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PowerPoint and Presenting News: July 8, 2014

In this issue, we begin by looking at variations of the color blue! We then bring you another series of combine-and-use star graphics that you can get for any price, starting from $0!

PowerPoint 2013 users can learn about chart gridlines, adding pattern fills to plot areas of charts, tick marks for charts, and also how you can record your slide show — complete with animations, timings, and narrations. PowerPoint 2011 for Mac users will learn about adding, editing, and deleting comments.

And finally, do not miss the new discussions and templates of this week!

Read Indezine’s PowerPoint and Presenting News.

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Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Types of Animation

Adding animation to your slide objects is easy, but begs for some thought process — you should decide what type of animation works best. The type of animation used for any object is paramount because it can make the end effect viable, or relegate it to a distraction. In this tutorial, let us get started with showing you how many types of animations are available within PowerPoint 2013. When we say “many types”, we do not mean the animation effects themselves, but the categories in which these Animation effects are divided.

Learn about the various types of animation available in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Ungroup a Table

Tables are essentially a group of cells arranged in a proper way. So typically you would expect that ungrouping a table into individual cells should be a piece of cake, right? Nothing can be further from that! Before we explore ways to ungroup a table, let us understand why you would want to ungroup a table in the first place. One of the main reasons why you may consider ungrouping a Table within PowerPoint is to animate it segment by segment. In all PowerPoint versions, either the entire table can be animated — or nothing! The workaround is to ungroup the table so that your table gets converted into a bunch of individual shapes, and you can animate every individual shape as you want. So let us look at some ideas to understand ungrouping Tables better.

Learn how to ungroup a table in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Adding Animation

PowerPoint allows you to animate any slide object that can be selected on your slide. Such objects include pictures, shapes, text, bulleted lists, SmartArt graphics, charts, etc. You can tweak the way objects on your slides appear, move, and disappear only after adding animation to the particular slide object.

Learn how to add animation to a slide object in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Adjust the Chart Gap Width

The Gap width within a chart is the space between two categories. We created the chart you see here within PowerPoint 2013 — it’s a Clustered Column chart type, and the gap width here is set to 219% of the width of individual Data Series (columns). We now want to alter this gap width.

Learn how to adjust the gap width between chart categories in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Charting, PowerPoint 2013, Tutorials