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You have already learned about all the amazing stuff you can do with connectors in your PowerPoint 2010 slides — all the way from drawing connectors to formatting connectors. Many times when you draw connectors between shapes, the connector may use the shortest path between two shapes — this might mean that your connector overlaps other shapes, text boxes, or any other object that you don’t want to overlap. You might have another reason to use a longer connector between two shapes as well — whatever your reason may be, the good news is that you can easily reroute your connectors — either automatically or manually.
Learn how to use the yellow diamond handle to reroute connectors in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.
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When a connector is drawn to link two shapes together, it gets attached to a certain point on both shapes. These points are typically those that show red squares when you are attaching them to a connector. Sometimes you may attach your connector to the wrong red square, and may need to detach it from that point, and attach it somewhere else. Or maybe you connected to the wrong shape altogether, and now want to detach the connector from one shape and attach it to another.
Learn how to detach, re-attach, and delete connectors in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.
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How many file formats (types) can PowerPoint 2011 save to? If you count every single format from the necessary to the irrelevant (and forget the missing ones), then the number is 20 file formats for PowerPoint 2011 for Mac, the latest Mac version of this program! Some of these could be genuinely helpful for non-conventional reasons.
Learn about various file formats that PowerPoint 2011 for Mac allows you to save as.
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The Compatibility Report tab is the last tab within the Toolbox in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac. This tab helps you if the presentations you create in PowerPoint 2011 need to be shared with others who are using other versions of PowerPoint — on either the Mac or even on Microsoft Windows. Within this tab, you can check compatibility of any open presentation with other versions of PowerPoint. The Compatibility Report provides info on every compatibility feature for any version of PowerPoint since Office 97, and it can tell you whether objects (and other features) in your presentation are compatible with other versions. In addition, it also offers to fix some incompatibilities for you.
Learn about the Compatibility Report tab within the Toolbox in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
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Although almost everything within the Toolbox in PowerPoint 2011 works so well, you can still customize it as you want by clicking the Customize Toolbox button located at the upper-right corner of the Toolbox. This flips over the Toolbox interface, and displays the Toolbox Settings dialog box.
Learn how to customize the Toolbox in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
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