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While it’s easy and effective to use Morph transition effects between typical slides, curves, or even exclamation-named objects, there are many more Morph tricks to play with. Morph allows you to play with words and characters, and in this tutorial, we will explore using the Morph transition effect in PowerPoint to create animated effects using words.
Learn how to morph between words on successive slides in PowerPoint 365 for Windows.
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PowerPoint 365
Tagged as: Microsoft 365, Microsoft Windows, Morph, Office 365, PowerPoint 365, Transitions, Tutorials
A stock chart is a price chart of a specific stock, plotted over a time frame. Stock charts created in PowerPoint can be both candle or stick charts, or both at the same time. In case they use both candle and stick shapes, they are called candlestick stock charts.
Learn about stock charts, and how you can use them within PowerPoint.
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Charts and Diagrams
Tagged as: Charting, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Windows, Office 365, PowerPoint 365, Tutorials
We first look at a set of troubleshooting steps if you encounter choppy video. This article will also help if you be unable to play video clips of some types on all versions of PowerPoint. We look at PresenterMedia’s new add-in for PowerPoint that provides access to all their assets right inside PowerPoint without having to go to their website and download them individually. Next, we feature some VBA code from Steve Rindsberg that lets you change any linked videos to embedded.
Pamela Odukoya of Toastmasters International explores developing leadership capabilities. We also bring you quotes, press releases, and templates from the last few days.
Stay informed about updated tutorials and happenings related to PowerPoint and presenting.
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Ezine
Tagged as: Ezine, Indezine, News, PowerPoint
Rick Altman has been hired by hundreds of companies, listened to by tens of thousands of professionals, and read by millions of people, all of whom seek better results with their presentation content and delivery. He covers the whole of the industry, from message crafting, through presentation design, slide creation, software technique, and delivery. He is the host of the Presentation Summit, now in its 20th season as the most prominent learning event for the presentation community.
In this conversation, Rick talks about the sweepstakes announced for the upcoming Presentation Summit 2022, being held both virtually and on location in San Diego, CA, United States this year from October 9 to 12, 2022.
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Events
Tagged as: Events, Interviews, Presentation Summit, Rick Altman
There can be any number of reasons to troubleshoot video playback in PowerPoint. You may end up with choppy video, or you may not be able to play video clips of some types on all versions of PowerPoint. We will look at such video issues in PowerPoint on this page, along with suggested solutions. First of all, look at our PowerPoint-Friendly Video Formats page to understand the file formats (file types) that work with different PowerPoint versions. Thereafter, follow these steps. Always, perform the initial troubleshooting steps before doing the later ones.
Learn to troubleshoot video issues in all versions of PowerPoint for Windows.
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PowerPoint 365
Tagged as: Microsoft 365, Microsoft Windows, Office 365, PowerPoint 365, Troubleshooting, Tutorials, Video
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