PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Add and Rename Slide Masters in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows

In your presentation, a Slide Master is the element that influences everything — be it the slide background or the fonts used for text. Despite having different layouts, all slides in a presentation share a common look, which is provided by the Slide Master. There will be at least one Slide Master in every presentation. However, while adding slides from other presentations, you may end up adding more Slide Masters inadvertently to your presentation. So how do you know how many Slide Masters your presentation contains? And how do you add another one? In fact, why do you need another Slide Master at all?

Learn how to add and rename Slide Masters in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2016
Tagged as: Microsoft Windows, Office 2016, PowerPoint 2016, Slide Masters, Tutorials

PowerPoint and Presenting News: March 29, 2016

Widescreen slides are everywhere, but are you choosing the correct Widescreen values in PowerPoint? Explore more in Widescreen Implementations article. Also, we look at whether you should create Widescreen slides? Renowned speaker TJ Walker answers queries from Indezine users in a special series of video tutorials. We then get you some Op-Art heart shapes!

PowerPoint 2016 for Windows users can learn more about formatting Picture placeholders and creating custom-shaped Picture placeholders. Also learn how you can change the default slide aspect ratio from Widescreen to Standard. Sway users can explore the cool Remix option. Finally, do not miss the new discussions and templates of this week!

Read Indezine’s PowerPoint and Presenting News.

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Tagged as: Ezine, Indezine, News, PowerPoint

Add Your Logo or Graphic to the Slide Master in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows

You may have observed an omnipresent company logo in many slides — and that raises a question: do you really need to have a company logo on all your slides? First, it takes a fair amount of space. Secondly, the audience knows which company the speaker belongs to since that information is almost always placed on the first slide. Also, speakers do introduce themselves and their companies — so do all slides need that extra branding? All these questions are fair, and there are equally fair answers for them. You should certainly add a company logo to your first slide, and then place a more subtle or watermarked logo on the rest of the slides — or even no logo at all. Fortunately, PowerPoint makes it easy to add a logo to all your slides — and then you can make it sure that some slides have no logo at all or even a more understated version of the logo.

Learn how to add a logo or another graphic to the Slide Master in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Design, Logo, Microsoft Windows, Office 2016, PowerPoint 2016, Slide Layouts, Slide Masters, Templates, Themes, Tutorials

Op-Art Heart Shapes for PowerPoint

Hearts have super-smooth edges, but it is always fun to use something different! So we decided to create Op-Art versions of Heart shapes! You get four variations. These Heart shapes are already placed within slides and are available in both black and white. Do remember though that they can be recolored using PowerPoint’s native options for fills, lines, and effects.

Download and use these Op-Art Heart shapes.

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Tagged as: Graphics, Hearts, PowerPoint, Shapes, Silhouettes, Visuals

Create Custom Shaped Picture Placeholders in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows

Do you want your pictures to be contained within shapes that look like frames? Or maybe you want to use silhouette style placeholders for your pictures? Yes, this is possible! In fact, look at Figure 1, below — these custom picture placeholders were created within PowerPoint 2016, and we used nothing that’s not part of the program. Yes, this process is a little involved — but we’ll hold your hand if you promise to follow all our steps in sequence!

Learn how to create custom shaped Picture placeholders in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2016
Tagged as: Microsoft Windows, Office 2016, Pictures, Placeholders, PowerPoint 2016, Slide Layouts, Slide Masters, Templates, Themes, Tutorials