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Imagine you have worked on a shape in PowerPoint by applying effects, animation, and a fill. Later you realize that you used a wrong shape, or perhaps the client wants you to change the shape but retain all the effects, animations, and fills! You may want to delete and start over again, and that is a long drawn process — but you don’t have to do that for you can change any existing shape to another by using these steps in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.
Learn how you can change one shape to another in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.
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Tagged as: PowerPoint 2010, Shapes, Tutorials
PowerPoint follows the process of selection, then action for any slide object on a slide. If you cannot select an object, then you can probably not modify it at all. Although this tutorial explains how you can select shapes on a slide, the process works the same way for any other slide object.
Learn how to select and deselect single and multiple shapes in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.
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Other than selecting a shape or any slide object by clicking on it, you can use the Selection and Visibility task pane to select shapes that are difficult to select, or are placed behind other shapes. The Selection and Visibility task pane option is only available within PowerPoint 2007 and later versions, and it replaces the Select Multiple Objects tool in earlier versions of PowerPoint.
Learn how you can use the Selection and Visibility task pane in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.
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Tommy Powell is from Neuxpower, a software solutions company based in the UK. Neuxpower custom-builds both stand-alone applications and add-ins that enhance existing software such as Microsoft Office. Their commercially-available file optimizer, NXPowerLite radically reduces the size of PowerPoint, Word, Excel and JPEG files.
In this conversation, Tommy discusses the new Office 2010 compatibility feature in NXPowerLite 4.3.
Geetesh: Users of 2010 versions of PowerPoint, Word, and Excel can now benefit from smaller file sizes with the new NXPowerLite release – tell us more about this update.
Tommy: Yes, NXPowerLite 4.3 is fully compatible with Office 2010, so now Office 2010 users can benefit from the same huge file size reductions as users of earlier versions of Office.
At first glance, Office 2010 files are the same as Office 2007 files. But Microsoft has actually made a number of changes ‘under the hood’ in the file format, in order to support the some of new functionality in Office 2010. NXPowerLite has been updated to make the most of those changes. We’ve tested NXPowerLite 4.3 with thousands of Office 2010 files, to ensure that they are as small as possible and look identical to the originals.< NXPowerLite is also now fully integrated with Office 2010 applications, so you can optimize your files from within Word, Excel or PowerPoint 2010. Geetesh: Is this updated release a paid or free upgrade for existing users of NXPowerLite?
Tommy: Office 2010 is the fastest-selling version of Office in Microsoft’s history, so we decided to make Office 2010 support a completely free update for all NXPowerLite 4 users. Users of earlier versions of NXPowerLite will receive a 50% discount when they buy an upgrade.
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Tagged as: Add-in, Interviews, NXPowerlite, PowerPoint
When you insert a shape within a PowerPoint slide, you can resize and rotate it as already shown in previous tutorials on using shapes in PowerPoint. Quite similar to rotate is the flip option that creates a reverse or mirror image of any selected shape.
Learn how you can flip a shape in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.
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