Animate a Social Media Phone Feed in PowerPoint

PowerPoint is great for animations and if you wanted to simulate a mobile phone screen as if someone was to browse through their social media feeds, this can be done in most versions of PowerPoint quite easily. In the latest versions of PPT (Office or Microsoft 365 subscription or 2019), you can use the Morph feature to do this. If you don't have those PPT versions, this can be done via the animation command. This video will show both examples of how to animate scrolling through a feed on a mobile phone image.

Turn a Picture into Puzzle Pieces in PowerPoint

If you want to create a puzzle piece image out of an existing image, you'd think it was something that could only be done in Photoshop or pay someone to do. With most versions of PowerPoint, this can be done with just a few steps. You can event animate the pieces with the morph command (but this would take Microsoft 365 subscription or PPT 2019). Later on in this video I'll show the animation effect using that morph feature. If you don't have the current versions of PPT, you can do this with the animations command, but it'll just take more work (that won't be covered in this video, but subscribe and check out my other animations vid on https://www.youtube.com/doughexcel/?s...). As a bonus near the end of the vid, making an image out of other shapes will be covered so check it out.

Use Power Query to Create a Dynamic Calendar Table

When you're creating relationships between tables that have dates, it often useful to have a separate calendar table that references all the dates for the year or years that you need. It'll also be nice if it has extra fields or columns that give just the year, month or day name. You can often do this manually in Excel with a few functions, but if you wanted to make it auto-magically update based on your given start and end date, Power Query makes it much easier to do once you set it up.