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Unlike rehearsing slides, recording a slide show is not something that’s a practice session. Rather, recording slides is almost like delivering a presentation that you cannot deliver in person! Does that sound confusing? Let’s imagine that you cannot deliver your slides in person. You then want to do the next best option, that is to deliver your presentation in front of your computer, almost as if you had a live audience present. All this while, all your narrations are being recorded. Even the time you spend on each slide is recorded along with the time taken for each animation to play. You can also record your laser pointer activity if you use PowerPoint’s built in laser pointer. All of this can be saved as part of your presentation that you can send to others – and they can see this at their convenience, with your voice accompanying the slide show!
Learn how you can record a slide show in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.
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You might have noticed that by default, PowerPoint 2013 only shows Horizontal Major Gridlines on a chart. Yes, you can enable Vertical Gridlines too as we explored in our Chart Gridlines in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows tutorial, and more importantly you can format these Gridlines to appear exactly as you want them to show.
Learn how to format Chart Gridlines in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.
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In this issue, we bring you some awesome stuff that you download: storyboard templates, animated boxes, and stars.
PowerPoint 2013 users can learn about several fills you can add to plot areas of charts: solid, gradient, picture, and texture fills. PowerPoint 2010 (Windows) and 2011 (Mac) users can explore working with RGB colors. And if you are using PowerPoint Online (earlier called the Web App), we show how you can sign into your OneDrive account.
And finally, do not miss the new discussions and templates of this week!
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Patterns in PowerPoint are two-color designs comprising lines, dots, dashes and checks. PowerPoint includes 48 patterns such patterns with names like Plaid, Weaves, Shingle, and Zig Zag. When used with some caution, Patterns can make a great fill for your Plot Area, same like any other fill. In this tutorial, let us learn how to apply a Pattern fill to the chart’s Plot Area in PowerPoint 2013.
Learn how to apply pattern fills to the Plot Area of a chart in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.
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Gridlines are the lines that span wide and tall within the chart’s Plot Area. These Horizontal and Vertical gridlines originate from the axes, which makes the data easier to comprehend for the viewer. Gridlines may emerge from both the horizontal and vertical axes, although by default you can see only Horizontal gridlines on the chart.
Learn about Chart Gridlines in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.
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