PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Which Themes Are Installed Within Office Versions?

Most of you know that Microsoft started including Themes rather than templates since Office 2007. Since then, over a hundred Themes have been included within different versions of Office, on both Windows and Mac versions. But sometimes you will run into a roadblock when you cannot find a Theme you are looking for!

Explore list of pre-installed and available Themes within the Office versions released so far.

Filed Under: PowerPoint All Versions
Tagged as: Microsoft Office, PowerPoint, Templates, Themes, Tutorials

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

Picture fills can look great and distracting at the same time — it all depends upon the type of picture you use for the fill — and also what you fill with a picture. If you end up using a picture as a fill for your chart’s Plot Area, then you must put in plenty of thought before you decide to do so. Why? Because you don’t want to crowd your chart — and so while you can use a picture, it’s best to use one that’s muted and does not attract too much attention.

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

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

Hot and Cold Diagrams in PowerPoint

We already showed how you can create distance cartograms using concentric donut shapes within PowerPoint. However, that was only the beginning because it turns out that you can create so much more with the same shapes!

Look at this example of a hot and cold diagram that we found in the April 2014 issue of Inc. Magazine. Notice that this tells you which celebrity is more tech savvy than others. Understandably, Ashton Kutcher is more tech-savvy. So, he is right in the center of this cartogram structure in the hottest zone. Around him as you travel to the edges of the cartogram, the tech-savvy quotient gets colder, and you find many more celebrities here.

So, what are we trying to tell you here? We are saying that you should try something out of the ordinary all the time. Try and reinvent diagrams and use them in different visual situations, almost like the above example that uses a cartogram structure to create a hot and cold diagram!

Filed Under: Charts and Diagrams
Tagged as: Diagrams, Graphics, PowerPoint, Presentation Samples

Removing Customizations from PCB Files in PowerPoint

Have you wondered where PowerPoint stores all the customizations you make? Or all the customizations that third party add-ins do? All these are saved within a PCB (PowerPoint Settings) file. Whenever PowerPoint launches, it peeps inside the PCB file and sets up the customizations to make you happy!

Learn how to reset customizations from PowerPoint’s PCB files.

Categories: powerpoint, tutorials

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Tagged as: PowerPoint, Tutorials

Edit Points: Open and Close Paths in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows

The Shapes gallery in PowerPoint consists of various shapes, both open and closed. Most of the shapes in this gallery are closed shapes (rectangle, ellipse, and triangle are some of the closed shapes). There are also a few open shapes such as the straight point to point line. Some other tools let you create both open and closed shapes — these are the Freeform Line, Curve, and Scribble tools. In addition, you can convert any closed shape into an open shape and vice versa, as you will learn in this tutorial.

Learn how you can open and close paths for shapes in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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