PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Widescreen Defaults in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows

When you open PowerPoint 2013 for the first time, you’ll see that all slide examples in the Presentation Gallery are in widescreen aspect ratio with 16:9 proportions. This is in complete contrast to the typical standard slides with 4:3 aspect ratios that you saw in all older PowerPoint versions. For many of us who are living in a world with widescreen displays and projectors, this may be a blessing — but many others may not feel as blessed! Worse, there’s no obvious way for you to change these defaults so that you can always have 4:3 slides rather than 16:9. Microsoft probably made this change since widescreen is the common format for current displays nowadays — but to provide no option to choose an aspect ratio at the time of creating a slide is akin to providing zero control to the user.

Learn about default 16:9 widescreen slide option in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Tagged as: PowerPoint 2013, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Selecting Text

When you use PowerPoint or any other Microsoft Office program, you can work with a particular object only if it has been selected. For example, you need to select a shape to make changes to that particular shape on your PowerPoint slide. Similarly, you must select a chart to edit it. And yes, you can select a text container object such as a text placeholder, a text box, or even a shape — and then make changes to its position, formatting, size, etc. However, this changes the entire text container, and leaves the actual text content largely unchanged. To make changes to the actual text, you first need to select the text and then make changes by using the options available within the Home tab of the Ribbon or within the Format Text dialog box.

Explore various ways of selecting text in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

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

Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows: Presentation Gallery

When launched, PowerPoint typically 2013 opens a Presentation Gallery. The Presentation Gallery provides several ways to start your next presentation using a template, a Theme, a recent presentation, a not-so-recent presentation, or even a blank presentation. These and other choices are explained in this tutorial.

Explore the new Presentation Gallery in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Learn PowerPoint 2010 for Windows: Restoring Earlier Versions

When you are working on a PowerPoint presentation, the AutoSave option, if enabled, automatically saves your file at the specified time increments. This way you get to replace your current file with an earlier version. This can be very useful if you want to go back to the state of your slides an hour ago, or even two hours ago without having to use any Undo option.

Learn how to restore earlier versions of your current presentation in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

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Concept Slides: Segment Triangle

After our successful Segment Circles series, we bring you the Segment Polygons series. We start with this Segment Triangle slide: a triangle that includes three equal, perfectly sized segments that you can use to effectively illustrate “three-in-one” or “one-for-three” relationships. Each individual segment is a separate shape that can be filled in with a picture, a gradient, a solid fill, or any of the other PowerPoint fill types. In the example shown in the download presentation, we used all three pictures related to nature. Use this Segment Triangles in your presentation and share your feedback with us!

Download and use these slides in your presentations.

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Tagged as: Graphics, PowerPoint, Presentation Samples