PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Using Pictures as Bullets

For your bulleted paragraphs in PowerPoint, you can always choose any of the default PowerPoint bullet styles. Additionally, you can also customize the bullet size and color as required. And you can also use any picture as a bullet — of course, for picture bullets to work, your picture needs to be small, no larger than a medium-sized dot. And it helps if it has transparent areas. If all this talk about the size and transparency of a picture bullet makes you dizzy, don’t worry because PowerPoint has number of picture bullets built within the program!

Learn how to use pictures as bullets in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

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

Learn PowerPoint 2010 for Windows: Text Outline

Your text in PowerPoint may or may not show an outline depending upon the Theme applied to the presentation or the WordArt Style applied. You can change or edit text outlines in the same way as you change text fills. PowerPoint’s Text Outline option provides you with plenty of editing options for your text outlines, as you can explore in the following steps.

Learn how to make changes to the appearance of text outline in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Lines, PowerPoint 2010, Text, Tutorials

Presentation Summit 2012 and 2013: Conversation with Rick Altman

Rick Altman is a presentation consultant based out of Pleasanton, CA. Rick has been hosting end-user conferences since 1989, and is well known as the host of the annual Presentation Summit conference. He has a strong sense of the needs of the presentation community. Rick has authored 15 books on presentations and graphics, including Why Most PowerPoint Presentations Suck.

In this conversation, Rick discusses the just concluded tenth edition of his Presentation Summit conference — and the next conference to be held in 2013.

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Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Using Characters as Bullets

There are several options in PowerPoint to change the appearance of your bullet points — you can change the bullet styles, format the bullet size and its color, and use pictures as bullets. In addition, you can use a character from any font, including dingbats as a bullet. Dingbats are fonts which contain decorative symbols rather than alphabets and numbers. Wingdings is a good example of a dingbats font — it is installed by default on all Mac OS computers that have Microsoft Office applications such as PowerPoint installed.

Learn how to use characters as bullets in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

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

Indezine News: October 23, 2012

In this issue, you’ll find our new scribble textures! If you have seen all the fancy text with scribbled diagonal lines, then you can now make this effect right inside PowerPoint. Nancy Duarte provides Indezine readers with an exclusive conversation about her new book, HBR Guide to Persuasive Presentations. Tom Mucciolo returns with another amazing piece called Slides and Speakers. M. S. Ramgopal tell you how you can choose and use stock photos and diagrams wisely in your slides. And if you ever thought that Steve Jobs will teach you PowerPoint, then you were wrong — and ironically right if you lived in Bangkok? Finally, Charlie Caper and Erik Rosales go to a land beyond PowerPoint or any slide-ware to create magical presentations. There are plenty of other tutorials — learn about text fills in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows. And if you are a PowerPoint for Mac user, learn about formatting bulleted lists.

Read the newsletter here.

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