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While working with Motion Paths, especially after drawing a Custom Motion Path to animate your slide object, you may feel that the path drawn is not very smooth. Or you may have used one of the preset Motion Paths to animate your slide object, and now you want to make some changes. Maybe you want to extend the path, or use smoother corners rather than the default pointed ones. Since Motion Paths are essentially lines drawn in PowerPoint, you can always edit them using the Edit Points option, and reorient them as required.
Learn how to edit Motion Paths with the help of the Edit Points option.
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Any typical Column chart contains two sets of data — one set shows as the Series within your charts, and the other set ends up representing the Categories. By default, the Series show up as the Legend (and columns) within the chart. Categories on the other hand constitute the groups of these individual columns. You can quickly swap the visual representation of Series and Categories in the chart.
Learn how to switch data for your Series and Categories in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.
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In this issue, we first look at how you can set a default recording device in Windows. We also have a conversation with James Ontra about Shufflrr, a document management system for presentations. We also explore how you can format content in Excel cells as text, important if your header rows are being formatted as data in your PowerPoint charts!
PowerPoint 2013 users can learn about Motion Path animations: adding them, drawing custom paths, reversing paths, and exploring opened/closed motion paths. We also look at animating ungrouped tables and adjusting the chart series overlaps.
And finally, do not miss the new discussions and templates of this week!
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When most people use Motion Path animations, the feature they probably use the least is locking and unlocking the Motion Paths. Why is that so? Probably because these options are not too well documented or even intuitive. However, it’s good to know more about these options since locking and unlocking Motion Paths can help you create better animations.
Learn how to lock and unlock motion paths in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.
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In PowerPoint, animating table components is not possible unless you ungroup the table. Once your table is ungrouped, you can animate the ungrouped table components as you wish. However, for those of you who don’t want to ungroup your table, there is another workaround where you don’t actually apply any animation to the table components, but when you play the slide containing the table, it looks like your table components are animating!
Learn how to fake animate a table in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.
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