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Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Types of Points (Vertexes)

Any given shape in PowerPoint is essentially an electronic drawing that is composed of both segments and points (vertexes). Think of a “connect-the-dots” drawing and the dots would be points, and the lines you draw between the dots would be segments. Both segments and vertexes are only visible as distinctly different drawing elements only in Edit Points mode. We discuss more about segments in a subsequent tutorial but for now, let us help you explore the different types of vertexes (points) in PowerPoint 2011. Essentially, these are of three types: Smooth, Straight, and Corner.

Learn about different types of points (vertexes) in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

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

Learn PowerPoint 2010: Add and Remove Proofing Dictionaries for Foreign Languages

Microsoft Office programs such as PowerPoint include proofing tools (spelling dictionaries, thesauri, and grammar rules) for more than one language. To proof text in a foreign language, you need to install and enable proofing tools for the language you require. When these tools are installed, you can tell PowerPoint if a particular text placeholder or text box needs to be proofed as a foreign language — we will cover the actual process of proofing in a foreign language later in a subsequent tutorial. First, you need to learn how you can ascertain which proofing tools are installed on your computer, and how you can add proofing tools for languages besides English within PowerPoint.

Learn how to add and remove proofing dictionaries for foreign languages in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

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Tagged as: PowerPoint 2010, Proofing, Text, Tutorials

SlideShark Team Edition: Conversation with Jay Wilder

  Jay Wilder is director of product marketing at Brainshark, Inc. 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 dramatically reducing costs.

In this conversation, Jay discusses SlideShark Team Edition, which Brainshark is launching today.

Geetesh: What is SlideShark Team Edition, and how does it build upon the SlideShark app for the iPad?

Jay: We’re excited to be launching SlideShark Team Edition today. It’s the first multi-user version we’re rolling out of the SlideShark app.

SlideShark, as your readers may recall, is a free app we announced last fall. It solved a major problem for iPad users around the world: that is, PowerPoint’s lack of compatibility on the device. With SlideShark, now you can view and show your PowerPoint presentations with animations, fonts, graphics, and colors intact. We’ve been pleased to report rapid adoption too –- getting two downloads per minute, 24×7, since SlideShark’s launch.

While the initial SlideShark app was more geared toward individuals, SlideShark Team Edition now provides powerful functionality to support teams within organizations. This new edition comes, in large part, due to requests from our enthusiastic user base. With SlideShark Team Edition, these users can now benefit from centralized content administration, team-wide access to content, and detailed usage analytics.

Geetesh: Can you share some info on what you consider are compelling features within the Team Edition of SlideShark?

Jay: Absolutely. New functionality, as I mentioned, provides valuable support to teams within organizations. Not only can they properly and easily view PowerPoints from their iPads – something unprecedented only a few months back – but they can also take advantage of features such as:

Shared team content

Users can securely access, view and present “shared team content” -– that is, PowerPoints that authorized administrators and team members have uploaded and designated for shared use.

Personal user content

Individual team members also have the ability to upload their own PowerPoint decks to SlideShark and convert them to an iPad-ready format for their own personal access and viewing.

Central management

Team account administrators can add or remove users, change user permissions, manage billing centrally and assign administrative controls.

Usage analytics

Account administrators can also view and download reports that show which users are accessing and viewing content, and which presentations are most and least popular.

Team storage

Teams have plenty of space for both shared content and personal user content – with 5GB of total storage, plus more as required.

Reliability and security

As with SlideShark, SlideShark Team Edition users benefit from Brainshark’s highly secure, reliable and scalable enterprise-class cloud computing infrastructure.

We’ve priced SlideShark Team Edition at $149 per user on a team per year. Anyone can go to the SlideShark site and sign up for a 60-day free and full-featured trial. We’re looking forward to continuing to meet our users’ needs with this new edition of SlideShark –- helping them access content wherever they are, play it properly from their iPads and benefit from a host of powerful, multi-user features.

See Also: SlideShark: Conversation with Jay Wilder

The views and opinions expressed in this blog post or content are those of the authors or the interviewees and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of any other agency, organization, employer, or company.

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Tagged as: Brainshark, Interviews, iPad, Jay Wilder, PowerPoint

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Add or Delete Points (Vertexes)

In a previous tutorial, you have learned how you can edit points (vertexes) of a selected shape to alter its structure. These vertexes let you control how a shape looks — but sometimes you might find it difficult to edit a certain segment in a shape because there are no vertexes (points) available to manipulate — or maybe there are far too many points! PowerPoint provides a simple solution for this problem — you can add and delete vertexes from a shape. In PowerPoint terminology, the terms vertex and point are often used interchangeably.

Learn how to add or delete points (vertexes) of a shape in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

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