy and paste into Excel, and use it, that it’s just, it’s really frustrating.
37:04
So, it just does that really nicely, and then animations if you are using animation, you know, for storytelling purposes, especially. Here, I’ve got a setup where I want to take all of these individual sources of data, perhaps, and we’re going to move them into one data center. Third, kind of cloud based setup.
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So what I can do here is select all of those like that.
37:25
I can then go to animate to first, or I can go utilities and motion paths, match the end points, and that, whoops, select that, first, select all of these other ones.
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I can then do utilities and motion path and match endpoints. And it’s now going to have all of these matching to that.
37:43
So, that, now, I want to add this in as A an animation. I’ll go, Look, we’ve got all these different local data sources. But what we’re gonna do is merge all of those together into one, for example. So, just a range of different things that you can do with it. And, as I said, you can download that completely for free. if you want to. bright carbon dot com slash bright slide. Kind of well worth taking a look at that, and seeing if that works for you, But a huge boost to productivity, and kind of really useful.
38:11
I’ll pause, just before we move into the next section. Sarah, any questions or thoughts that have come up at all?
38:17
Yes, Hollis would like to know how do you change the colors on icons?
38:23
So it can depend a little bit on what the icons are.
38:27
But as I said, if you’ve got a Vector graphic, so I’ll just get one here from, from PowerPoint, choose an icon there like that. It’s just treated as a regular shape.
38:36
So when you’ve got it, clicked up here, it’ll have the Graphics format. Tablet appears which is just like the shape Format tab for the most part. They’ve got Graphics Fill, and then you can just change the color just like you would any other regular shape and PowerPoint.
38:50
And one more question here from Vernita, who would like to know how, how did you do the phaidon?
38:56
You know, what, can we come on to that, in just a moment or two, and we’ll talk about animations then.
39:03
OK, good side, We’ve got the idea of building out text based content. If you need to, layouts being really useful for everything, but especially text based stuff.
39:15
Productivity, so some tips and tricks that to be able to to build this out. And then now we’re going to come onto the thing that we really want, which is how do you generate true visual storytelling?
39:26
Know, the idea of visuals in a presentation works on many different levels. You know, images for example, are great because they add a level of richness to a slide so they look really good and you could just have an image that sits in the background off to the side or something just to add some visual interest. But that will be missing a trick.
39:45
Why not get an image? It’s relevant festival, OK, everyone does relevant images, that’s fine. So, here, we got an idea of a project roadmap.
39:52
So let’s get a picture of a road, so that it’s a relevant image at least, But let’s take it up another level and say, well, we’ve got the picture of the road, why not use it and annotate it so that we’re showing the progression as we’re moving through all these different bits and pieces about kind of where we’ve been and how we’ve been getting there and stuff.
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So now we’re using that image in a sensible way.
40:13
Now, as with icons, don’t do a Google Image search for images. Go to places like un splash dot com or pex ELs dot com. Pixabay as well, is excellent, or every Pixel, lots of different sites that you can access, all of these kinds of images, and again, this is all set up in that PDF handout card.
40:31
So this is one of the pages from that pixels, Pixabay on splash and every pixel, all of those kind of in the and a few more as well. These are, again, all completely free, beautiful, high quality imagery that critically you have the rights to use. So it’s well worth taking a look at that. Because Google Image Search, you probably won’t.
40:51
And as before, you can access a chunk of stuff in PowerPoints to if you’ve got Office 365, you go to the Insert tab on the ribbon and Pictures on the left-hand side and choose Stock Images, And that brings up that same popup window from before. But this time, instead of icons, you’ve got images. And again, lots of beautiful, high quality images that you can use however you like in your presentations. So it’s well worth checking those out.
41:16
Then once you’ve got that, you now start to think about different ways of doing it. So, you know, talking about elevating you to new heights. That’s got a picture of something with sense of elevation, and then you can have your points there.
41:26
If you want to talk about kind of increasing trends over time, let’s do that. You could use a bar chart for these numbers, and that will clearly be more accurate. But why not do something to show that increase, because that’s the thing that matters, the trend that matters here. So let’s use the advertising boardings from a subway station escalator, and you can kinda go up that, things like that, for instance.
41:46
And that’s all great.
41:48
But in those instances, although they look good and they work well, you’re only dealing with a couple of really simple points.
41:55
I suspect a lot of the things that you guys have to deal with are more like this.
42:01
This is kind of what you aren’t given to deal with, and it’s like, is that any good? I mean, most people are gonna say, That’s pretty terrible. But how do you transform that really dense text, heavy content heavy slide into something that is truly visual?
42:17
So, what I’m gonna do now, at the risk of everyone switching off on a webinar, so please don’t show you that slide. Again, I’m gonna be quiet for a minute and I’m gonna let you will read it.
42:27
And then I’d love you to type in the chat about how you might improve it using visuals. What kinds of visual sequences might work to represent that story.
42:39
So, brace yourselves everyone here, this.
43:15
Yeah, so some great ideas coming through here. So, Columns, yep, Absolutely. You could do columns. You can do that. And also simplify, you don’t need all of that text. You could cut down a huge amounts of it. So, simplify the text to columns, add some graphics, icons exactly as we did before, yet, perfect. But, let us take it further.
43:31
So, yeah, let’s have Who said it?
43:35
Michelle? Yeah, let’s add in SRE. Debbie, let’s add in pie charts for the first point. You got the 10% here. The 90% that you could do a pie chart without, yeah, definitely, absolutely.
43:46
You could do a pie charts if you’re into data vis at all. Any people in the database community don’t really like pie charts. Because it’s hard for people to judge angles in comparison with other things. What you might do instead is a bar chart.
44:00
Because you can then clearly see the contrast, but either way, something, to show the contrast between the 10, really good there.
44:07
Let’s use images, images of what images of money.
44:10
Yes, obviously, if you’re presenting this to a leadership team, for example, for them to buy into this new program, why not show them a picture of money for all the money that they’re wasting further, and make it really a motive money on fire or flushing on the laboratory, or something. Yeah, absolutely. So that kind of thing is working well to say, we’re wasting all of this, we need to do something different.
44:31
Another one that let’s have people. Yeah, let’s use pictures of people to manipulate them. They’re like that. So you’ve got, you know, the, the idea of lots of people here You can move people around to show kind of who is doing something useful who is not doing something useful that all icons of people to do the same thing. Yeah, absolutely love that. Let’s have a picture of the sea yet. Got this idea of of the sea kind of coming cross, Yeah, I like that to some loads of really good ideas, Yeah, absolutely. Why not do that?
44:58
Oh, and Steve, yet, why don’t we go to real people and show the impact of them. So get quotes from people about, this is what’s happened, this is what, people have done that a little bit of extra work, but I really love that, because you can make it real for people. Yeah, love them.
45:12
So loads of really good ideas coming up there.
45:14
That’s excellent in the example that we got prepared here. I’m in line with a chunk of you in saying, Well, let’s, first of all, go through the process.
45:24
Let’s get rid of a chunk of the text, most of this is unnecessary.
45:29
I think these are the points here, that are probably most important and the rest of it is probably fairly flowery language. It doesn’t really matter that much, and you could just get rid of a chunk of it, and you can have this kind of text.
45:41
What, is it the links, all of these? Well, we’ve got 10% of those who attend these people, train these people, 90% of them, people individually. So this is all about people.
45:49
So I wonder if we use a picture of people could use icons. That’s fine. But a picture of people in this instance. Can we manipulate this in some way to be able to tell that story.
45:58
Now, if you’re really smart, and a tiny bit arrogant, because I’ve built the slide notes coming up, you could get a picture of 10 people in a room. And you could then use those people with one highlights that represented 10% and nine of them to represent the 90%.
46:14
And so then, instead of having that wall of text, and before your story could be something like this, know, as an industry, we’re spending billions of dollars in corporate training programs, But that’s too much too nebulous to think about.
46:25
Let’s instead think about the typical training situation that we’ve all been in. You might be and now, you know, just look at this small room here.
46:34
All these people here, just a small group of all the time and effort, it’s taking them to be there and get there. And all the things are not working on walkthrough in this training.
46:43
Only she is getting any value from it, which means that for everyone else, it’s a complete waste of time.
46:50
And so, what we need to do is something different, where we are actively engaging, everyone involved in all of our training, using C A is the tool that we’ve got for it, so that we are maximizing the impact that our training can have, and change.
47:04
How do you feel about that in comparison with a wall of text that you have to deal with before?
47:10
What kind of impact is that going to make on your audience compared to being buried in a slide full of detailed text.
47:20
Yeah. You know, it works really well.
47:24
Course, the thing is you can come up with it, and chunky did come up with essentially this idea which is great or anything else besides. But then you’ve still got that sticky problem of App and I need to build it in PowerPoint and it feels really complicated.
47:38
Actually, not necessarily.
47:41
Now, you have to think in terms of PowerPoint here to be able to do this.
47:46
I said, Let choose a picture and manipulate it.
47:50
That’s not really true in the world of PowerPoints. You can only do one thing to a picture at one time. And so actually, if I just go back through the sequence, this is not one picture.
48:02
It is the same picture, four times.
48:06
We’ve got the initial setup of this gray here, because the gray versus the color gives you contrast. That’s one. We’ve got this blurred gray version here For the 90%, you’ve got the color cut out, the woman for the 10%, and then you’ve got a fourth full color image over the top.
48:22
And so if you aren’t going to start to build out these more complex visual slides, it’s worth thinking about the process that you go through and the layers that you will do to build it up.
48:32
So let me show you how we can do that.
48:36
First thing is, I’m going to take this picture was just one picture there, and copy it using the Clipboard so control and see, And then I’m going to work on each layer is a time as we’re going through and building it all up.
48:48
So the first thing to do is to turn this gray scale.
48:50
You can do that in PowerPoint, by going to the picture format tab in the ribbon and over on the left-hand side, choosing color.
48:57
This gives you the ability to add lots of color washes, which you probably don’t need but gray scale on the left hand side here in the middle. And that turns the image, Great. Good, done. We’re fine with that.
49:07
Now, I’m going to paste using control envy. And it’s important to remember, with these kinds of techniques, that when you paste something, it’ll paste it just the right, and just below the original object.
49:17
You need to line things up.
49:19
So, I talked about the alignment tools briefly before, they’re in the home tab, a range, and then align these ally to line, The objects are relative to each other. So I’m going to choose Align, Left, Home, Arrange, Align. And she’s a laptop. And really quickly, you’ll realize you should right click, and add all of these to your quick access toolbar. So I’ve now got that, that.
49:39
Now, this is my second image. And this one wants to be the blurred, gray version.
49:44
So I’m going to again, go to the picture format tab on the ribbon. And on the left-hand side, next to color is a thing called autistic effects. And this gives you about 20 different ways to completely ruin your image. I mean, everyone inverse. Neil and I have no idea. But one on the right hand side here is called Blur and that’s really useful because it will blur the image. Critically again, has that affected, knocking it into the background so that people aren’t distracted by it and can focus on something else instead.
50:10
And it’s also good to picture, format and color, and add the grayscale image as well. So that’s now Level two.
50:16
Paste, again, control and V, and line them up using a line, top line left, and this is where you need to create the color cut out to the woman.
50:24
Now, this is where it currently, is a bit more manual than you would like, although I’m fairly sure, with an AI and with co-pilot and stuff coming up. And with the new thing that they launched yesterday for paints being able to remove the background in Windows, this will become a lot easier in the future.
50:40
But, for now, let’s show you the old school way of doing it, Where I’m going to zoom in on this woman here, I’m then going to draw a custom shape around her.
50:50
The way to do that is go to the Shapes Gallery so insert shapes and underlines. Second, from the right hand side is the silicon squashed pacman thing here called Freefall.
51:01
And you can use that to draw any custom shape you’d like.
51:05
What I’m going to do here is click and let go of the mouse button, and you might just be able to make out there a little gray dotted line.
51:12
That’s going to trace the custom outline of any shape that I want. And if you just keep clicking, and clicking, and clicking, so click, and let go and click, and let go and click and let go, you can fairly quickly, and easily trace around like that. Now, it doesn’t need to be massively precise because you’re zoomed in. So by the time you zoom out a small imperfections you don’t really see. And also you’re tracing her out against a picture of herself, and so again, you’re unlikely to see too much in the way of problems that, so that kind of thing works nicely, set that up there, like that, and I got it.
51:46
Then you use a second set of tools in PowerPoint called the Merge Shake Tools.
51:51
If you select this color picture and then this Crop mass, go to the Shape Format tab on the ribbon, over on the left-hand side, just on the edit shapes that we looked at before.
52:01
Here’s a thing called merge shapes, and that allows you to manipulate the shapes relative to each other and if you choose intersect at the bottom there, that will keep the overlap between the two giving you the color cutout of her.
52:15
This is where you need to add in the animation.
52:18
So for the most part with Animations, I recommend something relatively simple. The fade animation is usually best because it’s simple and subtle and not distracting.
52:27
So I’m going to select the gray blurred image here.
52:30
I’m going to select the color cutouts and go to the Animations tab on the ribbon.
52:36
Here I would encourage you to use the Add Animation button, because if you do start to do more complex animation sequences, add animation is where it’s at, and in this case, choose the green entrance fade.
52:48
And that will now add these in, so that when you’re in slideshow Mode, it’ll click, and it’ll add both of those in for you.
52:55
And if you want to see granular control over it, you can click on the Animation pane, on the right hand side here, this button, and that will show you a list of all the animations that are built up there.
53:06
The final that we can add in the text labels, but I just want to be quick for expediency.
53:09
So, again, the final thing is I’m going to add in one more, I’m going to add in another animation. You know, at this time, I’m going to choose something called a wipe, which gives that sense of motion.
53:20
And, with a wipe, it wiped him from the bottom of the image to the top, which I don’t really like.
53:25
So, with many animations, you can go to the Animations tab, and on the right-hand side, hitches effect options, and that gives you the different directions that you can choose to wipe from.
53:35
I’m going to choose from left, so it comes in from the left like that.
53:39
And the reason for doing that is that I wanted to sync up with this era, which, again, you know, how to draw.
53:43
And I won’t bother kind of doing it live, but you get the idea now of wasting money. Only she’s getting any value, wasted time for everyone else. So let’s do CA to actively engage everyone. And so, you can start to see that how we’re building up that content, using layers, using one piece at a time, and each click that you’re doing the animations, and it could be split over slides if you want to.
54:07
Is helping you to progress the story, and helping people to understand the ideas that are coming on them.
54:15
All right, let’s finish off with two more things really quickly.
54:21
You could, if you wanted to spend lows more time on animation. And it’s great, It works really well for storytelling, but it can also be time consuming for you to create.
54:31
And so, as of about 5 or 6 years ago now, PowerPoint introduced something that really revolutionizes how animation work and it’s a transition called Morph. And I think it’s well worth looking at because, if you’ve not used morph before, it works really nicely.
54:48
one of the things that transitions do in PowerPoint is allow you to move from one slide to another and they’re all controlled in the Transitions tab up here on the ribbon.
54:56
There are lots of different transitions types, and almost all of them are terrible, so don’t use them except for fade, which is nice. And subtle.
55:02
Unlike with animation, is hard to get wrong except for this morph one. What does morph too?
55:08
Well, if I were to draw a box on one slide here on the left-hand side, and then go to the thumbnails and left and copy that so I’ve got two of them. On the second slide, I’m just gonna move that box over to the right-hand side, OK? So, so far so basic.
55:21
But if you then go to the transitions tab and choose this morph transition, they will recognize that this box is the same on both slides.
55:28
And so in slide show mode, it will then help you to more from one to the next as Clever.
55:34
But it’s not just about moving it.
55:36
If I were to also maybe shrink it down and change the color of it, then pop and we’ll go OK. It’s the same box for into different place and a different size.
55:45
All of a sudden, you’ve got a world of possibilities. You can have a small green circle on the top left more to a large purple stuff on the bottom right. Better than that. Have a picture in the background that moves slightly between the two of them, your ticket. A parallax scrolling effect. Do you think, wow, this is really cool.
56:01
But how does that help of storytelling medicine particularly.
56:04
But what if you’ve got a really complex slide, like this kind of graphic, the onboarding process for new hires?
56:10
This is a great infographic. two lovely PDF, a wonderful printout, but it’s a terrible slide, because she can’t really see the detail.
56:18
But, with the morph transition, you can say Look, here’s our overall process And what I want to do is then take you through it.
56:24
Let’s first of all, look at strategy and Planning and then move across the launch of it down to train and alignment, and so on and so forth. Moving through all these different sequences, allowing, you could go through the detail and explain it before, finally, them coming back and saying, look, so, this is the overall thing to, to summarize it and all that is just done with the morph transition.
56:43
You can see here, I’ve got the entire diagram filling the slide there.
56:46
And on the next slide, I’ve got the same diagram, but just much larger with most of it off the edge of the slide. And the morph transition is taking me from this to that.
56:56
What’s really amazing about morph unlike animation, is you could do that with animation. It would take you a while but you could do it.
57:03
But it’s really flexible.
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If someone comes along and says, Oh, actually, can we do train in alignment first? And you’ve animate it, you think, well, no. Because it’s going to take me days to fix it.
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But with more, yeah. Not a problem. Let’s just move this slide in the sequence. So we start off with this one now and then we move to that. And all Morph does is just say OK well what’s not are we on now?
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What is on the next slide I don’t care about the sequence particularly. Oh, we’ll get training alignment.
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Then the next line the sequence is back the start. And so it will do that for you automatically.
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So it’s just looking at where you are now And where you want to get to.
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And you know what’s even better is that you can’t even outfox it.
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So say that these two are not next to each other, So this overview is on slide 82. And this training alignment bit on the slide 85.
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When you’re in slideshow mode presenting, if you know that the slides you want to go to for training in, alignment design, 85 and someone says, oh, we look at train alignment first.
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You can press 8, 5, enter and it will go straight to that slide. So it skips over some of the ones in the middle to go to this.
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And morph just handles a lot. So it just works really nicely for you to be able to jump around the deck and respond to your audience. So, I think that that’s a terrific tool, and well, worth taking a look at.
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If anyone’s interested in learning more, just a brief shameless plug, Sorry. If you go to the Bright carbon website and events, the top here, we have completely free webinar masterclasses pretty much every Thursday.
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Tomorrow, as it happens tomorrow morning, if you’re in the US afternoon, if you’re in the UK We have a 30 minute session just on more for loans, so some of the really cool things, you can do that, so maybe worth checking that out.
58:41
What I wanted to finish off briefly with one more thing, which is relatively new in PowerPoint that I think will work really nicely, which also solves the problem that many people have when they are presenting.
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This is the experience that so many people have had over the last couple of years with, with covert and then people doing work from home and stuff like that, in webinars and conferences.
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Not actually. The text and bullet points that’s been around for 30 years, and we’ve hopefully had a look at how you can solve it, but it’s this here, where you got the present to go, hi, I’m up here on the top corner, really desperately trying to distract you when you should be looking at the stuff down that, but I’m up here like that.
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It doesn’t really work to really understand why people have thumbnail cameras, because the visual content is down that that’s important.
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So, to try and solve that last year, Microsoft introduced something called Cameo, some fabulous little tool.
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If you go to the Insert tab on the ribbon and Cameo on the left-hand side might be the right-hand side. They keep moving the position of it. You can choose to insert a cameo video, which is a live feed of your webcam, Now inserts the bottom right-hand corner, which you can keep it there if you want, but you can move it.
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You can move it around. You can increase the size of it. You can add elements over the top of that, You can change the size of it and stuff, so you can have it incorporated into your side and so now, you can say, Hi, I’m now part of this here, and this is all the stuff that we should be looking at today.
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And then, it works with morph so you can move around and now you can take a look at this.
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Here’s is building up, and now you can take a look at that, and it will even change shape for you, as well, so that I’m now in this here, and so you can take a look at that, kind of, as it’s building up, to be able to get stuff.
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And, actually, one of the things that you might find really interesting today, when I’d love to see what people come up with, as I said, because it’s relatively new, is, Why did we change this Y habit as a little window?
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When you could, in fact stretch it like this perhaps there, and let’s send this backwards a touch like that and now I’m here presenting and you can start to manipulate all those bits coming up like that So just really interesting things that you might consider doing to be able to bring your presentations to life and make them work well and different ways that you can kind of engage with your audience.
1:00:57
Right. So, we are at the end of the session, so I’m gonna wrap up super quickly. Thank you so much everyone for joining today. I really appreciate it. Brief, shameless plug these. Well, that’s because we do things. We do a bright carbon, we create presentations, animations, e-learning, and infographics. If you’d like mail, please feel free to get in touch, but more usefully for you guys as content creators. If you are building any of these things yourself, check out the … website, bright carbon dot com, for a whole lot of completely free resources and tutorials, where you’ll find lots of stuff on that.
1:01:24
The Ad, and then I mentioned, Bright Slide, is available for free. Again, bright carbon dot com slash bright flags. So, well, worth checking that out, too. And if anyone has any questions, please feel free to e-mail me. You can do an info at bright carbon dot com that get through to me in a chunk of other people. Or Richard occurring upright carbon dot com. Or on LinkedIn. You know, happy to chat with folks that, so please do kind of continue the conversation. I’d also like to really thank Sara and the rest of the folks at HRD Q You, for setting this and so many other sessions up, as well, If you are new to this community. Welcome.
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And you’ll just know that it’s a fabulous place, to be, where you will see loads of amazing stuff. So It’s well worth checking out the stuff that’s coming up, and the back catalog of recordings, as well, where you’ll see so much good stuff from so many people that will, will help you out. And it’s just a great community to be part of, to share really amazing things.
1:02:15
So, Sarah Jones have do a brief wrap up. I’m sorry.
1:02:19
Yes, thank you so much for that, Richard. And before we close out today, there was just one question that I would like to get. And they want to know if bright sides only available for Mac, or is it also available for PC before we close to the usual, in that it’s available for both PC and Mac. So, many islands are actually only PC only. But right slide, we’ll welcome both, which is great.
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Awesome. And thank you so much for your time today and for sharing so much Really helpful and useful information. I’m not sure if you’re checking out the questions box, but it is going off of people being really grateful for everything that you’ve shared today. So, thank you so much for your time today, Richard.
1:02:53
Wonderful, thank you so much, and thank you everyone.
1:02:56
And thank you all for participating in today’s webinar. and make sure you join me next week for creating level two quizzes and tests that actually a measure or something And make sure to check out our podcast, HRDQ-U interview, available on all major streaming platforms. And with that, we will let you all go with your day today. Thank you all for participating, and I will see you next week.
