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The default fill and border (line) that PowerPoint applies to chart elements are perfectly adequate. If you want something different, play with various Chart Styles available. While this works great most of the time, there will be occasions when you may want to use a particular color for any of your data series that’s not part of the Theme palette in your presentation. In times like these, you can change the fill and border of chart elements manually using the techniques explained on this page.
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Applying a Theme to an existing presentation is easy — and you’ll find that plenty of Themes are already contained inside Office 2013. In PowerPoint 2013, these Themes can be found in Design tab of Ribbon. The same Themes that you apply in PowerPoint can also be applied in Word and Excel — in both of these programs, the way of accessing Themes gallery is different from that of PowerPoint.
Learn how to apply Themes in PowerPoint, Word, and Excel 2013 for Windows.
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The Gap width within a chart is the space between two series points — this by default is set to 150% of the width of individual Data Series (columns). Usually the gap width is automatically calculated based on the chart data and the Plot Area. The space between two series’ points will be very narrow if there are many data series, or very wide when there are few data series. Even then, there is scope for some change in the gap width — you can quickly increase or decrease this width.
Learn how to adjust the gap width within charts in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
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Slide Masters govern the several default attributes for your slides such as the slide background, font choices, colors, and even the positioning of the placeholders. In many ways thus, the Slide Masters are the backend workers of your presentation. And even though the Slide Masters in PowerPoint 2003 only include limited functionality, you can still use this functionality to either edit existing Slide Masters or even create your own Slide Master.
Learn how to create and rename Slide Masters in PowerPoint 2003 for Windows.
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When you create a new table in PowerPoint, you’ll see some sort of default formatting applied to it. Most probably, you’ll find that the table already has Banded rows and the Header row highlighted. While PowerPoint decides to turn on some of these Table Style Options, there are some that you can manually enable. All put together, you can play with 6 distinct Table Style Options that let you control the way through which table rows and/or columns can be made to stand apart.
Learn about Table Style Options in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.
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