PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Clichés: Handshake Pictures for PowerPoint

One of the most clichéd pictures you will find within presentation slides, web sites, and even billboard banners is that of the handshake! There are all sorts of handshake pictures, from those shaking hands between opposite genders to those of handshakes between people of different races and ages. And yet they all seem clichéd! Why is that so? To understand the answer to this question, we have to first understand what a handshake symbolizes.

Learn why using pictures of handshakes is a cliché, and how you can find alternatives.

Filed Under: Clip Media
Tagged as: Clichés, Design, Graphics, Opinion, Pictures, Presentation Skills, Visuals

Learn PowerPoint 2010 for Windows: Adding Clips to the Clip Organizer

Although it is easy to insert pictures from the Clip Art task pane, it is still a good idea to save the pictures you use locally so that you can use them anytime you want. This is important because the same picture may not show up again in the future since nowadays the pictures you retrieve via a search are those that are on web sites — and they use Bing’s search technology. Such searches are dynamic, and results can vary, even after a few hours! So it is important that you save a picture you want to use often locally, in case you want to use it in the future. PowerPoint 2010 allows you to save pictures locally by adding it to a small program called the Clip Organizer.

Learn how to add clips to the Clip Organizer in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2010
Tagged as: Clip Media, Graphics, PowerPoint 2010, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Picture Fills for Text

PowerPoint’s Text Fill gallery provides you with plenty of text fill options which work similar to the fills for shapes within the Shape Fill gallery. However, a basic color fill is not the only option available for text fills in PowerPoint. In this tutorial, we will explore how you can use a picture as a fill for your selected text. Although picture fills can look awesome on text and make it stand apart, you must use some caution.

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

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

Working with Pie Shapes in PowerPoint

Sometimes you may wonder why PowerPoint does not provide options for the shapes that you want to use! The other day someone wanted to create a shape resembling Pacman! How many of you remember Pacman, the lovable character from the computer game? Well, lovable or not — it is still easy to draw a Pacman shape in PowerPoint as long as you know what to start with! And the answer is to start with the Pie shape!

Explore how you can draw variations of the Pie shape in PowerPoint.

Filed Under: PowerPoint All Versions
Tagged as: Graphics, PowerPoint, Shapes, Tutorials

PowerPoint and Presenting News: April 14, 2015

Keys — yes, keys can be so fascinating as a visual concept because they are almost as fascinating in everyday life. Keys open locks, and represent solutions to problems, resolutions to puzzles, and answers to riddles. And they do more — they symbolize solutions to complex algorithms, unscramble code, and also solve many of life’s problems! That’s the reason why we got you two sets of Key graphics this week! In addition, we have many tutorial for you. PowerPoint 2013 users can learn about text stuff such as margins and columns — and also how you can set a default text box. You’ll also learn about changing text case and WordArt. PowerPoint 2010 users can learn about inserting pictures from the Clip Art Task Pane — now the search results for the pictures you see come from Bing — we also show you how you can understand these results better. You will also learn about highlighting text, and removing or copying those highlights. And don’t miss the new discussions and templates of this week!

Read Indezine’s PowerPoint and Presenting News.

Filed Under: Ezine
Tagged as: Ezine, PowerPoint