PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Learn PowerPoint 2010 for Windows: Changing Axis Labels

In your chart, Axis Labels are the labels for the Categories and Values on chart axes. So where do these labels come from? Category axis labels reflect the Category names within your data (typically within the built-in Excel sheet). Values on the other hand are determined by PowerPoint based upon the maximum value in your data — the minimum value is always set to zero. Of course you can change the Minimum and Maximum values if you want.

Learn how to change the axis labels in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2010
Tagged as: Charting, PowerPoint 2010, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Reset Options for Videos

Once you explore video editing options such as recoloring, corrections, preset video styles, video borders, video effects, resizing / flipping, etc. in PowerPoint 2013, your original video clip may appear to be entirely different from what you started with. The fact that you can make your videos look so different in PowerPoint 2013 with customizations galore can sometimes prove be a disadvantage, especially if you want to get rid of all customizations and get back to original state of your video clip. Fortunately, the Reset Design option is just what you need at this point of time! In this tutorial, you will learn how you can restore a video clip to its default appearance, and get rid of any customizations you may have made.

Learn how to reset your video clips in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Tagged as: PowerPoint 2013, Tutorials, Video

Learn PowerPoint 2010 for Windows: Change Major and Minor Units of Value Axis

While learning about chart axes, you will come across two terms, Major and Minor units. These are the intervals at which the axis spaces itself — as the name itself suggests, you can choose to space the axis at two levels: Major and Minor. By default, PowerPoint sets the Major and Minor units on its own — many times, this may be exactly what you need. At other times, you may want to set your own intervals for the Major and Minor units for several reasons.

Learn how to change the Major and Minor units of Value axis.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2010
Tagged as: Charting, Microsoft Windows, Office 2010, PowerPoint 2010, Tutorials

Should Charts be Animated?

Charts are something that are often shared between Excel and PowerPoint – and while Excel gurus may look down at PowerPoint as far as charting is concerned, there indeed is one charting feature that is not doable as well in Excel – and that is animating charts. OK, an Excel guru somewhere may have said that it’s great that you cannot animate charts in Excel – after all many PowerPoint users do create a mess with animation anyway!

Learn about the pros and cons of animating charts.

Filed Under: Charts and Diagrams
Tagged as: Charting, Design, PowerPoint, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Resize, Rotate, and Flip Videos

Similar to how you position or reposition pictures and shapes, you can make changes to any inserted video in PowerPoint 2013. In addition, there are some very basic video editing options that can be significant. These include how you resize, rotate, and flip your inserted video clips. Resizing can help you change dimensions of your video clips, while slight changes in rotation values can draw attention. Flip, the last of these options though is something you will almost never use — unless you want to do something drastically different!

Learn how you can Resize, Rotate, and Flip video clips in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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