PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Formatting Connectors within Flowcharts in PowerPoint for Windows

Once you add multiple connectors that emanate from a Decision shape, you need to help your users decide where they branch their thought or work processes within the flowchart. This is typically done by adding a Yes or No caption to the connectors that output from a Decision shape. So how do you add these captions?

Learn about formatting connectors within flowcharts.

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

PowerPoint and Presenting News: July 23, 2013

Do your PowerPoint animations play a little jerky? Especially in newer versions? Then we may have a solution for you! We also discuss basic flowcharting — and also what do all those flowchart symbols mean? All flowchart tutorials are intended for Office for Windows users — and techniques explained will work in PowerPoint, Word, and Excel. For Mac users, we show how you can customize your menus and the Ribbon in PowerPoint 2011.

Read Indezine’s PowerPoint and Presenting News.

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Tagged as: Ezine, Indezine, News, PowerPoint

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Spell Check

If your slides contain text, and most slides do — then, there is a chance that some words may be misspelled! Yes, you can do a manual check by proof-reading all your slides one by one. Alternatively, you can run a spell check on the entire presentation, and make corrections based on suggestions provided by PowerPoint. Here’s how you can do a spell check in PowerPoint.

Learn how to run a spell check on your entire presentation in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

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

Shift Key Fun

PowerPoint provides several ways to arrange, position, or resize your slide objects – and the way these work can either save you hours of work, or provide you with enough time to waste. In this post, we will explore one such trick –- you first select an object – and then press the Shift key. While keeping the Shift key pressed, you then press the arrow keys (Up, Down, Left, or Right) to make objects resize or reposition.

Explore various Shift key shortcuts.

Filed Under: PowerPoint All Versions
Tagged as: PowerPoint, Techniques

Using Flowchart and Connector Shapes Together in PowerPoint for Windows

Connectors are lines that link different flowchart shapes (or any shapes you place within your Microsoft Office documents). They are different from conventional lines because connectors, as the name implies stay connected to the shapes they are linked from. Move any “connected” shape, and the connectors move and reorient with the shapes automatically — we will explore this further in this tutorial.

Learn how to use Flowchart and Connector shapes together.

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