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Control Animation Timings using the Advanced Timeline in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows

The main advantage of the Advanced Timeline is to edit the timing and sequencing of your animations. You can easily control the start time, duration, and end time of your animation to the most minute level. In addition, you can also animate any slide object very slowly to span over a whole minute or more by just dragging the start and end points of any animation bar outwards in the timeline.

Learn how to control animation timings with the help of the Advanced Timeline.

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

Clean Charts in PowerPoint

The biggest bane of charts seen on PowerPoint slides is that they are too crowded, include too much detail that’s much more than what audiences want, and have so little white space. By white space of course, we don’t just mean space that is colored white – rather we mean empty, breathing space. If we had to sum up what we need in two words, those words would be “clean charts”.

Learn about some guidelines to create clean charts in PowerPoint.

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

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Picture Corrections and Color Options for Picture Backgrounds

Although it’s not too common to have bright and vivid picture backgrounds for your slides, it is not unheard of. You will often see slides that are saturated with bright, sparkling colors that make anything placed on the slide almost impossible to stand apart. So, do you really want your slide background “not to be in the background”? If not, then the techniques explained on this page will help.

Explore picture corrections and color options for picture slide backgrounds in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Background, Pictures, PowerPoint 2013, Tutorials

Show and Hide the Advanced Animation Timeline in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows

The Animation Pane allows you to perform many tasks such as adding animation to any slide object, changing the animation event, and setting the speed of the animation, as required. Most of the time, that may be all you need — but at times, you may want more minute control. You might want two animations to start at the same time, but you want one of them to start just two seconds before the other. In situations like these, you’ll need to use the Advanced Timeline option.

Learn how to make the Advanced Timeline for Animation visible/invisible.

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Tagged as: 13-03, Animation, PowerPoint 2013, Tutorials

10 Tips for Cool PowerPoint Charts

Creating charts can be both easy and difficult — it all depends upon what you want to end up with! The easiest way is to just accept all the defaults that PowerPoint provides. The difficult way is to fine tune each aspect of the chart until you have just what you wanted. Between the easy and difficult ways is another option, the clever way. This lets you quickly create a better, cooler chart with these tricks that we share on this page. Do note that this list of tricks is not something you will process in a step-by-step way. And it is not necessary that every trick will apply to all charts you create.

Learn about 10 tips that will help you create cool PowerPoint charts in PowerPoint.

Filed Under: PowerPoint All Versions
Tagged as: Charting, PowerPoint, Tutorials