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At some point in time, we all need dummy text to add quickly to our slides so that we can ascertain how a body of text looks or fits within an individual text box or placeholder. There is an undocumented feature in PowerPoint that enables you to add dummy text with just a few keystrokes!
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Tagged as: 05-01, PowerPoint Tutorials, Text and Fonts, Text Basics
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For many of us who are living in a world with widescreen displays and projectors, this may be a blessing, but many others may not feel as blessed! Worse, there’s no obvious way for you to change these defaults so that you can always have 4:3 slides rather than 16:9. Microsoft probably made this change since Widescreen is the common format for current displays nowadays, but to provide no option to choose an aspect ratio at the time of creating a slide is akin to providing zero control to the user.
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Tagged as: Interface and Basics, PowerPoint Tutorials, Slide Aspect Ratio
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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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