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The AutoCorrect feature in PowerPoint corrects common typos and spelling errors in text within your PowerPoint slides automatically as you type. Have you ever wondered how PowerPoint knows that a particular word is spelled wrong? Does it refer to some resource as a reference? Also do you find some AutoCorrect options such as the capitalization of some words unnecessary? Also, researchers working in different scientific fields actually have to use some words that cannot start with a capital letter, and the first thing they want to do is turn off the automatic capitalization. Yes, it’s possible to make AutoCorrect work just the way you want it to — as long as you know where to change these options.
Explore AutoCorrect options in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
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When a picture is inserted on your PowerPoint slide, you are essentially doing a task that is frequent and commonplace — and to you, this may look like an activity that’s simple. But behind this simple task, there are options you may not be aware of. You know that pictures located in any of your folders can be inserted on a slide. However, have you wondered about the relation a picture on the slide has with the original picture located in your folder? Yet, there are options within PowerPoint that let you maintain the relation between the original picture and the inserted picture — for example, if you make changes to your original picture, PowerPoint will update its copy on the slide!
Learn about options available for inserting or linking pictures in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.
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Did you know that the Shift key had so many tricks up its sleeve, including some that will drive your tables in the opposite direction? Don’t you want to explore three more free, handwritten fonts? And then we teach you about flowcharting in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows. Mac users of PowerPoint can learn about spell checking. And finally, do look at discussions and templates of this week!
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What do you think about when you say the word “shape” aloud? Do you imagine a square, a circle, a heart, or even a smiley shape? Yes, all those are shapes — as are the hundreds of other recognizable outlines or figures that we call shapes in our everyday parlance. Shapes play a significant role within any slides you create for your PowerPoint presentation. In more ways that you may want to count, shapes are like the building blocks of almost anything you do on your PowerPoint slides — PowerPoint 2013 provides hundreds of shapes efficiently categorized into 9 types.
Learn about different types of shapes in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.
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The AutoCorrect feature in PowerPoint fixes a number of common typos and spelling errors within your slides — automatically as you type any text. AutoCorrect also lets you map specific keyboard sequences to a symbol, such as replacing two en dashes with an em dash the moment you hit the Enter key after the second en dash. The best feature within AutoCorrect is that it works so seamlessly that you may not even know that it is working behind the scenes. And this unawareness about AutoCorrect can ironically also cause some problems! You may for example not want the two en dashes to automatically change to an em dash — in this tutorial you will learn how you can take advantage of AutoCorrect, and also how you can override its options as required.
Learn about the AutoCorrect option in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
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