Presentations Glossary

Definitions and resources for terms and techniques used in the world of presentations

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Friday, August 25, 2017, posted by Geetesh at 1:28 pm

To logically group your slides into parts, you should explore the Sections option in PowerPoint. Sections open up many possibilities, and you are not just limited to adding and renaming Sections. You can also move slides from one Section to anotherchange the order of Sections, or collapse/expand Sections.

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Friday, August 25, 2017, posted by Geetesh at 9:54 am

Sections make your presentation slides easy to manage, and divide into logical parts. Also, adding and renaming Sections enables you to categorize your presentation slides. Yet, even after dividing your slides into Sections, you will want to move slides from one Section to another.

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Tuesday, August 22, 2017, posted by Geetesh at 4:57 pm

Dividing a large number of slides into Sections helps you to manage them better. And even for presentations that do not have a large number of slides, you can benefit from Sections. However, the mere act of dividing slides into Sections will not achieve much unless you create and name these Sections in a proper manner to represent what the slides within each Section contain.

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Friday, August 18, 2017, posted by Geetesh at 12:30 pm

When you click the File menu and access Backstage view in PowerPoint, you are presented with several options. Here, we explore two of those options: Open and Close.

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Thursday, August 17, 2017, posted by Geetesh at 12:35 pm

You have a 5-minute video or audio clip playing on your slide. And exactly after the clip has played for 30 seconds, you want some text to appear superimposed over the video clip. Alternatively, you may want to show other objects on the slide while your audio clip is playing. All this while, the original audio or video clip should continue playing. How do you achieve this result?

To learn more, choose your version of PowerPoint. If we do not have a tutorial for your version of PowerPoint, explore the version closest to the one you use.

Microsoft Windows

Animating Slide Objects While Media is Playing in PowerPoint 2016

Animating Slide Objects While Media is Playing in PowerPoint 2013

Animating Slide Objects While Media is Playing in PowerPoint 2010

PowerPoint Animate While Media Playing

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