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Author: Geetesh Bajaj
Product/Version: PowerPoint
January 28, 2014
Do you want to create a jigsaw puzzle from a picture in PowerPoint 2011? This is actually much easier than it sounds -- the tutorial on this page will lead you through the entire process step-by-step. By the time you are done with this tutorial, you will create a jigsaw on your own.
Learn how to create puzzle pictures from jigsaw shapes in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
January 27, 2014
One of the worst things that you can do to your PowerPoint presentation is to add a busy, multi-colored background to your slides. However, people do that all the time and in the process, they compromise the subtlety and contrast of any content on their slides. Fortunately, recoloring pictures can help.
Learn how to recolor a picture background in PowerPoint 2013.
January 24, 2014
By default, the table borders in PowerPoint take the color from the Theme applied to the presentation. However, you can change this color as required. Not only you can set the table border color for the new tables to be drawn, but also you can change the color of existing table borders.
Learn how to set color for table borders in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
January 23, 2014
In our last post about Adobe Presenter, we looked at its beginnings as Presedia Producer. And that’s where the comparison ends. Adobe has added features and possibilities over successive versions to make this new version such a power-packed program that there’s little to compare. Rather than do an introduction to Adobe Presenter conventionally, we decided to do this as a small FAQ post – so here are the questions and answers you want to explore!
January 23, 2014
For most of our presentations, we all use pictures so often! A picture in PowerPoint can be used in many ways -- as a picture you insert, as a picture you place within a shape, or even as something that covers the entire slide as a background. In this tutorial, we will look at the last option -- that lets you use a picture as a slide background. Before you begin, you need to put in plenty of thought into whether the picture you are using will work as a slide background or not? So how do you determine if a picture will work as a background or not?
Learn how to apply picture fills as slide backgrounds in PowerPoint 2013.
January 22, 2014
Greg Flynn is president of Brainshark, Inc., a leader in cloud-based business presentations. Brainshark's offerings include Brainshark On-Demand -- for turning static content such as PowerPoint documents into online and mobile video presentations -- and SlideShark, the award-winning app for showing PowerPoints from the iPad and iPhone. Thousands of companies use Brainshark to improve the reach and results of their business communications, while dramatically reducing costs. In this conversation, Greg discusses Brainshark's new solution packages and Analytics Dashboard, being unveiled today.
January 22, 2014
While PowerPoint allows you to create tables in various ways -- from inserting them with a pre-decided number of rows and columns to something as intuitive as actually drawing your own table, most of the tables you create using either of these two methods will show borders between individual cells. These borders are great and they make the segregation between cells obvious. Yet, what if you don't want to see the border altogether? The Border options allow you to make some of table borders visible/invisible for the entire table, or for a bunch of contagious table cells that are selected.
Learn how to toggle the visibility of table borders in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
January 21, 2014
In this issue, we start by looking at how you can animate a ceiling fan in PowerPoint -- you'll love this not because it is so intuitive but also because there are ways of making things happen that are not obvious! We then explore the entire gamut of bar charts in a few words. And then we teach you how you can add sound or music to your PDFs, including the PowerPoint slides that you save as PDFs. PowerPoint 2013 for Windows users can learn about how they can convert their text into individual shapes for each character. And we also show you how you can create jigsaw shapes with nothing other than PowerPoint! PowerPoint 2011 for Mac users can learn about text alignment in tables, and how you can draw tables just like you draw them with paper and pencil. And finally, do not miss the new discussions and templates of this week!
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January 21, 2014
Here are a bunch of jigsaw slides that you can use to create your own jigsaw puzzles quickly within your own slides! This entire kit contains 5 different styles of jigsaw pieces: typical jigsaws, arrows, hearts, ovals, and rounded squares. Each jigsaw shape is available in three counts: small, medium, and large. We made these available in two slide sizes for both standard (4:3) and widescreen (16:9) resolutions.
Learn how to create puzzle pictures in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.
January 20, 2014
Here are a bunch of jigsaw slides that you can use to create your own jigsaw puzzles quickly within your own slides! This entire kit contains 5 different styles of jigsaw pieces: typical jigsaws, arrows, hearts, ovals, and rounded squares. Each jigsaw shape is available in three counts: small, medium, and large. We made these available in two slide sizes for both standard (4:3) and widescreen (16:9) resolutions.
Buy and use these in your slides.
January 20, 2014
As we have already explored in our Draw Tables in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac tutorial, you can manually draw tables and pide your tables into numerous rows, columns, and cells. In the same way, PowerPoint allows you to erase segregations (borders) between cells and thus merge cells.
Learn how to remove borders within a table cell in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
January 20, 2014
How can you create a ceiling fan in PowerPoint and animate it to play? That was certainly an interesting challenge and actually quite easy to achieve in PowerPoint. You can download and reuse this slide for your own presentations.
Download and use these slides.
January 17, 2014
PowerPoint's Merge Shapes commands open new opportunities and possibilities for you. Typically, whenever we needed to create a jigsaw puzzle in PowerPoint, we would source the actual jigsaw shapes from Office.com or from one of the many stock image sites. However, the Merge Shapes commands make it so easy to create your own jigsaws with nothing more than a few shapes!
Learn how to create jigsaw shapes using Merge Shapes commands in PowerPoint 2013.
January 16, 2014
In PowerPoint, you can insert a table quickly by specifying your required number of rows and columns -- that's easy but there are other intuitive ways to create tables. Speaking about intuitive, what can be more intuitive than directly drawing a table on your PowerPoint slide almost like sketching with pen on paper?
Learn how to draw a Table in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
January 15, 2014
A Bar chart maps data as a bar within a chart's Plot area. A bar is essentially a rectangle that's typically thin width-wise and long length-wise. In simple terms, a Bar chart is a Column chart that has been rotated 90 degrees! Data that is arranged in columns or rows on a worksheet can be plotted in a Bar chart. Bar charts illustrate comparisons among individual items. While Bar charts do not possess the utter simplicity of Column charts where a higher column indicates better results, they can be more suitable to present data in an almost timeline-like style.
Learn about Bar Charts, and how you can use them within PowerPoint.
January 15, 2014
PowerPoint 2013 really did take the Merge Shapes command to a whole new level. Not only can you merge shapes with other shapes and text, you can also merge shapes with pictures! First you may wonder what's so awesome about merging shapes with pictures? But play a bit and you'll realize that this opens up huge possibilities. We will start simple in this tutorial and explore how you can create cookie cutter shapes with this option.
Learn how to merge shapes with pictures in PowerPoint 2013.
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