Presentations Glossary

Working with Slides: Reset Slides in PowerPoint

Sometimes we come across slides that can be hazardous to our vision! You might end up with such slides even with no fault of yours because someone else prepared them for you! You now need to eradicate all the formatting on the slide to make it look more simple and clean. You may need to change the position, size, and text layout for the placeholders on the slide too. Fortunately, there is an easy, one-click process to restore some sanity in such slides. It’s called the Reset option.

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Tagged as: 01-09, Interface and Basics, PowerPoint Tutorials, Working with Slides

Slide Master and Slide Layouts: Change Background Styles in the Slide Master in PowerPoint

In PowerPoint, the Slide Master influences the layout and look of all slides in your presentation. Make changes to the Slide Master and those changes reflect on your presentation slides. For example, you can apply another Background Style so that all Slide Layouts and slides in your presentation use this changed slide background.

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Tagged as: 04-07, PowerPoint Tutorials, Slide Master and Slide Layouts, Themes Templates Masters and Layouts

File Types, File Menu, and Backstage View: Sign and Switch Accounts in PowerPoint

Microsoft Office programs, such as PowerPoint connect with an Account. Additionally, they may also integrate with the Account you use to sign in within your Windows-based operating system, such as Windows 10 or Windows 8. Many options within PowerPoint show up or change depending upon which Account you are signed into. These include your Recent Files list, your connected services, and even the interface color for your program.

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Tagged as: 01-08, File Types File Menu and Backstage View, Interface and Basics, PowerPoint Tutorials

Motion Path Animations: Drawing Custom Paths for Motion Path Animations in PowerPoint

If none of the preset Motion Paths effects suit your needs, or if you cannot easily edit them to the way you want, you can easily create your own motion paths. In these tutorials, you will learn how to use PowerPoint’s Custom Path option to create your own motion path.

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.

Microsoft Windows

Drawing Custom Paths for Motion Path Animations in PowerPoint 2016

Drawing Custom Paths for Motion Path Animations in PowerPoint 2013

Drawing Custom Paths for Motion Path Animations in PowerPoint 2010

Drawing Custom Paths for Motion Path Animations in PowerPoint 2007, 2003 and 2002

Apple Mac

Drawing Custom Paths for Motion Path Animations in PowerPoint 2011

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Tagged as: 13-02, Animations and Transitions, Motion Path Animations, PowerPoint Tutorials

Edward Tufte

 Edward Tufte is a well-known critic of slide-ware applications such as PowerPoint.

Here are some pages on Indezine where he has been referred to:

Does PowerPoint Really Have Such a Power?
July 7, 2014

The Leading Edge in Evidence Presentation is in Science
August 22, 2013

The Anti-PowerPoint Party: Another Precinct Heard From
August 10, 2011

The Presentation: A Story About Communicating Successfully With Very Few Slides: Conversation with Andrew Abela
October 11, 2010

PowerPoint Turns 20
June 21, 2007

Heralding Clarity?
August 21, 2006

The War Against PowerPoint?
July 5, 2006

New York Times Article About PowerPoint Raises Storm
December 16, 2003

Image: Keegan Peterzell – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0

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Tagged as: Edward Tufte, Personality, PowerPoint