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Make Sound Start Automatically In PowerPoint
Often you’ll want to make a sound file play automatically when a slide is displayed. The alternative is to have to wait for the slide to appear and then trigger the sound with a click of your mouse. In many cases, this is too unwieldy a process. How do we make sound start automatically when [...]
Full StoryPowerPoint Artistic Effects
PowerPoint 2010 has a whole host of special “Artistic Effects” that it can apply to the images you insert onto your slides. These images can be photos that you’ve taken yourself, or artwork you’ve obtained from other sources. As long as the image is in a popular format like .gif, .jpg or .png (or other [...]
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There may be times when you have two or more overlapping images in your PowerPoint presentation and you want to make the background of one image transparent, so that you can see the other image(s) behind it. For this kind of situation, PowerPoint’s background removal tool is an excellent choice. Solid areas of colour are [...]
Full StoryCreating Shapes In PowerPoint
In the past, shape manipulation has had to be performed in graphics packages like Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop or Fireworks. You would create an image and then insert it into your PowerPoint presentation. However, PowerPoint 2010 introduces some useful shape manipulation tools that allow us to perform tasks that designers should find familiar, such as: union [...]
Full StoryVenn Diagram Template
Download the Venn diagram template. Venn diagrams are a great tool to represent information visually – especially data about overlapping groups. For example, you might have a group of 100 people, 80 of which own a car, 55 of which own a bicycle, and 40 of which own both. A Venn diagram is an excellent [...]
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By default, when you type out text in a text box, it displays horizontally. But sometimes, for that extra pizazz, you might like your text to be curved, and maybe even follow the contours of a curved line. You can easily create curved text In PowerPoint 2010, by creating an oval shape and typing your [...]
Full StoryUsing Professional PowerPoint Templates
Using PowerPoint templates can speed up how long it takes to create a presentation. Using a professionally designed PowerPoint template has the same advantage – but you get a template that is stunningly attractive to boot. Many people use the free templates that come with PowerPoint, not realising just how inexpensive – and how much [...]
Full StoryUsing Clip Art In Powerpoint
Microsoft Clip Art encompasses the illustrations, photos, and images provided with each Office program. You can use Clip Art in your PowerPoint presentations to illustrate your slides and make more of an impact on your audience. There is a wide variety of different Clip Art images you can use, in a variety of categories. Let’s [...]
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Embedding a PowerPoint presentation on your website or blog is a great way to allow people to see the presentation without having to download it and then open it in PowerPoint. In the past we’ve had to upload presentations to the internet and link to them, but visitors want to see the presentation there and [...]
Full StorySpeech Bubbles For PowerPoint
Speech bubbles (or speech balloons), most commonly seen in comic books, are reusable graphical aids that allow words, ideas and concepts to be represented in an easy to understand way. Usually, there is some way to indicate that a speech bubble contains thoughts (the bubble looks like a cloud) or words spoken aloud (the bubble [...]
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