PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Learn PowerPoint 2010 for Windows: Change Background Styles for Slide Layouts

We explored differences between the Slide Master and its Slide Layouts within the Slide Master view. Also you learned how you can change Background Styles within the Slide Master — when you do so, you may end up changing the Background Style for all dependent Slide Layouts. 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 2010 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2010
Tagged as: Masters, PowerPoint 2010, Templates, Tutorials

Searching Flickr for Creative Commons Pictures

There are a number of sites that provide royalty-free pictures that can be used in your PowerPoint presentations. One such site used to be Microsoft’s Office.com site. There are several other sites that provide free pictures. However, none of these resources can match the amazing breadth and variety of picture content you can find at Flickr, a photo-sharing site. Additionally, Flickr makes it easy for you to find pictures that you can legally use in your presentations since it lets you search for pictures within the Creative Common license.

Learn how to search Creative Commons pictures on Flickr.com.

Filed Under: Clip Media
Tagged as: Flickr, Graphics, Pictures, PowerPoint, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Changing Color for Negative Data Series of Charts

When you select the “Invert if negative option” for a chart that has any negative data values in a series, you end up seeing those negative series with an inverted gradient fill. Since there appears little difference between the gradient fill used for positive and negative values as far as appearance is concerned, you may wish your negative series to show in a solid color that contrasts with the positive series. This color can be red (or any other color). In this tutorial, let us learn how you can do so in PowerPoint 2011.

Learn how to change the color of negative value data series to a color of your choice in PowerPoint 2011’s charts.

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

New Year Clip Arts for PowerPoint

These New Year themed clip arts for PowerPoint are all silhouettes that are ready to use within your PowerPoint presentation slides. These have been provided in both black and white colors — both variations are contained within two separate sample presentations that you can download. Copy the graphics of your choice from the downloaded presentations, and paste them into your PowerPoint presentation slides. You can also paste them into a Word document, an Excel worksheet, or any other program.

Download these free New Year clip art graphics here.

Filed Under: Presentation Bank
Tagged as: Graphics, PowerPoint

Learn PowerPoint 2010 for Windows: Slide Layouts within Slide Master View

We already explored how you can change between different Slide Layouts in our Change Slide Layout in PowerPoint 2010 tutorial — when you access the Home tab of the Ribbon and click the Layout button, you see the Layout drop-down gallery. The number of Slide Layouts that you see in this gallery may differ from Theme to Theme — but with PowerPoint’s default Office Theme applied, you will see 9 layouts. 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 2010 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2010
Tagged as: Masters, PowerPoint 2010, Templates, Tutorials