PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Learn PowerPoint 2010: Default Behaviors for Action Buttons

We already showed how you can insert Action Buttons in PowerPoint 2010. Once inserted, you can do so much more with these Action Buttons — what sets these Action Buttons apart from other shapes is the iconography they contain. For most users, an icon such as a leftwards arrow indicates moving to the previous slide and a rightwards arrow does indicate progressing to the next slide. Another advantage of these icon-equipped Action Buttons is that they are language independent, and can work very well in multi-language and international presentations.

Explore the different types of Action buttons and their default behavior in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

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Tagged as: PowerPoint 2010, Shapes, Tutorials

Indezine News Released

This mailer comes to all of you after Thanksgiving, and while this day is not celebrated all over the world, it does have relevance to the way we all approach our days and lives, wherever in the world we may be. Just in case you missed our Thanksgiving gift to all of you last week, here’s your last chance to get our Thanksgiving PowerPoint Kit — there are no hidden offers, no upgrades or anything else — this is 100% free! And we haven’t stepped back from creating new tutorials as well — let’s just request you to scroll down to find the content. We also start a new series of posts on the hot topic of iPad Presenting.

Read our newsletter here.

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Tagged as: Ezine, Indezine, News, PowerPoint

Learn PowerPoint 2010: Locate PowerPoint

You cannot locate PowerPoint 2010 on your computer? Or you are not sure if there are any other versions of PowerPoint on your computer — maybe an older version? Yes, we know that this can happen, although it does sound a little strange. You may be unable to locate PowerPoint, mainly in scenarios such as these: In an office, where system administrators are responsible for what’s installed on your computer — and they insist that you have PowerPoint on your system — but you cannot find it! Or perhaps you bought a new desktop or laptop that came with a license for Microsoft Office. Even that’s not a sure reason for you to have PowerPoint installed, as we’ll explore later in this article. Or maybe you just lost the shortcut that used to launch PowerPoint.

Do you have a version of PowerPoint 2010 installed? Here’s how you can find out.

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Tagged as: PowerPoint 2010, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Align Shapes

Being great believers in creative freedom, we consider un-required alignment of slide objects (such as shapes) probably as bad a design decision as aligning nothing at all. In the end, every decision to align needs to stem from your creative thoughts — sometimes it works, and at other times, an unaligned bunch of shapes looks perfectly natural and organic. Also, remember that alignment works with more than just shapes — and you can also combine shapes with other slide objects and align them all together.

Learn how to align shapes in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

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

OfficeOne Animations: The Indezine Review

OfficeOne Animations is a PowerPoint add-in that provides over 50 extra animation effects other than what are already provided by PowerPoint. These new animation effects are also available in the same category names as PowerPoint’s default animations: Entrance, Emphasis, and Exit. Any of the custom animation effects provided by OfficeOne Animations can be previewed within PowerPoint itself, and also can be played on computers where OfficeOne Animations is not installed. PowerPoint animation options such as timings, repeat, triggers, sound, after animation settings, etc. work in the same way as with any other animation — and are configurable through PowerPoint’s user interface.

Read the review here.

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Tagged as: Add-in, Animation, PowerPoint