PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

PowerPoint and Presenting News: January 27, 2015

We start with the last part of our Better PowerPoint Charts series — this time we explore what books you should read, and where you can reach out for help. We also look at a web app that lets you create Word Clouds you can use within PowerPoint. And you can explore options to add quizzes in Adobe Presenter. And then we bring you some tutorials on working with bulleted lists and shapes within PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

And don’t miss the new discussions and templates of this week!

Read Indezine’s PowerPoint and Presenting News.

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Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Gradient Stops

After adding gradient fills to shapes you may want to make some changes to the gradient fill. Or, you may want to change the colors comprising your gradient outlines. To do so, you must be familiar with gradient stops. A gradient stop is the point where a new color is introduced within the gradient blend. Unlike PowerPoint versions on Windows, PowerPoint 2011 for Mac does not really use the term “gradient stop” – in fact no term is used and probably, this version just refers to these stops as ‘colors’. However, we will call them stops within this tutorial.

Learn how to make changes to gradients and make your own new gradients in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

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Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Flip and Rotate Picture Fills for Shapes

It is easy to flip and rotate a picture on your slide. However this same flipping can be a little tricky when you use a Picture fill within a shape. That’s because you end up with a picture that does get flipped, but so does the shape. But what if we wanted to just flip the picture? How do you do that?

Learn how to flip and rotate picture fills for shapes in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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PowerPoint Charting: Ask Help, Read Books

Learning is a process that never ends. You may be a charting expert, but there’s always more to learn. Two of the best ways you can stay up to date is by reading books and participating in forums. Let’s first look at books. Most charting books fall into two categories – about charting design and charting techniques. Books within the first category look at charting, so as to how a particular chart will help people understand a difficult concept. They also look at design principles and best practices.

Explore resources to learn how you can create better charts in PowerPoint.

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Tagged as: Books, Charting, PowerPoint, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Start or Restart Numbering for Lists

Imagine that you have a long numbered list that forms the content within your PowerPoint slide. Now, it is not uncommon for slides to have numbered lists that comprise twenty lines, and that is singularly unfortunate because even if members of your audience have perfect eyesight, they won’t be able to read the teeny-weeny sized text! And let us face the fact that too much text is downright boring, and nowadays any sort of bulleted or numbered lists seem to signify a poorly designed slide. One approach you can take to combat this problem is by dividing your list across multiple slides — but even then PowerPoint may default to numbering your lists at 1 on each slide — even when you want it to start at 6, 11, or 16! Luckily, that is an easier problem to resolve, as explained in this tutorial.

Learn how to start or restart the numbering for numbered list in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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