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Author: Geetesh Bajaj
Product/Version: PowerPoint
January 28, 2013
PowerPoint 2013 sports the Ribbon, which is tabbed -- each of these tabs contains a set of commands. By default, PowerPoint contains eight such tabs. These eight Ribbon tabs can be customized -- and you can indeed add a new Ribbon tab as well. In fact, you may have more than these eight tabs in your PowerPoint interface due to several reasons. All tabs can be reordered as required.
Learn how to reorder the Ribbon tabs and remove the custom tabs in PowerPoint 2013.
January 26, 2013
These Two Petals Circle graphics are part of our Petal Circles series that add stylized tips to your circle shapes. These two tip styles: Rounded and Pointed make your circles look different from conventional segmented circle graphics. They also break the monotony of text heavy slides, and help you explain concepts better to your audiences. Using these circle shapes also convinces your audiences that you care enough about them to make the slides look appealing and comprehensible. What's more, these shapes are also so much fun to use!
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January 25, 2013
Axis Labels, as the name suggests are labels for the Categories and Values on your chart axes. So where do these labels come from? Category axis labels reflect the Category names within your data (typically within an Excel sheet). Values on the other hand are determined by PowerPoint based upon the maximum value in your data -- the minimum value is always set to zero. Of course you can change the Minimum and Maximum values if you want.
Learn how to change the axis labels in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
January 24, 2013
A Slide Master is the part of your presentation that influences everything from the slide background to the fonts used for text. All slides in your presentation may have different layouts but they all share a common look -- that look is provided by the Slide Master. Every presentation has at least one Slide Master. However, if you constantly keep adding slides from other presentations, you may or may not have added more Slide Masters to your presentation. So how do you know how many Slide Masters your presentation contains? And how do you add another one? In fact, why do you need another Slide Master at all?
Learn how to add and rename Slide Masters in PowerPoint 2010.
January 24, 2013
The Ribbon that you see within the PowerPoint 2013 user interface was designed to solve a problem -- older versions of PowerPoint that were populated with menus and toolbars ended with so many submenus and toolbars that many users did not know if a specific feature even existed in PowerPoint. Even worse, the toolbars could occupy so much screen real estate that you would be left with a much smaller area for your slide! Enter the Ribbon which did help resolve some of these problems -- but it came with a problem of its own: it did not provide customization options when first introduced in PowerPoint 2007. This was quickly rectified in PowerPoint 2010 and 2013.
Learn how to add and rename Ribbon tabs in PowerPoint 2013.
January 23, 2013
Adam Noar is founder of Presentation Panda, a presentation design firm that specializes in creating and delivering professional presentations for startups, large businesses and individuals. Adam has been designing professional presentations for 10 years, delivering hundreds along the way to senior executives at Fortune 500 companies, and to large and diverse audiences at marketing events around the world. In this conversation, Adam discusses his Slides Made Simple book.
January 23, 2013
Major and Minor units are the intervals at which the axis spaces itself. As the name itself suggests, you can choose to space the axis at two levels: Major and Minor. By default, PowerPoint sets the Major and Minor units on its own -- many times, this may be exactly what you need. At other times, you may want to set your own intervals for the Major and Minor units. Before you do so, a word of caution -- do remember that any of these changes can have three implications.
Learn how to change the Major and Minor units of Value axis in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
January 22, 2013
In this issue, we have two sets of shape graphics -- these graphics behave like native PowerPoint shapes -- that means you can select them and choose your own fills and effects -- and animate them like any other PowerPoint shape. You can even type text inside them! The One Petal circle is a subtle variation of the common circle -- and the Three Hearts circle comprises three hearts -- it may look like something you can use in a business presentation, but look closer -- those hearts do seem perfect for Valentine's Day too. We have so many tutorials covering PowerPoint 2013, 2011, and 2010 too.
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January 22, 2013
You may have observed an omnipresent company logo in many slides -- and that raises a question: do you really need to have a company logo on all your slides? First, it takes a fair amount of space. Secondly, the audience knows which company the speaker belongs to since that information is almost always placed on the first slide. Also speakers do introduce themselves and their companies -- so do all slides need that extra branding? All these questions are fair, and there are equally fair answers for them. You should certainly add a company logo to your first slide, and then place a more subtle or watermarked logo on the rest of the slides -- or even no logo at all. Fortunately, PowerPoint makes it easy to add a logo to all your slides -- and then make sure that some slides have no logo at all or even a more understated version of the logo.
Learn how to add logo or graphic to slide master in PowerPoint 2010.
January 21, 2013
Charts are a visual representation of data, and when seen on a PowerPoint slide from afar, you make out the value of a series by exploring where exactly it's placed vis-à-vis the axis. Of course, if your chart has data labels, then this is less of an issue -- however, typical charts may have no data labels. For such a chart, the Tick Marks placed on the axis will help us get a better idea. Most chart types show two types of tick marks on axes -- Major and Minor.
Learn about the Tick Marks, both Major and Minor on chart axes in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
January 21, 2013
The Quick Access Toolbar, known as the QAT is the only toolbar available for customization in PowerPoint 2013 -- here you can place your most used commands so that they are accessible to you with just a single click. You already learned how you can change the location of the QAT in our Quick Access Toolbar in PowerPoint 2013 tutorial. There are two ways in which you can add your favorite commands to the QAT. The easier way is to right-click any button on the Ribbon tabs, and choose the Add to Quick Access Toolbar option. Alternatively, follow these steps to customize the QAT by adding your frequently used commands -- this process is longer, but shows you all commands available in PowerPoint -- including some that are not available on the Ribbon tabs.
Learn how to customize the Quick Access Toolbar in PowerPoint 2013.
January 19, 2013
These One Petal Circle graphics are part of our Petal Circles series that add stylized tips to your circle shapes. These two tip styles: Rounded and Pointed make your circles look different from conventional segmented circle graphics. They also break the monotony of text heavy slides, and help you explain concepts better to your audiences. Using these circle shapes also convinces your audiences that you care enough about them to make the slides look appealing and comprehensible. What's more, these shapes are also so much fun to use!
Buy and download these slides now.
January 18, 2013
Do you want your pictures to be contained within shapes that look like frames? Or maybe you want to use silhouette style placeholders for your pictures? Yes, this is possible! Yes, this process is a little involved -- but we'll hold your hand if you promise to follow all our steps in sequence! Learn how to create custom shaped picture placeholders in PowerPoint 2010.
Learn how to create custom shaped picture placeholders in PowerPoint 2010.
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