PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

PowerPoint and Presenting News: January 13, 2015

We begin with our new graphics collection ob Bulbs — something that you can use as an analogy in so many ways. We then bring you Jigsaws, and these will help you create your own slide visuals too. And many times, both bulbs and jigsaws may appear clichéd, unless you use them as just one part of your entire graphic? To give you an idea, put a bulb within a human head graphic, and it has another meaning. Add it within a book, and the significance changes. We then explore recording video in Adobe Presenter, an eLearning add-in for PowerPoint. And then we bring you some tutorials on working with fonts, themes, and bulleted lists 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 2013 for Windows: Use Dingbats and Other Characters as Bullets

PowerPoint provides you with umpteen options to change the appearance of your bullet points — you can change the bullet styles, format the bullet size and its color, and use pictures as bullets. In addition, you can use a character from any font, including dingbats as a bullet. So what are dingbats? Dingbats are fonts which contain decorative symbols rather than alphabets and numbers. Wingdings is a good example of a dingbats font since it is installed by default on all computers.

Learn how to use dingbats and other characters as bullets in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Picture Bullets

PowerPoint provides several bullet styles that you can choose from — but they do look a little canned since almost every PowerPoint slide these days uses the same bullet styles! You could get rid of bullets altogether and use small sentences/paragraphs instead, or maybe you could explore picture bullets — to insert any picture as your bullet. Of course, for picture bullets to work, your picture needs to be small, no larger than a medium-sized dot. And it helps if it has transparent areas. If all this talk about the size and transparency of a picture bullet makes you curious, don’t worry because we explain it all!

Learn how to use pictures as bullets in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Adobe Presenter Video Express Editing Options

Adobe Presenter now includes a built-in video editor called Video Express that helps in recording your screen or even the presenter, via webcam or another attached camera. Video Express provides effective video edit options such as video layouts, pan & zoom, and trim options. Once you record video, you can use several Video Express edit options, as explained in this tutorial.

Explore the Adobe Presenter Video Express editing options.

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Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Customize the Bullet Size and Color

While it is a great option to change bullet styles, sometimes you don’t want to really change just the bullet characters themselves. You might want to alter the size of the bullet character so that it is somewhat smaller or larger than the text before which it is placed. Or maybe you need a particular color to be used? Most of the time, the defaults actually work best — but just in case you want to make these changes, this is how you will go about the whole process in PowerPoint 2013.

Learn how to change the bullet size and the color attributes in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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