PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Populate Tables with Content

After inserting a table on your PowerPoint slide, the very next task you would want to do is to fill the cells with required content. There are plenty of ways in which you can do that. In this tutorial, we will explore these ways, and also explore how you can navigate from cell to cell in a table. Let us start with exploring the ways to navigate from cell to cell in a table.

Learn how to populate table cells with content you type or paste from the Clipboard in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

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

Snowflakes PowerPoint Clip Arts 02

These Snowflakes are PowerPoint-ready small icon style silhouettes that are already placed within PowerPoint presentation slides. These awesome snowflakes 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 graphics in your slides.

Filed Under: Clip Media
Tagged as: Clip Media, Graphics, PowerPoint

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Format Slide Background

PowerPoint 2013 provides twelve default Slide Background Styles, much like the previous two versions. Apart from these Styles, you can continue changing the default Slide Background to something else such as a solid color or gradient, a pattern or a texture, or, even a picture. In this tutorial, we’ll explore these options that can be accessed within the Format Background pane.

Learn about different options available to format the Slide Backgrounds in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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

Callout Sample 02: Colored Callouts

Here’s another interesting callout sample where each callout is denoted by a different color. Frankly, the implementation is not too great — I don’t like the choice of some text and callout colors which are too light — notice the pink right at the bottom — we had to Photoshop it a bit to make it visible — even the results don’t look too great with this color. However, the general idea works well — and this is certainly an interesting way of using callouts.

This example is from Hello 6E, the inflight shopping magazine on IndiGo, an Indian airline.

What could make this implementation better is if the colors used for the callouts had a similar color intensity. If you could do so within your colored callouts, then this is one of those treatments that would work well within a PowerPoint slide — do make sure though that the text size you use is big enough so that everyone within your audience can read it well.

See Also: Callout Sample 01: Arrow Pointing to a Map

Filed Under: Presentation Bank
Tagged as: Callouts, Design, Opinion, PowerPoint, Presentation Samples

PowerPoint and Presenting News: December 17, 2013

In this issue, we bring you an exclusive conversation with Carmen Simon — about why people forget presentations and what we can do to make sure they remember. We look at a Callout in our new series, and how you can design Callouts better for your slides. And then we have another exclusive conversation with Steve Hards who talks about why Perspector, a 3D add-in for PowerPoint is being given away free. PowerPoint 2013 for Windows users can learn about working with 3-D Rotation and Depth effects. We also explore Shape Styles and how you can create your own Shape Defaults. And finally, do not miss the new discussions and templates of this week!

Read Indezine’s PowerPoint and Presenting News.

Filed Under: Ezine
Tagged as: Ezine, PowerPoint