PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Artistic Effects for Picture Backgrounds in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows

Default slide background options are limited to solid or gradient fills — and yes, you can even apply a picture as a slide background. However, picture backgrounds do pose some issues, especially since a busy picture may hamper the visibility of other slide objects such as text or charts. Fortunately, PowerPoint provides options to reduce the intensity of a picture background so that any foreground elements such as text can stand apart.

Explore various artistic effects for Picture backgrounds in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Background, Pictures, PowerPoint 2013, Tutorials

Change Animations in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows

Let’s say you have used a Fade animation for a slide object, and now you want to use a Wipe animation instead. It’s been observed that most of the time, users may remove an animation and apply another one rather than one animation into another. This may be because in PowerPoint 2013, there is no particular option within the interface that changes the animation. But there is still a very easy one-click operation to change an existing animation to another one, as you will learn in this tutorial.

Learn how to change animations for a given slide object in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Animation, PowerPoint 2013, Tutorials

Newspaper Clippings on your PowerPoint Slides

Want to create a different kind of first slide for your presentation? Or do you want some content to stand apart in any of your slides? You’ll need some text content, for sure — that you can show as an article within a newspaper! You need no other product, just an online connection to use the cool Newspaper Generator!

Learn how to create a cool newspaper clipping for your slide.

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Tagged as: Graphics, PowerPoint, Tutorials

Edit Audio in Adobe Presenter

After recording a narration and syncing the audio and animation timings, you may want to edit the recorded narration. Although there are many audio applications with which you can edit the recorded audio file, including Adobe’s Audition, you may not have to venture that far for basic edits. Adobe Presenter provided a built-in audio editor which makes your task more easier.

Explore the edit audio options within Adobe Presenter.

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

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Animate Text

There’s more to text animation than just adding some movement to your selected text. By default, when you animate a text placeholder or text box, all the text contained animates at one go unless your text content is within a bulleted or numbered list — in that case, all text animates as sequenced paragraphs. Even then, the animation is sequenced to first level paragraphs (first level bullets) — and any sub-bullet levels contained in your text placeholders or text boxes animate along with the parent level.

Explore the extra options available for text animations in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Animation, PowerPoint 2013, Text, Tutorials