PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Creating PowerPoint Outlines in Microsoft Word 2013

An outline encompasses the text content within your presentation slides. In some ways, this text is the story of your presentation. In a less poetic description, you may just describe the outline as the sequential structure of text content that you use in a presentation. Whatever description you prefer, the outline does form an ideal starting point for a bunch of slides! PowerPoint can import outlines created in many applications and we have already shown you how you can create outlines for PowerPoint presentations in Word 2010 and Word 2007. In this tutorial, we’ll explore the procedure of creating a structured outline in Word 2013.

Learn how to create outlines for presentations in Microsoft Word 2013.

Filed Under: PowerPoint All Versions
Tagged as: Outline, PowerPoint 2013, Tutorials, Word

PowerPoint and Presenting News: May 14, 2013

In this issue, we introduce a collection of Map Pin graphics — while you can use these for maps, you are free to use them anywhere else you need a pin graphic! Patrice-Anne Rutledge discusses her new book, PowerPoint 2013 Absolute Beginner’s Guide. We also bring you a great offer in partnership with PowerFinish — something that has been a very successful promo in past years. Finally, you can learn about the super amazing hierarchial Guide options in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows — also learn about best practices for working with Guides. For PowerPoint 2011 for Mac users, we continue looking at the cool stuff you can do with videos (movie clips).

Read Indezine’s PowerPoint and Presenting News.

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Tagged as: Ezine, Indezine, News, PowerPoint

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Add Headers and Footers in Slides

The terms Header and Footer arrived from the word processing programs. These denote repeated elements that show at the top and bottom of every page. Headers and Footers are different from each other on PowerPoint slides only considering their position — the Footer is a line of text that usually appears at the bottom of a slide.

Learn how to Headers and Footers in slides in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

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

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Text Placeholders vs. Text Boxes

When you explore text containers in PowerPoint, you’ll find that there are essentially three kinds: text placeholders, text boxes, and shapes — we explain shapes in our comprehensive section on Shapes tutorials — let us now look at the other two text container types. Aren’t text placeholders and text boxes the same? Are they really different? And why should we bother even if they are different? All these are valid questions, and the answers to them form one of the most important foundations in learning to create more structured presentations. We will now explore the relationship between text boxes and text placeholders in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

Learn about the differences between text placeholders and text boxes in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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

Handmade Slides: Map Pins for PowerPoint

These “map pin” graphics are already placed in PowerPoint slides – just copy them and paste within a slide that already contains a map to create a look that lets you highlight a location on your map! Other than maps, you can also use these map pins like regular push pins so that a picture, shape, or anything else appears as if it has been pushed onto a surface, board, or wall with a pin!

Download and use these map pins in your slides.

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