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Mini Toolbar in PowerPoint 365 for Windows

Slide designers love making quick edits to their slide objects! Impressive slides, though, are created painstakingly—and this can be a slow process. Yes, both these observations seem to contradict each other! Yet, you can take your time playing around with different fill options to make slides look awesome, and then quickly make umpteen changes to modify the appearance of text. So you spend more time doing some tasks and save time doing others. PowerPoint 365 for Windows does provide most editing options to make these alterations within the Ribbon tabs, and you can also populate your Quick Access Toolbar with frequently used commands. Yet, all these tasks involve moving your cursor to the Ribbon, located above the Slide Area and back continuously. While this movement may not result in Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, it helps to know that PowerPoint 365 also includes the Mini Toolbar, a floating toolbar that spawns right next to the cursor, and it is also available instantly with a right-click!

Learn about the Mini Toolbar in PowerPoint 365 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Interface, Microsoft Windows, Mini Toolbar, Office 365, PowerPoint 365, Tutorials

Mini Toolbar in PowerPoint 365 for Mac

The Mini Toolbar is one of those important features that are not available yet on PowerPoint 365 for Mac. If you want to ask Microsoft to add this feature to PowerPoint 365 for Mac, you can visit the PowerPoint UserVoice site, and vote for this suggestion. Someone has already put up this suggestion, so do vote for this feature. Suggestions with more votes are implemented sooner than others.

Learn about the Mini Toolbar in PowerPoint 365 for Mac.

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Tagged as: Interface, Mac, Mini Toolbar, Office 365, Office for Mac, PowerPoint 365, PowerPoint for Mac, Tutorials

Mini Toolbar in PowerPoint 2019 for Windows

Slide designers love making quick edits to their slide objects! Impressive slides, though, are created painstakingly—and this can be a slow process. Yes, both these observations seem to contradict each other! Yet, you can take your time playing around with different fill options to make slides look awesome, and then quickly make umpteen changes to modify the appearance of text. It helps to know that PowerPoint 2019 also includes the Mini Toolbar, a floating toolbar that spawns right next to the cursor, and it is also available instantly with a right-click!

Learn about the Mini Toolbar in PowerPoint 2019 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2019
Tagged as: Interface, Microsoft Windows, Mini Toolbar, Office 2019, PowerPoint 2019, Tutorials

PowerPoint and Presenting News: September 17, 2019

We first feature Emmanuel Gueritte of DialogLoop, who talks about their product, which “is an audience engagement and networking solution made to transform presentation into conversation.” We also feature speakers and sponsors from the upcoming Presentation Summit in San Antonio next month. This time, we bring you Kurt Dupont, John Korchok, and Jamie Garroch.

PowerPoint 2019 for Windows users can explore the Task Pane, and learn about the Format Task Panes. We also bring you Task Pane tutorials for PowerPoint 365 users, both on Windows and Mac. Plus, make sure you do not miss the quotes, press releases, and templates featured in the last week.

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Format Task Panes in PowerPoint 365 for Mac

PowerPoint works with the concept of selection, and then action. And the action typically is to edit whatever you may have selected! For such editing, the Format Task pane in PowerPoint 365 for Mac can be indispensable. The Format Task pane aligns neatly within the interface in PowerPoint 365 for Mac, and you can now immediately see how your choices affect selected slide objects. The Format Task pane is often tabbed. This means that you can jump quickly between different elements of your slide object! In many ways thus, the Format Task pane is the single source where different style formatting options are consolidated in one place.

Learn about the Format Task Panes in PowerPoint 365 for Mac.

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Tagged as: Interface, Mac, Office 365, Office for Mac, PowerPoint 365, PowerPoint for Mac, Task Pane, Tutorials