PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

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

Use CDex to Add WAV Headers to MP3 Files

When working with adding sound within PowerPoint — be it adding sound to an animation or even adding sound to a slide transition, you’ll realize that only WAV files can be used as sounds in either of these scenarios. What’s more — the same WAV file is always larger in size than its MP3 alternative and since animation and transition sounds are always embedded within PowerPoint, you can end up with really large PowerPoint file sizes! Note that adding an MP3 file for animation or transition sounds is normally not doable since PowerPoint won’t accept a file that has an MP3 file extension — that’s unfortunate because MP3 files can be almost 10x smaller than WAV files.

Learn how to use CDex to add WAV headers to MP3 files.

Filed Under: Audio and Video
Tagged as: Sounds, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Charts Using the Invert if Negative Option

Does your chart has any data with negative values? PowerPoint by default uses the same fill color for negative values as is used for positive values. Of course, you can override this nature of PowerPoint using the Invert if Negative option, that we last explored at the end of our Changing Fills and Outlines of Charts tutorial. In this tutorial, let us explore this option further.

Learn how you can highlight negative values in a chart within PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

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

New Year PowerPoint Goodies

New Year celebrations commemorate the end of one year, and the beginning of the next year. New Year’s Day is celebrated worldwide on the night of December 31st, and continues until January 1st. To celebrate the New Year, we have put up this special page to provide you with a free collection of New Year PowerPoint templates, clip art, presentations, scrapbook backdrops, embellishments, Snagit stamps and more goodies.

Download New Year goodies here.

Filed Under: Clip Media
Tagged as: Clip Media, Graphics, PowerPoint, Snagit, Templates

Learn PowerPoint 2010 for Windows: Change Background Styles in the Slide Master

The Slide Master is something that influences the layout and look of all slides in your presentation. The simplest change you can make to your Slide Master is changing the Background Style used — so that all slide layouts and actual slides in your presentation use a new slide background. In this tutorial, we will explore how you can change between any of the 12 available Background Styles to apply to the Slide Master.

Learn how to change Background Styles within the Slide Master in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

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