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Definitions and resources for terms and techniques used in the world of presentations
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Microsoft Office 2016 applications work well with cloud platforms such as OneDrive. Roaming capabilities enable when you log into your Microsoft account within Office applications such as PowerPoint. Once logged in, all your settings, including your recent files or templates, will be synced across all your devices, including laptops, tablets, and even smartphones.
Additionally, you can link your Microsoft accounts to various services (third party sites) to get pictures, videos, or documents immediately. Services available now include Flickr (access pictures), YouTube (online video clips), Facebook (social integration), etc. These services can be easily added to any Office application, and are available in all Office programs you work within.
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Tagged as: File Types File Menu and Backstage View, Interface and Basics, PowerPoint Tutorials
PowerPoint Online may have fewer options than desktop versions of PowerPoint. Yet, this version does have one option that makes it so easy to share your PowerPoint presentations on your web site or blog post. Here, we explore the Embed option, that generates embed code for your presentation.
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Tagged as: File Types File Menu and Backstage View, Interface and Basics, PowerPoint Tutorials
Among the tabs within Backstage View, we have already explored options such as New, Recent, Print, etc. Here, we will explore the Help option that provides you assistance and documentation.
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Tagged as: File Types File Menu and Backstage View, Interface and Basics, PowerPoint Tutorials
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
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: File Types File Menu and Backstage View, Interface and Basics, PowerPoint Tutorials
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: Fills Lines and Effects, PowerPoint Tutorials, Shape Fills
Every new release of PowerPoint brings forth new features, but only a few of them have made people sit up and take notice. The most popular of these features has been the Morph transition effect. This new transition effect was only available to PowerPoint 2016 and 2019 users on both Windows and Mac platforms who have a current Office 365 subscription. Additionally, some phone and tablet platforms, and also selected accounts of PowerPoint Online support the Morph transition. Plus, some older versions of PowerPoint allow playback of Morph transitions, but do not provide editing options.
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Tagged as: Animations and Transitions, PowerPoint Tutorials, Transition Effects
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. Microsoft explains that the option to insert images within Office applications is still accessible through Bing Image Search. And to be fair, Bing Image Search inside Office does allow you to search pictures that have Creative Commons license applied. This means that when you insert any picture using Bing, an attribution to the image is automatically added.
However, Microsoft’s explanation is too simplistic. The content available on Office.com cannot be compared at all with what you can find using Bing Image Search. The question then is, so what should you do when Office Clip Art goes offline?
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Tagged as: Basics, Pictures and Visuals, PowerPoint Tutorials
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: Fills for Shapes, Fills Lines and Effects, PowerPoint Tutorials, Shape Fills
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
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