PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Drawing Arcs in PowerPoint

PowerPoint offers so many shapes, from simple rectangles and ovals to playful options like pies and smiley faces. While you can use these shapes as-is, you can also get creative by using the Merge Shape commands to design your own unique shapes. But even without creating new designs, there are endless possibilities for using existing shapes in innovative ways. Today, we want to focus on one of these versatile options: the Arc shape. With its curved lines and customizable size, this shape can be a useful tool for adding dimension and visual interest to your presentations.

Explore how you can draw an Arc shape in PowerPoint.

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

Learn PowerPoint 2010 for Windows: Clip Organizer

Before we start discussing the Clip Organizer in PowerPoint 2010, it’s important to first understand its scope. At the most basic level, the Clip Organizer is an entry level digital asset management tool that lets you organize your clip media. However, PowerPoint just interfaces via this option to a tool called the Clip Organizer that you can also launch as a separate standalone program. And adding media via PowerPoint is just the beginning — you can do so much more with the Clip Organizer.

Learn about 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: 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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Filed Under: Guest Posts
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.

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