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PowerPoint enables you to use picture bullets rather than the conventional symbol bullets. And, while you can choose from an impressive collection of ready-to-use picture bullets, you can also import your own pictures to create a unique bullet style for your text lists. So, why would you want to import your own picture bullets? Probably because you want their color to match your company branding, or you want to use a stylized bullet that matches your logo. Whatever your reason may be, do remember that detailed graphics don’t work well as bullets. The more closer your graphic looks to the conventional dot-shaped bullet, the better it will appear for consistency and visual reasons.
Learn how to import pictures for bullets in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.
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PowerPoint 2016 for Mac lets you take a bunch of selected shapes and then apply one of the five Merge Shapes options to end up with some amazing results. However, the Intersect option that we are exploring within this tutorial works a little differently than the Combine, Fragment, Subtract, or Union options that we explore in other tutorials. Before we look at how the Intersect option is different, let us understand what it does. The Intersect command works only when all selected shapes overlap each other. If any shapes do not overlap, Shape Intersect causes complete deletion of all shapes.
Learn how you can merge shapes using the Shape Intersect option in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac.
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PowerPoint provides you with umpteen options to change the appearance of your bullet points. You can change bullet styles, format the bullet size and its color, and use pictures as bullets. In addition, you can use a character from any font, including dingbats as a bullet. So what are dingbats? Dingbats are fonts which contain decorative symbols rather than alphabets and numbers. Wingdings is a good example of a dingbats font since it is installed by default on all computers.
Learn how to use dingbats and other characters as bullets in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.
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We first explore differences between bitmap and vector graphics. We also feature Gil Segal of ToolsToo in an interview where he talks about v7.2 of his PowerPoint add-in. Bess Gallanis looks at SOCO, that stands for single, overriding communications objective to make your stories stand apart.
PowerPoint 2016 for Windows users can explore Guide Options, Hierarchical Guide Options, and Picture Bullets. PowerPoint 2016 for Mac users can learn about Shape Combine and Shape Union commands. 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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PowerPoint 2016 for Mac provides five options within the Merge Shapes gallery. While four of the five options either remove or retain something, the fifth option known as Fragment finds common ground by keeping everything. Yes, it discards nothing at all. In fact, it “fragments” each possible division caused by overlapping shapes and turns them into many small shapes.
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