PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Change Background Styles for Slide Layouts

When you change Background Styles within the Slide Master, the Background Style for all dependent Slide Layouts will change. However, it is not necessary for all your Slide Layouts to possess the same Background Style as the Slide Master — or even another Slide Layout. Each Layout can have its own independent Background Style, as you will learn in the rest of this tutorial.

Learn how to apply Background Styles to individual Slide Layouts in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

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

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Advanced Eyedropper Options

We have already explored the new Eyedropper tool in PowerPoint 2013 that lets you sample colors from any object within your PowerPoint slide and use that same color as a fill or outline for a shape. You can follow the same principle to modify text fills and outlines. The technique is little different if you want to pick an exact color from somewhere outside PowerPoint.

Learn about advanced options with the new Eyedropper tool in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Color, Fills, Outline, PowerPoint 2013, Tutorials

Attributing Creative Commons Pictures in your PowerPoint Slides

Millions of pictures are available online within the Creative Commons license – many of these pictures can be found on Flickr – and typically, most Creative Commons licensed content on Flickr can be searched within three useable categories. You can therefore decide which of these license options work for you, which pictures are available within any of these license options – and then download the picture. That’s when you need to think about another important aspect of the Creative Commons license – and that is attribution.

Learn how to attribute Creative Commons pictures in your PowerPoint slides.

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Tagged as: Flickr, Pictures, PowerPoint, Tutorials

Speak Concisely

By Claudyne Wilder

Speaking concisely and to the point is a much-needed skill in business. Presenters who are brief and on target appear more knowledgeable than those who ramble from detail to detail. Many presenters believe the opposite: that the more they share, the better everyone will think they know the subject. That is just not true.

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Tagged as: Claudyne Wilder, Guest Post, Opinion, PowerPoint

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Slide Layouts within Slide Master View

While exploring how you can change the Slide Layout of any given slide(s), we have seen that when you access the Home tab of the Ribbon and click the Layout button, the Layout drop-down gallery opens. The number of Slide Layouts that you see in this gallery may differ depending upon the Theme of your active presentation — but with PowerPoint’s default Office Theme applied, you will see 11 layouts in PowerPoint 2011. So, where do these Slide Layouts come from? What influences how they look, or how the placeholders within them are laid out?

Explore Slide Layouts within Slide Master view in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

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Tagged as: Office for Mac, PowerPoint 2011, Tutorials