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While we learned the basics about RGB colors, that constitute portions of Red, Blue, and Green—what we need to know is that there is so much more to learn about them. Did you know that there are two ways in which individual RGB color values are expressed? The most common way is using decimals. But have you run into color values such as FF0000 or 006699? These six-digit values that combine number and alphabet characters are hexadecimal.
Explore using Hexadecimal values to express RGB colors.
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Color
Tagged as: Color, PowerPoint, RGB, Tutorials
Merge Shape commands are essentially five commands that work with shapes, text and pictures. Using these commands, you can play with shapes, text, and picture—and merge them, or subtract one object from the other. The results can be fascinating—and playing with the Merge Shape commands can be addictive.
Explore the Merge Shape commands in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac.
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PowerPoint 2016
Tagged as: Mac, Merge Shapes, Office 2016, Office for Mac, PowerPoint 2016, PowerPoint for Mac, Tutorials
Two weeks ago, Mary Jennings Hegar was a textbook definition of a long shot: a rookie Democrat running in red state Texas’ 31st Congressional District against John Carter, a Republican who has held the office for 15 years. Although MJ, as she likes to be called, had a distinguished career as a U.S. Air Force Medevac pilot in Afghanistan (winning a Distinguished Flying Cross and Purple Heart when her helicopter was shot down), she was a political unknown. But last week, after she released a campaign video that went viral with nearly 4 million views, she was all over the media; USA Today, People, Time, Washington Post, and CNN.
Whether the video will translate to an upset victory won’t be decided until November 6, but what made the ad so successful and so quickly can be attributed to two powerful communication factors:
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Guest Posts
Tagged as: Guest Post, Jerry Weissman, Opinion, Stories
We first feature Markus Hannebauer of think-cell who talks about the new think-cell 9 release and how AI benefits users. We then explore the concept of PowerPoint dashboards, and what exactly you can place within such a dashboard. Jerry Weissman observes that every day, there’s another announcement about a new way to drive, work, shop, eat, play, or pay. Clearly, you need to build a better mousetrap and presentation. And Robert Kawalsky discusses the acquisition of Zeetings by Canva.
PowerPoint 2016 for Windows users can learn about Rulers, Gridlines, Guides, Smarter Guides, and how the Snap to Grid settings work. 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.
Stay informed about updated tutorials and happenings related to PowerPoint and presenting.
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Ezine
Tagged as: Ezine, Indezine, News, PowerPoint
Jamie Garroch is the founder of YOUpresent, a PowerPoint add-in and presentation design agency. YOUpresent provides a suite of off-the-shelf add-ins plus a custom add-in design service for organizations wishing to extend the functionality of PowerPoint or other Office apps. That can be anything from adding a single button to apply a corporate style, to a fully loaded ribbon with custom tools tuned to the organization’s workflow. Known as “extensibility,” Jamie is a passionate evangelist of this relatively unknown productivity feature of Microsoft Office.
In this conversation, Jamie talks about the new Custom Colors feature in his YOUtools add-in for PowerPoint.
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Interviews
Tagged as: Add-in, Branding, Color, Interviews, Jamie Garroch, PowerPoint, Themes, YOUpresent
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