PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Duplicate Shapes by Dragging in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac

Shapes in PowerPoint are very useful in representing design or content, or in showing a process or a sequence. However, when you create a slide that has many such shapes, you’ll find that most of your shapes may be the same size and may also share other similar attributes. Yes, you can go ahead and insert the same shape repeatedly, but that will consume much of your productive time that you could have used elsewhere! There are quicker alternatives for duplicating shapes in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac.

Learn how to duplicate shapes by dragging them on a slide in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac.

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Tagged as: Duplicate, Mac, Office 2016, Office for Mac, PowerPoint 2016, PowerPoint for Mac, Shapes, Tutorials

Simple Animation Effects in PowerPoint

Simple animation effects in PowerPoint are just that – simple! Some of them are common and used often – others are virtually unknown. We’ve created this small presentation that shows six styles of simple PowerPoint animations. You can download this presentation here.

Download and use the Simple Animation Effects presentation in PowerPoint.

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Tagged as: Animation, Presentation Samples, Tutorials

Reset Pictures in PowerPoint for the Web

Once a picture is inserted within PowerPoint, any manipulations you make to that picture are strictly only on the surface. The appearance of the picture changes on the slide, but the unaltered picture is stored within your PowerPoint presentation. This is an awesome feature because if you make many changes to a picture and then regret experimenting, you can just reset your picture rather than starting all over again! There’s one caveat, though. The option to reset any picture back to its original form works only if you have not run any compression options for pictures within your presentation.

Learn how to reset pictures in PowerPoint for the Web.

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Tagged as: Pictures, PowerPoint for the Web, Reset, Tutorials

Move Text Boxes on a Slide in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac

This tutorial is about moving text boxes rather than text placeholders. Typically text placeholders for regular text content or even slide titles are located in the same position on successive slides. So, if you really do need to move a text placeholder, do it within the Slide Master so that this change of position happens on all slides, providing a consistent look to your presentation.

Learn how to move text boxes on a slide in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac.

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Tagged as: Mac, Office 2016, Office for Mac, PowerPoint 2016, PowerPoint for Mac, Text Boxes, Tutorials

Hide/Unhide Slides in PowerPoint for the Web

Do you have a secret slide with useful information that you would rather not delete? But what if you show this slide to your audience inadvertently? How do you cope with this problem? The solution is easy: you just hide the slide. Hidden slides don’t show up in Slide Show view, but they are still available to edit and to possibly unhide when you are ready to show that slide to the world.

Learn to hide and unhide slides in PowerPoint for the Web.

Filed Under: PowerPoint for the Web
Tagged as: Hide, PowerPoint for the Web, Slides, Tutorials, Unhide