PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Tips for Custom Shows

Custom Shows can add a completely different dimension to your presentations — the same slides can be used for multiple Custom Shows and can help you decide what you want to show to any given audience. Creating and using Custom Shows is an advanced use of PowerPoint — here are some tips that will help you get more from this amazing feature in PowerPoint 2011.

Learn some tips for creating Custom Slide Shows in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2011
Tagged as: Office for Mac, PowerPoint 2011, Tutorials

PowerPoint and Presenting News: March 24, 2015

You get another part of our Irregular Shapes series — this 9th series has larger, curved shapes. We then discuss why bar charts work better than column charts, especially if you have longer axis labels. We explore slides with video Countdown Timers. We also have an exclusive conversation with David Tang of Flevy Tools, a free PowerPoint add-in that creates diagrams and charts in PowerPoint. We then explore the Learning Dashboard in Adobe Presenter, another add-in for PowerPoint. PowerPoint 2013 users can learn about copying text attributes with the Format Painter. We also look at reordering Sections, and indent markets for bulleted lists. PowerPoint 2011 for Mac users can learn about reordering Sections and comparing / merging presentations. 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, Indezine, News, PowerPoint

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