PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Learn PowerPoint 2010: Animate Charts

We have already explored how you can animate any slide object, and then tweak the animation speed and animation events. Although you add animation to a chart in the same way, PowerPoint provides some extra animation options that are applicable only to charts. For example, you can animate series and categories individually as required — and you can also decide whether you want to animate the plot area or not. In this tutorial we’ll explore how to apply animation to chart and also explore the various Chart animation options in PowerPoint 2010.

Learn how to animate charts in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Animation, Charting, PowerPoint 2010, Tutorials

Indezine News Released

Several issues ago, we discussed how silhouettes can be a great design idea. Let us explore some examples of why a silhouette can work better than typical pictures or even vector art. First of all, silhouettes are mainly neutral — you cannot identify the race or nationality of a person based on their silhouettes. This makes silhouettes a very useable form of visuals for audiences that have a large international or racial representation. Silhouettes also do not call for attention, and can work as subtle graphics that complement and sync with the speaker or presenter rather than drawing attention. Imagine you use a picture of a very beautiful or an ugly person on your slide — it is natural for the audience to look at that visual for a longer time at the expense of giving you attention!

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Tagged as: Ezine, PowerPoint

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Crop Pictures

Once you insert a picture in your slide, there is so much you can do it to make it appear consistent with the look of your slides — you can make corrections to brightness, sharpness, and contrast values. You can also play with recolor options, and apply Photoshop style filters. However, even before you play with all these options, you must ponder and decide whether you want to use PowerPoint’s Crop options. Cropping an area removes unrequired areas, and lets you add focus to the areas of the picture that are relevant to the topic of your presentation. Cropping also lets you remove some unwanted areas.

Learn how to work with simple crop options for pictures in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

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Tagged as: Office for Mac, Pictures, PowerPoint 2011, Tutorials

Businesswoman Silhouettes for PowerPoint – 01

The businesswoman silhouettes contained within the download presentation are ready to use within your PowerPoint presentation slides. You will see them in both black and white colors — both variations are contained within two separate slides in one presentation that you can download. In addition, there are some other variations of these silhouette vectors included in the presentation which are using different fills, to help you to start with. To make these silhouettes appear coordinated with your slides, you can apply PowerPoint’s fills, lines, and effects to them.

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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Tagged as: Graphics, PowerPoint, Presentation Samples

Learn PowerPoint 2010: Re-Order Animations

By default, animation effects are numbered in the order as they are added to the slide objects. You might need to re-order your animations mainly because you have more than one animated object on a slide, and re-sequencing of animations as they happen in relation to each other may provide a better result. Or you may just want some animations to happen before the others. Also, there are logical reasons to re-order animations since typically entrance and exit animations need to be the first and last animations for any slide object. PowerPoint’s Re-Order options for animations let you play with their sequencing.

Learn how to re-order animations on a slide in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Animation, PowerPoint 2010, Tutorials