How many times have you accidently moved a carefully placed object on your PowerPoint slide? It’s certainly an annoying, frustration that I was pleased to find a solution to. PowerPoint contains a Lock function which allows you to lock into place, any object on your slide. This includes text boxes, images, objects etc. Watch the… Continue reading #743 Lock objects in Powerpoint
In this latest instalment of looking at ClipChamp (Microsoft’s fab video editing software), we look at screen and video (webcam) recording. This is really useful if you are either doing a talk-through with PowerPoint or a demonstration with some software etc. We’ll look at how easy it is to use the facility within ClipChamp
You can run multiple tasks in Outlook with just one click on an email once you have set up your Quick Step recipe. So with one click you can mark it as read, move it to a folder, set a retention policy on how long to keep it, automatically send a reply and an array… Continue reading #737 Multiple tasks in Outlook with Quick Steps
PowerPoint have recently updated their PowerPoint checker and it is so much easier to use now. It clearly shows you areas on your slides that need fix them to make them easily accessible to people using assistive technologies. In this video guide I give you a very quick run through of how to use the… Continue reading #731 Not sure your PowerPoints are accessible? Check them!
The free* Microsoft Clip Champ video editor has some fantastic features, including the Text to Speech facility. In this video, we’ll demonstrate this and also show you how to add it to your videos.
We love Canva here! And find their presentation templates to be really helpful for creating great looking decks, however sometimes you need to put things into PowerPoint so you can present offline or want to use the presentaion tools in Teams. Luckily for us Canva include an option to download to PowerPoint which creates a… Continue reading #727 Updated! How to save a Canva presentation to PowerPoint
Continuing with Clip Champ (we’ll be experts soon!) Adding captions is easy and has the added benefit that it is actually embedded within the video (eg not reliant on the browser or platform that you use). We’ll show you how to add and edit captions – we even throw in a bit of text-to-speech too… Continue reading #724 ClipChamp: How to add and edit captions
When you need to concentrate, Teams can prove to be a distraction. You can help to manage that by either setting your status to Do Not Disturb or Appear Offline, the only trouble is remembering to reset it when you are done! This handy tip shows you how to set a duration to your temporary… Continue reading #723 How to set a status duration in Teams
In-call notifications for chat messages can quickly become an annoying distraction, particularly in large meetings with a busy back channel. To stop these annoying pop-ups you can quickly and easily mute the chat. In the video below we show how to do this from within the Teams call and how to do it from the… Continue reading #719 Teams chat notifications causing a distraction? Mute them!
In this 1minuteCPD, we look at some further options on the timeline, such as clip speed, clip effects and zoom options. Be sure to check out the previous ClipChamp videos here: Overview of ClipChamp Adding content to ClipChamp Focus on the timeline
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