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People Silhouettes are always a good option to be used in the place of pictures of people since they are neutral – great for an international audience. Here are two businesswoman silhouettes ready to use within your PowerPoint presentation slides. You will see them in both black and white colors. The download presentation contains them within two separate slides. You can always make these silhouette vectors to appear coordinated with your slides with the help of PowerPoint’s fills, lines, and effects.
Copy the silhouettes graphics (clip arts) of your choice from the downloaded presentation, and paste them into your PowerPoint presentation slides. All these silhouette graphics can be used and customized with Shape Styles just like any other PowerPoint shape. You can also paste them into a Word document, an Excel worksheet, or any other program.
Download and use this presentation.
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In PowerPoint, shapes and pictures are important parts of a slide — both of them are mainly used to add visual elements to your presentations. However, there are some problem areas when you use a picture as a fill for a shape. Primarily, you’ll find that PowerPoint insists on filling the entire picture to a shape — in the process, the picture itself may appear distorted. Figure 1 depicts an example — on the left is the actual picture we used to fill the shape on the right — note that the man’s face is squeezed and squashed when used as a picture fill. This completely destroys the look we wanted to attain. Fortunately, regaining the proportion is an easy option, as you will learn in this tutorial.
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These silhouettes depicting businessman are ready to use within your PowerPoint presentation slides. As you can see, these clip arts have been provided in two color variations — black and white. You will find them contained within two separate slides in a single presentation that you can download. If you want, you can also apply PowerPoint’s fills, lines, and effects to these silhouettes to make them appear coordinated with your slides.
Copy the silhouettes graphics (clip arts) of your choice from the downloaded presentation, and paste them into your PowerPoint presentation slides. All these silhouette graphics can be used and customized with Shape Styles just like any other PowerPoint shape. You can also paste them into a Word document, an Excel worksheet, or any other program.
Download and use this presentation.
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In our ongoing animation tutorial series, we showed you how you can add an animation to any slide object in PowerPoint. However, there’s more to text animation than just adding animation. 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 in sequence. Even then, the animation is sequenced to first level paragraphs (first level bullets) — and any sub-bullet levels contained in your text placeholders or text boxes animates 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 extra options available for text animations in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.
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You already learned how to play with all the different Crop options in PowerPoint 2011 — all except the Mask to Shape option, which we explain in this tutorial. Mask to Shape can be immensely helpful if you want any picture to show contained within a shape. In other words, you start with a conventional, rectangular picture and end up a picture that’s not contained within a non-rectangular shape.
Learn how to crop pictures using Mask to Shape option in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
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