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Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Re-Order Animations

Animations are always numbered in the order as you apply them. So if you first animate a shape and then add animation to the text placeholder — then that’s going to be the sequence in which they will animate. However, it is possible to re-order your animations as needed. You may want to consider re-ordering of animations so that the sequencing happens as per some aesthetics and logic — also Entrance and Exit animations, if applied need to be the first and last animations for any slide object. PowerPoint’s Re-Order options for animations let you play with this sequencing.

Learn how to re-order animations on your slides in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

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What Do You Add to the Talk?

By Claudyne Wilder

It is the day of your talk. You’re ready. You stand up and reel off all the statistics on the slides you so carefully created. As you point out the numbers, you begin to feel uneasy. You don’t know what’s wrong, but your audience seems a bit detached. What’s the problem? You’re telling them the information on the slides. What more could they want?

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Learn PowerPoint 2010 for Windows: Font Dialog Box

Fonts are more than just pretty typefaces although even your choice of typefaces can have a profound effect on how readable your text is to the audience. We have already explored how you can format font styles to make your text bold, italicized, underlined, etc. Beyond these basic offerings, PowerPoint 2010’s Font dialog box offers some advanced format options for selected text. You can still change the font type, set the font size, color, and other font attributes in this dialog box, and you can also do more. In this tutorial, we’ll explore the font format options within the Font dialog box.

Explore options within the Font dialog box in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

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Keyboard Shortcuts: PowerPoint 2013 for Windows

Have your ever used keyboard shortcuts in PowerPoint? Or are you a complete keyboard aficionado? Do you want to learn about some new shortcuts? Or do you want to know if your favorite keyboard shortcuts are documented? Here’s the most comprehensive list of PowerPoint 2013 keyboard shortcuts that we know about — how many of these do you presently use?

Explore keyboard shortcuts in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows.

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Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Remove Animation

You may want to remove the animation applied to a slide object for several reasons. First, you may have animated the wrong slide object, added animation by mistake, or you probably overdid your animations and ended up with a chaotic slide! Whatever your reasons may be, removing the animation is a simple select-and-click task. But before you do remove any animation, here are some thoughts and obvious scenarios to ponder about.

Learn how to remove animation applied to any slide object in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

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