PowerPoint and Presenting Stuff

Learn PowerPoint 2010 for Windows: More Glow Colors in PowerPoint

Continuing this series on Shape Effects in PowerPoint, this tutorial takes the glow effect options for a shape in PowerPoint 2010 a little further by showing you how you can change the glow color to anything beyond the default Theme Color offerings.

Learn to change the glow effect’s color applied to shapes in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Effects, PowerPoint 2010, Shapes, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint 2010: Apply Glow Effects to Shapes In PowerPoint

In this series of tutorials on Shape Effects, you have already explored how you can apply preset, shadow, and reflection effects to selected shapes in PowerPoint 2010. In this tutorial you will learn how to apply the Glow effect, which adds a hazed color perimeter outside the shape area.

Learn to apply glow effects to shapes in PowerPoint 2010 that adds a hazed color perimeter outside the shape area.

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Tagged as: Effects, PowerPoint 2010, Shapes, Tutorials

The Power of Hiding Slides

When you “hide” a slide in PowerPoint, it doesn’t display while scrolling through the presentation in Slide Show mode. So, why in the world would you ever want to do that … have slides in your deck that the audience can’t see? In this article, we’ll look at several wonderful reasons that can greatly increase your flexibility and effectiveness as a speaker, giving talks a more personalized, conversational, audience-friendly feel.

Robert Lane explores how hiding slides can help presenters.

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Tagged as: Guest Post, PowerPoint

Learn PowerPoint 2010: Curved and Straight Line Segments in PowerPoint

A line (outline) in PowerPoint contains both points and segments. You already learned about the three types of points in PowerPoint within a previous tutorial. I now show you how segments (the line area between one point and another) work, and the two types of segments: straight and curved. You can edit these segments and also convert a straight segment to a curved segment and vice versa, as you will learn in this tutorial.

Learn what the Curved and Straight line segments are within PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

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Tagged as: Lines, PowerPoint 2010, Shapes, Tutorials

Combining Colors in PowerPoint

Newer versions of PowerPoint, especially PowerPoint 2010, have marvelous tools for helping even the “artistically challenged” among us get beyond bullet points and create effective, graphically appealing, downright professional-looking visual slides. That’s fantastic! Now the question is … how should we use those tools? Most of us have never been trained as graphic artists and don’t necessarily know the rules for making visually attractive and meaningful content. Because the discussion of “effective visual communication” might fill an entire book, let’s narrow the focus here to concentrate solely on the use of color in PowerPoint. What are good, and not so good, ways of using color on slides?

Robert Lane explains warm and cool colors, and color blindness.

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Tagged as: Color, Guest Post, PowerPoint, Robert Lane