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All your PowerPoint files which are uploaded, created, or saved on OneDrive can be edited anytime, right within the PowerPoint Online web app that runs within your browser. But that’s not the only way you can edit these PowerPoint files. Yes, OneDrive also provides you the option to edit it within PowerPoint desktop applications.
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Tagged as: Interface and Basics, PowerPoint Tutorials, Working with Slides
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Quick – what’s a better slide color: gray or red? Almost everyone will say gray is far better as a slide color than red. Most of the time we agree, but then, color in itself is a fickle subject because what may work most of the time may not work in a different scenario. Worse, a color that’s not imaginable as a slide color may look attractive. Yes, stranger things have happened in the unexplainable world of color.
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Tagged as: Colors, Learning Color, PowerPoint Tutorials
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When you use the Pen and Highlighter tools to annotate, you are provided with an option to save those annotations when you exit Slide Show view. If you do opt to save them, then you will actually open doors to new capabilities that will allow you to edit these annotations. In fact, you can also change these annotations to shapes and work more with them!
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If you want to work with more than one presentation in PowerPoint, you can open two or more presentations next to each other. This arrangement makes it easy to compare presentations and edit them as well. This is also helpful when you want to copy or move slides from one presentation to another. Let’s imagine you have four presentations open and you can only see the one that is active. What about the other three presentations? How do you navigate to those presentations without having to close, or minimize the active presentation?
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PowerPoint provides twelve default Slide Background Styles, much like the previous two versions. Apart from these Styles, you can continue changing the default Slide Background to something else such as a solid color or gradient, a pattern or a texture, or, even a picture.
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Tagged as: 08-06, Fills for Slide Background, Fills Lines and Effects, PowerPoint Tutorials
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