PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

PowerPoint and Presenting News: June 3, 2014

Being on vacation does mean that I can get you some content that we have revamped recently due to changes made at Microsoft. Some of the most popular pages we have had to update involve getting a cheaper copy of PowerPoint and explaining the Office 365 concept in plain English.

PowerPoint 2013 users can learn this about adding and hiding chart series and categories. Then we exploring inserting new slides, drawing trees, and creating curved shapes. We also show how you can use RGB color values within PowerPoint and explore text alignment in table cells.

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: Drawing Shopping Bags

PowerPoint is a ubiquitous presentation program that also works great as a simple drawing program. We have already done an extensive series of tutorials on shapes, and in this tutorial you will learn how to use simple techniques already explained in other tutorials to draw a shopping bag in PowerPoint 2013. No, you need not go back to those older tutorials since most concepts are drop-dead easy – yet if you want to know more, we have linked to all technique tutorials in the relevant parts of this page. So let’s start creating our shopping bag!

Learn how to use default shapes in PowerPoint 2013 to draw a shopping bag.

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Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Text Alignment within Table Cells

As far as the content or even appearance is concerned, an individual cell within a Table in PowerPoint acts just like any other text box. Therefore, various text alignment options used for text boxes work with Table cells too apart for a few exceptions. Once a cell is selected, the Text alignment options for that cell can be found within the Table Tools Layout contextual tab of the Ribbon — you can find them contained within the Alignment group.

Learn about the options for text alignment within Table cells in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Drawing Trees

Although most people think of PowerPoint as a slide program, it’s also a great drawing program that can in many ways be more easier to use than full-fledged illustration programs. Agreed, PowerPoint is not that full featured as far as drawing goes, but sometimes quick and easy is all you need! In this tutorial, you will learn how to draw a tree with just two simple shapes in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

Learn how to use default shapes in PowerPoint 2013 to draw a quick tree.

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Learning PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Hiding Chart Series and Categories

In PowerPoint, the entire chart data that shows up in the form of series and categories is actually stored within an Excel sheet. These series and categories may show up on your chart in different ways depending upon the chart type. Almost any chart type, even if it is not a column chart, compares one set of values with another. Once you delete any of these values, they no longer show on your chart — so the level of comparison reduces. However deleting is not always the best option, especially if you want to retrieve those values later whenever required. The solution is to temporarily hide values you no longer need, and then unhide them as and when you want to expose those values.

Learn how to hide Series and Categories for charts in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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