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Picture Bullets in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows

PowerPoint provides several bullet styles that you can choose from, but they do look a little canned since almost every PowerPoint slide these days uses the same bullet styles! You could get rid of bullets altogether and use small sentences/paragraphs instead, or maybe you could explore picture bullets, to insert any picture as your bullet. Of course, for picture bullets to work, your picture needs to be small, no larger than a medium-sized dot. And it helps if it has transparent areas. If all this talk about the size and transparency of a picture bullet makes you curious, don’t worry because we explain it all!

Learn how to use pictures as bullets in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.

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PowerPoint and Presenting News: July 17, 2018

We first explore how you can express RGB color values in both hexadecimal and decimal values. We then feature Jamie Garroch who talks about the Custom Colors feature in his YOUtools add-in for PowerPoint. Jerry Weissman explores a viral video, and how you can replicate a similar media success. Bess Gallanis explores stories, and how you can leverage the power of storytelling so that your story is better.

PowerPoint 2016 for Windows users can learn about Working with Snap to Grid and Adding More Guides. PowerPoint 2016 for Mac users will find out more about Inserting Shapes and Merge Shape 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.

Stay informed about updated tutorials and happenings related to PowerPoint and presenting.

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Shape Combine Command in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac

There are so many shapes available in PowerPoint, and that’s good because that means so many more possibilities to create your own unique shapes by using any of the Merge Shapes commands. One of the amazing options within Merge Shapes is Combine, which retains areas where the shapes do not overlap while removing the overlapping areas. Think of Combine as an amazing cutout option!

Learn how you can combine shapes in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac.

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

RGB Colors in Decimal and Hexadecimal Values

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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Tagged as: Color, PowerPoint, RGB, Tutorials

Merge Shape Commands in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac

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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