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PowerPoint’s fill, line, and effect attributes enable you to customize the look of shapes and other slide objects in your presentation. However, it may take ages to get that perfect color coordination and even after spending time the final look may not match the Theme of the presentation. So as an awesome alternative to end up with a coordinated color combination for the slide objects in your presentation, you can use Shape Styles. Shape Styles are a collection of prebuilt styles housed within a gallery of the same name. These styles are all Theme-specific, so if the presentation Theme is changed – you’ll end up with new Shape Styles.
Learn about applying Shape Styles in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.
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3-D Options in PowerPoint 2013 enable you to format the bevel style of a shape with many more options than those available in the conventional Bevel gallery. And when we say more, we actually mean a whole lot more! You can customize 3-D options such as contour, contour color, depth, depth color, materials, and lighting — almost like a full blown 3-D program. In this detailed tutorial, you will explore every option within the 3-D Options gamut.
Explore the 3-D Format options available for shapes in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.
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Dr. Carmen Simon‘s presentations and workshops are unique because she applies a scientific methodology to her coaching. Unlike other approaches, Dr. Simon’s guidelines for outstanding presentations are rooted in cognitive psychology and neuroscience.
In this conversation, Carmen discusses the larger issue of how you can make sure that your audiences remember your slides.
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In this issue, we bring you an exclusive conversation with Nancy Duarte — we were curious why she is giving away Resonate, her best-selling book for free! And then we have another exclusive conversation with Jeremey Donovan who talks about his best-selling book, How to Deliver a TED Talk. We then get you some Hanukkah freebies — these are PowerPoint ready clip art graphics of Menorahs and Dreidels. PowerPoint 2013 for Windows users can learn about working with Glow, Soft Edges, Bevels and 3-D Rotation effects. And finally, do not miss the new discussions and templates of this week!
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Depth in PowerPoint 2013 plays a very important role when you are working with 3-D objects. Depth is the distance from the top or surface of something to its bottom. For example, even though you can rotate any shape that has a Depth of zero, you really cannot see any Depth within a flat object. Thus although you can first rotate your object, you must thereafter add Depth — and that’s what we will explore within this tutorial.
Learn how to apply 3-D depth to selected shapes in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.
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