PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Add Your Folder Within The Media Browser

The Media Browser is a central repository of media content that you can use in your presentations. It has six tabs that we have covered extensively: Photos, Audio, Movies, Clip Art, Symbols, and Shapes. These six tabs are primarily of two types: Tabs that catalog content in your Mac OS X special collections and Tabs that catalog Microsoft Office assets. Although the first category of tabs may appear restricted to the Mac OS X special collections, they can be tweaked to show content from any other folder on your computer. In fact, you can add more folders to the Folder / Browser pane.

Learn how to add your own folder other than the pre-designated folders within the Photos, Audio, and Movies tabs of the Media Browser in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2011
Tagged as: Office for Mac, PowerPoint 2011, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint 2010 for Windows: Change Bullet Styles

Bulleted lists are almost the mainstay of PowerPoint slides these days, inspite of the repeated cries about how bullets can cause “death by PowerPoint”. Well, too much of anything cannot be good, and so it is with bullets! However most PowerPoints slide layouts are already set up with placeholders for bulleted lists (or paragraphs) – so that when you start typing into a text placeholder, your text is automatically bulleted. Sometimes making some changes to how your bullets appear visually can make a difference — so we show you how you can change the bullet styles for your text placeholders (or text boxes) in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

Learn how to change the bullet styles of selected text in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

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Tagged as: PowerPoint 2010, Shapes, Text, Tutorials

Addintools Office Tab 7: The Indezine Review

Microsoft Office applications do not use tabs like web browsers, nor do some of the Office applications benefit from a multiple document interface. A tabbed interface can therefore make it so much easier to access all open documents within the interface of a program such as PowerPoint. This is particularly true if you are working with multiple presentations, and need to frequently switch between them. Office Tab 7, the product that we are reviewing gets over this limitation by providing a tabbed interface to PowerPoint and other Office 2003, 2007, and 2010 applications.

Read the Indezine review of Addintools Office Tab 7.

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Tagged as: Add-in, PowerPoint, Review

Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac: Media Browser (Shapes Tab)

The Shapes tab is the last tab within the Media Browser in PowerPoint 2011. Here you can find all the built-in shapes that PowerPoint provides to add to your slides. The shapes included in the Media Browser can also be found in the Insert tab of the Ribbon.

Learn about the Shapes tab within the Media Browser in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.

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Tagged as: Office for Mac, PowerPoint 2011, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint 2010: Photo Album Ideas and Samples

In the last few days, we have shown you all the options available to you for creating Photo Album presentations in PowerPoint — and yet there’s something that is larger than all these options put together — that is creativity and curiosity. This creativity and curiosity can only be satisfied with practice and inspiration. Even though the option to edit your existing Photo Album provides you with the freedom to experiment and tweak, nothing is more important than actually experimenting and playing with all those options.

View some sample Photo Album presentations, and explore the options chosen to create them.

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Tagged as: Photography, Photos, PowerPoint 2010, Tutorials