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Techsmith

Techsmith Corporation is a company that creates products for screen and video captures, screencasting, and audio-video editing, for both Microsoft Windows and Apple mac OS.

Here are a few features on Indezine.com where Techsmith has been featured:

PowerPoint to Flash: Articulate or Camtasia?
December 14, 2006

Using Stamps in SnagIt
May 15, 2006

Taking PowerPoint to Video and Publishing it to DVD – by Betsy Weber
January 2, 2005

Snagit: An Interview with Tony Dunckel
June 01, 2004
 

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Shape Lines: Formatting Arrowheads for Line Shapes

PowerPoint provides two types of shapes: open and close shapes. Shapes, such as rectangles, circles, etc. are closed shapes. Regular line shapes, such as straight lines, curves, scribbles, etc. are open shapes. Arrowheads can be added only to open shapes. That’s because an arrow needs a pronounced, visible beginning and end.

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

Formatting Arrowheads in PowerPoint 2016

Formatting Arrowheads in PowerPoint 2013

Formatting Arrowheads in PowerPoint 2010

Formatting Arrowheads in PowerPoint 2007

Formatting Arrowheads in PowerPoint 2003 and 2002

Apple Mac

Formatting Arrowheads in PowerPoint 2011

Tutorial Code: 08 02 04
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Tagged as: 08-02, Fills Lines and Effects, PowerPoint Tutorials, Shape Lines

Shape Lines: Formatting Line Dashes for Shapes in PowerPoint

A dashed line can have plenty of variations: from a line with fewer dashes to ones with longer or smaller dashes, or even alternating small and long dashes. So why do you add a Dash style to your outline? That’s a good question and the answer is quite simple, sometimes, Dash styles can add value to visual content, but use them judiciously. Many diagrams use dashed lines as a way to differentiate them from other content that has conventional, non-dashed lines.

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Tagged as: 08-02, Fills Lines and Effects, Shape Lines, Tutorials

Lyn Roseaman

  Lyn Roseaman s the founder of Now You’re Talking, a coaching business that ensures people find their voice and transform their lives and author of Now You’re Talking: Take your speeches, talks and presentations to a wider audience and a bigger stage. Following a successful international career as a market research director, Lyn knows what makes people tick. Now she brings that understanding to public speaking, helping busy people build their confidence and create powerful narratives that deliver maximum relevance and impact to today’s key target audiences.

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Tagged as: Personality

Shape Fills: Eyedropper Fill

Although PowerPoint allows you to choose almost any color you want, it is often difficult to choose the same color for text as the grass or the sky in a picture on the same slide! PowerPoint 2016’s Eyedropper option enables you to pick an exact color from anywhere, sometimes even from somewhere outside 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

Eyedropper Fill in PowerPoint 2016

Eyedropper Fill in PowerPoint 2013

Tutorial Code: 08 01 13
Previous: 08 01 12 No Fill for Shapes in PowerPoint
Next: 08 01 14 Advanced Eyedropper Fill Options in PowerPoint

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Tagged as: 08-01, Fills Lines and Effects, Shape Fills, Tutorials