This post is by Heather Ackmann. She is a new/old PowerPoint MVP. Old, because she’s been an MVP in Microsoft Office for years. New, because Microsoft got rid of Office MVPs, so she’s come over to the light side and is now a PowerPoint MVP. And she’s an MCT (Microsoft Certified Trainer). Heather is also full-time author for Pluralsight, creating computer training videos full-time on PowerPoint, Excel, Word, and other topics.
On the job, she is passionate about three things: her audio equipment, her training courses, and her PowerPoint slides. Her desk is never clean, but her courses are meticulously structured. At work and at home she pushes the limits of what her Microsoft Office applications can do and often asks them to do things they weren’t designed to do. When she discovers something new and interesting that Office can do, she loves sharing that information with the world via Twitter, her website, or in one of her many Pluralsight courses. In her spare time, she crochets many hats and scarves for her kids who refuse to wear them outdoors.
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If you have not yet had a chance to play with Office Mix, the latest add-in for PowerPoint that allows you to create an interactive online multimedia presentation sharable and viewable on any device, you need to read Ellen’s Introduction to the add-in here.
But if you are already somewhat familiar with Office Mix, maybe have even created one or two Mix presentations yourself, I am going to explain how to take Mix Interactivity to the next level by designing and creating your own custom interactive menu into your Office Mix presentation.
Towards the end of this blog, you’ll find a presentation containing the step-by-step instructions, but here are a few things to consider beforehand.
