If you want to show a website in a presentation, this video shows you how to capture the entire page in the Edge browser, first show the entire page to give the audience context, then zoom in on the important sections so the audience clearly sees what you want them to see. This is an…
Category: Linking & Incorporating Other Content
Excel/PowerPoint tip: Accurately estimating the values in a column/bar/line chart image
What do you do in this situation. You get a chart from another source, like a website or PDF and it doesn’t have data labels with the values. You need the values to incorporate into your analysis or your chart. How can you accurately estimate the values from an image of the graph? This video…
Allow Teams meeting participants to draw on/annotate screen content using PowerPoint collaboration
Zoom allows all meeting participants to annotate the screen that is being shared, regardless of what is being shared. The annotations identify who added the drawing or text. Teams does not allow any annotation by participants. This is one of the top requests from users but doesn’t appear to be on Microsoft’s roadmap to be…
5 ways to use an industry report or white paper PDF in a PowerPoint sales presentation
As a sales professional your Marketing department is regularly producing and making available new resources for you to use in your PowerPoint sales presentations. If you’ve recently been sent a PDF of an industry report or white paper, here are five ways you can incorporate it into a PowerPoint sales presentation whether it is delivered…
5 ways to use your new website or an online report/white paper in a PowerPoint sales presentation
As a sales professional your Marketing department is regularly producing and making available new resources for you to use in your PowerPoint sales presentations. If you’ve recently been sent a link to the updated corporate website or a link to an online report or white paper, here are five ways you can incorporate it into…
5 ways to use a new promotional brochure from Marketing in a PowerPoint sales presentation
As a sales professional your Marketing department is regularly producing and making available new resources for you to use in your PowerPoint sales presentations. If you’ve recently been sent a PDF of the new promotional brochure for a product line or service, here are five ways you can incorporate it into a PowerPoint sales presentation…
Options to deal with PowerPoint pausing Slide Show or Presenter View when you use the meeting controls, chat, or go to another program
The Problem If you are running a PowerPoint slide show in either Slide Show mode or Presenter View (which runs the Slide Show as well as the Presenter View), your slide will pause all animations, transitions, or playing videos when you click on the meeting controls, chat, or another program. This is referred to as…
Using content links in virtual presentations; Issue #484 February 23, 2021
In this newsletter issue I shared some of the ideas from my article on using links on PowerPoint slides to content from other sources in a virtual presentation. Links still work in virtual presentations but I suggest you need to use them differnetly to account for the virtual meeting environment. You can read the full…
How to use a link to jump from PowerPoint to a website, YouTube video, or file from another program in a Zoom or Teams meeting
How links are different when presenting in Zoom or Teams PowerPoint allows you to insert a link to a website or file from another program on any shape, image, or text. This allows you to jump directly to that other content during the presentation simply by clicking on that object on the slide. This is…
Extract data from a linked Excel chart in PowerPoint; Issue #476 October 27, 2020
A few years ago I shared an approach that you can use to extract data from an Excel chart that won’t allow you to view or edit the data. This happens when a chart is pasted from Excel onto a slide using the normal Ctrl+V paste method. The data is linked back to the Excel…