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Freepath 3.0: The Indezine Review

With the amount of media in everyone’s computers these days, it has become a challenge to cope up with storing and sharing all the photos, sound and video clips, or even the documents, spreadsheets, and slides in the multitudes of folders. And sharing is an even larger challenge if the people whom you want to share with are not on the same time zones or geographies as you are. Freepath, a program that lets you show and share all sorts of file formats combats this problem by enabling you to create a playlist with all your document and media formats including PowerPoint presentations, Word documents, Excel sheets, Adobe PDFs, Flash clips, QuickTime movies, YouTube videos, live websites, and more.

Read the Indezine review of Freepath 3.0.

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Tagged as: Add-in, Freepath, Playlists, PowerPoint, Review

Learn PowerPoint 2010 for Windows: Insert SmartArt

SmartArt in PowerPoint 2007and 2010 has replaced the diagram options in previous versions of PowerPoint. SmartArt also allows you to replace bullet points with info-graphic content using text-within-shapes that’s more logical to view and present. In this tutorial you’ll learn how to insert a SmartArt graphics within PowerPoint 2010.

Learn how to insert SmartArt within PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

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Tagged as: PowerPoint 2010, SmartArt, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint 2010 for Windows: Group, Ungroup and Regroup Shapes and Slide Objects

Many times, you want to animate several slide objects together — or you may want to rotate all shapes together to a certain angle — at times like these, you’ll be happy to know that grouping, ungrouping, and regrouping shapes is possible in PowerPoint.

Learn how to group, ungroup, and regroup shapes and slide objects in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

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Tagged as: PowerPoint 2010, Shapes, Tutorials

Learn PowerPoint 2010 for Windows: Distribute Shapes

Distributing shapes is a simple concept — it means that the space between consecutive shapes (or any other slide objects) should be the same so that they all appear evenly spaced out. If you create many PowerPoint slides, it is very important to keep all your shapes cleanly positioned and spaced. You already explored aligning shapes in a previous tutorial — in this tutorial we’ll look at how you can distribute shapes evenly in PowerPoint 2010. The Distribute option is a great way to position shapes equidistant from each other, either on a horizontal or vertical plane. Follow these steps to learn more.

Learn how you can distribute shapes evenly in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows.

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Tagged as: PowerPoint 2010, Shapes, Tutorials

Saving Themes In PowerPoint, Word, and Excel 2010 for Windows

Similar to PowerPoint 2007 (also Word and Excel), PowerPoint 2010 uses a variety of built-in Themes that are installed by default. In PowerPoint, you can find these in the Design tab of the Ribbon. It’s a good idea to learn how you can save individual Theme files for several reasons: you may want to customize a particular Theme file, you may want to share it with others, or you may just want to backup the Theme file for future use. Whatever your reason may be, this tutorial shows you how you can save a Theme file from within PowerPoint 2010, Word 2010, or Excel 2010 for Windows.

Learn how you can save a Theme from within Office 2010 applications.

Filed Under: PowerPoint 2010
Tagged as: Office 2010, PowerPoint 2010, Themes, Tutorials