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The Freeform drawing tool lets you draw anything almost like drawing with a pencil on a piece of paper. In addition, you can create straight lines as well –this dual capability of the Freeform tool provides you with more creative freedom. What’s very important for you to know though is that the Freeform tool takes a while getting used to — practice alone will make your attempts perfect!
Learn how to draw with the Freeform line tool in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.
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PowerPoint 2013 provides you with more than one option to insert a table on your slide. These options range from the easy ones that require you to just type in or select the required number of rows and columns, to others such as the Draw Table option that allows you to create a table on your PowerPoint slide directly, in the same way as you would sketch a table with a pen on a paper.
Learn how to draw a table in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.
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Nancy Duarte has been Principal at Duarte Design since 1990. Her firm is in the heart of the Silicon Valley, and the client list is loaded with Fortune 500 companies. Her passion for business communications that are clear, meaningful and attractive has opened doors for her in a business world full of cluttered and complex visual communications.
Nancy has previously authored three amazing books: Slide:ology, Resonate, and the HBR Guide to Persuasive Presentations.
In this conversation, Nancy discusses about her new (fourth) book, Slidedocs.
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Create a new presentation in PowerPoint 2003, and you will see that the first slide has two text placeholders. Now when you add another new slide, you don’t see a slide similar to your opening slide. Rather than slide title and subtitle placeholders, this new slide has slide title and text placeholders.
Learn about Slide Layouts in PowerPoint 2003 for Windows.
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We begin with an exclusive interview with celebrated author Carmine Gallo, who discusses his new book, Talk Like TED. We then get you the foundations and best practices you must use to work with Excel and PowerPoint together. Damith Rajapakse of the School of Computing, National University of Singapore discusses the awesome animation options in their free PowerPoint add-in.
PowerPoint Touch users can learn about the Text floaties. PowerPoint 2013 for Windows users can learn about Action Buttons and drawing lines. PowerPoint 2011 for Mac users can learn about resetting their slides.
And finally, do not miss the new discussions and templates of this week!
Read Indezine’s PowerPoint and Presenting News.
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