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In the last issue, we discussed about pictures and how you can use them effectively. Talking about pictures, there’s a favorite saying: A picture is worth a thousand words. While that can be true often, it can also be untrue in a surprisingly large number of scenarios. I discuss more about when a picture is not worth a thousand words in a blog post released last week — and mentioned later in this newsletter. Now that we are looking at presenting myths, let me ask you all about a smile. A smile is a very common emotion that works wonders as long as it is flashed for an instant. What do you think about smiles that last for an hour or more — do such smiling people get on your nerves?
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A digital signature or ID is more commonly known as a digital certificate. Digital IDs help to validate your identity, and they can be used to sign important documents including PowerPoint presentations. As far as PowerPoint is concerned, a digital certificate is necessary for a digital signature because it provides the key that can be associated with a digital signature. Digital certificates make it possible for digital signatures to be used as a way to authenticate digital information. In this tutorial we will show you how to add a digital signature in PowerPoint 2010.
Learn how to get started with a digital signature in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.
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Gavin Wedell is a business educator. He specialises in training business-academics in best-practice educational techniques. During his career he has designed and facilitated management development programmes for leading global corporates. He has received numerous awards for the innovative nature of his learning programmes.
In this conversation, Don discusses Doodleslide, a PowerPoint add-in that includes a collection of doodles and over 50 slide templates.
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We set a section of Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflowers as the slide background –- and then we added several shapes with a slide background fill to create this slide. You can change the background to any other picture, and these animations will still work! Once animated, the background section that shows through in the shapes continues to move within the slide area creating a very different animation effect. Simultaneously, the rest of the background fades out so that the area within the shapes is highlighted.
Download and use this slide for your own presentations.
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Once you create connectors to link slide objects, you can then format the line thickness, dash attributes, etc. of the connectors to match the look of the other shapes in your slide. Connectors work akin to conventional lines in PowerPoint as far as their formatting options are concerned — so, changing the color attributes of a connector is almost like changing the color of any line, as you will learn in the following steps.
Learn how to change color of connectors in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
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