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Columnar text layouts are something you see often in Word documents or even in published formats used by desktop publishing software. PowerPoint 2010 gives you some column capabilities, although don’t expect anything close to the controls provided by word processing applications. In PowerPoint, you can set up a text container to possess multiple linked columns.
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Tagged as: PowerPoint 2010, Text, Tutorials
Glow effects are quite different from other PowerPoint effects — they add a nice halo around a selected shape or most other slide objects. Once you apply a glow effect to any shape in PowerPoint 2011, you may find that the defaults just do not work for you. Especially since the default glow options are limited only to Theme Colors — so if you want to make some changes, probably change the glow color, its spread or transparency, etc. — then this tutorial will teach you how you can access the advanced Glow Options in PowerPoint 2011, which make all those changes doable.
Learn how to make changes to the Glow effect applied to the shapes in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
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Tagged as: Effects, Office for Mac, PowerPoint 2011, Tutorials
Ellen Finkelstein is a Microsoft PowerPoint MVP and author of several PowerPoint, Flash, and AutoCAD books. Her articles have appeared in numerous magazines, newsletters, and blogs. As a best-selling author, her books have sold over 300,000 copies and been translated into over 14 languages.
In this conversation, Ellen talks about 7 Steps to Great Images, her new ebook.
Geetesh: How do the new features for using pictures in PowerPoint 2010 make it easier to create more visual slides.
Ellen: PowerPoint 2010 adds a number of new features that help you edit images to make them more powerful. An important one is the Remove Background feature. Although it doesn’t always work perfectly (it depends on the image), when it does work well, it’s a great way to focus your audience’s attention on the main feature of the image by removing less important background content.
In addition, you can manipulate images in ways that used to require an outside image editor. You can sharpen and soften images as well as add artistic effects. But use these sparingly; it’s easy to “overdo” an image.
Geetesh: Tell us about your 7 Steps to Great Images ebook – and what can a reader take away from this book.
Ellen: Many presenters insert images and leave them at the default size, shape, and placement. 7 Steps to Great Images provides 7 techniques that will help your images work better. By better, I mean that they will have more impact, be more persuasive, and help your audience understand and remember more of what you’re saying. Most of these techniques apply to using images in any situation, even documents.
Ellen has an amazing subscription product called the PowerPointers Quarter Hour (product is no longer sold), in which you can join her for a quarter hour each week.
In this quarter hour, she does a quick webinar with short tutorials of PowerPoint and slide techniques. She also does slide makeovers, and allows you to submit your own slides! You can ask questions via email, and also get access to a library of valuable video tutorials, from several years!
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.
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Tagged as: Books, Ellen Finkelstein, Interviews, Photos, PowerPoint
Internal margins are relevant to all the three types of text containers in PowerPoint — these three containers are text boxes, text placeholders, and shapes that contain text. Internal margins control the amount of blank space between the perimeter (edge) and the actual text within the text container. Although these margins are similar to the margins of pages in a word-processing document like Microsoft Word, there is a significant difference. Each text container has its own individual margins set, and you can have entirely different margins for one or more text containers, even if they reside on the same slide.
Learn about setting internal margins for text boxes in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.
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Shirley Lewis is the Licensing Director at JewelBeat.com. With over 10 years of experience in the music industry, specifically in music licensing for retail, Shirley has worked to license music for numerous Fortune 500 companies. A lover of all music, social media shy yet a computer nerd, Shirley Lewis onboard with the JewelBeat team is looking to change the landscape of music licensing, one $0.99 track at a time.
In this conversation, Shirley discusses why and how you can use JewelBeat’s music clips.
Geetesh: Tell us more about JewelBeat, what is the type of music you provide, and how much does this music cost?
Shirley: JewelBeat is all about music for your projects. Specifically 99 cents music for your projects. What we do is license music for commercial and non-commercial projects. Our customers use our music for a host of usages including presentations, slideshows, photos, video, broadcast, corporate use and more. What’s great about our music is that it is completely royalty free worldwide.
Using licensed music is a good idea to keep in the legal side of things. Commercial music or music you purchased for your listening pleasure are not licensed legally for you to use for your projects. It can cost anywhere from hundreds to thousands of dollars to license commercial music plus the process can be all too overwhelming and complicated. JewelBeat offers an easy solution to purchasing and using music legally for your projects.
JewelBeat has a wide selection of music styles to fit every project. We have the typical rock, pop, country, urban, atmospheres to eclectic world, well-known tunes, holiday music as well as obscure selection like 8-bit video game music, chanting music and the likes.
Within each broad category you will find a deep wealth of selection. Take for example Rock. You will find pop rock, college rock, hard rock, soft rock, retro rock, alternative rock and more. With 35,000 tracks and growing, you are bound to find something you like and most importantly that works for your project.
Often times, I am asked, “What is the best rock track you have” and respond after a long pause, “What sort of rock do you like?” I do have my personal favorites but music is very subjective, and it really is more of what kind of music that will fit my project. That is how we compose our music. We compose our music from the view point of how it will be use in our customers’ projects.
Aside from our ultra attractive $0.99 per track music, JewelBeat provides customers with the option to purchase download CDs or albums which are collections of 10 tracks of a similar theme including all edit versions for just $19. This is pretty revolutionary seeing that most similar offerings are priced at $10 to $100 per track. At JewelBeat, the value and quality of our music is unbeatable at just $0.99 per track or $19 per CD.
Other products available include 12 themed JewelSticks which are 10 CDs grouped by themes as well as our JewelDisks that offer either the best 100 CDs in our library (JewelDisk Mini) or our complete library (JewelDisk Max).
Geetesh: How suitable is the sound content on JewelBeat for use in PowerPoint presentations?
Shirley: Music from the JewelBeat library would work great in PowerPoint presentations. You will find multiple edit versions available for every song in our library. You can purchase all versions of a track for just $2.99 giving you a great mix of edit versions to add to your PowerPoint presentations. Our alternate version work great to give a more subdued or tone down version or the track while our stingers are great as transitions, intros or endings of a presentation.
JewelBeat also offers a Custom Length Edit service where we can edit any track to any duration as per your requirement for just $9.99. This offers great convenience to our customers requiring a certain duration length without having to learn audio editing. What’s more this opens up our complete library to anyone searching for specific duration length tracks as this is no longer a limitation.
JewelBeat does not sell any sound effects but we do have over 3000 free sound effects from beeps to clicks, common environment effect, musical effect and more. This is an excellent free resource that would work well with presentations.
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.
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Tagged as: Interviews, Music, PowerPoint, Sounds
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