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The Slide Area is one of three principal regions in PowerPoint, and the other two being the Slides Pane and the Notes Pane. This is the area where you work the most, typically through adding and editing slide objects. The Slide area includes three elements – the actual slide, the slide workspace, and the scrollbars that let you navigate between slides.
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Tagged as: 01-05, Interface - Overview, Interface and Basics, PowerPoint Tutorials
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Most of the time, text in PowerPoint is filled with either a black or a white solid fill, or any color that contrasts with the color of the slide background. This color info is contained within the Theme applied to the presentation. There may be times when you want to change this default text fill to some other particular color. Or, perhaps you applied a WordArt Style to your text and you are happy with everything else within that WordArt Style except the text fill. PowerPoint’s Text Fill option provides you with plenty of fill options for your text. Fill options include solid colors, gradients, textures, and also pictures.
To learn more, choose your version of PowerPoint. If we do not have a tutorial for your version of PowerPoint, explore the version closest to the one you use.
Tutorial Code: 05 07 02
Previous: 05 07 01 WordArt Styles (Quick Styles) in PowerPoint
Next: 05 07 03 Picture Fills for Text in PowerPoint
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Tagged as: 05-07, PowerPoint Tutorials, Text and Fonts, WordArt (incl Text Fills; Lines; and Effects)
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The Presentation Gallery provides several ways to start your next presentation using a template, a Theme, a recent presentation, a not-so-recent presentation, or even a blank presentation. Once you make choices in this Presentation Gallery, you see the actual PowerPoint interface.
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Typically, the last thing I would want to do is create my presentation outline in a spreadsheet program like Microsoft Excel. In one of my training sessions, I was showing participants how they could create presentation outlines for PowerPoint in Notepad or Microsoft Word, and one of the attendees wanted to know how he could create an outline in Excel! To understand why anyone would want to create an outline in Excel, you probably need to be an Excel junkie. Rather than go and discuss what an Excel junkie means, I’ll show you how an outline can indeed be created in Excel. This technique works on all versions of Excel for Windows and Mac OS X.
To learn more, choose your version of PowerPoint. If we do not have a tutorial for your version of PowerPoint, explore the version closest to the one you use.
Creating PowerPoint Outlines in Microsoft Excel
Tutorial Code: 01 03 05
Previous: 01 03 04 Creating PowerPoint Outlines in Microsoft Word
Next: 01 04 01 Locate Your Version in PowerPoint
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Tagged as: Creating Slides, Interface and Basics, PowerPoint Tutorials
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Fonts are more than just pretty characters, although your choice of fonts can have a profound effect on how readable your text is to the audience. You can format font styles to make your text bold, italicized, underlined, etc. Beyond these basic offerings, PowerPoint Font dialog box offers some advanced format options for the selected text. You can still change the font type, set the font size, color, and other font attributes in this dialog box, and you can also do more.
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