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Talk fast to fit it all in, or condense and speak calmly and connected? What would you do if you had a choice?
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Kuan walked into the room ready to present when the organizer told him, Sorry, we can only give you 15 minutes and not 30 for your presentation.
What does Kuan do? Does he talk fast to cover everything he planned? Or does he cut back his information and only present what is essential?
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Among the options for stylizing text in PowerPoint, we have already explored Text Fills and Text Outlines. You have also learned how to apply various WordArt styles in PowerPoint. But there’s more you can do with text! Let us now learn how to apply and edit various text effects like Shadow, Reflection, Glow, 3-D Rotation, Transform, etc. to your text.
Learn about various Text Effects available in PowerPoint 2013 that can be used to stylize your text.
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You may have seen text used creatively as a container for picture fills so many times – but did you realize that you could do it within PowerPoint – yes, all you need is PowerPoint and nothing else! Well, of course you still need imagination, the proper picture to use as a fill, and a nice thick, blocky font – but you probably have it all already – and we will help you put all these elements together within this quick and easy tutorial.
Learn how you can fill text characters with picture fills creatively.
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As we explored in earlier tutorials, every clip media object within the Clip Organizer has keywords associated — these keywords can be edited as required. Similarly, clip media objects have certain other properties also such as the clip media name, type, resolution, etc. In this tutorial we’ll explain how to view the Properties for the clip media within the Clip Organizer.
Explore properties option within the Clip Organizer.
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You have already learned about PowerPoint’s text outline option that lets you add an outline around your text — this outline is the thin line that spans the perimeter of the font characters. In this tutorial, you will learn about an attribute that’s rarely associated with text outlines but can provide a surprisingly different look, especially when applied to the text with thicker outlines. This attribute, called the Gradient Outline is not accessible from within the Text Outline gallery, but has been included within the Format Text Effects dialog box.
Learn how to apply Gradient Outline for text in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.
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