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Thoughts and impressions of happenings in the world of PowerPoint and presentations, continuously updated since 2003.
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Amit Ranjan is the Cofounder and COO of SlideShare, the world’s largest community for sharing presentations on the web. With 50 million monthly visitors, SlideShare is amongst the top 200 most visited websites on the web.
In this interview, Amit discusses the new LinkedIn sharing options that SlideShare provides.
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Tagged as: Amit Ranjan, Interviews, LinkedIn, Online Presentations, PowerPoint, SlideShare
Once you add a shape to your PowerPoint slide, you may want to resize and / or rotate it. We have already covered resizing shapes in a separate tutorial, and now you will learn how you can rotate a shape. Rotation can be very useful, especially if you need to change the orientation of an arrow, or rotate a duplicated shape. Whatever your motive may be, rotation can be applied in more than one way.
Learn how to rotate shapes approximately and accurately in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
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Tagged as: Office for Mac, PowerPoint 2011, Shapes, Tutorials
You have already learned about picture bullets in PowerPoint 2010, and how you can import any picture and use it as a custom bullet. You can also create your own picture bullets to use in presentations, and these can be created right within PowerPoint!
Learn how to create your own picture bullets in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.
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Patrice-Anne Rutledge is a business technology author and journalist who specializes in web-based applications, presentation technology, and social media. She is the author of several books for Pearson Education, including Using Microsoft PowerPoint 2010, Using Facebook, and Teach Yourself LinkedIn in 10 Minutes. Patrice is also the founder of Rutledge Communications, a professional writing and editing firm. You can reach Patrice at her website, PatriceRutledge.com.
In this conversation, Patrice talks about her new book, Using Microsoft PowerPoint 2010.
Geetesh: Patrice, tell us about your new book, Using Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 – did you discover any favorite new features in PowerPoint 2010?
Patrice: Using Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 is my fifth PowerPoint book, but it’s the first to come with an extensive collection of audio and video tutorials. I enjoyed adding this multimedia component, and many readers have told me that watching the videos really helped reinforce what they read in the book.
PowerPoint 2010 offers many new features that make it a worthwhile upgrade, particularly for anyone who currently owns PowerPoint 2007 or a previous version. My favorite new features are those that focus on video. For example, you can now edit and enhance your videos without expensive, third-party video-editing tools. In addition, PowerPoint 2010 enables you to broadcast slide shows on the web and create high-definition videos directly from your presentations.
Another great new feature is co-authoring, which lets you work simultaneously with other people on the same presentation rather than posting or emailing a presentation for feedback. This is particularly useful if you work in an organization that requires group collaboration.
Geetesh: Tell us something about your use of PowerPoint beyond the role of an author — what type of presentations do you create?
Patrice: As a PowerPoint author, it’s my job to research and test every PowerPoint feature. I also use PowerPoint extensively for my business, particularly for training and marketing.
In addition to creating traditional PowerPoint presentations, I use PowerPoint to create webinars, YouTube videos, eLearning courses, and SlideShare decks. PowerPoint is also a great tool for basic graphic design. I’m not a designer, but PowerPoint’s latest features enable me to create interesting graphics for the web. For example, I used PowerPoint to create my Facebook welcome tab and my Twitter background. I think every PowerPoint user should try to move beyond creating basic presentations and explore PowerPoint’s many other powerful features. There’s a lot you can do with PowerPoint besides creating slides.
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Shapes in PowerPoint can be formatted in various ways: you can change their fills, lines, and effects. Also, you can resize them, as you will learn in this tutorial. PowerPoint, like most Microsoft Office programs follows the concept of selection, then action. Any shape that is selected shows several handles.
Learn how to resize shapes in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
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