PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

5 Presentation Hacks to Enhance Your Slides (Infographic)

By Adam Noar

Do you ever find yourself yearning for some clever PowerPoint hacks to spice up your presentations?

If the answer is YES then you’re in luck because today we are going to be sharing some clever presentation tips and tricks that will help get your slide design off to a great start!

From knowing where to find awesome images to creating beautiful graphics, this visual guide of presentation design tips by PresentationPanda has got you covered!

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PowerPoint and Presenting News: May 31, 2016

Just when you found a few ways to overcome visual clichés, would you want to find another way by overdoing the cliché itself? We look at an example! In our Timelines that are Different series, we explore a timeline from PoweredTemplate. Joel Harband talks about Speech-Over’s options to add interactive narration in e-Learning. We then bring you a review of Tanida’s Demo Builder 11 product. And finally, Nova Fisher of Xara talks about the new Xara Web Designer 365 product.

PowerPoint 2016 for Windows users can learn about the amazing Slide Background Fill option, as well as the option to remove all fills with No Fill. We also explore Transparency options in the various fill types. Sway users will love to explore Tweet Cards and the Play options. Finally, do not miss the new templates of this week!

Read Indezine’s PowerPoint and Presenting News.

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Insert Shapes in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows

Shapes are the building blocks of whatever you create in PowerPoint. In fact, even a text box that you add to your slide is essentially a shape with a No Fill attribute. Once you get proficient with shapes, you can do so much more. For example, you can combine multiple shapes to create fancier shapes. However, you need to start with the very basics, and there’s so much to learn even at this foundation level. The first task you need to do is to insert a shape. Fortunately, PowerPoint makes it easy to do this task.

Learn how to insert shapes in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.

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Unified Picture Fill for Multiple Shapes in PowerPoint

Do you want to add a picture that fills not one but many shapes? And do you want the picture fill to span across multiple shapes? Is that doable? Yes, it is—and there are several ways to achieve these results. We will look at two approaches.

Create shape segments with a unified picture fill in PowerPoint.

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Formatting Lines for Shapes in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows

We have already showed you how to use fills for shapes in PowerPoint 2016. A fill is something that is contained within the confines of the shape. Similarly, shapes have another attribute known as the “line” or the “outline”. A line is the perimeter surrounding a closed shape or the line itself within an open shape. We will explore more about lines later in this tutorial. In subsequent tutorials, we will show how you can work with shape outlines in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.

Make changes to the appearance of shape lines in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Formatting, Lines, Microsoft Windows, Office 2016, Outline, PowerPoint 2016, Shapes, Tutorials