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Have you seen a running stitch effect around an object — especially an embroidered one? It’s possible to create all sorts of such fancy effects, right inside PowerPoint — without using any other program. In this tutorial, you will learn how to create this effect step-by-step — and this should work in almost any version of PowerPoint released in the last 10 years.
Explore creating a dashed line border around a shape to create almost an embroidered edge effect.
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The main advantage of the Advanced Timeline is to edit the timing and sequencing of your animations. You can easily control the start time, duration, and end time of your animation to the most minute level. In addition, you can also animate any slide object very slowly to span over a whole minute or more by just dragging the start and end points of any animation bar outwards in the timeline. We have already explored how to show/hide the Advanced Timeline within PowerPoint 2010, and in this tutorial, you will learn how to control animations with the help of Advanced Timeline.
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A few days ago, our PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff LinkedIn group had a great discussion on Pecha Kucha. It started with one of our members asking for some guidance on how to go about preparing for a Pecha Kucha presentation. To those of you who do not know what Pecha Kucha is, it is a presentation format that originated in Japan in the year 2003. In Japanese, Pecha Kucha translates to chit-chat or chatter. On this page, we will explore the ten best Pecha Kucha tips.
Each Pecha Kucha speaker presents with a deck of 20 slides (or images). Each of these slides progresses automatically to the next one, after being visible onscreen for 20 seconds. This is the reason why Pecha Kucha is often known as 20×20.
That’s a total time of fewer than 7 minutes and explains why most Pecha Kucha slides are more visual than text-laden. Text-heavy slides would take much more time to explain than the allocated 20 seconds, and will also get the audience reading the text rather than giving their undivided attention to the Pecha Kucha presenter.
Picture courtesy: Ric Bretschneider
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Although it is so easy to insert a picture in your PowerPoint slide, you should almost always look at doing more with your pictures thereafter. Probably the first thing you can do to make the picture more effective is cropping. In addition, you can also adjust how the picture looks by applying adjust picture options. Thereafter, you may apply any of the preset Picture Styles available. However, PowerPoint packs quite a punch as far as picture edits are concerned — you can even play with the borders that surround your pictures. In this tutorial, we will explore the Border options that allow you to add anything from a simple outline to a beautiful frame to make your pictures stand apart.
Learn how to add and edit Picture Borders in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
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PowerPoint 2010’s default Animation Pane allows you to perform many tasks such as adding animation to any slide object, changing the animation event, and setting the speed of the animation, as required. Most of the time, that may be all you need — but at times, you may want more minute control. You might want two animations to start at the same time, but you want one of them to start just two seconds before the other. In situations like these, you’ll need to use the Advanced Timeline option. Unlike in PowerPoint 2007 and previous versions, you no longer need to change to the Advanced Timeline since that’s the one that is active by default. However, you may have turned it off to enable the Basic Timeline — read on to find out how you can make the Advanced Timeline visible or invisible by following these steps.
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