PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

PowerPoint Animation: Animated Box

Want to create an animated box that’s drawn in PowerPoint? This wasn’t such an easy challenge after all because PowerPoint’s Motion Path and Wipe animations do not sync by default, even with the same timings! Once you learn the trick of overcoming this limitation, the results are quite easy to achieve.

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Filed Under: Presentation Bank
Tagged as: Animation, Graphics, PowerPoint, Presentation Samples

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Apply Solid Fills to Plot Area of Charts

Typically, the Plot Area sports no fill attributes, and thus shows the slide’s background. You can apply any fill to your chart’s Plot Area. The reason why you would like to do that is to highlight the Data Series and Gridlines that populate your chart’s Plot Area, especially if you have a busy slide background. In this tutorial, let us learn how to apply a solid fill to the chart’s Plot Area in PowerPoint 2013.

Learn how to apply solid fills to the Plot Area of a chart in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2013
Tagged as: Charting, Fills, PowerPoint 2013, Tutorials

PowerPoint and Presenting News: June 24, 2014

In this issue, we first look at Analog Storyboards, and how we human beings have an amazing relation with touch and texture. We then have a guest post on a quick way to make color theory work on our slides.

PowerPoint 2013 users can learn about line weight for table borders. We also explore fills for Plot Area of charts, and rehearsing slide timings. PowerPoint 2010 users can explore inserting screenshots. PowerPoint 2011 for Mac users can learn about creating curved shapes.

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

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Tagged as: Ezine, Indezine, News, PowerPoint

Sign In to a OneDrive Account

To use any of the options available within OneDrive, including the creation and editing of presentations using PowerPoint Online, you will have to first sign in with your Microsoft account. A Microsoft account is essentially your account on any of Microsoft’s services such as Hotmail, Outlook, Xbox, Skype, Live, Zune, etc. In this tutorial, we explain how you can sign in using any of these services into OneDrive.

Learn how to sign in to your OneDrive account.

Filed Under: PowerPoint for the Web
Tagged as: OneDrive, PowerPoint for the Web, Tutorials

PowerPoint Storyboard Templates

These storyboard templates can be used for PowerPoint, Keynote, Google Slides, Prezi, or any other application that requires a story to begin with. Each sequence within the printed storyboard is related to a single slide or stop for your storyboard. Print these and use as required.

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Filed Under: Presentation Bank
Tagged as: PowerPoint, Storyboarding