Presentations Glossary

Working With Slides: Reuse Slides in PowerPoint

Reusing your existing slides can be a great help: first you need not recreate stuff you already have and secondly you are saving so much time that you can use more effectively to practice your presentation!

Having said that, always start by creating an outline of your presentation. This is important because it gives you an opportunity to plan your slides all over again. Thereafter, reuse any existing slides. PowerPoint provides a quick command that locates specific slides, and enables you to add it to the active presentation. While this process works the same way in all versions of PowerPoint.

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

Jamie Garroch

  Jamie Garroch is a Technical Consultant at BrightCarbon, the specialist presentation and eLearning agency. He develops PowerPoint automation solutions and add-ins that enable presentation authors to work smarter. He also trains people to present more effectively using visuals and animated scenes that explain and reinforce key messages, which is supported by free resources and tips at their site.

Here’s a list of links on Indezine.com where he has been featured:

Social Media Canvas Add-in: Conversation with Jamie Garroch
October 17, 2025

Collapse Groups with BrightSlide in PowerPoint’s Selection Pane
March 24, 2023

Hide Logos with Logo Toggle in PowerPoint
September 9, 2021

Presentation Summit 2021: Conversation with Jamie Garroch
August 24, 2021

Convert a PowerPoint Line to a Motion Path Animation: Conversation with Jamie Garroch
December 22, 2020

Presentation Summit 2020: Conversation with Jamie Garroch
June 15, 2020

BrightSlide: Creating a Revolutionary PowerPoint Add-in
October 31, 2019

PowerPoint VBA: Export Slides to Single Slide Presentations
October 16, 2019

Presentation Summit 2019: Conversation with Jamie Garroch
September 11, 2019

Jamie’s Pattern Fill Transparency Add-in for PowerPoint
January 30, 2018

YOUpresent and Nolan Haims Creative Launch Free TalkTime Add-in for PowerPoint
October 27, 2017

Manage Guides in PowerPoint with G-Tools: Conversation with Jamie Garroch
May 24, 2017

Vimeo Embeds with G-Tools PowerPoint Add-in: Conversation with Jamie Garroch
January 13, 2016

Convert Text to Outlines in PowerPoint 2013 with a Free Add-in
January 2, 2014

Color Swatch for PowerPoint 2003: Conversation with Jamie Garroch
September 30, 2013

vMaps’ Auto Color Feature: Conversation with Jamie Garroch
January 10, 2013

PowerPoint 2013 for Developers: Conversation with Jamie Garroch
August 17, 2012

Slide Linker: Conversation with Jamie Garroch
December 14, 2011

Circlify: Conversation with Jamie Garroch
August 15, 2011

PowerPoint, a Graphics Program: Conversation with Jamie Garroch
August 5, 2011

Presenting on an iPad: Conversation with Jamie Garroch
February 9, 2011

PowerPoint on iPad
January 28, 2011

Building an Interactive Public Transport Map Application in PowerPoint
September 3 ,2010

ActivePresentation™ Designer: Conversation with Jamie Garroch
July 23, 2010

ActivePresentation™ Designer
June 28, 2010

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Tagged as: Add-in, Jamie Garroch, Personality, PowerPoint, PowerPoint Converstations, Programming, VBA

Chart Basics: Changing Chart Types in PowerPoint

PowerPoint provides ample choices in chart types for almost every kind of graphical data representation. There are some basic chart types such as column, bar, line, pie, etc. and advanced charts like radar, surface, bubble, doughnut, etc.

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:

Changing Chart Types in PowerPoint 2013

Changing Chart Types in PowerPoint 2010

Changing Chart Types in PowerPoint 2007

Changing Charts Types in PowerPoint 2002 and 2003

Apple Mac:

Changing Chart Types in PowerPoint 2011

Tutorial Code: 10 01 04
Previous: 10 01 03 Chart Elements in PowerPoint
Next: 10 01 05 Changing Fill and Border of Charts in PowerPoint

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Tagged as: 10-01, Chart Basics, Charts and Graphs, PowerPoint Tutorials

Chart Series: Picture Fills for Chart Series in PowerPoint

When a new chart is inserted in your PowerPoint presentation, you will find that it takes the fills and border types based on the Theme of your presentation. You can change the fills and borders of charts as required. Other than that, you can always use pictures as fills.

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

Picture Fills for Chart Series in PowerPoint 2010

Picture Fills for Chart Series in PowerPoint 2007

Picture Fills for Chart Series in PowerPoint 2003 and 2002

Apple Mac

Picture Fills for Chart Series in PowerPoint 2011

Tutorial Code: 10 10 01
Previous: 10 09 01 Chart Legend in PowerPoint
Next: 10 11 01 Z Axis in PowerPoint Charts: Pros and Cons

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Tagged as: 10-10, Chart Series, Charts and Graphs, PowerPoint Tutorials

Chart Basics: Chart Elements in PowerPoint

Although a chart may seem like a single object at first glance, look closer and you will find that each chart comprises several individual elements that we call chart elements in 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:

Chart Elements in PowerPoint 2013

Chart Elements in PowerPoint 2010

Chart Elements in PowerPoint 2007

Chart Elements in PowerPoint 2002 and 2003

Apple Mac:

Chart Elements in PowerPoint 2011

Tutorial Code: 10 01 03
Previous: 10 01 02 Chart Styles in PowerPoint
Next: 10 01 04 Changing Chart Types in PowerPoint

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Tagged as: 10-01, Chart Basics, Charts and Graphs, PowerPoint Tutorials