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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.
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These full screen textured pictures cover the entire slide area and are not meant to be seamless, tiling, or repeating. These organic pictures have been made available in both 4:3 (standard) and 16:9 (widescreen) aspect ratios. Just add them to individual slides as required, or even better — add them to the Slide Master. Typically, any picture you add has no transparency in PowerPoint but that omission is easily rectified by adding the picture as a fill for a large rectangle that covers the entire slide.
Download and use these textures to make your slides.
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PowerPoint’s Text Fill gallery offers you with various text fill options like solid color fill, picture fill, gradient fill, texture fill etc. Additionally, another fill option is available for your text — this is the pattern fill, and we will show you where you can find this option. Just like any other text fill, the appearance of text filled with a pattern depends upon certain factors like the type of pattern, colors used to create the pattern, and also the size of text, etc.
Learn how to add a pattern fill to the selected text in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.
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These scribble custom textures may appear like normal diagonal lines, but they are more than just diagonal or even lines. Look closer and you’ll see that all lines are not straight like drawn with a ruler — rather they are organic and textured — almost like you scribbling lines with a pencil!
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Even though you can always change bullet styles in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac, there may be occasions when you don’t want to really change one bullet style to another — but want to alter the bullet size to make it little smaller or bigger than the text following it. Also, possibly you need a particular color to be used for the bullets. In this tutorial, we are going to show you how you can change the size and color of the bullets.
Learn how to change the bullet size and color in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
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