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Morph in PowerPoint: Getting Started with Morph in PowerPoint

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.

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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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Tagged as: 13-10, Animations and Transitions, Morph in PowerPoint, PowerPoint Tutorials

Picture Basics: Alternatives for Office Clip Art Gallery

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

Tutorial Code: 09 11 08
Previous: 09 11 07 Public Domain Pictures
Next: 09 12 01 Bing Image Search

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Tagged as: 09-11, Picture Basics, Pictures and Visuals, PowerPoint Tutorials

Shape Fills: Fills for Shapes in PowerPoint

When you insert shapes within a PowerPoint slide, you will notice that all shapes you insert contain the same fill. Most of the time, the shapes may contain a solid color fill. Similarly, you may insert hundreds of shapes and they all have this same default fill, have you ever wanted to change this fill to something else?

Before we explore changing fills, it is important to understand that the default fill you see for new, inserted shapes is influenced by the Theme applied to your presentation, all new presentations have a simple Theme applied to them, this Theme decides the default color or style for the new shape. Thus, all new shapes that you insert will have the same fill.

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

Repair, Install, and Update PowerPoint and Office: Repair Office and PowerPoint

Microsoft Office is one of the most popular Office suites released so far by Microsoft. Even after so many years, it continues to be one of the major programs still in use. However, after using the Office programs such as PowerPoint, Word, and Excel repeatedly, there may be times when these applications face some serious issues such as crashes, corrupted files, etc. And in some scenarios, you may not be able to run any Office application. At this point in time, you may wish to perform some magical process that will resolve the issue.

Fortunately there is an easy way to resolve these issues and it’s called a Repair installation.

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Tagged as: Interface and Basics, PowerPoint Tutorials, Repair Install Update PowerPoint and Office

Connectors: Creating Anchor Points for Connectors in PowerPoint

While PowerPoint lets you attach a connector to any slide object, these connectors can only be attached to wherever you see an anchor point on the slide object. The good news is that you can add new anchor points for shapes and text boxes. For text placeholders though, you cannot add new anchor points. If you need more anchor points for pictures, it is suggested that you use any shape as a container for a picture fill, and add anchor points as required for the container shape. We have now established that you can add new anchor points for shapes (and text boxes) so that your connectors can be linked to exactly where you want them to be!

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Tagged as: Connectors, PowerPoint Tutorials, Shapes