PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

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.

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

Use a Mini Mini-Story to Tell Your Audience About Yourself

By Claudyne Wilder

You may be delivering a scientific paper, explaining to the salespeople how the new system will change the way they place orders, or reporting on a project that no one really understands. When you stand up in front of an audience with people who have no idea who you are, you need to let them in on you as a person. Tell them a secret about yourself so they feel connected to you. Decide whether to tell this mini mini-story as soon as you start talking, or perhaps after you present your executive summary.

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Filed Under: Guest Posts
Tagged as: Claudyne Wilder, Guest Post, Opinion, Presentation Skills, Stories

Show Hidden Files and Folders in Windows

To perform some tasks within Windows, you must be able to see all files and the folders — but there are chances that some of your files or folders may be hidden — this may not be so obvious and fortunately it’s easy to overcome this limitation. By default, all versions of Windows hide at least some files and folders — in this article, we’ll show you how you can unhide these files or folders within Windows 8, 7, Vista, and XP.

Learn how to make the hidden files and folders visible in Windows 8, 7, Vista, and XP.

Filed Under: PowerPoint All Versions
Tagged as: Microsoft Windows, Tutorials

Indezine News: March 26, 2013

In this issue, we explore the topic of picture copyrights again — this time we look at whether the person who provides permission is actually the original owner of the asset, or not! We also bring you Organic Rectangles, part of our hugely popular Organic Shapes series. Cindy Pearson talks about a free online PDF to PowerPoint converter — and you can look at our Eight Petals Circle shapes. Finally, you get to read and learn from our PowerPoint tutorials: PowerPoint 2011 for Mac users will learn about texture and picture fills for text. PowerPoint 2010 for Windows users can learn about compressing pictures and setting document resolutions — also how you can set text indentation using numerical values.

Read all this and more in Indezine News.

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Tagged as: Ezine, Indezine, News, PowerPoint

Learn PowerPoint 2010 for Windows: Reset Pictures

Once a picture is inserted within PowerPoint, any manipulations you make to that picture are strictly only on the surface. The appearance of the picture changes on the slide, but the unaltered picture is stored within your PowerPoint presentation. Essentially that’s good because if you make many changes to a picture — and then regret experimenting — then you can just reset your picture rather than starting all over again! There’s one caveat though — the option to reset any picture back to its original form works only if you have not run any compression options for your presentation.

Learn how to reset pictures in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2010
Tagged as: Pictures, PowerPoint 2010, Tutorials