PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Changing Axis Labels

Axis Labels, as the name suggests are labels for the Categories and Values on your chart axes. So where do these labels come from? Category axis labels reflect the Category names within your data (typically within an Excel sheet). Values on the other hand are determined by PowerPoint based upon the maximum value in your data — the minimum value is always set to zero. Of course you can change the Minimum and Maximum values if you want.

Learn how to change the axis labels in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

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

Add and Rename Slide Masters in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows

A Slide Master is the part of your presentation that influences everything from the slide background to the fonts used for text. All slides in your presentation may have different layouts but they all share a common look — that look is provided by the Slide Master. Every presentation has at least one Slide Master. However, if you constantly keep adding slides from other presentations, you may or may not have added more Slide Masters to your presentation. So how do you know how many Slide Masters your presentation contains? And how do you add another one? In fact, why do you need another Slide Master at all?

Learn how to add and rename Slide Masters in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Masters, PowerPoint 2010, Templates, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Add and Rename Ribbon Tabs

The Ribbon that you see within the PowerPoint 2013 user interface was designed to solve a problem — older versions of PowerPoint that were populated with menus and toolbars ended with so many submenus and toolbars that many users did not know if a specific feature even existed in PowerPoint. Even worse, the toolbars could occupy so much screen real estate that you would be left with a much smaller area for your slide! Enter the Ribbon which did help resolve some of these problems — but it came with a problem of its own: it did not provide customization options when first introduced in PowerPoint 2007. This was quickly rectified in PowerPoint 2010 and 2013.

Learn how to add and rename Ribbon tabs in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Tagged as: PowerPoint 2013, Tutorials

Slides Made Simple: Conversation with Adam Noar

  Adam Noar is founder of Presentation Panda, a presentation design firm that specializes in creating and delivering professional presentations for startups, large businesses and individuals. Adam has been designing professional presentations for 10 years, delivering hundreds along the way to senior executives at Fortune 500 companies, and to large and diverse audiences at marketing events around the world.

In this conversation, Adam discusses his Slides Made Simple book.

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Tagged as: Adam Noar, Books, Interviews, PowerPoint, Presentation Skills

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Change Major and Minor Units of Value Axis

Major and Minor units are the intervals at which the axis spaces itself. As the name itself suggests, you can choose to space the axis at two levels: Major and Minor. By default, PowerPoint sets the Major and Minor units on its own — many times, this may be exactly what you need. At other times, you may want to set your own intervals for the Major and Minor units. Before you do so, a word of caution — do remember that any of these changes can have three implications.

Learn how to change the Major and Minor units of Value axis in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

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