PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Convert Bulleted Text to SmartArt

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.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2011
Tagged as: Graphics, PowerPoint 2011, SmartArt, Tutorials

OfficeOne ProTools Color Picker: The Indezine Review

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.

Filed Under: Reviews
Tagged as: Add-in, Color, PowerPoint, Review

Learn PowerPoint 2010 for Windows: Reposition Text Boxes Accurately

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.

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

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Inserting SmartArt

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.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2011
Tagged as: Graphics, PowerPoint 2011, SmartArt, Tutorials

Drawing a CD or DVD in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows

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.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2010
Tagged as: Drawing, Graphics, PowerPoint 2010, Tutorials