if you use Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 to
create your presentations let me share
with you six features you might not know
exist
hey welcome to another Talking Tech with
The Techie Guy my name is Liron Segev
where I make technology simple so this
week I had to give my yearly
presentation it's my social media
marketing trends 2018 and I discovered a
couple of hidden features that I didn't
know existed within Microsoft PowerPoint
so I thought let me share them with you
so if you have an image on the screen
and you don't want the background you
just want the football as an example you
don't have to go into a photo editing
program to do that. You can just click on
format and click on the option called
Remove Background. Now Microsoft doesn't
get this 100% all the time but it does
do a great job in removing the
background. See it's highlighted in pink
you see there's a little bit of grass
underneath the ball I'm just going to
click on the tool that allows me to
select specific areas that I want to be
removed. So you click on that then you
use your mouse to highlight the areas
that the background removal tool must
remove. I just click on apply changes and
got your image without the
background
so the human eyes always drawn to
movement so if you want to have an
object on the screen instead of it being
static you can actually move it around
now go into Animation click on the
three little dots to the drop down that
additional features and this time choose
Custom Path now with your mouse go and
draw the exact path that you want the
object to follow. Could be as complicated
as you like. When you finished press the
Enter button and now your object will
follow that path. Now you can also move
it around, you can edit the path location
as well just drag-and-drop these things
around
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if you add sound to your presentations
like an audio file you can go into
Insert Audio from your PC select the
file. Now you would normally press play
and then it will basically play the
audio file. Right but what happens if you
want to jump to specific points in that
audio file? you've got something called
add bookmarks simply select a location
click on Add Bookmark so when you go
play your file you can simply jump
straight away. Now with the file that
just say it's too long or the you don't
want to the entire audio you just want a
certain section of that you can trim it
go to playback Trim Audio simply take
the green pointer on the left side drag
it just to the point where you want to
start the trim the Reds to the point you
want to add to trim and now click OK
and only that portion will be now
available within your video. Sometime we
just want to have some random text so
we can just see what the layout would
look like. If you just type the
command =Rand() and press
Enter it will just automatically insert
that sentence for you and then you can
play with the layout. To see what some
random text would look like now if you
don't want all your text to be exactly
the same you can always use this command
so insert a new text box and and just
type this =lorem() and then Enter
will give you this random sentence that
you've seen everywhere. When I do my
presentations I like to have some videos
for visual effects and usually you would
have to press insert video and select a
video file from your computer now that
makes the PowerPoint presentation really
really big. Now in 2016 you've also
got the ability to actually insert
video which is hosted on the internet
either on your OneDrive or YouTube you can
basically click on the press the channel
name or the video
you are looking for, select and insert it
another option is to use the embed code
so if you go to Insert Video and this
time select Embed you can embed videos
from YouTube or from Vimeo
let me show you an example one that is
from YouTube so I click on the embed you
go into your YouTube video find the
video that you want to stick into your
presentation click on share I then click
on the embed now you'll have an embed
code, click on that press copy, head back
to your presentation and then simply
paste the code in! you can create a
shortcut for any word that you use
repeatedly click on file, click on
option, proofing, and then autocomplete
and now replace you can
create a shortcut. So add ttg and i
want to replace it with the techie guy
now i click on add and ok so now when i
go back into my presentation all I've
gotta do is simply use the shortcode so
those are my tips if you know of anyone
who needs help with PowerPoint share
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these tips interesting if you've got any
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