If you want to add a photo of a person or an object from your iPhone to a PowerPoint presentation without the background, the video below shows you how easy it is using the background removal feature of the Photos app on an iPhone. The video was recorded on my iPhone (4-year-old model!) so you…
Author: Dave Paradi
Dave Paradi has over twenty-two years of experience delivering customized training workshops to help business professionals improve their presentations. He has written ten books and over 600 articles on the topic of effective presentations and his ideas have appeared in publications around the world. His focus is on helping corporate professionals visually communicate the messages in their data so they don't overwhelm and confuse executives. Dave is one of fewer than ten people in North America recognized by Microsoft with the Most Valuable Professional Award for his contributions to the Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams communities. His articles and videos on virtual presenting have been viewed over 4.8 million times and liked over 17,000 times on YouTube.
Virtual presenting is here to stay, so you need to get better at it
Recently an executive contacted me with a request that I think will become more common. They have a talented professional who is struggling with virtual presentations. While many professionals are meeting in person again, virtual presentations are here to stay. This expert is brought in virtually to share specific analysis during a longer meeting. This…
Why hasn’t anyone told you about that feature of PowerPoint?
During a recent virtual conference presentation I showed the attendees how to use the Slide Zoom feature in PowerPoint to move detailed content off a slide and be able to easily access it if a question was asked. The chat exploded with “Mind Blown!” and other comments that clearly indicate that this feature was new…
Getting the help you need to create your PowerPoint slides quicker
What do you do when your job requires you to create PowerPoint slides and it takes you hours to create the slides for a presentation? This is the situation a coaching client found themselves in. They resorted to asking their son to create some of the slides! The online courses that HR and IT provide…
Use HDMI to connect a laptop to a desktop PC as a second monitor/screen (Windows)
If you have a Windows desktop computer and you want to use a spare laptop as a second screen, you can do that and in this video I’ll show you how. Links to products mentioned in this video: Pluggable DisplayLink adapter for HDMI output port: https://amzn.to/3NveVS9 HDMI to USB Video Capture Device: https://amzn.to/3IZQGX4 (if that…
Slide makeovers for non-financial metrics
If you work for a government affiliated agency you do not report profit-focused metrics because profit is not your objective. You report on metrics that are important to your organization but are often not financial in nature. You have goals or targets to meet and you measure progress against them. In this article I want…
Excel Chart Hack: Put data series labels in the bars of a bar chart instead of the legend
In a previous video (https://youtu.be/jqA5BUbgAFM) I showed how to replace the legend in a column chart with labels added using a scatter chart. Someone asked if this could also be done for a bar chart. This video shows you how. It is a slightly different approach because the scatter plot has to be placed on…
Create a graph in PowerPoint using data and formulas from Excel for increased functionality
Using the default copy and paste for an Excel graph into PowerPoint results in a link back to the Excel file. If that file is on a drive you can’t access, you can’t edit the graph. If you use the Embed workbook option when pasting the graph into PowerPoint you make the PowerPoint file large,…
Cool effect for presenting Excel column charts/graphs in PowerPoint | Morph alternative hack
Morph, the great PowerPoint feature that you can use with images, shapes, and text to create effects that look like a professional video is not available for charts. Charts are much more complex and Morph isn’t able to figure out where all the different elements should move. This video will show you a cool effect…
Resources to nail your job interview presentation
So many professionals have been let go recently due to financial uncertainty. Companies are laying off good people who have produced good results. This may be you or someone you know. I’ve started publishing short articles to help these folks nail the presentation portion of their job interview (presentations are becoming common as part of…