PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

People Chain Silhouettes for PowerPoint – 02

These ready-made silhouette graphics of people holding hands are inspiring, and also so practical to use since they don’t represent any community or nationality. You can use them to depict themes such as unity, togetherness, diversity, team spirit, etc.

Download the slides and use the silhouettes in your presentation.

Filed Under: Presentation Bank
Tagged as: Graphics, PowerPoint, Presentation Samples

Learn PowerPoint 2010 for Windows: Tweak Bullets with First Indent Marker

You have already learned about the indent markers on the Horizontal Ruler, and how they can influence the bulleted text on your PowerPoint slide. There are three types of Indent Markers you can find on the Horizontal Ruler: the First Indent Marker, the Hanging Indent Marker, and the Left Indent Marker. The First Indent Maker, also called the Top Caret influences the position of the bullets. This determines the left most edge of the bullet itself. If you drag the First Indent Marker along the Horizontal Ruler, the bullets associated with the selected text also move accordingly.

Learn how to tweak the bullets using the first indent marker in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2010
Tagged as: PowerPoint 2010, Text, Tutorials

Avoid Death by Clip Art

By Gavin Wedell

Do you use clip art images in your presentations, or do you stay away from them just because you read somewhere that clip art may make your slides look unprofessional? Of course, that’s often true, but certainly not true all the time, as we shall explore in this article. As you shall see, all clip art is not created equal, and there can be several benefits in using the right kind of clip art.

Adding clip art is a great way to help your audience comprehend and process the important points of your presentation. However, if you use clip art poorly, it can do far more harm than good. Let’s see how it can be dangerous, and how to use clip art properly.

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Filed Under: Guest Posts
Tagged as: Clip Media, Gavin Wedell, Guest Post, PowerPoint

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Animate Text

You animate text just the way you animate any slide object in PowerPoint. Additionally, there’s more you can do to text animation, as we shall explore in this tutorial. By default, when you animate a text placeholder or text box, all the text contained animates at one go unless your text content is within a bulleted or numbered list — in that case, all text animates as sequenced bulleted lists. Even then, the animation is sequenced to first level paragraphs (first level bullets) only — and any sub-bullet levels contained in your text placeholders or text boxes animate along with its parent level. In this tutorial you will learn how you can access some specialized options for animating paragraphs and bulleted text sequentially by words, by letters, and by paragraph levels.

Explore the options available for text animation in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

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

Create Organic Boxes in PowerPoint

You may call them squares or rectangles, or if you are Metro-inspired, you may call them tiles. For the reasons of simplicity, let us just call them boxes. It does not matter what you call them, but most presenters use these boxes so often in their slides. It’s easy to understand why these boxes are so popular – they can be added to your slides with one click, and you can type any text right inside them.

Learn how to create organic looking boxes in PowerPoint.

Filed Under: PowerPoint All Versions
Tagged as: Drawing, Graphics, PowerPoint, Tutorials