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PowerPoint Concept Slides: Organic Ovals

Drawing a perfect oval with just a pencil on paper is easier than drawing a perfect circle – but remove the word “perfect”, and your drawing becomes less stressful – to you and also to whoever your audience may be! And then dawned the computer era – where everything was so “perfect” again – with flawless curves, reflecting unflawed geometry! Do you yearn for the imperfection? You can easily achieve this hand drawn look with our Organic Shapes series. Ovals are just one of the common shapes that we doodled on paper – and then reproduced as native PowerPoint shapes for you to use. Including rectangles, our Organic Shapes collection contains 8 shape types – each type has 10 variants – so you end up with 80 hand-drawn shape options! These shapes will help break the monotony of text heavy slides, and assist you in explaining difficult concepts better to your audiences. Using these organic shapes also convinces your audiences that you care enough about them to make the slides look appealing and comprehensible. What’s more, these shapes are also so much fun to use!

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Tagged as: Design, Graphics, PowerPoint, Presentation Samples

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Text Outline

Text outlines in PowerPoint are the borders around your text that can be used to make your slide titles, or sub-titles to look prominent and stylish. The text outline may or may not be turned on by default depending upon the Theme applied to the presentation, or the WordArt Style applied. Still, you can apply and edit text outlines in the same way as you do with text fills. PowerPoint’s Text Outline option provides you with plenty of editing options for your text outlines, follow these steps to explore more.

Learn how to make changes to the appearance of text outline in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

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

PowerPoint Concept Slides: Organic Honeycombs

Honeycombs are formed when you place hexagons next to each other – and these hand drawn hexagon shapes are great to create your own honeycombs! It’s become a passion for us to create shapes that have no straight lines or perfect, geometrical appearances – all part of our Organic Shapes series. Honeycombs are just one of the common shapes that we doodled on paper – and then reproduced as native PowerPoint shapes for you to use. Including honeycombs, our Organic Shapes collection contains 8 shape types – each type has 10 variants – so you end up with 80 hand-drawn shape options! These shapes will help break the monotony of text heavy slides, and assist you in explaining difficult concepts better to your audiences. Using these organic shapes also convinces your audiences that you care enough about them to make the slides look appealing and comprehensible. What’s more, these shapes are also so much fun to use!

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Tagged as: Design, Graphics, PowerPoint, Presentation Samples

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Slides Pane

PowerPoint 2013’s work area below the Ribbon continues to be tri-paned — these three panes comprise the Slides pane, the Slide area, and the Notes pane. The Slides Pane is the thin strip on the left side of the PowerPoint 2013 interface that contains thumbnails of all your slides. Long time PowerPoint users will recollect that this pane used to be twin tabbed in all older versions — other than the Slides pane, you could also access the Outline pane. The Outline pane has been removed in PowerPoint 2013 — since there’s just one pane, there are no tabs for this pane — by default you can just see the Slides pane now.

Learn about the Slides pane in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Tagged as: PowerPoint 2013, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Pattern Fill for Text

Do you want to create some text that needs to be printed in black and white? Or maybe you need some text that has awesome contrast — in either case, text with a solid color fill is your best option — other text fill types including pictures, gradients, and textures rarely have that sort of contrast. However, there is another fill option available for your text — the Pattern fill that lets you add contrast — and is yet different from the regular solid fills.

Learn how to add a pattern fill to the selected text in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

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