PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Insert and/or Link Pictures in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows

When a picture is inserted on your PowerPoint slide, you are essentially doing a task that is frequent and commonplace — and to you, this may look like an activity that’s simple. But behind this simple task, there are options you may not be aware of. You know that pictures located in any of your folders can be inserted on a slide. However, have you wondered about the relation a picture on the slide has with the original picture located in your folder? By default, PowerPoint retains no relation — even if you delete or move the original picture file you inserted, the copy on your slide will still be retained since PowerPoint saves the picture as a part of the file it creates. Yet, there are options within PowerPoint that let you maintain the relation between the original picture and the inserted picture — for example, if you make changes to your original picture, PowerPoint will update its copy on the slide!

Learn about the advanced options available for inserting and/or linking pictures in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Insert Picture in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows

It is true that both pictures and words are important, and they both play complementary roles. If you had to choose just one of them, then you could use pictures because the presenter can always use words to explain what the picture represents. Presentations, by their very nature, are meant to be visual in nature. Text and speaking are important too, but you can be more effectively heard and remembered if your content includes pictures.

Learn how to insert pictures in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Customize Quick Access Toolbar in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows

The Quick Access Toolbar or QAT is the only toolbar available for customization in PowerPoint. Within the QAT, you can place your most used commands so that they are accessible to you with just a single click. We already explored how you can change the location of the QAT and other tricks in our Quick Access Toolbar in PowerPoint 2010 tutorial.

Learn how to customize the Quick Access Toolbar in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

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Quick Access Toolbar in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows

Although the entire concept behind the Ribbon interface in PowerPoint 2010 was to do away with menus and toolbars, one toolbar still exists, and this entirely customizable toolbar is called the Quick Access Toolbar, or the QAT for short. Even without any customization, this toolbar contains the Save, Undo, and Redo icons, but you can use it to store many more of your often used commands.

Learn about the Quick Access Toolbar in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

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Add and Rename Ribbon Tabs in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows

The Ribbon that you see within the PowerPoint interface was designed to solve a problem. Older versions of PowerPoint that were populated with menus and toolbars ended with so many submenus and toolbars that many users did not know if a specific feature even existed in PowerPoint. Even worse, the toolbars could occupy so much screen real estate that you would be left with a much smaller area for your slide! Enter the Ribbon which did help resolve some of these problems, but it came with a problem of its own: it did not provide customization options when first introduced in PowerPoint 2007. This was quickly rectified in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

Learn to add and rename Ribbon tabs in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Customizations, Interface, Microsoft Windows, Office 2010, PowerPoint 2010, Ribbon, Tutorials