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Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Adding Commands to Custom Groups

If you want to customize your Ribbon in PowerPoint 2013, you’ll want to add some of the commands that were not placed by default within any of the Ribbon tabs. Or maybe you want a particular command available on the Home tab of your Ribbon. Whatever your intent may be, you cannot place any commands within the existing groups that are built within PowerPoint. You first need to add a custom group within any of the tabs available in the Ribbon. Thereafter, you need to populate them with commands.

Learn how to add commands to custom groups in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Tagged as: PowerPoint 2013, Tutorials

PowerPoint Concept Slides: Three Petals Circle

These Three Petals Circle graphics are part of our Petal Circles series that add stylized tips to your circle shapes. These two tip styles: Rounded and Pointed make your circles look different from conventional segmented circle graphics. They also break the monotony of text heavy slides, and help you explain concepts better to your audiences. Using these circle 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

Changing Location of Slide Numbers in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows

Insert Slide Numbers on your slides, and you may discover that the location of the Slide Number changes depending upon the active Theme of your slides. With some Themes, the Slide Number may be placed at the bottom right — with other Themes, it may be located at the top right, or even the bottom center. As you can observe, the location of the Slide Number may seem to be influenced by the Theme — and that’s almost true. However, a Theme is a larger concept — it’s only the Slide Master within your Theme that’s influencing the position of your Slide Numbers.

Learn how to change the location of Slide Numbers in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Masters, PowerPoint 2010, Templates, Tutorials

Planning Makes Presentations Effective

By Dan Davenport

Large and small companies today express themselves in many ways, including presentations. Sometimes well, sometimes not. The best way to make sure ideas are understood is to organize goals and thoughts before attempting to create a presentation. As any good builder would tell you, you need good plans to create a good home.

Image: Yay Images

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Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Add Secondary Value Axis

Sometimes just one Value axis is not enough! Of course that observation is only true if your data demands a second axis. Our example data for this tutorial pertains to the average temperature and rainfall in London across the 12 calendar months of a year. The temperature is depicted in Celsius and the rainfall is in millimeters. What you should note carefully is that the value range of temperature spans between 30 and 70, whereas the range for rainfall is in between 0 to 12 (approximately). A chart that results from this data doesn’t live up to the comparison — it’s almost like comparing apples and oranges — we are comparing items that cannot be compared!

Learn how to add a Secondary Value axis to charts in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

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