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PowerPoint 2010 lets you quickly use picture bullets rather than the conventional symbol bullets, and while PowerPoint does have an impressive collection of ready-to-use picture bullets available, you can also import your own pictures to create a unique bullet for your text lists. So why would you want to import your own picture bullets? Probably because you want their color to match your company branding, or you want to use a stylized bullet that matches your logo — whatever your reason may be, do remember that detailed graphics don’t work well as bullets — the more closer your graphic looks to the conventional dot-shaped bullet, the better it will appear for consistency and visual reasons.
Learn how to import pictures for bullets in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.
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Shapes let you do so much in PowerPoint — once you master them, you can place circles of various sizes one on top of the other to create something that looks like a target. Similarly you can create seemingly complicated arrangements of shapes quite easily to create something that illustrates a concept or idea so much better than just bulleted text. To create any such graphic content, you need to start by inserting common shapes — PowerPoint 2011 makes it easy to do so.
Learn how to insert Shapes in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
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PowerPoint 2010 provides you with umpteen options to change the appearance of your bullet points — you can change the bullet styles, format the bullet size and its color, and use pictures as bullets. In addition, you can use a character from any font, including dingbats as a bullet. Dingbats are fonts which contain decorative symbols rather than alphabets and numbers. Wingdings is a good example of a dingbats font since it is installed by default on all computers.
Learn how to use dingbats and other characters as bullets in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.
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Most PowerPoint slides are created for presenting to an audience — and at some time or the other, every presenter has had a moment when they wanted to zoom into a particular area of the slide just to show something in more detail. That’s a feature not available in PowerPoint, and third-party add-ins have stepped in to provide this sort of zooming and panning functionality right within the program. Such zooming and panning however does not work optimally with all slide objects – notably, photographs may appear pixelated when zoomed. But for most other slide objects, such as shapes, text, tables, graphs/charts, diagrams, clip art, SmartArt graphics, etc. — this does work great.
Read the Indezine review of OfficeOne ProTools Zoom.
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Learning more about what shapes are, and how they work can help you create better presentations because shapes are the building blocks of almost anything you do on your PowerPoint slides. So what is a shape? Any form, such as a rectangle, a circle, a line, or even a callout is a shape. PowerPoint 2011 for Mac provides hundreds of readymade shapes, and it is these readymade shapes that we will discuss in this tutorial. PowerPoint’s shapes are conveniently categorized into nine types.
Learn about different types of shapes available in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
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