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Do you want to quickly create and animate a car in PowerPoint? Do you want to do so in 10 minutes? Both techniques are covered in our Create and Animate a Car in PowerPoint video tutorial. We then explore the Curtains transition effect. We then show you how Slide Dimensions influence picture exports in PowerPoint. Further, in an exclusive conversation, Tim Stumbles of Office Timeline talks about integration with Wrike.
PowerPoint 2016 for Windows users can learn more about adding a logo to the Slide Master, and also about adding and renaming Slide Masters. PowerPoint 2013 users can learn about linking to named Excel ranges. And PowerPoint 2010 users can find out about exporting slides as pictures from their presentation. Sway users can explore the Navigation option. Finally, do not miss the new discussions and templates of this week!
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PowerPoint allows you to save your slides to many graphic file formats, which can later be used in other applications as required. One of the most popular graphic formats that you can export your slides to is PNG. This tutorial will show you how you can export slides to PNG, but using the same process; you can also export to other graphic file formats such as JPG, GIF, TIF, BMP, WMF, EMF, etc.
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The Fade transition effect has been one of the oldest transitions available in PowerPoint. It is also the least distracting of all transitions, and most PowerPoint designers believe that this is one transition that’s even better than no transition at all and works in all scenarios.
Explore the Fade transition effect in PowerPoint.
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Have you ever wanted to use PowerPoint as a graphic program to create posters, web-banner ads, YouTube cover art, etc.? You will then have run into some limitations, especially when you tried to export a PowerPoint slide to a picture with exact size dimensions. In this tutorial, we will explore how a small improvement that Microsoft added in PowerPoint 2013 and newer versions is providing significant returns.
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The Curtains transition effect was introduced in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows. If you play slides using the Curtains transition effect in previous versions such as PowerPoint 2010, this effect may be substituted with the Fade transition effect.
Explore the Curtains transition effect in PowerPoint.
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