How to make a Sway Presentation

How to Make a Sway Presentation -

A Five Part Blog

This past July 2015, I went on a trip.  When I came home I had all these great stories to tell and these photos that I wanted to share with everyone.  At about the same time I was working on my email when I found a letter talking about a new software that Microsoft had released named Sway.  I clicked the link and investigated further to learn more.  This software was so much fun that I decided to take the photos from my trip and my stores and meld them together into one amazing piece of work now called a "sway" .  Here is a link to view the final release of my presentation:

Tonight I was working with a local realtor to organize some photos when i remembered this Sway software and I started putting the two together.  That is when I decide that I need to share this with others and show them how easy it is to create amazing presentations using Microsoft's Sway. I am a long time user of Office software and I have been using Publisher & Power Point since the 1990's. Sway software is much like software you've used before but then again it is 100 percent different.  This blog is going to be a five part series on how to create a Sway presentation. 

Our Five Part Series will Consist of this Blog and the following:

1. What is Sway - Learn what it is where to get it and how
2. How is this used? -  The different ways to utilize Sway software 
3. Making our Sway the basics - Start a basic layout, insert 5 - 10 cards
4. Customizing our Sway - Layout Design & Lingo
5. Sharing your Sway - Learn how to share your finalized presentation

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 "What is Sway"  According to a quick Google Search I find: "Sway makes it quick and easy to create and share polished, interactive reports, presentations, personal stories, and more. Add your content, and we'll do the rest. Bring your Sway to life with interactive content. Include a video to talk about your idea or add an interactive chart to let others dive into the details."

Sway is a free app from Microsoft Office that helps gather, format, and share your ideas, stories, and presentations on an interactive, web-based canvas that looks great on virtually any screen. You can easily create a new Sway by adding text, pictures, documents, videos, charts, or any other type of content, and Sway will make it look great in just a few easy steps. When you’re ready to tell your story, Sway makes it easy to share it with others.

NOTE   To use Sway, sign in at http://www.sway.com with your Microsoft account. If you don't already have an account, visit http://www.microsoft.com/account to sign up for free.

Once you have your Sway account.  Check back here for our next Blog where we will start to make our very first Sway together.  To create the first Sway you will need to have some text in mind, a creative side and a series of photos ready to be used.  These photos can be on your Microsoft One Drive or they can be on your local PC.  If you have learned something new today please share this with a friend!