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PowerPoint and Presenting News: March 3, 2015

Atoms make great graphics for explaining many concepts — they can also be combined with other graphics as shown in this new Atom Graphics collection. And if you want to record narrations within PowerPoint for Mac, we show you how you can set your microphone. Adobe Presenter users can learn how to add presenters to your eLearning projects. And for PowerPoint 2013 (Windows) and 2011 (Mac) users, we show you how you can remove existing Sections within your presentations. PowerPoint 2010 for Windows users can explore animating slide objects while some audio or video clip is playing. And finally, for all versions of PowerPoint we look at differences in using pictures within Content and Picture placeholders.

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Package Option in Adobe Presenter

Adobe Presenter provides various publish options — and these work great if you have control over how your users will work with the eLearning content you create. However, there may be times when you do not have an idea about how and where the content will be used or distributed. In such scenarios, you can use the Package option that lets you publish the entire eLearning presentation along with all the assets and media within a single package.

Explore the Package option within Adobe Presenter.

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Pictures in Content or Picture Placeholders

Placeholders in PowerPoint make it easy for the users to insert any media file such as pictures, video, audio, etc. For Pictures, PowerPoint provides two placeholders Content and Picture. Although both placeholders enable you to insert pictures, there is a difference in the way that pictures behave when inserted within these placeholders. In this tutorial we’ll explore the difference in between Content and Picture placeholders.

Explore the difference in between content and picture placeholders.

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Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Removing Sections

If you want to logically categorize your presentation slides so that they can be easily managed, then you should use the Sections option. You are not just limited to adding and renaming Sections — you can also move slides from one Section to another, or change the order of Sections, or collapse / expand Sections etc. Other than these activities, you can also remove a Section, as explained in this tutorial.

Learn how to remove Sections in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Removing Sections

Creating Sections in your presentation helps you to logically categorize your presentation slides so that you can easily manage them. Just adding and naming sections is not all that you can do. You can do more such as moving slides from one section to another, or changing the order of the sections, or collapsing / expanding sections etc. Other than these activities, you can also remove a section. This removing action itself has got few more options, as explained in this tutorial.

Learn how to remove Sections in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

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