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If PowerPoint represents something more than anything else, it is the slide—and while you can use a white slide bereft of any graphic treatment, more often than not you will want to use something else. That’s because the background elements of a slide are a representation of the brand of your company, or even an expression of your personality.
In PowerPoint parlance, the background is just one choice that you must make to create that complete appearance. You will also need to explore fonts, colors, effects, slide layouts, and more. And all of these elements must work together to create and represent a cohesive brand. Here, we only explore backgrounds, and more importantly how you would create them within Adobe Photoshop.
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Tagged as: 04-10, Other Tutorials, PowerPoint Tutorials, Themes Templates Masters and Layouts
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PowerPoint allows you to customize the Ribbon in a number of ways. You can add Ribbon tabs, add Groups, and populate these with commands. And if you think you made a mess and were better off with the defaults, then you can always get back to square one. On a more positive front, you can share your customizations with friends and colleagues, or also your other computers. And you can export your customizations to a file saved as a backup for a rainy day!
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Tagged as: 01-06, Interface and Basics, PowerPoint Tutorials, Working with QAT and Ribbons
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PowerPoint 2013’s user interface has changes galore, as soon as the application is launched you see the new Presentation Gallery. Then when you create a new presentation, you’ll notice that all the slides are now set by default to widescreen 16:9 aspect ratios. Another very obvious change that does not make too many people happy is the new bright orange interface. Fortunately, this can be changed to a more subtle grey. Optionally you can get tattooed interfaces by applying Office Backgrounds. If these cosmetic changes were not enough, have you noticed that the tab names on the Ribbon are all in CAPs? It’s almost as if PowerPoint is shouting!
Fortunately we don’t have to bemoan without providing you with a solution! Although these Ribbon labels are in CAPs text case, you can change to whatever case you desire. This will provide the PowerPoint interface with a much more cleaner look.
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Tagged as: Interface and Basics, PowerPoint Tutorials, Working with QAT and Ribbons
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Clip Art tab of the Media Browser shows the clip art that is installed as part of Microsoft Office 2011. You will notice that the clip art collection is divided into convenient categories. Here, you can add/remove clip art graphics within the existing categories and even create a new category. This process of adding new categories, or customizing the existing categories is not done within PowerPoint or another Microsoft Office program.
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Tagged as: Interface - Overview, Interface and Basics, PowerPoint Tutorials
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The Media Browser in PowerPoint for Mac is a central repository of media content that you can use in your presentations. It has six tabs: Photos, Audio, Movies, Clip Art, Symbols, and Shapes. These six tabs are primarily of two types – Tabs that catalog content in your Mac OS X special collections, such as your iTunes collection for the Audio tab, the iMovie collection for the Movies tab, and your iPhoto library for the Photos tab. The other tabs that catalog Microsoft Office assets, such as installed clip art for the Clip Art tab, quick access to symbols in the Symbols tab, and access to shapes that are part of Microsoft Office within the Shapes tab.
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Tagged as: 01-05, Interface - Overview, Interface and Basics, PowerPoint Tutorials
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