PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

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.

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Tagged as: Ezine, PowerPoint

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Text Fills

Most of the time, text in PowerPoint is filled with either a black or a white solid fill, or any color that contrasts with the color of the slide background — this color info is contained within the Theme applied to the presentation. There may be times when you want to change this default text fill to some other particular color. Or, perhaps you applied a WordArt Style to your text — and you are happy with everything else within that WordArt Style except the text fill. PowerPoint’s Text Fill option provides you with plenty of fill options for your text — fill options include solid colors, gradients, textures, and also pictures.

Learn how to change the fill for the selected text in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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

Learn PowerPoint 2010 for Windows: Viewing Sections

If your presentation has a large Section, containing plenty of slides, then it is quite possible that this Section may make it difficult to view the other remaining Sections — the reason here is that content slides of this huge Section cover up so much screen area that it becomes difficult for you to see the slides in the other Sections. And if you want to drag a slide from one Section to another, you may be at a loss to comprehend what you will end up with — and where your slide will move to? So, to counter this problem, you can collapse and expand single and multiple Sections.

Learn how to collapse/expand Sections in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2010
Tagged as: PowerPoint 2010, Slide Management, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: WordArt Styles

Styling text is one of those features that are either grossly overlooked or entirely over-used in PowerPoint — and either of those situations can be a shame since PowerPoint allows you to do so much to text with its powerful WordArt feature. Before we proceed further, you must know that WordArt has nothing to do with Microsoft Word and is a totally independent feature in PowerPoint. What WordArt does to the text is similar to what PowerPoint’s Shape Styles option does to shapes.

Learn how to apply WordArt Styles in PowerPoint 2013 to stylize your text.

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