PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Christmas Clip Arts for PowerPoint

These Christmas themed clip arts for PowerPoint are all silhouettes that are ready to use within your PowerPoint presentation slides. These have been provided in both black and white colors — both variations are contained within two separate sample presentations that you can download.

Copy the graphics of your choice from the downloaded presentations, and paste them into your PowerPoint presentation slides. You can also paste them into a Word document, an Excel worksheet, or any other program.

Within PowerPoint, all these silhouette graphics can be customized with Shape Styles.

Download these free Christmas clip art graphics here.

Filed Under: Clip Media
Tagged as: Clip Media, Design, PowerPoint

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Nudge and Move Shapes

When we talk about move and nudge in this tutorial, we do not mean just selecting a shape and dragging it somewhere else on the slide, although we discuss that too! Nudging a shape or any other slide object is essentially moving it just a wee bit using the arrow keys on your keyboard rather than the mouse. Move is different in that it is more of a super-nudge, and you can use the mouse to move rather than just nudge with keyboard keys. PowerPoint provides more than one way to nudge or move any selected shape or slide object.

Learn how to nudge and move shapes in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

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

Learn PowerPoint 2007: Movie Actions

Although PowerPoint classifies Movie Actions as an animation type, these are not strictly animations. Yet, since you access them through the Custom Animation task pane, we have included this tutorial in our Animations section. In simple terms, a Movie Action is something that causes an event for any inserted movie clip — these are simple events such as Play, Pause, Resume, and Stop. By providing complete control over these actions within the Custom Animation task pane, PowerPoint empowers you to make these events interact with other animations, including Triggers.

Learn about Movie Actions in PowerPoint 2007 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2007
Tagged as: Animation, Movies, PowerPoint 2007, Tutorials

PPTools Resize: The Indezine Review

With wide-screen equipped projectors and displays — and the unending amount of sizes required for digital signage, it seems like the PowerPoint slide’s typical 4:3 resolution is no longer sufficient. And many times, you have to change your slide size from one to another after it has been created! Yes, PowerPoint does have an option to resize your slides but that feature does have a “take-it-or-leave-it” approach, what with you ending up with slides where pictures and other slide objects can get elongated or squished. Fortunately, our review product PPTools Resize is a much more gentler solution that hand holds you all the way, and ends up with more predictable results.

Read the Indezine review of PPTools Resize.

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Tagged as: Add-in, PowerPoint, Review

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Group, Ungroup, and Regroup Shapes

Many times, you want to animate several slide objects — rather than select each of them individually and then animate them, you can select them all together as a group and animate them. You may also want to rotate a few shapes placed next to each other to a certain angle — at times like these, you’ll be happy to know that grouping, ungrouping, and regrouping shapes makes it simpler and quicker to do these tasks.

Learn how to group, ungroup, and regroup shapes in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

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