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Whenever a new shape is inserted on a slide in PowerPoint 2011, it is filled with blueish white gradient fill by default (or something else depending on the Theme of your presentation). Other than a gradient fill type, PowerPoint 2011 provides you with different fill types such as solid color fill, picture fill or a texture fill – in this tutorial, you will learn how to work with solid color fills for shapes.
Learn how to add solid fill to selected shapes in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
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Tagged as: Fills, Office for Mac, PowerPoint 2011, Tutorials
As you are aware, PowerPoint 2010 for Windows provides a plethora of views to play and edit your presentation. Other than Normal view, you can choose Slide Sorter view for editing slides — this view does not let you edit individual slide objects on your slide, but the whole slide by itself. Any edits you make influence one or more slides, depending upon your selection. Slide Sorter view displays thumbnail sized representations of all slides in your presentation — this view works best when you have to select multiple slides. In this view, you can quickly reorder, delete, or duplicate your slides. In addition, this view also displays hidden slides.
Learn about Slide Sorter view in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.
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Rick Altman, a presentation consultant based out of Pleasanton, CA, USA is well known as the host of the annual Presentation Summit and has a strong sense of the needs of the presentation community. He has also authored books on PowerPoint.
In this conversation, Rick discusses the Template Contest for the upcoming Presentation Summit 2011, being held in Austin this September.
Geetesh: How was the template contest for this year’s upcoming Presentation Summit different?
Rick: This was the first year that we received all submissions in version 2007 or 2010 format – no version 2003 entries at all. While we know that there are still many organizations using Office 2003, the tide has finally turned with our audience. Among 2011 signups so far, this year, those identifying themselves as version 2003 will make up a very small minority. That said, few of the entrants are taking advantage of the modern features. For instance, few of the slide masters we inspected actually created additional placeholders and nobody divided slides into Sections. We find that to be pretty common – long-time users still think like version 2003 users – and we suspect the sessions this year that speak to these points will be well-received.
Geetesh: What do you look for within a template while deciding a winner?
Rick: Above all, the template needs to wear well. After all, it will be shown across four days, in four venues, from 8:30 am until 5:00 pm. Any template that was created to show off one’s technical prowess was immediately rejected, and templates created to show off one’s design skills needed to have shown off one’s restraint. Templates that are too loud are rarely worthy contenders, as our template needs to be able to act as the backdrop for examples of the work or concepts that are being addressed in any particular session. That’s a fine line to balance on: being neutral and understated, yet professional and attractive.
Geetesh: And what did you like in the winning entry this year?
Rick: Tany Nagy struck that balance. She took nicely balanced colors and blended them with “Texas-like” motifs. She didn’t try for too much and yet she created interesting visuals.
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Tagged as: Contest, Interviews, PowerPoint, Presentation Summit
Whenever a shape is inserted within a PowerPoint 2011 slide, you will discover that it has a blueish white gradient fill (or some other fill). You may insert hundreds of shapes and they all have this same default fill, influenced by the Theme applied to your presentation. If you want, you can change the fill of any shape. You can change it to a solid color fill or even change the fill type altogether to a pattern, texture, or picture.
Learn about different fill types for shapes in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
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Tagged as: Fills, Office for Mac, PowerPoint 2011, Tutorials
PowerPoint 2010 for Windows continues the tradition of previous versions of the program by providing several views that enable you to view and edit your slides. Unarguably, Normal view is the default and most often used view. This view displays one slide at a time in the Slide area, and is used mainly for editing and creating slides, and shows PowerPoint’s typical tri-pane interface that includes the Slides / Outline pane, the Slide area, and the Notes pane.
Learn about Normal view in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.
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