PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Add or Delete Points (Vertexes) for Shapes

The Edit Points option gives you control over how you want a shape to look, but sometimes you might find it difficult to edit a certain segment in a shape because there are no points available to manipulate — or maybe there are far too many points! PowerPoint provides a simple solution for this problem — you can add and delete vertexes from a shape.

Learn how to add or delete points (vertexes) for a shape in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Tagged as: PowerPoint 2013, Shapes, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint 2003 for Windows: Preserving Slide Masters

Have you ever applied a new Slide Master to existing slides in PowerPoint – and then found that the old Slide Master just disappeared! Poof – how did that happen? The typical answer to that question is your existing Slide Master was not “preserved”, and since no slides used it anymore, PowerPoint just decided to clean it up altogether. So if you don’t want this to happen again, then you must preserve your Slide Masters.

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

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Tagged as: PowerPoint 2003, Templates, Tutorials

PowerPoint and Presenting News: April 1, 2014

Wanted to create diagonal callouts in PowerPoint — we teach you how! And then we show how you can just edit some code using free programs to change quite a bit within your PowerPoint file — with some help from Echo Swinford. We also have an exclusive conversation with Torben Laustsen of OfficeReports, who explains how his product can help you add a live survey with results on your PowerPoint slide! We then explore keyboard sequences for PowerPoint 2011 (Mac) and 2003 (Windows).

PowerPoint 2013 for Windows users can learn about tables, editing points, and callouts. PowerPoint 2003 users can discover working with Masters. And PowerPoint 2011 users can learn about steps they need to take if their PowerPoint menus are no longer accessible using the keyboard.

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: Merge and Split Table Cells

Insert a table on your PowerPoint slide and then populate the table with content — and, what comes next? Probably you need to add or remove rows and columns. Also, the table cells can be made larger or smaller without influencing the entire row or column — and that’s something that can be easily achieved by merging or splitting cells in your existing table. This is essentially true for tables that have two header rows, or even with tables that have a long phrase in the header row.

Learn how to merge and split table cells in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Tagged as: PowerPoint 2013, Tables, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Troubleshooting Menu Activation

It really does not matter which program you are using on a Mac — your Menu Bar remains constant irrespective of the program being used. Yes some menus do change but some such as the Apple menu are retained all the time. To activate the Menu Bar without a mouse, you can press the Ctrl F2 key combination (or Ctrl Fn F2, if you use a smaller keyboard on a Mac laptop). Thereafter you access various menu options by typing their first couple of letters. Sometimes, this feature may suddenly stop working — you may not be able to activate the Menu Bar using the key combination Ctrl F2 (or Ctrl Fn F2).

Learn about troubleshooting the menu activation in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

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Tagged as: Office for Mac, PowerPoint 2011, Tutorials