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Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Using Custom Textures as Fill for Text

When you consider using textures to fill up your text, you need not limit yourself to the default textures that PowerPoint offers. You can always explore some third party custom textures including our own Scribble Custom Textures that provide your text with an organic look, as if someone scribbled lines with a pencil to fill them! You can also try some more custom textures from our Ppted Background Texture Collection. In this tutorial you will learn how to use custom textures as fills for your text in PowerPoint 2013.

Learn how to use custom texture as fills for text in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2013
Tagged as: Fills, PowerPoint 2013, Text, Tutorials

Audiences Revolt Against PowerPoint

By Jerry Weissman

After suffering endless hours of torment enduring encyclopedic slideshows, long-suffering audiences are trying to find new ways to defend themselves. Their two well-established forms of expressing displeasure with such excess—interrupting the presenter and turning on mobile devices—have failed to stem the tsunami of what has become known as “Death by PowerPoint.”

One new approach is PowerPoint Karaoke. The Wall Street Journal reported that some corporations now organize events at which employees are asked to gather a set of irrelevant slides and ad-lib a comic narrative. Although these occasions are intended to disparage excessive slideware, they serve only as entertainment because the mockery does not address the problem directly.

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Tagged as: Death by PowerPoint, Guest Post, Jerry Weissman, Opinion, PowerPoint, Vinod Khosla

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Texture Fills for Text

Although you can fill your text so that it appears textured within PowerPoint, the final result depends upon the texture you use for the fill, and how well it contrasts with the slide background. For reasons of readability, make sure that the texture used is not too crowded or even multicolored — and as already stated, choose a texture that contrasts with your slide background.

Learn how to add texture fills to the selected text in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Fills, PowerPoint 2013, Text, Tutorials

Creative Commons and Pictures

We already learned about Public Domain, and the pictures available as part of Public Domain. While you will be able to find a huge amount of visual content that is available within Public Domain, there is another option called Creative Commons that you should be aware of. Unlike Public Domain, where content belongs to all mankind – the content within Creative Commons still belongs to the person who created it. For pictures such as camera photographs, any content classified as Creative Commons would still belong to the photographer or the entity that commissioned the photographer.

Learn about Creative Commons, and the different licenses provided.

Filed Under: Pictures and Visuals
Tagged as: Graphics, Pictures

Gradient Fills for Text in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows

By default, all text that you add within PowerPoint may be filled up with a solid color. And while that’s predictable and good, there are some other options that you may want to explore, especially for title text or anything that uses text in a larger point size. One alternative is text filled with a gradient — this can look contemporary and classic, or even ghastly and gaudy! It all depends on the type of gradients you use to fill your text!

Learn how to add gradient fills to selected text in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Fills, Gradients, PowerPoint 2013, Text, Tutorials