Presentations Glossary

Pictures Basics and Adjustments: Inserting Screenshots in PowerPoint

Since many people use PowerPoint for training programs, you will find many slides containing screenshots of various computer program interfaces. Typically screenshots are captured outside PowerPoint using a screen capturing tool and then inserted within PowerPoint slide. The Screenshot option in PowerPoint has made this task even easier as you can easily take and insert a screenshot on your slide without leaving 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

Inserting Screenshots in PowerPoint 2013

Inserting Screenshots in PowerPoint 2010

Tutorial Code: 09 01 12
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File Types, File Menu, and Backstage View: File Formats in PowerPoint

Quick, how many file formats (types) can PowerPoint save your slides to? If you take count of every single format from the necessary to the irrelevant (and forget the missing ones), then the number is 28. Some of these could be genuinely helpful, such as the MPEG-4 Video export and others like GIF, JPG, PNG, WMF, and EMF ensure that you get good graphic outputs. And RTF outlines can sometimes be a boon.

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Slide Master and Slide Layouts: Inserting New Placeholders Within Slide Layouts in PowerPoint

In PowerPoint, a placeholder is a container that you can use to fill in with some content. When you launch PowerPoint, you will see distinctive boxes that invite you to add some content. Haven’t you noticed the “Click to add title” suggestions? All these boxes are placeholders.

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Tagged as: 04-08, PowerPoint Tutorials, Slide Master and Slide Layouts, Themes Templates Masters and Layouts

Slide Master and Slide Layouts: Formatting Picture Placeholders in PowerPoint

When you are working with multiple pictures on a slide, their position, formatting, and size may be required to be the same across successive slides. This can be achieved manually using resizing and aligning options, although you will use an inordinate amount of time making sure that the pictures look consistent slide after slide. Even then, there are chances you may not be too happy with the results or the time it takes to make these changes. You can get over this problem by using a new Slide Layout with a picture placeholder.

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Shape Lines: Transparency for Shape Lines in PowerPoint

Shape Line attributes such as solid colors and gradients have a transparency attribute that lets you reduce the opacity of the line so that the slide object or background behind shows through. Transparency is calculated in percentages and you can change its value all the way from 0 to 100%.

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

Transparency for Shape Lines in PowerPoint 2016

Transparency for Shape Lines in PowerPoint 2013

Transparency for Shape Lines in PowerPoint 2010

Apple Mac

Transparency for Shape Lines in PowerPoint 2011

Tutorial Code: 08 02 08
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