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Thursday, September 18, 2014, posted by Geetesh at 1:28 pm

Although you can add animation to a chart in the same way as you would add to any other slide object, PowerPoint provides some extra animation options that are applicable only to charts. For example, you can animate series and categories individually as required – and you can also decide whether you want to animate the plot area or not. In the following tutorials, learn how to apply animation to charts, and also explore the different Chart Animation options available in various versions of PowerPoint:

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

Animate Charts in PowerPoint 2013

Animate Charts in PowerPoint 2010

Animate Charts in PowerPoint 2007

Apple Mac

Animate Charts in PowerPoint 2011

Animate Charts in PowerPoint

Tutorial Code: 13 04 03
Previous: 13 04 02 Fake-Animate Tables in PowerPoint
Next: 13 04 04 Animate Text in PowerPoint

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Tuesday, September 16, 2014, posted by Geetesh at 10:05 am

Guides allow you to position and snap your slide objects in place. When you enable guides in PowerPoint, you see one horizontal and one vertical guide. They span to intersect at the very center of the slide. In the following tutorials, learn how to enable the Guides in PowerPoint. Select one of them based on the PowerPoint version you use:

Microsoft Windows

PowerPoint 2016 for Windows

Guides in PowerPoint 2016

Working with Guides in PowerPoint 2016

Adding More Guides in PowerPoint 2016

Guide Options in PowerPoint 2016

Hierarchical Guide Options in PowerPoint 2016

Smarter Guides in PowerPoint 2016

PowerPoint 2013 for Windows

Guides in PowerPoint 2013

Working with Guides in PowerPoint 2013

Adding More Guides in PowerPoint 2013

New Guide Options in PowerPoint 2013

New Hierarchical Guide Options in PowerPoint 2013

Smarter Guides in PowerPoint 2013

PowerPoint 2010 for Windows

Guides in PowerPoint 2010

Adding More Guides in PowerPoint 2010

Working with Guides in PowerPoint 2010

Smart Guides in PowerPoint 2010

Apple Mac

PowerPoint 2011 for Mac

Guides in PowerPoint 2011
Adding More Guides in PowerPoint 2011

Guides in PowerPoint

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Wednesday, July 23, 2014, posted by Geetesh at 11:59 am

The Notes pane is the area that you can see right below the actual slide. This area provides space to add speaker’s notes that can be so helpful to the presenter while presenting. The Notes pane can also be used to write any sort of information about the presentation or individual slides.

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Monday, July 21, 2014, posted by Geetesh at 9:34 am

After you add animation to a selected slide object, you typically set an animation event. Another animation property you can set thereafter is the speed of the animation. Every animation you add within PowerPoint has a fixed, default speed. This speed essentially is a duration shown in seconds or part thereof and differs from animation to animation.

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

Animation Speed in PowerPoint 2016

Animation Speed in PowerPoint 2013

Animation Speed in PowerPoint 2010

Animation Speed in PowerPoint 2007, 2003, and 2002

Apple Mac

Animation Speed in PowerPoint 2011

Animation Speed in PowerPoint

Tutorial Code: 13 03 02
Previous: 13 03 01 Animation Events in PowerPoint
Next: 13 03 03 Remove Animations in PowerPoint

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Thursday, July 17, 2014, posted by Geetesh at 5:33 pm

Adding animation to your slide objects is easy, but needs prior thought. It’s best to first decide what type of animation works best for a particular slide object. The type of animation used for any object is paramount because it can make the animated end-results viable, or relegate it to a distraction.

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

Types of Animation in PowerPoint 2016

Types of Animation in PowerPoint 2013

Types of Animation in PowerPoint 2010

Types of Animation in PowerPoint 2007

Apple Mac

Types of Animation in PowerPoint 2011

Types of Animation in PowerPoint

Tutorial Code: 13 01 04
Previous: 13 01 03 Adding Animation in PowerPoint
Next: 13 01 05 Entrance Animations in PowerPoint

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