First of all how do you install an add-in you open powerpoint go to insert add-ins get add-ins then you can browse by the different categories or search what you're looking for and then just.
Click on add the first one that i want to show you is called pro word cloud this gives you a visual representation of text data so words that appear more frequently in.
Your text are going to be bigger and bolder this way you can easily spot trends when you're dealing with a lot of text to install it you just have to type pro word cloud that's the one we want.
And then click on add and continue now if you've already installed an add-in you can easily find it if you go back to add-ins my add-ins click on this drop-down and you're going to see it.
I'd like layout maximum words and so on and then click on create word cloud obviously i don't want to create word cloud based on this but on this slide i have some feedback that i've collected.
From multiple students and i want to analyze this so that i can easily see what phrases or words the students have mentioned to generate a word cloud based on this i just have to highlight the.
Text and create the word cloud this analyzes the text and creates a visual for me if you don't like the effect you can update the settings here so let's go with ariel and for the color scheme.
Let's go with something lighter i'll go with sky and with the text highlighted i'm going to regenerate the word cloud to copy this i just have to click on it and it.
Tells me the image has been copied to your clipboard now let's go to an empty slide and let's use ctrl v to paste this in and i get my word cloud as an image and if you have office 365 and you have.
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The layout of this and make it a little bit fancier next free add-in is called break time sometimes you need to give presentations.That go over many hours and you're going to want to add breaks in there attention is precious and attention needs breaks but the problem is sometimes the people don't come back on time a good way to.
Keep everyone on the same page is to embed a timer directly into your powerpoint presentation to get this add-in go to office add-ins look for break time and add this in.
You can then adjust the size and position of this just like with any other object down here you can select the minutes and the seconds so let's just update this to five and you can.
Decide on the theme that you want none is this minimalistic look that we have let's say i want a coffee break i'm gonna add this in and i can expand this to fit my slide or just to blend it in.
To my existing slide now whenever you want to run this just click on start it runs whether you're in edit mode or in presentation mode this way you can set a timer to complete an exercise an.
Assigned reading or use it as a countdown before the start or end of the session next one is called qr for office let's say at the end of your.
Presentation you want to leave a contact to your website or social media or the download link for the presentation materials of course you can show the url just like this and trust that the.
Audience manages to write it down correctly or you make it easier for them and include a qr code that's going to take them directly to your links page or your.
Website page all they have to do is use
The camera on their phones with an add-in called qr for office you can easily generate such qr codes i've already downloaded this i'm going to go.To my add-ins and grab it from here all you have to do is type the url that you want adjust the color background and the size that you want and then click on insert and then you can place it.
Wherever you want on your slide next up is mentimeter so often online meetings can get boring and your audience can start dozing off if you don't want that to happen to your.
Presentation you can use mentimeter it allows you to create interactive polls and quizzes and even word clouds in real time it's a great icebreaker for any presentation all you need to do is sign.
Up for a free account on mendymeter.com then you can among other things generate word clouds you can have your audience choose between or even rank different options and you can have them post.
Questions that you can answer live now once you save your presentation you can share it with a temporary voting code the voting activates when you start presenting now i have a complete video.
On this and i'm going to add the link to the description of this video so if you want to learn how you can set up these type of polls from scratch make sure you check out that video now the reason we.
Have it in our powerpoint add-ins is that mentimeter has a free add-in for powerpoint all we have to do is go and grab it it's right here click on add and continue now you're gonna need to log in.
With the same account that you created and then you just have to add the link of the slide that you want to embed in your powerpoint to get that link we're going to go back to mentimeter i'm going.
To go to my presentations this is one of the presentations that i want to embed that's the slide i want to embed i want to ask my audience what they're most confident in let's go to presentation.
Mode go to the url box here and copy this now let's just go back and paste this in and click on select this is going to directly embed it on my slide and just like any object i can position.
This as i need now i'm going to go to presentation mode i'm going to tell my audience go to mendy.com and use this code they're going to bring up their phones type the.
Url and type the code once they type in the code on their phone they're going to see this slide and then they can interact with this so let's just add in some scores here.
And click on submit the moment we do that we can see this presentation update each slide has a unique link so if you want more interactive slides you need to repeat the process if you want to delete.
A multimeter slide click on your visual select this tiny arrow on the top and then select delete next one is tor the hammer so the final item that i'd like to show.
You is from a fellow microsoft mvp colleague steve rinsberg the add-in isn't available in the office store but you can download it from steve's website pptools.com tour has a very simple.
Purpose it lets you position any shape to a fixed position and size it's easier explained if i just show you so you can download it for free from here then just close powerpoint install it and then.
Open powerpoint up again and you're gonna see a new tab on the ribbon called pptools so here on this presentation i'm planning to have different images but i want all of these placed properly and i.
Want them to be placed on this corner here and they should all have the same size instead of doing this manually for every single slide let's assume i have more slides it's just.
Going to take up a lot of my time what i can do is use the tour add-in this memorizes the size and position of an object and then hammers it down on all the other objects it's a super simple.
Add-in first just check your options you can decide on your alignment whether you want the object to be resized or not whether it should be distorted or not i'm going to put don't distort here and.
Then click on ok this is the position i want the other objects to be in so i'm going to click on it and select memorize now i'm going to go to the next object select it and.
Hammer this down it's going to put it in the exact same position as my first object then go to the next one and hammer it down as well in case you also want an image to fill up the slide what.
You can do is click on the side of the slide and then go to memorize and click on ok for memorizing the slide size now you can adjust your options here in case you don't mind the object being.
Distorted i'm going to uncheck don't distort click on ok and then select my object and hammer this down it's going to fill up my slide automatically now taurus memory holds one object at a time.
But if the type of slides that you make include a lot of images this is really going to speed up your work before we wrap this up i have a productivity tip for you if you use your.
Add-ins frequently you can add these add-ins to your quick access toolbar i'm just going to right-mouse click to show my quick access toolbar then let's go ahead right mouse click and customize.
Our quick access toolbar now if you just click on this drop down and go to the insert tab you're going to be able to locate your add-ins scroll down until you see my add-ins and add it to your.
Quick access toolbar click on ok now every time you want to use one of your add-ins just click on this drop-down and they're going to be available right here okay so those are some items that i.