PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Handmade Slides: Map Pins for PowerPoint – Flag Pins

We’ve already brought you so many map pin styles — and now to make this entire series complete, we bring you more than 200 map pins — one for each country in the world! These map pins have the flag of the country placed within the pin — use these map pins on world or continent maps to show which countries your business extends to. Of course you can use it for any number of other reasons. These map pins can be placed on a map to show a location — and similarly multiple map pins can be placed to show multiple locations. It’s easy with this complete collection of map pins (more than 300 map pins in this collection). The map pin graphics are already placed in PowerPoint slides you will download — just copy the individual pin you want, and then paste the pin within your own slides that already contain a map.

Download and use these map pins in your slides.

Filed Under: Presentation Bank
Tagged as: Design, Graphics, PowerPoint, Presentation Samples

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Using SmartArt for Simple Flowcharts

While you can create flowcharts of all types in Microsoft Office applications quite easily using techniques explained in our Basic Flowcharts in Microsoft Office tutorial, there are ways in which you can create linear, non-branched flowcharts even more easily with just one click! These one-click flowcharts let you convert a bulleted list to a flowchart in an instant using the SmartArt diagramming feature. Before we proceed further, let us tell you that these SmartArt flowcharts are only useful for very simple concepts – they also have several limitations.

Learn how to use SmartArt to quickly create simple flowcharts.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2013
Tagged as: Diagrams, Flowcharts, Graphics, Office 2013, PowerPoint 2013, SmartArt, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Insert Picture

Pictures show and words tell — both are important yet seeing is a much more important part of presentations. Presentations, by their very nature are meant to be seen since they are projected, displayed, or broadcast — all of these are visual media. Speaking is important too, but you can be more effectively heard if your content includes both text and pictures. Adding pictures to your PowerPoint 2013 slide is a great way to add some visual detail./>

Learn how to insert a picture on a slide in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2013
Tagged as: Pictures, PowerPoint 2013, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: More Spelling Options

While you can summon the Spelling dialog box and run a spell check on your entire presentation, there are other ways to run a spell check. Also, there are some best practices that will help you understand how you can proof your text content better. This tutorial contains a collection of these tips and practices so that your spell check experiences can be more intuitive.

Explore more spelling options in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

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

3 More Free and Favorite Handwritten Fonts

After last week’s three handwritten fonts, we are back with three more — yes, we like both the number three and handwritten fonts! These three fonts are all free and so readable, even when you use a smaller text size. Enjoy using these fonts in your slides or anywhere else — do remember though that some of these fonts will not travel with your slides (not all fonts support embedding) — so use only if you are presenting your slides on the same computer where these fonts were installed.

Explore our favorite free handwritten fonts – the second set.

Filed Under: Fonts
Tagged as: Fonts, PowerPoint