PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Change Text Case

Often, you may receive some content for your presentation from someone. And rather than typing all that content, you may just copy it from an email or a document, and paste it within PowerPoint. The problem with this approach may stem from the fact that whoever sent you the content is one of those people who type everything in small case — or maybe they just turn on the Caps Lock button and forget turning it off! Whatever the reason may be, you will end up with text that is certainly not usable on your slide. Rather than retyping the whole text again, you can use PowerPoint 2013’s Change Case option to quickly change the case of selected text on your slide.

Learn how to change text case to lowercase, uppercase, etc. in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Columns Within Text Boxes

Columned text layouts are often seen in documents created within word processing programs such as Microsoft Word. Nevertheless, PowerPoint gives you some basic column capabilities, although you should not expect anything close to the controls provided by Word. In PowerPoint, you can set up a text container to possess multiple linked columns.

Learn how you can insert columnar text within a text box or other text containers in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Learn PowerPoint 2010 for Windows: Highlight Text

As of now, no PowerPoint version supports text highlighting as a feature you can add to selected text. And, before we explore a workaround to overcome this limitation, let’s look into the necessities of highlighting text. If you want to emphasize some important words within your slide, then highlighting indeed helps. However, PowerPoint doesn’t have a ready-made tool to highlight text as there is in Microsoft Word – but you can use Word’s text highlight as a workaround!

Learn how to highlight text in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

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PowerPoint and Presenting News: April 7, 2015

You hear this every time — don’t use pictures of handshakes or globes because they are so clichéd! But did the same person tell you what you can use instead? Really — if there are no solutions, then why state the problem? Or even better, we bring you solutions that will help you overcoming clichés. We then teach you how you can add glossy highlights to objects in PowerPoint so that it looks like there’s a reflection falling on them — the results can look realistic. We review Prezi’s new Nutshell app, and also bring you an exclusive interview with Anat Richter of emaze, who speaks about a $10,000 winner for a pitch slides contest. PowerPoint 2013 users can learn about all sorts of Indent markers that influence how your paragraphs get positioned as a bulleted list. You can also learn about text, Sections, and a missing Mini Toolbar! PowerPoint 2010 for Windows users can learn about Custom Slide Shows and Sections. And don’t miss the new discussions and templates of this week!

Read Indezine’s PowerPoint and Presenting News.

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Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Set as Default Text Box

Imagine this scenario: you place a text box on your slide — then you change the color of the font, reduce or increase the font size, set autofit options, tweak the margins, etc. At this point of time you are happy with your settings. Then you add another text box in the next slide — and you realize that this new text box needs to look the same as the text box you created earlier! No — you do not have to change all settings again — there are two ways of making the new text box possess the same settings as the older one.

Learn how to set a formatted text box as your default text box in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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