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Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Shape Fragment

PowerPoint 2013 provides so many new features, but one of them is essentially such a small addition that you may completely miss exploring it. And that would be sad because this feature can open up so many possibilities. We have already explored the Merge Shape commands — while 4 of the 5 commands within this category have been available since PowerPoint 2010, the Fragment command is new for this version. Unlike other Merge Shape commands that retain or remove overlapping and non-overlapping areas of multiple shapes, the Fragment option discards nothing at all. In fact, it “fragments” each possible division caused by overlapping shapes and turns them into many, smaller shapes.

Create new shapes that overlap or surround using the Fragment command in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Graphics, PowerPoint 2013, Shapes, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Merge and Split Table Cells

Add a table to your PowerPoint slide and then populate the table with content — and then what comes next? Probably you need to add or remove rows and columns. That’s the case with most people who work with tables. But very few people realize that 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 2011 for Mac.

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

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Shape Combine

There are so many shapes available within PowerPoint 2013 — and that’s good because that means so many more possibilities to create your own unique shapes by using any of the Merge Shapes commands. One of the amazing options within Merge Shapes is Combine — this retains areas where the shapes do not overlap while removes overlapping areas — think of Combine as an amazing cutout option! The resultant shapes result in a cutout, remnant shape.

Learn how you can combine shapes in PowerPoint 2013 using the Shape Combine command.

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Tagged as: Graphics, PowerPoint 2013, Shapes, Tutorials

New Year PowerPoint Clip Arts

These New Year themed clip arts for PowerPoint are all silhouettes that are ready to use within your PowerPoint presentation slides. These silhouette clip arts have been provided in both black and white colors — both variations are contained within two separate sample presentations that you can download.

Download and use these in your slides.

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Tagged as: Clip Media, Graphics, PowerPoint

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Shape Union

Shape Union is part of the Merge Shapes commands in PowerPoint 2013 — this lets you unite two or more shapes with each other. The benefit of the Shape Union option is that you can quickly create complex shapes that may have not been easy to accomplish within PowerPoint. Selecting multiple shapes and applying this command results in a single, unified shape

Learn how you can unite shapes in PowerPoint 2013 using the Shape Union command.

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Tagged as: Graphics, PowerPoint 2013, Shapes, Tutorials