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I always believe that Shapes are the building block using which you can add any type of graphic to your PowerPoint slide — most content that you can select on the slide such as ungrouped tables or charts, Shapes, or even a video clip works so much like a Shape. Learn to format shapes, and you can use the same tricks to format these other slide objects. As part of this Learn PowerPoint series, I already have covered many such topics and more are continuously being added — today’s tutorial shows how you can quickly add a shape to your PowerPoint slide.
Learn how to insert Shapes in PowerPoint 2007 for Windows.
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Shapes can often be combined to create more complex shapes — for instance you can place circles of various sizes one on top of the other to create something that looks like a target. Similarly you can create seemingly complicated arrangements of shapes quite easily to create something that illustrates a concept or idea so much better than just bulleted text. To create any such graphic content, you need to start by inserting common shapes — fortunately PowerPoint makes it easy to do so.
To insert a Shape on your PowerPoint 2010 for Windows slide follow these steps.
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Creating outlines for PowerPoint in various external applications lets you stay away from distractions in PowerPoint-land — once you have the outlines done, it’s very easy to import it in the form of slides into PowerPoint. While this import process works the same way in all versions of PowerPoint, there are small interface changes. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to import outlines in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
Learn how you can import outlines in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
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PowerPoint 2011
Tagged as: Outline, PowerPoint 2011, Tutorials
TechSmith Snagit is one of the most amazing programs — all these years, TechSmith has made successive versions of Snagit available to Windows users, and now finally Snagit comes to the Mac. A screen capture application that does much more, Snagit lets you capture almost anything on the computer screen, edits to the screenshots by scaling, adding callouts, applying effects, etc. Finally, it also provides many options to share the screenshots.
Ellen Finkelstein is a Microsoft PowerPoint MVP and author of several PowerPoint, Flash, and AutoCAD books. She just concluded her 8-part, free webinar series called the Outstanding Presentations Workshop.
In this conversation, Ellen talks more about the concluded webinar series, and how it evolved to the launch of her Outstanding Presentations Course and Portal.
Geetesh: Ellen, tell us more about Outstanding Presentations Workshop, your just-concluded series of webinars.
Ellen: The Outstanding Presentations Workshop was an amazing success. We were pleased to attract top speakers from the presentation community, and they did an excellent job of explaining the principles of outstanding presentations. The response from participants was wonderful. People said that they now had a completely new way to use PowerPoint in particular and to present in general. They called the speakers “inspiring” and the workshop “a revelation.” Attendees told us they were really thankful for the opportunity to get such high-quality content for free.
Geetesh: There was so much to learn as part of this webinar series. What happens next? Is there something you plan as a natural extension?
Ellen: The 8 webinar sessions couldn’t cover everything. Near the end of the workshop, we did a survey. One of the questions asked what resources people thought would be helpful. We got many answers, but it was clear that systematic training, feedback, and online resources were the most important. So, we’ve announced a new Outstanding Presentations Course and Portal that will meet these needs and more. Anyone can read more about it here. We feel that this course is an ideal way to become an outstanding presenter.
Even better, people can hear the last webinar for free, with no registration required. The topic is Slide Design for Non-Designers and this webinar also covers the upcoming course. Look for the webinar recording at the bottom of the page.
Another free resource is my new video, Never Be Caught Unprepared Again. This video is a sneak preview of a form I’ll introduce during the upcoming course that ensures that you’ll be super organized when preparing for your next presentation.
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