PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Adjust Picture Options in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows

After a picture is inserted on your PowerPoint slide, you might want to make adjustments to the picture itself so that it looks distinctive and focused. You can change a picture’s look by resizing, cropping, changing color values, adjusting saturation, or by applying artistic effects. In this tutorial, we’ll explore the options available within PowerPoint 2016 to make these picture adjustments. Later, in subsequent tutorials of this series, you will learn more about the individual options we discuss in this tutorial.

Explore various Adjust Picture Options available in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2016
Tagged as: Graphics, Microsoft Windows, Office 2016, Pictures, PowerPoint 2016, Tutorials

Save as PDF in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows

Saving a PowerPoint presentation as a PDF has its pros and cons. The biggest advantage is that recipients won’t be able to edit, and you can embed fonts easily. Disadvantages include that you cannot be multimedia-friendly. Whatever your thoughts may be, PowerPoint makes it very easy to create PDFs.

Create PDFs from your presentation slides in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2010
Tagged as: Microsoft Windows, Office 2010, PDF, PowerPoint 2010, Save, Tutorials

PowerPoint and Presenting News: December 6, 2016

Visual cliché is an area that deserves more attention, and we bring you a new installment of our PowerPoint Cliché series. This time we explore pictures with Stacks of Coins. We also look at one of PowerPoint’s weak areas; it has never complained about a missing font and substitutes any fonts not found with no logic explained. Worse, there’s no way to identify a substituted font. We explore how you can report to Microsoft, and also we look at a workaround.

In the Tutorials section, PowerPoint 2016 users can learn about inserting online pictures and resizing, rotating and flipping pictures. We also look at recoloring picture backgrounds to improve text legibility. PowerPoint 2010 users can explore ways to view and manage add-ins. Finally, do not miss the new press releases and templates of this week.

Read Indezine’s PowerPoint and Presenting News.

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Tagged as: Ezine, Indezine, News, PowerPoint

Changing Interface Color in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows

When PowerPoint 2016 is launched, you see the Presentation Gallery. You will notice the bright orange section on the left side of the Presentation Gallery. Yes, you can change the bright orange to something else and end up with a different-looking PowerPoint program interface. We show you how to change the interface color in this tutorial.

Learn how to change PowerPoint 2016’s interface color.

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Filed Under: PowerPoint 2016
Tagged as: Color, Interface, Microsoft Windows, Office 2016, PowerPoint 2016, Tutorials

Manage and Load Add-ins in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows

PowerPoint add-ins are awesome, small mini-programs that patch inside PowerPoint to extend abilities. While most add-ins automatically show up inside PowerPoint, some of them need to be loaded manually. And there may be times when you want to disable an add-in rather than completely uninstalling it. It’s possible to view, load and manage add-ins manually within PowerPoint, as we will show you in this tutorial.

Learn to manage and load add-ins in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2010
Tagged as: Add-in, Microsoft Windows, Office 2010, PowerPoint 2010, Tutorials