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Resizing Shapes in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows

Once you insert your shapes on a slide, you may realize that it’s not the perfect size — did you want it larger, or a wee bit smaller? However you want your shapes resized, it’s easy to make the size change in a jiffy, right inside PowerPoint 2013. Like most Microsoft Office programs, PowerPoint follows the concept of selection, then action — so the first thing you need to do for a shape that you want resized is to select it! Any shape that is selected shows several handles.

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Learn how to resize shapes in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Tagged as: PowerPoint 2013, Shapes, Tutorials

Bing Image Search by Size

When you search for pictures on Bing’s Image Search site, the resultant page provides various filters to fine-tune and narrow down your results. These filters are located in the top area of the Search Results page. Bing’s Image Search by Image Size filter allows you to search pictures of various resolutions. Essentially, there are six size options.

Learn how to search images in Bing using the built in Size filters.

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Tagged as: Bing, Pictures, PowerPoint, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Creating and Editing AutoCorrect Entries

The AutoCorrect feature is dependent on a small list of words and phrases stored on your computer. This list contains two columns called Replace and With — for example the Replace entry for teh will correspond to the With entry containing the word the. Although this list works for PowerPoint users, what you must know is that this AutoCorrect list is set globally across all Microsoft Office programs such as Word, Excel, Outlook, etc. If you add, edit, or delete entries within this AutoCorrect list, all changes will be reflected beyond PowerPoint.

Learn how to create and edit AutoCorrect entries in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

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

Bing Image Search

While Google may have the largest and most up-to-date search index, other search providers like Microsoft’s Bing need to up the ante by providing more usability options so that visitors can get more optimum and narrowed-down results. And that’s exactly what Microsoft seems to have done with Bing’s Image Search options. Everything is streamlined and you can filter and sort results with so much dexterity; it’s almost like you are sorting numbers in Excel – just that this is also so much more visual!

Learn how you can search images using Bing’s amazing image search functions.

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Tagged as: Bing, Graphics, Pictures, PowerPoint, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Insert Shapes

Shapes are the building blocks of whatever you create in PowerPoint. In fact, even a text box that you add to your slide is essentially a shape that has a no fill. Once you get proficient with shapes, you can do so much more — for example, you can combine multiple shapes to create fancier shapes. However, you need to start with the very basics — and there’s so much to learn even at this foundation level. The first task you need to do is to insert a shape — fortunately PowerPoint makes it easy to do this task. To insert a new shape on your PowerPoint slide, follow these steps.

Learn how to insert Shapes in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Tagged as: PowerPoint 2013, Shapes, Tutorials