Presentation Font Embedder's own exclusive embedding method, Universal, supersedes the built-in one that PowerPoint offers, in both portability and functionality. At the same time, Presentation Font Embedder also features PowerPoint's built-in Editable embedding method, for Mac users whose older PowerPoint 2011 and 2016 versions lack it. PowerPoint is a great tool for creating digital slide based presentations and it’s probably (still 6. Supported operating systems Is the presentation authoring software available on several platforms? Prezi is known as the zooming presentation tool. It has been around for some years now and comes.
More about Office. You can combine common options to move, resize, rotate, and change color of an object, all at once—morphing the objects in one slide into the objects on another. It's ease of use does come at a cost: You can't manipulate what PowerPoint does in between the first and second slides. You don't have complete control, but most of the time that won't matter. This feature is limited to 365/Office 2016 users.
It's a rollout item that began to show up last winter. By now, everyone with 365/Office 2016 should have this feature. I'm using 365/Office 2016 on a Windows 10 64-bit system. This article assumes you know how to insert, drag, and arrange objects on a slide.
For your convenience, you can. Common setup Regardless of how you use Morph, all the possibilities will have a few things in common:. A beginning slide—how the object looks in the beginning. An ending slide—what the object morphs into. In addition, all Morph transitions are built the same way:.
Create a slide with an object in its starting position and with its original formatting. (You can work with more than one object.). Duplicate the slide. If the ending slide has different elements, copy and paste the object(s) into the ending slide.
The second (or end) slide needs to follow the first. On the second slide—the duplicate—make changes to the original object(s). In this step, you want the objects to appear in their final state.
Once you have both slides in place, apply the Morph transition to the second slide. Now, let's look at a few morphing examples. First, we'll pull a few letters together to form a word. Then, we'll move a big rectangle, zoom in on a picture, and finally, morph one shape into another. Create motion To create an object that moves from a starting position on one slide to an ending position on a second slide, you'll create both slides and then do one or more of the following:. To rotate an object, select the object on the duplicate slide and use the rotate handle to reposition the slide to its end position.
To zoom in or out on the object, resize the object on the end side, accordingly. To flip an object, select it on the end slide and use the desired flip settings (in the Arrange group).
We can illustrate all three with a simple example. Specifically, we'll mix up the letters of the word TEAM and then pull them together using Morph. We'll begin by creating the two slides:. First, use four text box characters, each with a letter in the word TEAM and position them in odd alignments and in no specific order.
Duplicate this slide ( Figure A) by right-clicking the slide and choosing Duplicate Slide from the resulting submenu. On the second slide, arrange the letters as you want them using the rotate handle and the flip settings.
In the demonstration file, I dragged the letters to the end position and then used the rotation handle to set the T and E upright ( Figure B). Then, I used the flip settings to set the A and M correctly. Finally, I selected all four text box controls and used the Arrange settings to align and space them all. Figure C shows the final placement. Figure A Start with two duplicate slides. Figure B Use the rotation handle and the flip handles.
Figure C Reposition the text box controls to their end positions. With both slides in place, the next step is to add the transition as follows:. Click the second slide (the slide with the objects in their final position). Click the Transition tab. In the Transition To This Slide gallery, click Morph and watch the preview ( Figure D). This transition accommodates objects, words, and characters but defaults to objects. Figure D Here's the Morph transition at work.
This simple transition yields a lot for your work; it took only a few minutes to pull it together. However, with the ease comes a loss of control. You can't control how PowerPoint moves the objects between the two slides. If you need a special path of motion, you must use the motion path animation settings, which is often a difficult process. You're not limited to movement; you can also change an object's color, size, and other formatting. Figure E shows the result of changing the font type and color of the letters. This isn't difficult.
Once you have the letters (objects) in place, simply reformat them and the transition will take care of the rest. Figure E You can morph formatting. See: Move shapes You can use this technique with shapes, as well. Figure F shows two slides with two rectangles of different colors and sizes. Following the same process, add a green rectangle to the first slide. Then duplicate that slide, move the rectangle to its end position, and change its fill color and size (a subtle change).
Figure G shows its morph process. You can work with more objects and even have them fly in from beyond the edge of the slide and fly out the other side. Figure F These two slides create the morph effect shown in Figure G.
Figure G The first rectangles morphs into the second in front of your eyes. Zoom in You can also use Morph to zoom in (or out). Figure H shows an inserted picture that we'll zoom in on using this feature. Duplicate the slide and then resize the picture, making it much larger. You can pull out the corners or right-click the picture and use the Size and Position options. If necessary, you can move the picture to reposition the zoom area, but don't move the picture too much.
After you have the picture on the second slide resized and positioned, click the Transition tab and then click Morph in the gallery. Figure H Zoom in on the frost particles. Figure I Morph zooms in on an area. Although you can't see it in the figures, PowerPoint changes from the first picture to the zoomed insert.
You can see the picture enlarge onscreen. Morph a shape Earlier, I showed you how to quickly move and reformat a shape.
If you start with the right shape, you can actually morph that shape into a new one. By right, I mean the built-in AutoShapes that support the reshape tools (not all of them do). As you can see in Figure J, the rounded rectangle shape has a yellow handle that most shapes don't have.
This yellow handle is a reshape tool, which you can drag to change the original shape. Figure J Look for the reshape tool. For this example, add a rounded rectangle to the slide and duplicate the slide. On the second slide, use the reshape tool to create a new shape. Change its position and color and apply a background color.
When you're finished, click the Transition tab and choose Morph in the gallery. Figure K shows the morph effect between the two slides. Depending on the shape you choose, the change can be much more dramatic.
You can even combine shapes to create new shapes and morph them together or separately. Figure K Morph changes the shape of the original shape. Missing morph What you can't see in any of the figures is the movement from one slide to another. The change is gradual, subtle—not abrupt. You see the shapes, position, and colors slowly morph from the first object to the second. For the full effect, download the. The feature is amazingly simple to implement and the only real limit is your own imagination.
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Image: iStock/maxsattana Presentations are more audience driven than ever, and the traditional first-to-last linear sequence is often inadequate. You need the flexibility to display slides in any order you please. Thanks to PowerPoint 2016's new Zoom feature, you can do so by customizing your presentation to achieve a more flexible flow.
Move from one slide to any other, wherever the conversation takes you. In this article, I'll show you how Zoom allows you and your audience, not the order of the slides, to decide where to zoom to next. More about Office. I'm using PowerPoint 2016. Office 365 started updating users with this feature last year, and everyone should have it by now.
There's no downloadable demonstration file. Instead, we'll use a presentation template you can quickly access. The demo file You can use any presentation file that contains several slides. This feature relies heavily on sections, but you don't need them to use it.
If you want to use the demo file I'm working with, click the File tab and then click New. Next, click the Presentations link and enter the search string Multimedia in the New Search control to find the Contoso Corporation template ( Figure A). If that doesn't work, do the following:. Click the File tab and then click New. Click Presentations in the Suggested Searches options (under the Search control). In the Category list to the right, double-click Nature.
Browse down and double-click Multimedia choreograph presentation and then click Create. Figure A Choose a presentation template. I purposely chose a presentation with no sections and several slides, so you can experience Zoom with and without sections. SEE: (ZDNet) The Zoom options.
Slide Zoom adds a link on the current slide to any slide in the presentation. To demonstrate, we'll start in Normal view and add a link to slides 3, 8, and 12 as follows:. Select slide 1 and then click the Insert tab.
(You can select any slide.). In the Links group, choose Slide Zoom from the Zoom dropdown. Notice that Section Zoom is disabled because there are no sections in this presentation. If you're using a presentation with sections, this option won't be disabled. By default, PowerPoint selects no slides.
Check slides 3, 8, and 12 ( Figure B) and click Insert. Figure B Select the slides you want to link to. PowerPoint adds three linked thumbnails to the current slide.
Initially, the thumbnails are stacked as a group. Click anywhere else on the slide to quickly upgroup them and then drag to position them individually. You can also resize them.
To see how they work, press F5. Figure C shows the linked thumbnails arranged at the bottom left, where I moved them.
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Click any of the linked thumbnails to move directly to that slide. Clicking will continue to the end of the presentation.
You'll use this feature when you want quick access to related details or a quick exit. Figure C Click a slide thumbnail. Summary Zoom The Summary Zoom option generates a new slide with thumbnails. From the Zoom dropdown, choose Summary Zoom.
As before, check the slides that you want quick access to. For this example, select slides 1, 3, 6, 8, and 12 as shown in Figure D and then click Insert. Figure E shows the resulting slide. Figure D Check the slides. Figure E Summary Zoom creates a navigation slide.
PowerPoint adjusts slide numbers automatically, depending on where you put the summary slide. I moved mine to the beginning so all slide numbers are increased by 1. SEE: (TechRepublic ebook) Press F5 to run the presentation. As you can see in Figure F, PowerPoint displays the summary slide because it's the first slide in the presentation. Click any thumbnail to go directly to that slide. For instance, clicking The Core Values thumbnail takes you to slide 4 (which was slide 3 before adding the summary slide). Click through slides 5 and 6 (formerly slides 4 and 5) and PowerPoint will return to the summary slide.
Figure F The summary slide provides quick access to other slides and sections. You might be wondering why PowerPoint returns you to the summary slide after viewing slide 6.
When you added the summary slide, PowerPoint created sections for you, as shown in Figure G. PowerPoint uses the slide titles as the section names (but you can change the names). By default, PowerPoint returns you to the summary slide when you reach the last slide in a section. Figure G You can see the sections in Slide Sorter.
Section Zoom When we began, PowerPoint disabled the Section Zoom option because the presentation had no sections. PowerPoint created sections when you used the Summary Zoom option. Consequently, the Section Zoom option is now available. You'll use it the same way you use Slide Zoom. Begin by selecting the slide where you want to add the linked thumbnails. Then, click the Insert tab and choose Section Zoom from the Zoom dropdown.
Instead of displaying all slides, this option displays the first slide in each section, as shown in Figure H. Check the sections you want quick access to and then click Insert to add a linked thumbnail. Figure H Section Zoom displays the first slide in each section.
Zooming A traditional presentation starts with the first slide and ends with the last slide. In contrast, Zoom lets you take control of where you go next. You can add section and slide links to any slide or you can create a summary slide with several links. Zoom won't improve your presentation, but it will enhance your delivery. Next month, I'll show you several ways to customize Zoom. Microsoft Weekly Newsletter Be your company's Microsoft insider with the help of these Windows and Office tutorials and our experts' analyses of Microsoft's enterprise products.
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