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Keyboard Sequences: PowerPoint 2007 for Windows

Many users are familiar with keyboard shortcuts — yet there are no real shortcuts for tasks users need to perform all the time — this includes changing PowerPoint 2007’s views or even aligning or reordering slide objects. Thankfully, there are many keyboard sequences that work for these tasks. Most sequences entail that you press two buttons — and then press a third button after a moment. So if the keyboard sequence is listed as Alt+S > H — then you must press the Alt and S keys together — let go those two keys and then press the H key.

Explore our listing of keyboard sequences for PowerPoint 2007 for Windows.

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Tagged as: PowerPoint 2007, Tutorials

PowerPoint and Presenting News: September 17, 2013

In this issue, we bring you our revamped Sticky Tape collection – this works like the real sticky tapes but is limited to your slides! Have you wondered why there are no keyboard shortcuts to change views or even align objects in PowerPoint? We have no solutions but we got something close enough to work – we call these keyboard sequences! And we have an amazing interview with Tom Howell on how he creates fancy videos using PowerPoint. Claudyne Wilder is featured again with an awesome article on holding your audience’s attention. PowerPoint 2013 for Windows users can learn about aligning and distributing shapes. PowerPoint 2011 for Mac users can learn about using proofing dictionaries of foreign languages – and how they can edit chart data. And finally, do not miss the new discussions and templates of this week!

Read Indezine’s PowerPoint and Presenting News.

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Adding and Deleting Chart Series and Categories in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac

Any new chart that you add within PowerPoint 2011 has its roots in Excel — all the data for the chart is also stored within an Excel sheet. Editing chart data within Excel involves a little more than just changing values. There may be times when you want to add a new Series or Category — in chart terminology, Series are represented by individual columns within your Excel sheet — these show up as the columns within a typical column chart. Categories on the other hand are essentially a set of series. Let’s now learn how we can add and delete Series and Categories.

Learn how to add and delete Series and Categories for charts in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

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

Keyboard Sequences: PowerPoint 2010 for Windows

Many users are familiar with keyboard shortcuts — yet there are no real shortcuts for tasks users need to perform all the time — this includes changing PowerPoint 2010’s views or even aligning or reordering slide objects. Thankfully, there are many keyboard sequences that work for these tasks. Most sequences entail that you press two buttons — and then press a third button after a moment. So if the keyboard sequence is listed as Alt+S > H — then you must press the Alt and S keys together — let go those two keys and then press the H key.

Explore our listing of keyboard sequences for PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

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Tagged as: PowerPoint 2010, Tutorials

Space Objects Equally in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows

With many objects, your slide may end up looking crowded — and that’s certainly something you do not want to happen. At times though, your slide may appear cluttered even if you really do not have too many objects — and this can happen because the objects are not spaced out well in relation to each other. You obviously want your slide objects to be properly spaced — and in earlier versions of PowerPoint, you could achieve proper spacing with the help of Align and Distribute options — and these options are still available. However, you can now space your objects merely by dragging them around in PowerPoint 2013, with the help of Smart Guides.

Learn how to space out objects equally in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Tagged as: PowerPoint 2013, Shapes, Tutorials