PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Dummy Text in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows

Many PowerPoint designers, especially template designers need some dummy text to quickly add to their slides so that they can ascertain how some body of text looks or fits within a certain text box or placeholder. Microsoft introduced an undocumented feature in PowerPoint 2010 that lets you achieve this with just a few keystrokes, and once you are used to these shortcuts, you’ll learn to appreciate them so much!

Learn how to insert dummy text in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

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

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Creating Half Circle

An Indezine reader asked if he could create three circles next to each other, and make sure that they appeared in a sequence where the first circle should be filled-in with a solid color, the second circle should be half full, and the third and last circle should have no fill at all (empty). The first and third circles are easy — all you need to do is ensure that the first circle has both the Outline and Solid Fill applied, and the third circle has only an Outline with a No Fill attribute.

Learn to create a half circle in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

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

Learn PowerPoint 2007: Show the Animation Advanced Timeline

There’s so much you can do within the default Custom Animation task pane within PowerPoint 2007 — you can add animation to any slide object, change the animation event as required, and set the speed of the animation spanning all the way from Very Slow to Very Fast, choosing from several preset speeds available. Yet, there may be times when you want your animation to play for a time span that exceeds the preset time for the Very Slow or any other option. Or there may be two animations that start at the same time, but you want one of them to end just two seconds before the other. In situations like these, you’ll need to use the Advanced Timeline found within the Custom Animation task pane.

Explore how to make the Advanced Timeline visible within PowerPoint 2007 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Animation, PowerPoint 2007, Tutorials

Charteo: Conversation with Volker Eckert

Volker Eckert has over 19 years of experience in online and conventional marketing areas. He achieved his Masters of Communication and Advertising at the Florida International University of Miami. Thereafter, the experience of building up one of the world’s leading online shops for PowerPoint presentations at PresentationLoad assisted Volker in launching Charteo. As CEO of Charteo and Marketing Director at PresentationLoad, Volker has raised the bar for the strategy and implementation of both online portals.

In this conversation, Volker talks about the Charteo site and how it can help everyday PowerPoint users create better looking slides with convincing info-graphics.

Geetesh: Tell us more about Charteo and what sets Charteo apart from other PowerPoint sites?

Volker: Charteo is the world’s first single-slide store for PowerPoint presentations. Our customers can choose from a range of over 10.000 single PowerPoint slides that have been created to suit many specific presenting scenarios. They can thus create their presentations exactly according to their requirements — no more packages with slides they don’t need.

Also most of our content is color-aware and presentations can be colored directly online on our site in one of eight different colors. You can then download this content as a complete PowerPoint file.

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Geetesh: How can the content on your site help users create more compelling presentations.?

Volker: We have a broad selection of all slides our customers need for a presentation, from design slides like backgrounds, images, and graphics to all kinds of planning slides that include diagrams, text slides, and process charts.

Really unique and new on the market are our marketing and business charts with elaborated content for presentations related to business, marketing, project management, controlling, and analysis. With this range of charts, we are able to deliver all templates needed for a presentation in one design. If there is still something missing our customers can contact us any time and our designers will create the slides.

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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.

Filed Under: Interviews
Tagged as: Charting, Design, Graphics, Interviews, PowerPoint, Templates

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Creating Semi-Circles

Just like other versions of PowerPoint, PowerPoint 2011 for Mac also does not provide the semi-circle as a basic shape within the Shape gallery. However there are workarounds to get over this limitation — in this tutorial you will learn how to draw a semi-circle in PowerPoint 2011 using the Pie shape.

Learn how to create a semi-circle in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

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