PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

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.

Filed Under: PowerPoint All Versions
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.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2013
Tagged as: PowerPoint 2013, Text, Tutorials

Creating Word Clouds for PowerPoint using Wordle

Have you seen a bunch of words with similar meanings that are arranged together to form a graphic? Such a graphic is commonly called a Word Cloud. Creating a Word Cloud by inserting text boxes and rotating them is possible using just PowerPoint’s native features. However, it is time consuming and the visual output may not appeal all the time. So what do you do to create a Word Cloud without having to spend time to design it?

Learn how to create word clouds for PowerPoint.

Filed Under: PowerPoint All Versions
Tagged as: Design, Graphics, PowerPoint, Tutorials

Adobe Presenter: New Quiz Options

In a previous tutorial we showed you how you can add a quiz within PowerPoint using the Adobe Presenter add-in so as to quickly create some eLearning content. In this tutorial we’ll explore all the options which help you create a better quiz.

Explore options within the New Quiz dialog box in Adobe Presenter.

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Tagged as: Add-in, Adobe Presenter, PowerPoint, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Change the Numbered List Style

PowerPoint allows you to choose from several styles for your numbered lists — there are variations in digits, alphabets, and Roman numerical styles. By default, PowerPoint 2013 uses the 1, 2, 3 style for numbered lists. And since you can change bulleted list styles, it is only natural that you expect some changes to be allowed for numbered list styles too.

Learn how to change the numbered list style of selected text in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2013
Tagged as: PowerPoint 2013, Text, Tutorials