PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

PowerPoint and Presenting News: January 6, 2015

We begin with a synopsis of Sue Hershkowitz-Coore’s keynote at the Presentation Summit. We then explore Adobe Presenter, an eLearning add-in for PowerPoint that looks at interactions, scenes, and characters for slides. And then we bring you some tutorials on working with fonts 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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Tagged as: Ezine, Indezine, News, PowerPoint

Character Spacing in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows

Font size does make a difference for the aesthetics of your slide, but what do you do if the text itself uses more or less space than you may want? Sometimes, you may want the text to take just a wee bit lesser space so that all content can fit within two lines rather than three. If you would like to alter the spacing between text characters, you can do so by using PowerPoint’s Character Spacing option, which affects the appearance and readability of both title and body text. Essentially Character Spacing is the amount of space in-between individual letters.

Explore Character Spacing options in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Character Spacing, Office 2013, PowerPoint 2013, Text, Tutorials

Jigsaw Graphics for PowerPoint – 01

Jigsaws are puzzles that can be solved – but then jigsaws have numbers too! Each jigsaw puzzle has a number of pieces that have to be fitted together, in the same way that many aspects of lives and businesses need to fit in with each other. Jigsaws can add a whole new level of interest to a PowerPoint slide. Here are 10 jigsaw graphics containing different shapes. These jigsaws can be used on their own, or also combined with other graphics such as a human head to create a larger concept! These graphics are available in both black and white and are contained within separate sample presentations that you download. Just copy the graphic you like and paste into another PowerPoint slide, or even a Word document or Excel worksheet.

Download and use in your slides.

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Tagged as: Clip Media, Graphics, PowerPoint

Stop Underlining Your Descenders!

Most applications underline everything you select — the process is simple: you select a word, a sentence, or even an entire paragraph — and then press a keyboard shortcut or choose an option so that all the selected text is underlined. PowerPoint behaves the same way — but there’s a difference — not in the resultant text, but in how the text appears. Let us not forget that PowerPoint is a large format — more akin to a billboard than a business card — and text is often projected at large sizes.

Learn how you can make your underlined text appear distinctive by selectively removing underlines from descender characters.

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Tagged as: Fonts, PowerPoint, Text, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Font Dialog Box

Fonts are more than just pretty characters, although your choice of fonts can have a profound effect on how readable your text is to the audience. We have already explored how you can format font styles to make your text bold, italicized, underlined, etc. Beyond these basic offerings, PowerPoint 2013’s Font dialog box offers some advanced format options for selected text. You can still change the font type, set the font size, color, and other font attributes in this dialog box, and you can also do more.

Explore options within the Font dialog box in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Fonts, PowerPoint 2013, Text, Tutorials