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When you insert a picture on your PowerPoint slide, you may want to make some changes to the picture – for example, you may want to change its size, color, adjust its saturation, or apply some styles to it. In this tutorial, we’ll introduce you to the Adjust Picture options in PowerPoint 2011. Later, in subsequent tutorials in this series, you will learn more about the individual options in more detail. You can make adjustments to the pictures inserted on slides, as well as to the pictures used as fills for shapes. When you select a picture, the Format Picture tab appears on the Ribbon.
Explore different Adjust Picture Options available in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
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Now that you have learnt how easy it is to add motion paths using presets, and draw your own custom motion paths, it is time that you start getting more familiar with some tricks used with motion path animations. The simplest motion path trick is the reverse motion path option. This option is very helpful if you want an object to animate using a motion path, and then animate again from the end of the motion path to the beginning!
Learn how to reverse a motion path animation in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.
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David Klein is senior director of product management at Brainshark, Inc., leading the product team in developing innovative business solutions. Brainshark’s cloud-based software lets users create online and mobile video presentations – using simple business tools like PowerPoint and the telephone – and then share and track their content. Thousands of companies use Brainshark to improve the reach and results of their business communications, while also dramatically reducing costs.
In this conversation, David discusses SlideShark, a free iPad app that allows users to properly play PowerPoint presentations on the iPad, and its recent integration with Box.
Geetesh: Tell us more about your new Box OneCloud app, and how SlideShark now seamlessly integrates with Box.
David: Sure, I’d be happy to. Box is a well-known cloud storage and collaboration provider that recently introduced Box OneCloud, which is a mobile cloud for the enterprise. With Box OneCloud, both professionals and enterprises can access a suite of more than 30 applications, including SlideShark, that are built explicitly for organizations leveraging the Box platform.
Through the integration, the community of Box users can leverage SlideShark’s ability to successfully optimize PowerPoints for the iPad. The SlideShark for Box app securely uploads the user’s stored PowerPoint files from their Box account directly to their SlideShark App catalog with a simple one-click upload to SlideShark option right within Box.
Geetesh: How will the new SlideShark-Box integration help users view and share PowerPoint presentations on the iPad? What does the integration mean for users?
David: With many businesses deploying iPads throughout their organizations and trusting Box for their cloud storage needs, it is a natural fit to utilize the SlideShark for Box app. By having the ability to upload PowerPoint files from Box to the SlideShark app, Box users are now able to quickly and easily view, present, and share PowerPoint presentations on the iPad the way they were meant to be seen, preserving animations, fonts, colors, and graphics.
Box OneCloud users can take advantage of the latest version of SlideShark, which has added capabilities for users to share and track online versions of their presentations that can be viewed on-demand and accessed on a variety of devices, including computers, tablets, and smartphones. SlideShark’s availability in OneCloud also provides an important value-added service for mobile professionals using Box for both storage and content sharing.
We’re very excited to integrate with Box because it offers a unique capability that improves the experience for Box’s users, while also expanding SlideShark’s existing user base. The integration also underscores how SlideShark continues to be an essential and game-changing solution for mobile business professionals as evidenced by its popularity. We continue to see two downloads of the app every minute, 24×7, and a consistent ranking among the top productivity apps in Apple’s App Store.
You May Also Like: Brainshark’s Android App: Conversation with David Klein
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When you insert a picture on your PowerPoint slide, you are doing a task that is frequent and commonplace — and to you, this may look like an activity that’s simple. But behind this simple task, there are options you may not be aware of. You know that a picture located in any of your folders can be inserted on a slide. But, have you wondered about the relation a picture on the slide has with the original picture located in your folder? By default, PowerPoint retains no relation — even if you delete or move the original picture file you inserted, the copy on your slide will still be retained since PowerPoint saves the picture as a part of the file it creates. However, there are options in PowerPoint that let you maintain the relation between the original picture and the inserted picture — for example, if you make changes to your original picture, PowerPoint will update its copy on the slide!
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In the last issue, we talked about slides that had no bullet points. Let’s discuss more about this topic. While many people agree that bullet points can make a slide or even a presenter appear dumb, that’s not always the case. If you are using bullet points to show a list, then you should continue doing so — there’s no sense in creating a slide that has a list of recipe ingredients or even a shopping list in a format without lists! For most other slide types, you can look at some other non-bulleted alternatives. Slide purists love the idea of a single picture on each slide with a title — of course, both the picture and the title should work well with each other. Many other times, you can use SmartArt instead of bulleted lists. Sometimes, a table may work better.
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