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Basics of PowerPoint Animation: Adding Animation in PowerPoint

Wednesday, March 12, 2014, posted by Geetesh at 1:40 pm

PowerPoint allows you to animate any slide object that can be selected on your slide. Such objects include pictures, shapes, text, bulleted lists, SmartArt graphics, charts, etc. You can tweak the way objects on your slides appear, move, and disappear by adding 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:

Adding Animation in PowerPoint 2016

Adding Animation in PowerPoint 2013

Adding Animation in PowerPoint 2010

Adding Animation in PowerPoint 2002, 2003 and 2007

Apple Mac:

Adding Animation in PowerPoint 2011

Adding Animation in PowerPoint

Tutorial Code: 13 01 03
Previous: 13 01 02 Animation Guidelines for PowerPoint
Next: 13 01 04 Types of Animation in PowerPoint

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Callouts: Callout Shapes in PowerPoint

Wednesday, February 26, 2014, posted by Geetesh at 5:39 pm

Generally, callout shapes are connected to another figure or visual, and these shapes contain some text. Callouts are not just any shape. Most of the time, callouts also have an attached line, arrow, or another pointer style that identifies it with a certain figure or visual. So in simple terms, callouts are those extra shapes with text that add value to other visuals. On their own, you’ll hardly find callouts used anywhere.

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

Callout Shapes in PowerPoint 2013

Apple Mac

Callout Shapes in PowerPoint 2011

Callout Shapes in PowerPoint

Tutorial Code: 06 11 01
Previous: 06 10 11 Create Jigsaw Shapes with Merge Shapes Commands in PowerPoint
Next: 06 11 02 Attributing and Positioning Callouts in PowerPoint

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Selecting Shapes: Select, Deselect, View, and Hide Shapes Using the Selection Pane in PowerPoint

Friday, February 14, 2014, posted by Geetesh at 1:49 pm

To format any slide object in PowerPoint, you must select it. There are a couple of ways with which you can select any slide object. Other than the obvious way of clicking the slide object to select, you can also use the Selection Pane. It’s always more difficult to select overlapping slide objects or objects placed behind a larger object in busy, populated slides — to select slide objects that are difficult to locate, you can use the Selection Pane.

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

Select, Deselect, View, and Hide Shapes Using the Selection Pane in PowerPoint 2016

Select, Deselect, View, and Hide Shapes Using the Selection Pane in PowerPoint 2013

Select, Deselect, View, and Hide Shapes Using the Selection Pane in PowerPoint 2010

Apple Mac

Select, Deselect, View, and Hide Shapes Using the Selection Pane in PowerPoint 2016

Select, Deselect, View, and Hide Shapes Using the Selection Pane in PowerPoint

Tutorial Code: 06 03 02
Previous: 06 03 01 Select and Deselect Shapes in PowerPoint
Next: 06 04 01 Duplicate Shapes by Dragging in PowerPoint

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Circles and Squares: Drawing a Perfect Circle in PowerPoint

Wednesday, February 12, 2014, posted by Geetesh at 4:05 pm

Drawing shapes is drop-dead easy with the vast repertoire of readymade shapes available in PowerPoint. You can easily insert these shapes with a click or two, but once in a while you may get stumped. One such scenario is when you need to draw a circle, you’ll find that PowerPoint’s Shape gallery has no Circle shape! Don’t worry, all is not lost because there is an Oval shape and that can be used to draw a perfect circle.

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 a Perfect Circle in PowerPoint 2013

Drawing a Perfect Circle in PowerPoint 2010

Apple Mac

Drawing a Perfect Circle in PowerPoint 2011

Drawing a Perfect Circle in PowerPoint

Tutorial Code: 06 07 01
Previous: 06 06 06 Grouping and Ungrouping Shortcut Keys in PowerPoint
Next: 06 07 02 Drawing a Perfect Square in PowerPoint

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Julie Terberg

Wednesday, January 29, 2014, posted by Geetesh at 3:47 pm

Julie Terberg
Julie Terberg is a Microsoft PowerPoint MVP (Most Valuable Professional) and the owner of Terberg Design LLC. She has more than 20 years of presentation-design and computer-graphic experience. She specializes in custom presentations designed to help presenters better communicate with their audiences. Julie is also the author of Building PowerPoint Templates Step by Step with the Experts, published by Que.