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April 14, 2014
As the VP of Development for SoftArtisans, Sam Haddad leads a team of developers to bring enterprise software to a global customer base. With a degree in Information Technology from Rochester Institute of Technology, Sam's expertise lies in .NET programming. In the past Sam has worked with both web and desktop applications, ranging from e-commerce sites to Office document processing tools. In this conversation, Sam discusses PowerPointWriter.
April 14, 2014
There are various fills that you can apply to the Plot Area of a chart -- and a texture can often work surprisingly well. For those who want to know what a texture is, it's essentially a picture that tiles across an area. We have explored other fills for chart Plot Areas, such as a solid color, a gradient, a picture, or a pattern. In this tutorial, we will explore texture fills.
Learn how to apply texture fills to the Plot Area of a chart in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
April 14, 2014
Inserting online videos was one of the new key features Microsoft introduced in PowerPoint 2010. However, you really won't find the exact equivalent options in PowerPoint 2013 -- in fact, it has since been also removed from PowerPoint 2010! Fortunately you can still add online videos from YouTube to your PowerPoint 2013 slides by following a manual process.
Learn how to manually embed a YouTube video in PowerPoint.
April 11, 2014
A line (outline) in PowerPoint contains both points and segments -- think about connect-the-dots as an analogy and the dots will represent points. The segments on the other hand will represent the lines you draw between the dots. Among points and segments, we have already explored the types of points in PowerPoint 2013. We now explore the two types of Segments in PowerPoint 2013: Straight and Curved. Segments can be edited and you can also convert a straight segment to a curved segment and vice versa, as you will learn in this tutorial.
Learn what the Curved and Straight line segments are within PowerPoint 2013.
April 11, 2014
Most of you know that Microsoft started including Themes rather than templates since Office 2007 – almost a hundred Themes have since been included within different versions of Office – for both Windows and Mac. But sometimes you will run into a roadblock when you cannot find a Theme you are looking for!
Explore list of pre-installed and available Themes within the Office versions released so far.
April 10, 2014
We already showed how you can create distance cartograms using concentric donut shapes within PowerPoint. But that was only the beginning because it turns out that you can create so much more with the same shapes! Look at this example of a hot and cold diagram that we found in the April 2014 issue of Inc. Magazine - notice that this tells you which celebrity is more tech savvy than others. Understandably, Ashton Kutcher is more tech savvy - so he is right in the center of this cartogram structure in the hottest zone. Around him as you travel to the edges of the cartogram, the tech savvy quotient gets colder - and you find many more celebrities here.
April 10, 2014
Picture fills can look great and distracting at the same time -- it all depends upon the type of picture you use for the fill -- and also what you fill with a picture. If you end up using a picture as a fill for your chart's Plot Area, then you must put in plenty of thought before you decide to do so. Why? Because you don't want to crowd your chart -- and so while you can use a picture, it's best to use one that's muted and does not attract too much attention.
Learn how to apply picture fills to the Plot Area of a chart in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
April 8, 2014
Let's start with a conversation with Dr. Pooja Jaisingh who discusses Adobe Presenter 9, probably one of the best PowerPoint add-ins ever. We then bring you a thought provoking post by Jim Endicott, an award-winning columnist. Jim wonders if it makes any difference whether you use PowerPoint or Keynote when your message has no communication. PowerPoint 2013 for Windows users can learn about adding and deleting points to drawings you create within PowerPoint. We also explore shading and effects for tables, and funnily enough, we discovered that there was no easy way to determine if you had Office 2013 SP1 installed! So we found a way to determine just that. PowerPoint 2011 for Mac users can learn that there are ways in which you can make your chart Plot Area look different. And PowerPoint 2003 users will learn about preserving Slide Masters. And finally, do not miss the new discussions and templates of this week!
Read Indezine's PowerPoint and Presenting News.
April 9, 2014
The Shapes gallery in PowerPoint consists of various shapes, both open and closed. Most of the shapes in this gallery are closed shapes (rectangle, ellipse, and triangle are some of the closed shapes). There are also a few open shapes such as the straight point to point line. Some other tools let you create both open and closed shapes -- these are the Freeform Line, Curve, and Scribble tools. In addition, you can convert any closed shape into an open shape and vice versa, as you will learn in this tutorial.
Learn how you can open and close paths for shapes in PowerPoint 2013.
April 9, 2014
When launched, you will notice that PowerPoint opens with an empty presentation of just one slide. Typically, you will find placeholders for the slide's title and subtitle here. Any text you type within these placeholders shows up in black over a white slide background. This is the default look that PowerPoint provides -- but you don't have to use this default look all the time. You can change this look to something else -- for example, do you want to use your custom PowerPoint template or Theme as the default? Or even any of the other templates / Themes built within PowerPoint.
Learn how to change the default template or Theme in PowerPoint 2010.
April 8, 2014
There are various fills that you can apply to the Plot Area of a chart, such as a solid color, a picture, a texture, or a pattern, or a gradient fill. Gradient fills are typically blended fills between two or more colors that graduate from one color to another -- and if you use neutral or muted colors, then a gradient fill can provide a great, understated backdrop for your chart. In this tutorial, let us learn how to apply a gradient fill to the Plot Area of a chart.
Learn how to apply gradient fills to the Plot Area of a chart in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
April 8, 2014
Both PowerPoint 2010 and PowerPoint 2007 show the name of the active Theme for a presentation within the Status Bar. Now, look for a similar option within the PowerPoint 2013 interface. Note that there is no Theme name displayed on the Status Bar. However you can reinstate the Theme name, as explained in this tutorial.
Learn how to display and identify the active Theme name PowerPoint 2013.
April 7, 2014
Noah Menikoff is chief architect and a managing partner at Synthesis Technology. He has over twenty years of experience as a software engineer and business consultant with a focus on business process improvement. Synthesis Technology offers Intelligent Communication Solutions for Financial Services firms and other regulated organizations. The Synthesis FlightDeck solution makes it easy for organizations to create, manage and utilize large amounts of PowerPoint content. In this conversation, Noah discusses FlightDeck.
April 7, 2014
Every shape in PowerPoint is a combination of segments and points. The points are essentially what is also known as vertexes -- and segments are straight or curved lines between these vertexes. These segments and points are similar to a "connect-the-dots" drawing and the dots would be points, and the lines you draw between the dots would be segments. Both the segments and vertexes are only individually visible within Edit Points mode. We discuss more about segments in a subsequent tutorial but for now, let us help you explore the different types of vertexes (points) in PowerPoint 2013. Essentially, these are of three types.
Learn about different types of points (vertexes) in PowerPoint 2013.
April 7, 2014
PowerPoint add-ins help in adding new capabilities that can polish your presentation in many ways. But when the time comes to uninstall these add-ins for whatsoever reason, you might be surprised to find their menu customizations still existent! Click those menu extensions and nothing may happen -- but these menu options are still there! In another scenario, you may have customized your PowerPoint menus and toolbars to a large extent -- and may now want to restore everything to a pristine state -- almost like how the interface looked when you first installed PowerPoint.
Learn how to remove customizations from PowerPoint's PCB files in PowerPoint 2003.
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