PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Learn PowerPoint 2003 for Windows: Editing Slide Masters

To make far reaching changes to your slides within PowerPoint 2003, you should always consider making these changes within the Slide Master rather than within individual slides – not only will this save you a load of time, but it will also make your slides look more consistent and professional.

Learn how to edit Slide Masters in PowerPoint 2003 for Windows.

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Tagged as: PowerPoint 2003, Templates, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Pattern Fills for Plot Area of Charts

Patterns in PowerPoint are two-color designs that include lines, dots, dashes and checks. PowerPoint includes 48 such patterns with names such as 5%, plaid, weaves, shingle, and zigzag. Pattern fills can be particularly pleasing as a fill, especially if you use a simple pattern that comprises two subtle colors. You apply a pattern fill to the Plot Area of a chart in the same way as you would apply a solid color, a gradient, a picture, or a texture fill. Follow these steps to learn more.

Learn how to apply pattern fills to the Plot Area of a chart in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

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Tagged as: Charting, Office for Mac, PowerPoint 2011, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint 2010 for Windows: Repair Office

Microsoft Office 2010 was released on June 15, 2010. It is the successor of the previous version, Office 2007 and among the most used programs across the globe. However, after using the Office 2010 programs such as PowerPoint, Word, and Excel repeatedly — there may be times when these Office 2010 applications face some serious issues such as crashes, corrupted files, etc. And in some scenarios you may not be able to run any Office 2010 application. At this state of time you may wish to perform some magical process that will resolve the issue.

Learn how to repair PowerPoint and Office 2010 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Microsoft Office, PowerPoint 2010, Troubleshooting, Tutorials

PowerPoint and Presenting News: April 15, 2014

Many times one diagram can form the basis of another one! A distance cartogram can double as a target diagram — or in case of what we explain in this issue — it can function well as a hot-and-cold diagram! Over to our next topic for this issue — we discuss Office Themes. Over a hundred of these have shipped as part of Microsoft Office installations but there seems to always be a different collection with each release — find out which Themes shipped with which version in our exhaustive listing. We then show you how PCB files are useful for storing and removing PowerPoint interface customizations. We also have an exclusive conversation with Noah Menikoff who discusses FlightDeck, a solution that lets you catalog and create PowerPoint slides.

PowerPoint 2013 for Windows users can learn about points, lines, and Themes. PowerPoint 2011 for Mac users can learn that there are ways in which you can make your chart Plot Area look different. And PowerPoint 2003 users will learn about PCB files. And if you are using PowerPoint 2010, learn how you can set any template or Theme as the default for new presentations.

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: Smart Connectors

Connectors are essentially some of the shapes found within the Lines category of the Shapes gallery in PowerPoint 2013. To understand why only some of these lines can work as connectors, we first need to understand what a connector is. A connector is a line that creates a link that joins two shapes or any other slide objects to create a relationship. These connectors are linked to the slide objects they are connected — this means that they move automatically when the linked objects are moved. That’s the reason why they are called “Smart connectors” — you’ll learn more about all the other smart things these connectors do in subsequent tutorials of this series.

Learn what Smart connectors are, and how they are different from conventional lines in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2013
Tagged as: PowerPoint 2013, Shapes, Tutorials