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The Remove Background option is among PowerPoint’s newest and most wonderful abilities. It lets you remove the background from an inserted picture — this can be a great feature if you want to remove a sky, a wall, any backdrop, or something else in a photograph so that the slide background shows through as transparent within the removed parts of the picture. Before you start, we assume you already have a picture inserted on your slide. It helps if the parts of the picture you want to remove are fairly different in color from the rest of the picture, although as you get more proficient with PowerPoint’s Remove Background option, you will be able to work with more complicated compositions.
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It has been two weeks of training corporates to create and deliver better PowerPoint presentations — and yes, these have been two very satisfying weeks. It’s always magical to see people understand that the key to creating better slides is not dependent upon what they are trying to tell — rather, it is what the audience will benefit from.
To most presenters, a presentation is more than the slides — and the problem is that the “more” here does not extend to presenters and audiences. Here, the “more” is a hot potato — they want to get done with their slides, and they want to get done with their presentations. At the end of their presentations, they don’t look for success but they look for relief because they are done with it!
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After you add animation to a selected slide object, you typically set the animation event. Another animation property you can set thereafter is the speed of the animation. Every animation you add within PowerPoint 2010 has a fixed, default speed (duration). This speed or duration is typically shown in seconds or part thereof, and differs from animation to animation. For example, the default duration of a Fade animation is half a second (00.50) whereas for the Wheel animation, it is two seconds (02.00). Clearly this is a different approach than the behavior in previous versions of PowerPoint where you were limited to five speed presets.
Learn about animation speed in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.
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What type of talks do you give? Are they about diseases? Are they about laying people off? Are they about problems in people’s lives? If so, then you should not smile during your presentation. Smiling when discussing serious or life-threatening situations is obviously inappropriate.
But most of us do not give those types of talks — yet many people never, ever, crack a smile. But it’s important! You say to me, “Right, Claudyne, I’ll just break into a grin when I get to the third point I’m discussing.” Not exactly. As you look at your talk you will see topics and points that lend themselves to a flicker of a smile and sometimes an actual grin, to show how excited, happy, or pleased you are to share this point.
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In PowerPoint, you can make changes to inserted pictures by applying corrections or, by using recolor options. In addition, you can also apply any of the several filters available to add a completely different look to your pictures — some filters can change the texture of your pictures and others can make pictures look like paintings or sketches. Whichever filter you choose, make sure you play around with all the options available to be aware of the surprisingly different results you can achieve right within PowerPoint. In this tutorial, we will show you how to apply filters to the pictures to make them to look more like a sketch, drawing or a painting.
Learn how to apply filters to pictures in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
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