PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Inserting SmartArt in PowerPoint 2007 for Windows

SmartArt is a visual option in PowerPoint and some other Microsoft Office programs that allows you to create diagrams easily. Not only can you create SmartArt content from scratch, but did you know that you can convert your conventional bullet points into a SmartArt diagram? Clearly, there is so much to learn about SmartArt.

Learn how you can insert SmartArt graphics in PowerPoint 2007 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2007
Tagged as: PowerPoint 2007, SmartArt, Tutorials

What is SmartArt?

SmartArt is a handy diagramming tool that first showed up in PowerPoint 2007 for Windows. These days, you can find it on just about every platform PowerPoint runs on—Windows, Mac, Android, iOS, and even the Web. The magic of SmartArt? It lets you ditch boring bullet points and turn your text into eye-catching infographics, with shapes that make your content pop.

Discover how to work with SmartArt in PowerPoint.

Filed Under: PowerPoint All Versions
Tagged as: PowerPoint 2007, SmartArt, Tutorials

Slide Executive Desktop 2.9: The Indezine Review

If you work with tons of PowerPoint slides from clients, reviews, and samples as we do, you may soon find yourself in a slide nightmare. Slide nightmare is a state of slides (and mind) where you know that you do have the particular slide you want but can’t locate the presentation deck that contains that slide! It’s time to invest in a slide management program like Slide Executive. In the past, we have reviewed previous versions of this program, and this new review will focus on improvements and new features since the core program is relatively the same.

Read the Indezine review of Slide Executive Desktop 2.9.

Filed Under: Reviews
Tagged as: Add-in, Digital Asset Management, PowerPoint, Presentation Management, Review, Slide Management

Concept Slides: Six Segment Circle

Concept Slides are ready-made slides that you can use to create opening and closing slides, or any other slide to illustrate a concept, relationship, or idea. Most of these are sets of ready-made shapes created in PowerPoint or imported from another source. All these concept designs are owned by Indezine.com.

This first-in-this-series sample comprises a six-segment circle. You can change the individual segments as well as the thin do-nut shaped circle around the segments using fill techniques for PowerPoint 2007 for Windows and PowerPoint 2003 for Windows.

Download this free concept slide here.

Filed Under: Presentation Bank
Tagged as: PowerPoint, Presentation Samples, Shapes

Semi-Circles Again in PowerPoint 2003 for Windows

Since there is no easy, intuitive way to create semi-circles in PowerPoint 2003, we already showed you three ways to create them! ! And now here’s one more way to do just that but this might be the easiest of them all. Thanks to PowerPoint MVP Echo Swinford who provided the structure based on which we created these steps and allowed to put them up on this site.

Learn how to create a semi-circle using an alternate approach in PowerPoint 2003 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2003
Tagged as: PowerPoint, PowerPoint 2003, Shapes, Tutorials