PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Tweak Bullets With First Line Indent Marker

You have already learned about the indent markers on the Horizontal Ruler, and how they can influence the bulleted paragraph on your PowerPoint slide. There are three types of Indent Markers you can find on the Horizontal Ruler: the First Line Indent Marker, the Hanging Indent Marker, and the Left Indent Marker. In this tutorial, let us learn how the First Line Indent Marker influences the position of the bullets.

Learn how to tweak the bullets using the First Line Indent Marker in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Tagged as: PowerPoint 2013, Text, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Viewing Sections

If your presentation has a number of Sections, you may find it little difficult to reorder your Sections by just dragging and dropping. Or you may even find it difficult to see all Sections at the same time. This happens because there may be many slides within each of these Sections. And if you want to drag a slide between the one Section to another, you may be at a loss to comprehend what you will end up with. So to counter this problem, you can collapse and expand single and multiple Sections, as explained in this tutorial.

Learn how to collapse/expand Sections in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

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Tagged as: Office for Mac, PowerPoint 2011, Tutorials

Column or Bar Chart?

So what’s the difference between a Column Chart and a Bar Chart? Purists may call them both bar charts and some charting folks may also find many, many differences between them — but broadly speaking, a bar chart is a column chart that’s rotated 90 degrees — and what a difference those 90 degrees make! It’s amazing that so much can change with such a small adjustment.

Should you use a Column chart or a Bar chart?

Filed Under: Charts and Diagrams
Tagged as: Charting, PowerPoint, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Reordering Sections

In PowerPoint, Sections are not just for effective and easy management of your slides, but they can also let you quickly reorder large blocks of adjacent slides. All you got to do is to place all slides you want to reorder within a single Section, and then move that Section along with all the slides that it contains. In this tutorial we’ll show you how you can reorder Sections within PowerPoint 2013.

Learn how to reorder Sections in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Tagged as: PowerPoint 2013, Slide Management, Tutorials

Longer Axis Labels: Why Bar Charts are Better than Column Charts?

The similarity between a Bar Chart and a Column Chart is that both display the same data using rectangular bars. The length of these bars is proportional to the data value. Also, both are used to compare two or more values. So what is the difference? The difference lies in their orientation — and henceforth the perspective with which we humans comprehend the data. A Bar Chart is oriented horizontally and a Column Chart is oriented vertically (see our Column or Bar Chart? tutorial). This small variance can make a lot of difference depending upon how large your chart data is, or how lengthy your Category Axis Labels are.

Explore why the Bar chart type may be better suited than the Column chart type for the charts with longer Axis Labels.

Filed Under: Charts and Diagrams
Tagged as: Charting, PowerPoint, Tutorials