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Working with the different line types in PowerPoint 2011 is such a learning experience — if you have explored this entire series with us, you know that you can change the weight, dash styles, and arrowheads for lines. But there’s more — in this tutorial, you will learn about Gradient lines. Now, Gradient is an attribute that’s rarely associated with lines but once you start playing with Gradient lines, you will find that the results can provide a surprisingly different look, especially when applied to lines that are thicker in weight.
Learn how to apply gradient style to lines (shape outlines) in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
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Text in PowerPoint presentation needs to be edited in many ways — sometimes you need certain words to be in a different color, or even bold, italics, or underlined. Whatever the option required to format your text, you’ll find that the Mini Toolbar is a great location to do these changes easily — it really saves you from dragging your cursor repeatedly to the Ribbon area since it pops up right next to the selected text that you want to format.
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Lines or outlines, whichever name you choose to call them are the perimeters of closed shapes, and the strokes in open shapes within PowerPoint — you have already learned the basics of working with lines in PowerPoint 2011, and also how you can change their weight and dash styles. In this tutorial, we will take the line concept ahead, and show you how you can add arrowheads to some of these lines.
Learn how to format arrowheads for lines in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
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Every presentation typically contains an outline — in other words, an outline is all the text contained within the title and text placeholders of your slides. A few versions ago, PowerPoint had an Outline view — this view is no longer available in PowerPoint 2010 and 2007 — also both the versions don’t include any equivalent of the Outlining toolbar. However can still perform all the outlining tasks within the Outline pane, visible in Normal view within the PowerPoint 2010 interface. This Outline pane, highlighted in red in Figure 1 is the other tab within the Slides / Outline pane — the Outline pane displays a list of the slide titles and text placeholders in an outline format.
Learn about the Outline view in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.
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Cinematize 3 Pro is a DVD extractor program that lets you rip a clip (or part of a clip) from your DVD — and convert the extracted content into various video and audio formats. Cinematize 3 Pro has the ability to batch-extract any number of segments, and you can save your favorite settings as presets, to be used in future. In this review, we explore how you can rip off a segment off a DVD for use in a PowerPoint presentation.
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