PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Text Alignment for Table Cells in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac

An individual cell within a PowerPoint Table acts just like any other text box as far as its content or even appearance is concerned. Therefore, all text alignment options used for text containers work with Table cells too with a few exceptions. Text alignment options for Table cell content can be found within the Table Layout tab of the Ribbon; look for them in the Alignment group.

Learn about text alignment in Table cells in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

You May Also Like: Distribute Table Rows and Columns in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac | Merge and Split Table Cells in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac | Table Options in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac

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

PowerPoint and Presenting News: January 14, 2014

In this issue, we explore another callout style that you can use within your PowerPoint slides. We then show you how you can edit PowerPoint files on SkyDrive using a foreign language interface. Allison Wahl of Brainshark discusses the 2014 Sharkie Awards, and how you can participate and possibly win by uploading your slide deck. We also bring you animated slides on Sankranti, an Indian harvest festival. PowerPoint 2013 for Windows users can learn about some of the Merge Shapes commands including Subtract, and how they can convert their text into shapes. PowerPoint 2011 for Mac users can learn about Table Styles, distributing rows and columns in tables, and selecting them. 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, Indezine, News, PowerPoint

Convert Text to Shapes by Fragmenting in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows

PowerPoint 2013 enables you to use its repertoire of Shapes to create some amazing artwork. Its Merge Shape commands allow you to create complex shapes by merging several simple shapes. Additionally, these options also let you convert your text to shapes so that you can see the text even on a computer that does not have a particular font installed. We already showed you how you can convert an entire text box to one shape using the Intersect command. However, if you want your resultant shapes to be individual for each character, then you will need to use the Fragment option, as explained in this tutorial.

Learn how to convert PowerPoint text into individual, editable shapes using the Fragment command in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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

Add Sound / Music to a PDF

There are times when you have to share your PowerPoint presentation as a PDF – mainly because you want to send a non-editable file format to someone. However any sound or music clips within your original PowerPoint file do not get included within the converted PDF. At other times, you may just want to add some sound or music to an existing PDF, even if that PDF was not created from a PowerPoint file.

Learn how to add sound/music to a PDF.

Filed Under: PowerPoint All Versions
Tagged as: Music, PDF, PowerPoint, Sounds, Tutorials

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