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You know that Action Buttons are helpful because they at least look like buttons! But choices are limited to what PowerPoint provides—and let’s face it, choices for Action Buttons have remained unchanged for the last 20 years. What has changed in those 20 years? There was no Facebook, almost no social media, and the internet was in its infancy. Given this scenario, it is no surprise that the Action Buttons are limited to VCR-style buttons, those were probably in vogue 20 years ago! Now times have changed, and fortunately you can tweak Action Buttons to create your own variants, as we will show you in this tutorial.
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.
Adding Iconography to Action Buttons in PowerPoint 2013
Tutorial Code: 06 12 04
Previous: 06 12 03 Hyperlinks for Action Buttons in PowerPoint
Next: 06 13 01 Drawing Lines in PowerPoint
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Tagged as: 06-12, Action Buttons, PowerPoint Tutorials, Shapes
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There are so many shapes in PowerPoint, from the basic Rectangle and Oval to the fancy Pie and Smiley Face! You can use these shapes as they are, or you can use the Merge Shape commands to create your own unique shapes. However, even if you do not create new shapes, there are some existing shapes that can be used in myriad ways. One of these is the Arc shape, that we will explore today.
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.
Tutorial Code: 06 02 08
Previous: 06 02 07 Working with Pie Shapes in PowerPoint
Next: 06 02 09 Drawing Angles in PowerPoint
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Tagged as: 06-02, Advanced Shape Techniques, PowerPoint Tutorials, Shapes
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Sometimes you may wonder why PowerPoint does not provide options for the shapes that you want to use! The other day someone wanted to create a shape resembling Pacman! How many of you remember Pacman, the lovable character from the computer game? Well, lovable or not, it is still easy to draw a Pacman shape in PowerPoint as long as you know what to start with! And the answer is to start with the Pie shape!
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.
Working with Pie Shapes in PowerPoint
Tutorial Code: 06 02 07
Previous: 06 02 06 Flip and Rotate Picture Fills for Shapes in PowerPoint
Next: 06 02 08 Drawing Arcs in PowerPoint
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Cindy Tingley juggles many roles, but they are all tied to her main passion, which is creating and delivering engaging and impactful content for learners, and teaching others to do the same. She is the Events Director at the Presentation Guild, and a vocal proponent of utilizing presentation design to deliver maximum impact and retention for the audience and eliminate the dreaded “Death by PowerPoint.”
Here’s a list of links on Indezine.com where she has been featured:
Presentation Summit 2022: Conversation with Cindy Tingley
August 31, 2022
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Working on a presentation and creating slides that can attract attention is always a challenge. This is more challenging when you want to draw attention to a motto, a slogan, or an axiom. To make such text stand apart, it is easy to apply text transform effects to your selected text. Apart from using presets, you can go further and tweak any of the presets to make your own distinctive Transform effect.
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.
Advanced Text Transforms in PowerPoint 2013
Advanced Text Transforms in PowerPoint 2010
Advanced Text Transforms in PowerPoint 2011
Tutorial Code: 05 07 13
Previous: 05 07 12 Text Transforms in PowerPoint
Next: 05 08 01 Search Online Resources in PowerPoint
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Tagged as: 05-07, PowerPoint Tutorials, Text and Fonts, WordArt (incl Text Fills; Lines; and Effects)
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