Presentations Glossary

PowerPoint Updates

Stay on top of PowerPoint’s evolving landscape with practical troubleshooting tips and update guidance. This page explores how specific updates—such as 2464617 and 2464588—impact functionality, and provides clear steps to remove or disable them when needed.

To learn more, choose your version of PowerPoint. If we do not have a tutorial for your version of PowerPoint, explore the version closest to the one you use.

Microsoft Windows

Remove and Disable the 2464617 update for PowerPoint

Remove and Disable the 2464588 update for PowerPoint

Tutorial Code: 22 01 01
Previous: 21 01 02 Locating and Sharing the Help URL for a Topic
Next: 22 02 01 Repair PowerPoint File Associations

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Tagged as: 22-01, PowerPoint Tutorials, PowerPoint Updates, Troubleshooting

Violeta Saladiene

Violeta Saladiene is a member of Toastmasters International, a not-for-profit organisation that has provided communication and leadership skills since 1924 through a worldwide network of clubs. There are more than 400 clubs and 10,000 members in the UK and Ireland.

Here’s a list of links on Indezine and similar sites where she has been featured:

Start Your Presentation with Impact
November 25, 2025

Mastering the Art of Podcast Presentation
November 4, 2024

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Tagged as: Personality

Lou Douros

  Lou Douros co-founded Freepath. His passion for story and compassion for digital storytellers fueled the desire to bridge the gap between content and audience. Lou sees the world as places made up of people described by their stories; increasingly made up of digital content. His 20+ years of remote video production experience informs his continuing quest to move and be moved by inspired ideas.

Here’s a list of links on Indezine and similar sites where he has been featured:

Freepath 3.0
December 20, 2010

Freepath 2: The Lou Douros Interview
October 16, 2008

An Interview with Lou Douros
May 17, 2006

Freepath in my PowerPoint software collection
April 30, 2006

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Tagged as: Personality

Add and Select Text in Shapes: Add and Select Text in Shapes within PowerPoint Touch

Text can make so much difference to your shapes—add some text to a rectangle and it becomes an info-graphic! There can be any number of other reasons to insert text within a shape—and inserting or editing text within a shape using PowerPoint 2013 for Windows on a touch device such as Microsoft Surface is as easy as doing the same on the desktop version of PowerPoint 2013.

To learn more, choose your version of PowerPoint. If we do not have a tutorial for your version of PowerPoint, explore the version closest to the one you use.

Microsoft Windows

Add and Select Text in Shapes within PowerPoint Touch in Office 2013

Tutorial Code: 23 04 01
Previous: 23 03 01 Crop Pictures within PowerPoint Touch
Next: 01 01 01 Widescreen Implementations in PowerPoint

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Tagged as: 23-04, Add and Select Text in Shapes, PowerPoint Tutorials, Touch Devices

Crop Pictures: Crop Pictures within PowerPoint Touch

While creating PowerPoint slides, you will invariably add pictures. Of course, you can also add pictures in Word documents or Excel sheets. If you are using any of these programs on a touch device such as Microsoft Surface, this process works just like how you would insert pictures in PowerPoint.

To learn more, choose your version of PowerPoint. If we do not have a tutorial for your version of PowerPoint, explore the version closest to the one you use.

Microsoft Windows

Crop Pictures within PowerPoint Touch in Office 2013

Tutorial Code: 23 03 01
Previous: 23 02 04 Text Floatie within PowerPoint Touch
Next: 23 04 01 Add and Select Text in Shapes within PowerPoint Touch

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Tagged as: 23-03, Crop Pictures, PowerPoint Tutorials, Touch Devices