Definitions and resources for terms and techniques used in the world of presentations
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Everyone who uses PowerPoint has faced this situation: you know what you want to do with a slide or a slide object, but you don’t know where to find the related option in PowerPoint! PowerPoint has a feature called Tell Me that will tell you what you need to do! Tell Me is a text field that you can see in PowerPoint after the last Tab of the Ribbon.
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Tagged as: Help and Online Services, Interface and Basics, PowerPoint Tutorials
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The Recent option within the Backstage View provides you with a list of recently opened presentations so that you can quickly select the one that you want to work upon. Further, the Recent option provides you with a couple of other tricks.
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Tagged as: 01-08, File Types File Menu and Backstage View, Interface and Basics, PowerPoint Tutorials
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PowerPoint provides many types of fills for shapes, slide backgrounds, and even charts and tables. A picture fill is an attribute for shapes and other slide objects in PowerPoint that lets the object be filled up entirely with a picture you choose. Typically our tutorials address shapes but the techniques remain similar for almost all slide objects.
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Tagged as: 08-01, Fills Lines and Effects, PowerPoint Tutorials, Shape Fills
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Every new release of PowerPoint brings forth new features, and some of these features have made people sit up and take notice. The most popular of these features has been the Morph transition effect.
To learn more, click a link from the tutorials listed below.
Getting Started with Morph in PowerPoint

Tutorial Code: 13 10 01
Previous: 13 09 04 Morph Slide Transition Effect in PowerPoint
Next: 13 10 02 Using the Morph Transition with Curve Shapes in PowerPoint
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Microsoft’s Office Clip Art Gallery, which was earlier known as Office Online has been shut down. This includes Microsoft’s Office.com Clip Art and image search service, and also the Clip Art task panes in Microsoft Office applications such as PowerPoint, Word, and Excel.
To learn more, click the link below.
Alternatives for Office Clip Art Gallery

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Previous: 09 11 07 Public Domain Pictures
Next: 09 12 01 Bing Image Search
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