PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Animated Slide: Animated Text Boxes 001

Two slides that contain text boxes – each character has a different text box associated and animated with it – and all the text is Theme aware so that it changes to the text colors that go well with the active Theme of your presentation. To add more text characters, just copy and paste existing text boxes. The animation and formatting of the text boxes will be copied as they are duplicated. We used PowerPoint 2010 to create this presentation, and it works best in either that version or in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac – although it does seem to work well even in older versions.

Download and use this slide for your own presentations.

Filed Under: Presentation Bank
Tagged as: Animation, PowerPoint, Presentation Samples, Text

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Drawing Curved Lines

It’s so simple to draw a straight, point to point line in PowerPoint. Now, in this tutorial we’ll move on to show you how you can draw a curved line in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac. Within the Home tab of the Ribbon, click the Shape button to view the Shape gallery. Select the Lines and Connectors option within this gallery, and from the resultant sub-menu, select the Curve shape.

Learn how to draw a curved line in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

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

Learn PowerPoint 2010: Slide Transition Duration

Every transition you add to a slide within PowerPoint 2010 has a fixed, default duration. Some transitions such as Cut happen sooner than you can imagine (just 0.10 seconds). Some others like Reveal can take 3.40 seconds to be done with. But you really do not need to be happy with the default transition durations as you can make them to happen for as long, or as soon as you want. Before we show you how you can change the duration, do remember that transition duration and transition time are not the same. While transition duration is what we are exploring in this tutorial, transition time is the actual time that the slide stays during a slide show before moving to the next slide. Transition timings are purely optional, since you can choose to let any slide show as long as you want and only move to the next slide with a mouse click. Transition duration though is not optional — even if you do not change the duration, there still is a default duration for each transition effect.

Learn how to change the slide transition duration in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2010
Tagged as: PowerPoint 2010, Transitions, Tutorials

PowerMockup PowerPoint Add-in: The Indezine Review

PowerMockup is a PowerPoint add-in that lets you create mockups of anything you want to design – maybe a web site, even a Visual Basic program, a Flash movie, or any idea that you want to sketch or storyboard. It works entirely within the PowerPoint program interface, as you can see in Figure 1. PowerMockup adds a rich set of user interface elements (buttons, text boxes, navigation bars, etc.) which makes prototyping new concepts very easy – all within PowerPoint. Using PowerPoint as a mockup tool has many advantages because almost everyone knows how to use it.

Read the Indezine review of PowerMockup.

Filed Under: Reviews
Tagged as: Add-in, PowerPoint, Review

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Drawing Lines

PowerPoint is also a great drawing program with a feature set that rivals top end graphic programs. Yes, you have learned how you can use readymade shapes in PowerPoint to place rectangles, circles, and hundreds of other shapes. In addition, we have explored how you can create new shapes by combining one or more shapes. If these are not capable enough for you, PowerPoint includes the ability to create your own shapes from scratch by drawing them. These drawing tools are essentially the Line shapes that can be found within the Shape gallery.

Learn how to draw a line in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

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