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Author: Geetesh Bajaj
Product/Version: PowerPoint
September 19, 2014
Charts are something that are often shared between Excel and PowerPoint - and while Excel gurus may look down at PowerPoint as far as charting is concerned, there indeed is one charting feature that is not doable as well in Excel – and that is animating charts. OK, an Excel guru somewhere may have said that it’s great that you cannot animate charts in Excel - after all many PowerPoint users do create a mess with animation anyway!
Learn about the pros and cons of animating charts.
September 19, 2014
Once you explore video editing options such as recoloring, corrections, preset video styles, video borders, video effects, resizing / flipping, etc. in PowerPoint 2013, your original video clip may appear to be entirely different from what you started with. The fact that you can make your videos look so different in PowerPoint 2013 with customizations galore can sometimes prove be a disadvantage, especially if you want to get rid of all customizations and get back to original state of your video clip. Fortunately, the Reset Design option is just what you need at this point of time! In this tutorial, you will learn how you can restore a video clip to its default appearance, and get rid of any customizations you may have made.
Learn how to reset your video clips in PowerPoint 2013.
September 19, 2014
While learning about chart axes, you will come across two terms, Major and Minor units. These 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 for several reasons.
Learn how to change the Major and Minor units of Value axis.
September 18, 2014
You can crop pictures in PowerPoint, and of course you can animate them. But as you may observe frequently in life, synergy yields results that exceed the mere sum of two or more initiatives. And that's true in a way for the technique we will explore on this page - we call this Slice and Animate. The two techniques being used for this synergy are cropping pictures and adding animation.
Learn how to slice and animate pictures in PowerPoint.
September 18, 2014
Similar to how you position or reposition pictures and shapes, you can make changes to any inserted video in PowerPoint 2013. In addition, there are some very basic video editing options that can be significant. These include how you resize, rotate, and flip your inserted video clips. Resizing can help you change dimensions of your video clips, while slight changes in rotation values can draw attention. Flip, the last of these options though is something you will almost never use -- unless you want to do something drastically different!
Learn how you can Resize, Rotate, and Flip video clips in PowerPoint 2013.
September 18, 2014
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 have no data labels. For such a chart, you'll find that Tick Marks placed on the axis will help us get a better idea.
Learn about the Major and Minor Tick Marks on Chart Axes in PowerPoint 2010.
September 17, 2014
In the days of PowerPoint 2003 and older versions, you just had to insert a chart to end up with a 3D chart! Yes, that's true - and to say that this chart looks horrible is an understatement. Comparatively, the default column chart you add in newer versions of PowerPoint is so much more cleaner. Of course, changing the defaults does not mean that you will not encounter any 3D charts since even in newer versions.
Learn why 3D charts may not be the best way to show your data.
September 17, 2014
Once you insert a video in your slide, you can crop it in almost the same way you crop a picture. Before you crop though, you must ascertain whether PowerPoint's Crop option will help create a better result for your inserted video. The Crop option allows you to remove non-required areas of a video -- for example, if the subject of your video is a person speaking who is surrounded by a large, distracting background of other people or moving objects, you may want to crop the video so that the cropped video now focuses more on the speaker, and gets rid of all the extra distractions.
Learn how crop a video clip in PowerPoint 2013.
September 17, 2014
In a chart, the text used to label the chart axis is called Axis Title. All chart types other than Pie and Doughnut have axes -- and although Radar charts have an axis, there is no provision to add axis titles for them. In all other chart types such as Column, Line, etc., axis titles don't show up by default. You have to make them visible first, and then edit them as required -- that's exactly what you are going to learn in this tutorial.
Learn how to add and edit axis titles in PowerPoint 2010.
September 16, 2014
Within our better charts series, we ask you to look at tables rather than charts in some instances. We also explore how you can reverse engineer great looking charts. We also have two exclusive conversations for you -- the first one is with Patrick Speer who creates a slide library type add-in called DynaPoint. Our second interview is with Afzal Amijee who talks about Vimodi, an iPad app that can make your PowerPoint experiences better. PowerPoint 2013 users can learn about SmartArt, Video and Charts. We also explore Charts for PowerPoint 2011 for Mac users.
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September 16, 2014
When you insert a video clip within a PowerPoint slide, you'll find it placed as a traditional rectangular shape. And while that's exactly what most users expect, it does seem safe and conventional. However, PowerPoint 2013 does allow you to have your video playing in different shapes such as a circle or oval, or a wave, a triangle, or any of the shapes that PowerPoint includes. Just the fact that a video can be placed within a shape is no reason to forego the conventional rectangle -- do remember that most other shapes may crop out important parts of your video clips.
Learn how to add shapes for video clips in PowerPoint 2013.
September 16, 2014
Sometimes, your chart data values are not so much different from each other -- this results in a chart which doesn't help your audience to see any difference between series representing those values. Fortunately, you can easily choose your own Maximum and M inimum values.
Learn how to set the Minimum and Maximum values on Value Axis of Charts in PowerPoint 2010.
September 15, 2014
Once you insert a video clip on your slide, you can do so much more to enhance its look. In PowerPoint 2013 if you want to enhance the look of your inserted video, you are certainly not limited to the options we have already explored including Corrections, Recolor, Video Styles, and Video Borders. In addition to these options, you can also apply Video Effects such as shadows, glows, bevels, 3-D rotation, etc. to your video clip. Follow these steps to learn more.
Learn about applying Video Effects in PowerPoint 2013.
September 15, 2014
Once you have inserted an organization chart (org chart) within PowerPoint 2013, you might need to change the layout of the org chart. The "layout" means how the subordinate levels in the hierarchy branch out from top to bottom -- probably you want all subordinates flushed to the left, hanging to the right, or distributed evenly across a horizontal plane -- you will learn more about how this works in this tutorial.
Learn how to change the layout of your organization chart in PowerPoint 2013.
September 12, 2014
Did you read the title of this page correctly? Are we really suggesting that you should consider using a table rather than a chart? You might have heard the reverse more often -- about using charts rather than tables but like for everything else in life, there's not one glove that fits all hands -- or in this case, there's not one solution that can work with all sorts of data.
Explore how a simple table can sometimes show data better than a chart.
September 12, 2014
Once you insert a video clip on your slide, you can do so much more to enhance its look. Probably, you may want to apply corrections, or recolor your videos. Additionally, you can also apply any of the preset Video Styles available -- this is a quick and easy way to add some character to your video without spending too much time. In addition, there are small niceties that PowerPoint 2013 provides, such as adding a border to your video clip. In this tutorial, we'll explore how to add a frame like effect to your video by using the Border option.
Learn how to add and edit borders for video clips in PowerPoint 2013.
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