number one word to powerpoint now this feature has been there for a while but it's one of those features that you might have missed because it's only.
Available on the web so you worked hard and you created this word document now your boss comes over and tells you that you should create slides based on this and present this in.
The next meeting with office 365 you can easily do that you just have to open your word document on the web so with word on the web then go to file export and export to a powerpoint presentation.
Here you get to decide between different themes now every time you run this so i ran this before and i saw completely different themes to what i'm seeing right now just pick the one that you.
Or images that you have in word but you do get nice images and a nice way of presenting the text because the designer ai is at work and it tries to figure out what type of image to show for your text.
So here i have this nice title slide i also get the chance of changing my title slide with different ideas from designer i have the important parts of my text split into separate areas here i have.
These nice boxes a nice color scheme i can of course go ahead update the text update the images the colors as i choose now you can continue to work on this on the web or open this on your desktop and.
Continue from there it just helps you save a ton of time than if you were gonna create this from scratch number two automatic slides from agenda so speaking of speeding up your work.
With the help of the designer let's assume that you don't have a starting word document and yet you're creating your presentation from scratch so i'm going to go to the browser and type in.
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Powerpoint presentation let's add a title for this you can use designer and choose a nicer fancier slide so i'm gonna go with this.One and now let's go ahead and add a new slide so for the title we're gonna call this agenda now let's type out our agenda so we have marketing plan.
Marketing risks brainstorming and other topics okay so these are going to be our agenda now check this out designer kicked in and added this new feature.
Add next four slides automatically because it understood that these are going to be separate slides i'm going to go ahead and click on add slides it's loading and my slides are automatically.
Added number three autofix so powerpoint already has some great features for aligning objects it now has an even greater feature called autofix.
With autofix it tries to figure out how to best align and fix the objects so take a look at this i have these different objects they're the same shape just different size and spread out not.
So nice on the slide i'm going to select all of them go to shape arrange autofix this is going to try to figure out how to best fix and fit the objects on the slide and it's made them the same.
Size and nicely organized so this works on different shapes as well or a combination of shapes icons and even images it doesn't however work on smart art or.
Grouped or overlapping shapes and is currently only available on the web number four lock objects so you have your objects perfectly aligned and you don't want to move or.
Distort them by mistake because it's
Really easy when you come to start typing that you could start moving stuff around and messing up your nice design so to lock your objects you have to open.Your presentation in powerpoint in the desktop app so this is available on desktop you're going to select the objects that you want to lock then right mouse click and lock.
This makes sure that you can't move these objects anymore so something i always tend to do is by mistake end up moving my title of the slide you can lock that as well right mouse click and.
Lock now you can't move that anymore you can make changes to the text you can also make changes to the color of your object you just can't change the size and you can't move them around you can.
Also still apply animation to these you can also send them to the back or bring them to the front by locking them in place you prevent accidental changes from happening if at any point in time.
You want to unlock them select your objects right mouse click and unlock now you can move these around and adjust the size as you need.
Number five presenter coach so you have your perfect slides and your presentation is visually stunning and perfect but that's only half the work you still have to present it and bring.
Your points across that's the part that terrifies me and a lot of people public speaking can be stressful but it just gets better with practice so it might be good to rehearse giving the presentation.
In advance now ideally you want to rehearse with a non-judgmental audience where you can get objective feedback but if you feel awkward in front of a person you might.
Find it easier to rehearse with a machine that's where presenter coach comes to the rescue it's a feature that's been around for a while at least in powerpoint for the web and in the.
Preview channel in the desktop app but not many people know about it recently it got additional features for the web version where it also examines your body language as well so here's how it works.
You go to slideshow and select rehearse with coach you get this nice welcome box click on got it now you are going to start rehearsing so i'm just going to start talking and saying how great this.
Presentation is because we are talking about marketing and marketing is a great topic to talk about notice that the coach is listening and let's say i'm done now i'm just going to pause the.
Session think about what i want to say and then continue and then go through the next slides and talk about everything and then i'm finally done and i get this.
Wonderful report about my pace which just seems to be right that's a good one i didn't have any fillers in place and i didn't use repetitive language so the built-in ai listens to you.
Present and if you have your camera activated it's going to watch your body language during the presentation now we couldn't see the body language here but you would get a warning when you're too.
Far or too close to the camera and when you look away from the camera or cover your face so if you break eye contact you are going to get a warning why because you need to make a.
Connection with your audience now of course you can go back and repeat the rehearsal until you feel confident to present in front of a real audience number six record and narrate.
So powerpoint's recording options have been there for some time except they got some new improvements we have a new recording button directly on top here so whenever you're ready to.
Record your presentation just click that and you go into recording view so here we have the teleprompter this is based on your notes that you've added in this case i don't have any notes for the.
Title slide but i have some notes for this one and i can see it in teleprompter view so you can see my camera was automatically activated i can turn it off or on and also control the.
Audio here as well now you have some more options you have the teleprompter view here you have presenter view that allows you to see the next slide and then you just have.
The standard slide view i'm going to go back to teleprompter view you can also blur your background if you want and use the different annotations down here so i have a separate video on this that takes.
You through it in a lot more detail but just to show you how easy it is to record all you have to do is click on this you're going to see the countdown and then you're live you're going to.
Record so here you can read from the text that you have on your teleprompter you can use the different annotations okay i jumped a slide but you can use.
The different annotations here if you want and if you mess up it's not a problem you can always go back and correct whatever you messed up on so.
If i stop this here notice you have the option to retake but you don't have to retake everything you can do a retake on a current slice if you jump too fast like i did in my other slide i can go.
Back to that slide i think it was this one here and then i can select retake on current slide and just redo that video alone.
Okay so once you're done you can go and edit so here you go back to your slide view you can go check out each slide i'm going to go to this one and let's say i.
