How To Compare and Merge Presentations in PowerPoint 2013

Almost every time while I create a PowerPoint presentation, I am always bothered by revisions and modifications to it by my clients. Previously, I had to open both files and compare, slide to slide which is a strenuous and boring task – Moreover the all new ‘Compare’ allowed me to become an expert in proof reading and detecting visual differences.

First Open your PowerPoint Presentation, click the Review tab from, then the button Compare .A window appears which allows you to browse your hard drive to select the second presentation file for comparison.  

Select the presentation, simply click on Merge.

A window will appear with several small icons indicating/highlighting where there are differences between files, opening the Reviewing Pane gives you a exhaustive list of all changes.

In the upper portion of the Reviewing Pane (http://techtalkafrica.com/# 1 above), you will have a list of changes to the current slide. The lower portion (http://techtalkafrica.com/# 2) gives you a list of all changes to all the slides in the presentation. And for those who prefer a visual comparison, click the Slides in the top of the Reviewing Pane

To Apply all the changes, select a slide and browse to the review tab, You can click on Accept button to either   Accept single Change, Accept changes to the current slide or accept changes to the whole presentation

You can use the Reject function to reject and revert the changes In the similar way (Accept single Change, Accept changes to the current slide or accept changes to the whole presentation.)

You might find it bit confusing at first, but once you get used to it, you won’t bother proof-reading each line once again which could save you literally hours

Author Bio: Prakash is a social media manager at leading I.T Firm. He frequently creates several Business PowerPoint Presentations and created his own PPT Blog

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Tags: PowerPoint 2012, PowerPoint Presentation

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Must have iPhone apps for PR professionals

For busy professionals with workloads to keep on top of, clients to manage and social media to keep taps on, the iPhone is so much more than just a gadget. With the right apps, a PR professional’s iPhone is a vital part of staying organised and delivering effectively on the move. Here are a few indispensible iPhone apps for the busy PR pro.

Awesome Note

This app provides everything the busy PR professional needs to manage their workload from their iPhone. Create memos and lists to ensure every aspect of your PR campaigns stays up-to-date and manageable. Awesome Note syncs with Google Docs so you’ve got everything you need in one handy place, on the train, in a checkout queue or away on business.

Expense View

Great for managing a household budget, Expense View is also the perfect iPhone app for monitoring a PR campaign budget and keeping on top of spending. View graphs and charts of sending through Expense View to make managing your budget visual and simple.

Box

This is an excellent app for any professionals who need to share files with contacts while on the move. Send PDFs, Word, Excel, Powerpoint easily even when you’re out of the office. This free app is a must-have for the busy PR professional.

Things

This task management app sells itself on being a cinch to use with an intuitive interface that is pleasing on the eye. Keeping on top of your PR campaigns is crucial to your success and Things is a vital tool to help you deliver and save time. With tag, project and task options, Things will keep you in touch and on top.

Evernote

Evernote is the perfect app for any professional. Never forget a thing again with the apps features. Share notes, tasks and project details with colleagues and sync the app to your other devices. Save and organise web pages, research and business events. Evernote is a really great app that will quickly become a vital part of your public affairs jobs.

Mobile RSS

PR professionals have so many websites, blogs, tweets and Facebook posts to follow it can be difficult to be sure you’re getting it all as it happens. With Mobile RSS you can capture hundreds of websites and feeds and keep on the ball from wherever you are.

Hootsuite

The ultimate social media management app, Hootsuite will ensure you know what’s being tweeted and schedule social media releases. Manage numerous accounts, plan out your social media posts and share the schedule with colleagues to ensure excellent PR campaigns. Hootsuite has got to be one of the stand-out iPhone apps for PR professionals. Get it.

Busy PR professionals can’t afford to miss a thing and all PR campaigns rely on excellent management. These iPhone apps will help even the most organised PR professionals sleep better at night knowing they’re truly on top of their work, leaving more energy for you to spend on those vital creative decisions.

Author Bio: Tom Walker is a Freelance Copywriter specialising in public relations articles for PR Week. 

Source : techtalkafrica[dot]com

Twitter reforms API rules, makes it more difficult to be a third party client developer

It has been rumored for a while that Twitter may be looking to shut down third party Twitter clients completely and only allow the use of its own official clients, available on nearly every platform right now. And while that hasn’t happened yet, the latest announcement from the company’s developers blog does make it more difficult to be a third party Twitter client developer.

Twitter announced that it will be releasing v1.1 of its API, which is what applications that access Twitter have to use. This new API comes with a ton of new changes and restrictions, which further drives home the point that Twitter does not like third-party clients that mimics the site’s functionality.

For starters, Twitter clients that accesses basic Twitter features such as home timeline, account settings or direct messaging (which is almost all of them) will have a limit of 100,000 user tokens. If an application requires more tokens, the developer will have to take permission from Twitter, at which point it will be at Twitter’s discretion if they would allow more user tokens or cap them at 100,000.

Apps that are already using more than 100,000 user tokens can continue doing so until they reach double the tokens of what they are using right now, regardless of the number, but once they reach that point they will have to ask for Twitter’s permission.

Twitter is also going to crack down harder on apps that don’t meet Twitter’s design guidelines. Also, what were originally guidelines are now requirements and any app not meeting them could have its application key revoked.

There is a new API call limit as well. Initially, applications could make 350 API calls per minute regardless of its functionality, which was primarily responsible for spam on Twitter. The new API will introduce per-endpoint rate limiting, so now you have various API call limits depending upon the function the client is requesting. Most individual API endpoints will be limited to 60 per minute but some apps could request high-volume endpoints to get up to 720 API calls per minute.

Finally, each and every application that uses the Twitter API v1.1 will need to be authenticated, which includes applications provided built-into devices. If an application using the API is not authenticated, Twitter will revoke its application key.

The new API will be released soon and developers will have six months to migrate from 1.0 to 1.1.

Some of the aforementioned changes are definitely going to make it difficult to be a third party Twitter client developer. The drop in user tokens, the limited API call limit and the requirement to strictly adhere to design guidelines means fewer people will want to create an app. Existing developers will also have to talk with Twitter at some point as they hit one of the new limits, at which point there is no guarantee that Twitter will comply with them.

It’s sad to see Twitter restrict third party clients so severely, many of which provide a better experience than any of Twitter’s official apps ever did. This is mostly being done to limit users to Twitter’s own apps, which lets Twitter show ads in the form of promoted tweets. It will only push users towards upcoming competing services such as App.net, which are already promising a better experience. Hopefully, Twitter will see the light and be more open towards applications that only aim to enhance the experience that they created.

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