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Imagine this scenario: you place a text box on your slide — then you change the color of the font, reduce or increase the font size, set autofit options, tweak the margins, etc. At this point of time you are happy with your settings. Then you add another text box in the next slide — and you realize that this new text box needs to look the same as the text box you created earlier! No — you do not have to change all settings again — you change the defaults within the active presentation so that any new text box you insert has the format abilities you want.
Learn how to set a formatted text box as your default text box in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.
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PowerPoint 2011 for Mac enables you to work with various types of sound files such as MP3, WMA, or WAV. However, inserted sounds are always embedded within your presentation, which is different from the default behavior in previous versions of PowerPoint which always linked sound files rather than embedding them. This has a plus side since you now no longer have to worry about linked files getting misplaced or lost. On the flip side, this can balloon file sizes. Having said that, it is still a good practice to keep your sound files in the same folder in which you save your PowerPoint 2011 presentation — even before you insert them.
Learn how to insert audio or sound in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
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Resizing text boxes works in almost the same way as you would resize any other slide object in PowerPoint — select it and you will see eight handles on the four corners and four sides — you then drag any of these corners to resize. The problem with this approach is that the resized text box you end up with is not accurate. If you do not need accuracy, then you need not read the rest of this tutorial — however there might be times when you need your text box sized exactly as the size of another slide object on the same slide.
Learn how to resize text boxes accurately on a slide in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.
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Among PowerPoint 2010’s newest and most magical abilities is the Remove Background option that lets you remove the background from an inserted picture. This can be a great feature if you want to remove a sky, a wall, any backdrop, or something else in a photograph so that the slide background shows through within the removed parts of the picture.
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With all the bad publicity that bulleted text on a PowerPoint slide gets these days, it may be a good idea to look at some alternatives — even if you are exploring other options for only a few slides. One of the options that works great is SmartArt — if you have some bulleted text on your slide in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac, you can easily convert it into to a SmartArt graphic with just a few clicks. Do note though that this works best when your original bulleted text does not have too much text — just a small word or phrase in each of the bullets is something that translates very well to SmartArt.
Learn how to convert your existing bulleted text to a SmartArt graphic in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
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