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We first look at a charting problem in PowerPoint that prevents display of data labels in older versions of PowerPoint. We then share a video tutorial on how you can fill text in PowerPoint with a picture effectively.
PowerPoint 2016 for Windows users will learn about Comparing and Merging Presentations, Resetting Slides, and Changing Bulleted Lists to Numbered Lists. PowerPoint 2016 for Mac users can explore the File Menu and Backstage View and can learn about Selecting and Deselecting Shapes. 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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Shapes play a significant role within any slides you create for your PowerPoint presentation. In many ways, shapes are like the building blocks of almost anything you do on your PowerPoint slides. PowerPoint provides hundreds of shapes efficiently categorized into 9 types or categories. You can do so much with these shapes. For example, you can combine shapes to create your own unique shapes, format shapes with fills, lines, and effects, and even group or layer them to create more amazing graphics. You can even create flowcharts with these shapes. This tutorial explores the various types of shapes available within PowerPoint.
Learn about different types of shapes in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac.
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In today’s post, I’m sharing a video I created that shows how you can add a picture fill to your text in PowerPoint. This trick works in almost all versions of PowerPoint, although I am using PowerPoint 2016 for Windows in this demo video.
The best part about this trick is that you can use any picture, including a picture from the same slide to fill up the text. This gives the entire slide a unified and understated look.
Do use this trick in your slides, and share your thoughts in the Comments area.
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In PowerPoint, when you type text within a text or Content placeholder, the default result is that you end up creating a bulleted list. Also, when you import an outline, all the content other than the slide titles ends up becoming bulleted text. While this may work in some situations, at other times you may want to either remove the bullets altogether, or convert it to a numbered list.
Learn how to change a bulleted list to a numbered list in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.
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Before you change or format something, PowerPoint expects you to first to make a selection, and then the do something such as clicking a button to perform an action for the selected slide objects. If you cannot select an object, then you cannot modify it at all. Although this tutorial explains how you can select shapes on a slide, the process works the same way for any other slide object.
Learn how to select and deselect single and multiple shapes in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac.
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