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OfficeOne ProTools Color Picker is a PowerPoint add-in (compatible with PowerPoint 2010, 2007, 2003, and 2002) that lets you pick up and apply the colors of lines, fills, effects, etc. to selected shapes and text in your slides. In addition, it also allows you to quickly click on an area of your slide and set that color as the background fill for your slides. Color Picker shows you the color of the pixel directly beneath the cursor on the screen so that you know what exactly you are clicking on.
Read the Indezine review of ProTools Color Picker.
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Tagged as: Add-in, Color, PowerPoint, Review
Sometimes you want your text box to be placed in an exact position on your slide. Yes, you can select a text box and move it around by dragging it with your mouse — and then let it go wherever you want it placed — but for all practical reasons, this process is just visual and not accurate enough. Thankfully, PowerPoint provides a way to accurately position any text box just where you want it located. While this tutorial shows you how to reposition a text box (or a shape), it can be used to reposition text placeholders too, especially in the Slide Master.
Learn how to reposition your text boxes accurately on a slide in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.
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Tagged as: PowerPoint 2010, Text, Tutorials
SmartArt is the successor to the Diagrams option in PowerPoint that let you insert organization charts and some simple diagrams. Certainly, SmartArt is much more involved than its predecessors — yet it is quite easy to get started with this feature since almost everything you do is wizard driven. In this tutorial you’ll learn how to insert a SmartArt graphic within PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
Learn how to insert SmartArt graphics in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
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PowerPoint 2011
Tagged as: Graphics, PowerPoint 2011, SmartArt, Tutorials
Last week we received a graphic of a CD from Ellen Finkelstein — who created it for a promotion — the amazing part was that Ellen used PowerPoint to create the image of the CD — of course although this looks like a CD, you can use it for a DVD or Blu-Ray disc as well! In this tutorial, you will learn how a slide program like PowerPoint can be used as a very capable drawing program.
Learn how to use default shapes in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows to draw a CD or DVD.
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PowerPoint 2010
Tagged as: Drawing, Graphics, PowerPoint 2010, Tutorials
Sound files of various types such as MP3, WMA, or WAV files can be used in PowerPoint 2010, which automatically embeds them into your presentation. This means that you no longer have to worry about linked files getting misplaced or lost like you had to in previous versions of PowerPoint. Even then, it is a good practice to keep your sound files in the same folder in which you save your PowerPoint 2010 presentation — even before you insert them as we show you.
Learn how to insert sound (audio) clips in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.
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PowerPoint 2010
Tagged as: Music, PowerPoint 2010, Sounds, Tutorials
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