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What does the word “shape” mean to you? Do you imagine a square, a circle, a heart, or even a smiley face? Yes, all those are shapes, as are the hundreds of other recognizable outlines or figures that we call shapes in our daily conversations. Shapes play a significant role within slides you create for your PowerPoint presentation. In more ways that you may want to count, shapes are like the building blocks of almost anything you do on your PowerPoint slides. PowerPoint for the Web provides hundreds of shapes efficiently categorized into 8 types. You can do so much with these shapes such as formatting them with fills, lines, and effects.
Learn about different types of shapes in PowerPoint for the Web.
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We begin with an exclusive post by Claudyne Wilder who explains how Argentine Tango skills can help you become a better presenter. We also look at one of PowerPoint’s powerful but least documented features: combining animation with the slide background fill in our Animated Slide: Rotated Circles with Background Fill feature. We also explore how callouts can be a bullets alternative in PowerPoint slides.
PowerPoint 2016 for Windows will learn about the Task Pane. PowerPoint Online can learn about Picture Styles, Resizing, Rotating, and Flipping Pictures, the Task Pane, and Changing Slide Layouts. And if that wasn’t enough for this week, make sure you do not miss the quotes, press releases, and templates released in the last week.
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A Close Cousin of Writer’s Block
In the prior blog, you read about how the hero of the Hollywood film, Limitless, cures his writer’s block with a new drug that stimulates his creative capabilities. Concurrent with the film’s opening, a related article about creative paralysis appeared in the New Yorker magazine. Staff writer Dana Goodyear profiled Barry Michels, a real-life therapist who treats blocked Hollywood screenwriters with his own unique methodology derived from the concepts of Jungian psychology.
Mr. Michels, whose starting rate is $365 an hour, also treats the stage fright that movie colony writers and other creative people face when they have to pitch their ideas—a subject near and dear to the solar plexus of every presenter. The presentation equivalent of stage fright is the pervasive fear of public speaking. Although Hollywood pitch meetings are anything but public; and Los Angeles is 3000 miles and a galaxy away from Wall Street, the angst is just as real and just as pervasive.
Image: Pixabay
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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 2016 for Mac can be indispensable. The Format Task pane aligns neatly within the interface in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac, and you can now immediately see how your choices affect selected slide objects.
Learn about Format Task Panes in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac.
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Each PowerPoint presentation contains several slides. Let’s compare each slide to a blank canvas or an empty sheet of paper! You can thereafter add content to the slides in much the same way as you use brushes to create strokes of paint, or a pen to write. For example, do you want some text? Then you must add a text box. Want a picture? Just insert a picture and place it anywhere on your slide! Wait, this is not really the proper way to work in PowerPoint! Unlike a new canvas or a blank sheet of paper, PowerPoint does not like to provide you so unstructured freedom, and this can be good in many ways. Primarily, PowerPoint structures each slide you create into one of its prescribed layouts.
Learn how to change slide layouts in PowerPoint for the Web.
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