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Author: Geetesh Bajaj
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April 6, 2015
If you already have pictures that you want to add within your slides, you can just insert them quite easily. However, many times we just have an idea of the type of picture we want to insert -- but we still do not have the actual pictures! And that's when PowerPoint's Clip Art task pane can help you -- not only does it allow you to search and insert pictures and illustrations, but it also provides videos and sounds -- all of these can easily be inserted in your presentation. To learn more, follow these steps.
Learn how to insert a pictures into PowerPoint 2010 from the Clip Art task pane.
April 3, 2015
How many times have you seen the same globe visual used within a slide, or even a picture of shaking hands? Or a picture of a phone operator, or even some people smiling while working in an office? These are clichés, but clichés on their own are not bad as a starting point to evolve further. Don't stop there though -- and don't decide that you have reached a conclusion with that predictable visual thought -- in fact, there is not one but four ways to discover more original thoughts that go beyond clichés!
Learn about clichés in using common pictures, and how you can overcome them.
April 3, 2015
Is your Mini Toolbar in PowerPoint 2013 missing altogether? Well, the Mini Toolbar is a great interface option that lets you quickly choose text formatting options, and since it shows up right next to the selected text, it is certainly very convenient -- and there's no reason why you should not have this Mini Toolbar at your beck and call whenever you need it!
Learn how to get back your missing Mini Toolbar in PowerPoint 2013.
April 3, 2015
Sections in PowerPoint are not just meant for managing your slides easily, but they can also help you quickly reorder large sets of adjacent slides. For example, you can create a Section including all slides you want to reorder, and then move that Section along with all the slides that it contains to the required position. In this tutorial we'll show you how you can reorder Sections within PowerPoint 2010.
Learn how to reorder Sections in PowerPoint 2010.
April 2, 2015
The folks at Prezi have created a new product that's called Nutshell. Is this a presentation program? Or is it a video creator? Or is it a little bit of both and more? Let's find out. Until recently, Nutshell was in beta, but now anyone can sign up for it - well, "sign up" is probably not the right word, because you actually first need to download the app on your phone or tablet. OK - did we forget to tell that Prezi is an app that runs on Apple iOS devices? As of now, Nutshell is iOS only, but they may release apps for other platforms too?
Explore Prezi’s new Nutshell app.
April 2, 2015
Text in PowerPoint presentation needs to be edited in many ways -- sometimes you need certain words to be in a different color, or even bold, italics, or underlined. Whatever the option required to format your text, you'll find that the Mini Toolbar is a great location to do these changes easily -- it really saves you from dragging your cursor repeatedly to the Ribbon area since it pops up right next to the selected text that you want to format.
Learn how to format text attributes conveniently using the Mini Toolbar in PowerPoint 2013.
April 1, 2015
Anat Richter is Content Marketing Director at emaze. When she isn't tapping away in its Tel Aviv offices, she is documenting life on the web as a user and a guest blogger. In this conversation, Anat discusses emaze's new PitchUp'15 challenge.
April 1, 2015
Although PowerPoint does include options to use pictures, SmartArt, charts, sounds, and even video clips, we rarely see presentations that have no text at all. Nothing conveys a message better than text, and even pictures do need captions in the form of text. In PowerPoint, several slide objects can include text -- these include text placeholders, text boxes, shapes, tables, SmartArt, charts, etc. In this tutorial though, we are only exploring selecting and editing text within text placeholders, text boxes, and shapes.
April 1, 2015
You might have created many Custom Shows and played them. If you have heard about it, and want to learn more about this amazing PowerPoint feature, these tips will help you get more from your Custom Shows in PowerPoint 2010.
Here are some tips that can help you in creating Custom Slide Shows in PowerPoint 2010.
March 31, 2015
Were you fascinated with paper planes as a child? Now you can fly them on your slides with our new Paper Plane graphics for PowerPoint! And you can also fly them up your charts, after you decide whether a Column or a Bar chart works best with your data? We then bring you two amazing interviews that have nothing to do with how you design your slides, but everything about how you communicate with your audience. Fred Miller discusses Elevator Speeches, and why these speeches need not be within an elevator, despite their name! And Nancy Ancowitz explains how introverts are different than extroverts while presenting, and not too different too! PowerPoint 2013 users can learn about all sorts of Indent markers that influence how your paragraphs get positioned as a bulleted list within PowerPoint? PowerPoint 2011 for Mac users can explore Viewing Sections and Tips for Custom Shows while PowerPoint 2010 for Windows users can learn about creating Custom Slide Shows. And don't miss the new discussions and templates of this week!
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March 31, 2015
If you have a presentation with a large Section, containing many slides, then you may find that this one Section makes it difficult to see all the other remaining Sections – this is because these many slides cover up so much screen real estate making it difficult for you to see other stuff, such as slides in other Sections. And if you want to drag a slide between the one Section to another, you may be at a loss to comprehend what you will end up with. So to counter this problem, you can collapse and expand single and multiple Sections, as explained in this tutorial.
Learn how to collapse/expand Sections in PowerPoint 2013.
March 30, 2015
Have you seen a glossy highlight that is overlaid on the screens of electronic devices such as tablets, laptops, screens, or even phones? You can see an example of this effect in the adjacent figure -- the tablet on the left has no such glossy highlight but the tablet on the right does! It's easy to create this glossy highlight in PowerPoint -- even better, you can just create a shape that represents this glossy highlight -- and then use it anywhere you want!
Learn how to add glossy highlights for shapes in PowerPoint.
March 30, 2015
When your text paragraphs comprise multiple bulleted levels, you can just use the defaults that PowerPoint provides -- this takes care of all paragraph indentation issues. However, to have more control you have to use your own indentation values -- this option makes your text look consistent and clear, as per your needs. Indent Markers visible on the Ruler are probably the easiest way to achieve such structured results. However, this method does not let you precisely position the indentation since you just drag and pull the Indent Markers rather than setting them up via an exact numerical value. Fortunately, you can also set indentation using set numerical values.
Learn how to set text indentation using numerical values in PowerPoint 2013.
March 30, 2015
After creating Custom Slide Shows, you would like to view them or present them to your audience. Of course you can access the Custom Shows dialog box, and then select a show and then choose to play it -- but that's a long process indeed. In this tutorial, we will show how you can access the same Custom Show more easily. And, we will also show you how you can set any Custom Show as the default within a presentation -- this means that when you actually play your presentation in Slide Show view, only the slides within the Custom Show you select will be shown!
Learn how to play custom slide shows in PowerPoint 2010.
March 27, 2015
Fred E. Miller is a speaker, an international coach, and an author. His books, No Sweat Public Speaking! and No Sweat Elevator Speech! are bought internationally, and have rave reviews on Amazon.com. His website, NoSweatPublicSpeaking.com, has over two hundred articles and videos on Public Speaking and Presentation Skills. Fred has been interviewed locally and internationally and has written many articles on and off line. In this conversation, Fred discusses his No Sweat Elevator Speech course.
March 27, 2015
You have already explored how you can use the First Line Indent Marker and the Hanging Indent Marker to tweak bulleted paragraphs in PowerPoint 2013. By tweaking, we mean adjusting the spacing before and after the bullet character. The next and last of these indent markers on the Ruler is the Left Indent Marker -- this acts like a lock on the First Line Indent Marker and the Hanging Indent Marker. Funnily enough, it is called the Left Indent Marker even though it is placed at right-most of the three markers!
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