PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Distribute Rows and Columns in Tables

Tables can make your data or other content look organized and make it easy for your audiences to quickly understand how the content in one or more cells relates to the content in other cells. However, even with all this organization built-in within the tabular structure, tables still need aesthetics. A table on your slide looks good when its rows and columns are arranged and sized in a proper manner, and the table cell content is aligned well.

Learn how to distribute Table Rows and Columns in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

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

Callout Sample 03: Curved, Connected Callouts

Continuing our series on how you can use callouts within your slides, here’s another sample to share. This is actually quite simple, but that’s probably the best part. Making something appear simple to your audiences is the best service you can do for them.

So what’s there to like about this sample? Here are some thoughts:

1. The color used for the callouts and the connectors attached to the callouts is the same (chrome yellow) — and this color complements the overall color within the rest of the slide (primarily brown and white) very well.
2. The callouts are all well aligned to each other.
3. The curved connectors add an informal element to an otherwise structured appearance.

This example is from one of our slides — you can see the entire presentation on SlideShare.

The presentation is also available on authorSTREAM — and this also supports hyperlinks between slides.

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See Also: Callout Sample 01: Arrow Pointing to a Map | Callout Sample 02: Colored Callouts

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Tagged as: Callouts, Design, Opinion, PowerPoint, Presentation Samples

Convert Text to Shapes by Intersecting in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows

PowerPoint 2013 has several new features but there’s nothing quite like what we will explore on this page — an option to convert regular text into a shape. First of all, this is an undocumented feature — so it was really cool discovering how this was done. And then, this is such an utterly useful option — people find all sorts of excuses to use this feature. For example, you can now easily create logos in PowerPoint without using any other application. Or use a fancy font and then share that presentation with others in the knowledge that recipients can see the font exactly as intended, even if it’s not installed on their computers.

Convert PowerPoint text into an editable shape using the Intersect command in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Graphics, PowerPoint 2013, Shapes, Text, Tutorials

Sankranti Animated Slides for $0+

Two animated Sankranti PowerPoint presentations are included within this package. The first presentation has animted kites that gives a flying effect throughout the slide. The second presentation has rangoli that animates perfectly and is available in three variations: white, brown and multicolor. Go ahead and download these and use as you want — retaining credit for these slides is something we will appreciate!

Buy and download for $0+.

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Tagged as: Animation, Design, PowerPoint, Presentation Samples

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Select Table Cells, Rows, and Columns

While it is easy to work with tables in PowerPoint 2011, you will always need to select some particular part of the table to work with — this means you will have to select an individual table cell, or even separate rows and columns while performing various tasks such as populating tables with content, or adding and removing table rows/columns, or merging and splitting table cells. Sometimes you will also need to select contiguous cells in both rows and columns, or even the entire table itself. Follow these guidelines to learn about how to select the entire table, an individual row, a column, a cell, or even contiguous cells in PowerPoint 2011. Learn how to select table cells, rows, and columns in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

Learn how to select table cells, rows, and columns in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

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