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Flip Shapes in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows

The shape on your slide looks perfect. It’s got the right color and it works well with your slide content — yet there’s something that could be better? There are times when most slide designers think exactly the same thoughts! And the easiest task you can do to your shape is to flip it. There are other options — and some of these options depend upon the shape in question. Let’s use the Teardrop shape that you see in Figure 1 as an example — you can resize and rotate this Teardrop shape — however, even with rotate you are just turning the shape in another direction without making any changes to the shape’s structure. The Flip option, on the other hand, lets you mirror your shape in another direction to create a reverse image.

Learn how to flip shapes in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Flip, Microsoft Windows, Office 2016, PowerPoint 2016, Rotate, Shapes, Tutorials

Black Interface in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows

By default, the PowerPoint 2016 Ribbon area is placed against an orange backdrop. This orange color shows up because the default Office Theme named Colorful is applied to the interface. So why is the Theme called Colorful when it is just a plain orange backdrop? That’s because any Theme you apply to an interface of an Office 2016 program influences all other programs. For instance, Word 2016 sports a blue backdrop while Excel uses green. In addition to the color interface options previously available for all Office applications, Office 2016 has introduced a new Office Theme named Black for the interface color.

Learn about Black Interface in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.

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

PowerPoint and Presenting News: July 5, 2016

We first look at Presentitis, a serious, slide-related stress disorder that is also the name of a site of the same name. Robert Befus of SlideSource talks more about Presentitis. Kurt Dupont discusses Dynamic LIKES, an add-in from PresentationPoint that lets you promote your Facebook page on your PowerPoint slides, continuously updated. Motti Nisani discusses the new Android app for emaze, an online presentation platform. Jerry Weissman then explores the single most important factor for persuasion in a guest column.

PowerPoint 2016 for Windows users can learn about aligning shapes, manipulating shapes by dragging yellow handles, Smart Lookup, duplicating shapes by dragging, and selecting/deselecting shapes. Finally, do not miss the new press releases and templates of this week.

Read Indezine’s PowerPoint and Presenting News.

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Rotate Text 180° within Shapes in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows

If you have worked aplenty with text in PowerPoint, you must be aware that you cannot rotate text within a shape by 180°. What’s surprising is that you can rotate text by 90° and 270° within a shape, but not by 180°! But why would you need upside-down text that is rotated 180°? Many users do need this upside-down text to explain advanced concepts.

Learn how to rotate text 180° within a shape in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Microsoft Windows, Office 2016, PowerPoint 2016, Rotate, Shapes, Text, Tutorials

Select and Deselect Shapes in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows

PowerPoint 2016 for Windows expects you first to make a selection, and then the do something such as clicking a button to perform an action for the selected slide objects. If you cannot select an object, then you cannot modify it at all. Although this tutorial explains how you can select shapes on a slide, the process works the same way for any other slide object.

Learn how to select and deselect single and multiple shapes in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Microsoft Windows, Office 2016, PowerPoint 2016, Selection, Shapes, Tutorials