PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Forget Color Theory (Guest Post)

You don’t need a graphic design education. You don’t need to “be designy” or “be artsy”, you don’t need to read 15 books on color theory. You can do it yourself, in minutes. But first, we need to talk about why well-designed presentations are important.

Read more in this post by Devesh Khanal.

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Tagged as: Color, Guest Post, PowerPoint, Tutorials

Commenting within the PowerPoint Web App (OneDrive)

OneDrive (previously known as SkyDrive) is a great way to share your presentations online while you are still working on the slides. When you are collaborating on a presentation with someone else, you want to give and receive feedback without actually editing the slides themselves. To do that, you can use the Comments option that works differently in the OneDrive version of PowerPoint compared to the desktop versions.

Learn how to use commenting within the PowerPoint Web App on OneDrive.

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

PowerPoint and Presenting News: June 17, 2014

In this issue, we first bring you a new series of Countdown Timers. Thereafter Carmen Simon returns to feature in an exclusive conversation on Remembering Slides. We also bring you a review of ShapeChef, one of the coolest PowerPoint add-ins we have worked with. And we explore the new PowerPoint Online interface on OneDrive.

PowerPoint 2013 users can learn about applying colors and line styles to table borders. We also explore the Touch Mode options, even within non-Touch devices. And learn how you can capture screenshots by using PowerPoint 2013. PowerPoint 2011 for Mac users can learn about recoloring picture backgrounds.

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

Read Indezine’s PowerPoint and Presenting News.

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Tagged as: Ezine, Indezine, News, PowerPoint

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Set Line Weight for Table Borders

Table borders in PowerPoint are usually thin, possessing just 1pt. weight (thickness) — that’s not as thin as a human hair, but still quite thin. Most of the times you may not need to change that value since you can clearly see the border, and it is not too eye-catching. However, if you want to change the weight of table borders, it can be done in the same way as you would change their color or line style attributes. Your table borders can be of any weight starting from a miniscule 0.25 pt. to a haughty 6pt., and no higher. Even 6 pt. is very thick for a table border, so be careful just to make sure that your table borders don’t look too blocky or distracting.

Learn how to set line weight (thickness) for table borders in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Tagged as: PowerPoint 2013, Tables, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint 2010 for Windows: Inserting Screenshots

Since many people use PowerPoint for training programs, you will find some slides populated with screenshots of various computer program interfaces. Typically, these screenshots are captured in another program and then inserted into PowerPoint slide like any other regular picture. This task is now made even easier with the introduction of the Screenshot option in PowerPoint 2010 that allows you to quickly and easily add a screenshot on your slide, being within PowerPoint.

Explore the Screenshot option within PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2010
Tagged as: Graphics, Pictures, PowerPoint 2010, Tutorials