Presentations Glossary

Shape Fills: Add Slide Background Fill to Shapes in PowerPoint

Saturday, February 11, 2012, posted by Geetesh at 11:41 am

A slide background fill is a type of PowerPoint fill for a shape that shows the area of the background right beneath the shape. Even if the shape is animated and moves to another area of the slide, the shape continues to show the same area of the background where it was originally placed.

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Tagged as: 08-01, Fills Lines and Effects, PowerPoint Tutorials, Shape Fills

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Interface Overview: Ribbon and Tabs in PowerPoint

Wednesday, February 8, 2012, posted by Geetesh at 8:24 am

The Ribbon is the long strip comprising tabs with buttons across the top of the main window within the PowerPoint interface. Since PowerPoint 2007, the Ribbon has replaced all the menus and toolbars that were found in PowerPoint 2003 and older versions. The Ribbon contains almost all the commands you need to work with your slides and is designed in a way that helps you quickly find the commands that you need to complete a task. You no longer have to search commands endlessly through many menus and sub-menus.

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Tagged as: 01-05, Interface - Overview, Interface and Basics, PowerPoint Tutorials

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Yury Uskov

Tuesday, March 23, 2010, posted by Geetesh at 1:08 pm

Yury Uskov
Yury Uskov is the founder of iSpring Solutions Inc., an innovative software company focused on providing professional e-Learning authoring tools based on PowerPoint. Yury has a Master’s degree in Software Engineering, and since 2001 has been working in the rich media industry inspired by the idea of making the best solutions for online presentation delivery. iSpring products are widely recognized as robust, effective, and extremely easy to use with an outstanding price/quality ratio. iSpring is headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia.