PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

3 Free and Favorite Stencil Fonts

Stencils are something that were very useful in the years before printing wasn’t too common. You placed a stencil, and painted over it on a surface. While stencils came in all designs and shapes, one of the most common uses of stenciling was to paint alphabets. And today, even though we no longer need stenciled alphabets, they look distinctive. And that’s probably the reason why there’s a renewed interest in stenciled typefaces – we explore a few of them on this page. Before we explore further, do remember that stenciled fonts only look good at large sizes – don’t use them for your bulleted text or body type.

Explore our favorite, free Stencil fonts.

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Tagged as: Fonts, PowerPoint

Preview Options in Adobe Presenter

When you work on a presentation using Adobe Presenter within PowerPoint, then you really cannot preview using PowerPoint’s Slide Show view. And that’s because Adobe Presenter’s output options are completely different than PowerPoint’s. Now to preview, you will need to use Adobe Presenter’s own Preview options. Having said so, these Preview options essentially render output on the fly and show it to you.

Explore the various preview options within Adobe Presenter.

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

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Animation Events

Once you add an animation to any slide object, you can play the animation in Slide Show view by clicking your mouse cursor or pressing the spacebar on your keyboard. Another option is to use a button on a presentation remote — each of these options advances one animation at a time, or may even take you to the subsequent slide. While this approach works for slides that have an animation or two, you will quickly realize that this is certainly not the way to go if your slides have tens of animations, or more. If you add that many animations to any slide, you probably want your animations to be automatically sequenced and play one after the other without a click — that’s exactly where PowerPoint’s animation events can help.

Learn about Animation Events in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Animation, PowerPoint 2013, Tutorials

Irregular Shapes for PowerPoint: 01

Boxes, boxes everywhere! Do your slides always have shapes that look so geometric and perfect? What if you could make all these shapes irregular? Won’t that be cool? Then you will love these irregular shapes for PowerPoint. These shapes are already within PowerPoint slides. Just copy them and paste within your slides.

Download and use these shapes in your slides.

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Tagged as: Graphics, PowerPoint, Presentation Samples, Shapes

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Position Previews for Motion Path Animations

Motion Path animations determine the route (path) and the direction in which the animated slide object moves across or around on the slide. When you add a motion path animation to an object, you see the path as a dotted line with two arrow heads. Additionally, PowerPoint 2013 sports the new faded preview of the animated slide object at the end point of the motion path. The benefit of this faded preview of the end position is that you know exactly where the slide object will stop once the animation concludes.

Explore the new faded position previews for Motion Path animations in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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