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August 14, 2012
We took a conscious decision to create a simple issue this time with no major announcements -- it's not that there's no amazing content to share since we have tons of announcements and walkthroughs lined up for you.
August 14, 2012
iSpring Converter is a PowerPoint add-in that converts your existing PowerPoint slides into interactive HTML5 content suitable for viewing on iOS devices like the iPad. This conversion attempts to preserve all movements in PowerPoint such as animations and transition effects including complicated 3D transitions and trigger animations. In addition, the conversion also supports embedded audio and video, and retains all PowerPoint styles, keeping the original PowerPoint look in HTML5. The converted output can be viewed easily in most contemporary browsers without additional plug-ins. Also your presentations are optimized for viewing on iPads and other mobile devices.
August 14, 2012
Animations are always numbered in the order as you apply them. So if you first animate a shape and then add animation to the text placeholder -- then that's going to be the sequence in which they will animate. However, it is possible to re-order your animations as needed. You may want to consider re-ordering of animations so that the sequencing happens as per some aesthetics and logic -- also Entrance and Exit animations, if applied need to be the first and last animations for any slide object. PowerPoint's Re-Order options for animations let you play with this sequencing.
Learn how to animate charts in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
August 13, 2012
In this conversation, PowerPoint MVP Steve Rindsberg discusses what the upcoming PowerPoint 2013 offers developers, and about the rumours that apps will replace add-ins soon.
Read more in this conversation.
August 13, 2012
Robert Gaskins invented PowerPoint, drawing on ten years of interdisciplinary graduate study at Berkeley and five years as manager of computer science research for an international telecommunications R&D laboratory in Silicon Valley. Gaskins managed the design and development of PowerPoint as a startup where it attracted the first venture capital investment ever made by Apple Computer. It was released for Macintosh in April 1987; soon after, it became the first significant acquisition ever made by Microsoft, who set up a new business unit in Silicon Valley to develop it further. Gaskins headed this new Microsoft group for another five years, completing versions of the PowerPoint product through the explosive initial growth of Microsoft Windows and the creation of the Microsoft Office bundle. In this conversation, Robert discusses how PowerPoint evolved, and how it was named.
Read this exclusive conversation with Robert Gaskins.
August 13, 2012
Increase or decrease the font size of text in your slides, and you'll discover that not only does this make a difference in the aesthetics of your slide, but the text itself uses more or less space than you may want. Sometimes, you may want they text to take just a wee bit lesser space so that all content can fit within two lines rather than three. If you would like to alter the spacing between text characters, you can do so by using PowerPoint 2010's Character Spacing option, that affects the appearance and readability of both title and body text. Character Spacing is the amount of space in-between individual letters. You can easily adjust this spacing for a cleaner look or to make more or less text fit within any text object. Let us now explore how you can choose different Character Spacing options for the selected text on your slide.
Explore the Character Spacing options in PowerPoint 2010.
August 11, 2012
People Chain silhouettes are ready made graphics of people holding hands. These can be used in various presenting scenarios, such as when you need to create slides that relate to sociology, people of the world, population, team work, collaboration, etc. These are simple graphics, yet can provide amazing results when utilized with creativity.
The presentation that you download includes two sample slides containing simple variations of people chain silhouettes: black and grey on a white backdrop, and white and grey on a black backdrop. Other than these two slides, there is a third slide that includes People Chain silhouette graphics with various solid color fills and texture fills.
Download and use these silhouettes in your slides.
August 10, 2012
It is the day of your talk. You're ready. You stand up and reel off all the statistics on the slides you so carefully created. As you point out the numbers, you begin to feel uneasy. You don't know what's wrong, but your audience seems a bit detached. What's the problem? You're telling them the information on the slides -- what more could they want? What they want is something that is not on the slide. Because they see the information faster than you can read it, they need some extras. Otherwise, why listen to you? Remember, do not read every word and number on each slide. Highlight and discuss the key points using the PowerPoint features at your disposal (shapes, callouts, colors behind the numbers, animations). What else should you tell your audience?
Read more in this post by Claudyne Wilder.
August 10, 2012
Animations are always numbered in the order as you apply them. So if you first animate a shape and then add animation to the text placeholder -- then that's going to be the sequence in which they will animate. However, it is possible to re-order your animations as needed. You may want to consider re-ordering of animations so that the sequencing happens as per some aesthetics and logic -- also Entrance and Exit animations, if applied need to be the first and last animations for any slide object. PowerPoint's Re-Order options for animations let you play with this sequencing.
Learn how to re-order animations on your slides in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
August 9, 2012
Here's the most comprehensive list of PowerPoint 2013 (Consumer Preview pre-release software) keyboard shortcuts that we know about -- how many of these do you presently use? Go ahead and view the link of PowerPoint 2013 (Consumer Preview pre-release software) keyboard shortcuts -- if you discover a shortcut key not listed here, please get in touch with us.
View our collection of PowerPoint 2013 (Consumer Preview pre-release software) keyboard shortcuts.
August 9, 2012
Fonts are more than just pretty typefaces although even your choice of typefaces can have a profound effect on how readable your text is to the audience. We have already explored how you can format font styles to make your text bold, italicized, underlined, etc. Beyond these basic offerings, PowerPoint 2010's Font dialog box offers some advanced format options for selected text. You can still change the font type, set the font size, color, and other font attributes in this dialog box, and you can also do more. In this tutorial, we'll explore the font format options within the Font dialog box.
Explore options within the Font dialog box in PowerPoint 2010.
August 8, 2012
A reader asked if there were any shortcut keys that could let her go from Normal to Slide Sorter view? The answer is both no and yes -- "no" because there's no real shortcut to do that and "yes" because there is such an easy workaround. Read more.
August 8, 2012
Gil Segal is the creator of ToolsToo and a senior software consultant. Gil is always on the lookout for ways to automate manual tasks in any software he uses and has been a PowerPoint power-user since the mid 90's. Gil's PowerPoint add-in ToolsToo evolved from the motivation to do PowerPoint tasks easier or faster -- and the desire to make slides look better, more aligned, more uniformly sized, spaced, formatted, etc.
In this conversation, Gil talks about his ToolsToo add-in for Microsoft PowerPoint.
August 8, 2012
You may want to remove the animation applied to a slide object for several reasons. First, you may have animated the wrong slide object, added animation by mistake, or you probably overdid your animations and ended up with a chaotic slide! Whatever your reasons may be, removing the animation is a simple select-and-click task. But before you do remove any animation, here are some thoughts and obvious scenarios to ponder about.
Learn how to remove animation applied to any slide object in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
August 7, 2012
PowerPoint 2013 is our topic of discussion again this week -- and there's so much information to share with you that we created a separate section below on all PowerPoint 2013 related topics. At this point of time, we are helping you install the Customer Preview version of Office 2013 -- this includes PowerPoint 2013 and corresponding versions of other Office programs such as Word, Excel, Outlook, Access, etc. The installation itself is one big new feature for this version of Office -- in fact, most users need not download an installation file since the install actually streams off Microsoft's servers in a way that you would expect a YouTube movie or something from Netflix to play!
August 7, 2012
The appearance of text makes a huge difference to any presentation. The font typeface used in your slides is dictated by the active Theme or Theme Fonts set of your presentation -- you can certainly override these defaults and choose another font typeface and also change the font size. However, there are times when you need to highlight a word or a phrase contained within your text so that it stands apart and commands attention. To do so, you can apply font styling options that let you make your text bold, italics, underlined, etc. Often, slide titles in PowerPoint are formatted bold to attract attention; italicized text is mainly used to add emphasis or to mark foreign words. And you can underline text, add shadows, and even strike through any selected text. Read more to learn more about these font styles.
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