PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: New Format Task Panes

One of the pet peeves that many slide designers had with previous versions of PowerPoint was the large dialog boxes that sometimes completely covered the slide area. If you were trying to make some changes to your paragraph spacing — or even altering the size or position of a shape — you almost always needed to close or move the large dialog box to see the changes you made! And that was certainly not in tune with the modern interface you saw within everywhere else in PowerPoint! The new PowerPoint 2013 finally addresses this issue with the Format Task Panes, which offer options that enable the user to create and customize objects more intuitively.

Learn about new Format Task Panes in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Duplicate, Rename, and Edit Slide Layouts

Any slide in a PowerPoint presentation is always based on one of the available Slide Layouts (we call these just Layouts for the rest of this tutorial). You can either choose a layout when you add a new slide — or even change the layout of your existing slides. These available layouts seem to cover most types of slides — still, you may sometimes want to create a new layout based on your individual requirements.

Learn how to duplicate, rename, and edit slide layouts in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

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

Visual Language Online Workshop: Conversation with Robert Lane

    Robert Lane is a presentation design consultant specializing in visually interactive communication techniques. He has authored several books including Relational Presentation: A Visually Interactive Approach and Selling Visually with PowerPoint.

In this conversation, Robert discusses his upcoming Visual Language online workshop, being held in July 2013.

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Tagged as: Interviews, PowerPoint, Presentation Skills, Robert Lane, Training

Office 365 or Office 2019?

Office 365 is a well-known brand for Microsoft now. But you may have also heard about their other different, but still similar product offerings such as Microsoft Office 2019, or other versions for the desktop, for both Windows and Mac. Are desktop versions the same as Office 365? Well, there is no straight yes or no answer! But it does matter because many people can’t understand where the distinctions are. Let’s first find out what’s confusing with all this terminology

Explore the differences and similarities between Microsoft Office 365 and Microsoft Office Perpetual.

Filed Under: PowerPoint All Versions
Tagged as: Microsoft Office, Office 2011, Office 2013, Office 2016, Office 2019, Office 365, Office for Mac

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Status Bar

The Status Bar is a thin strip located at the bottom of the PowerPoint 2013 interface. This area provides information about the active slide, and also provides several View options. To work with options in the Status Bar, you must have a presentation open in PowerPoint — otherwise the options within the Status Bar will be grayed out.

Learn about options available in the Status Bar within PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Tagged as: PowerPoint 2013, Tutorials