Presentations Glossary

Crop Pictures: Crop Pictures within PowerPoint Touch

While creating PowerPoint slides, you will invariably add pictures. Of course, you can also add pictures in Word documents or Excel sheets. If you are using any of these programs on a touch device such as Microsoft Surface, this process works just like how you would insert pictures 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

Crop Pictures within PowerPoint Touch in Office 2013

Tutorial Code: 23 03 01
Previous: 23 02 04 Text Floatie within PowerPoint Touch
Next: 23 04 01 Add and Select Text in Shapes within PowerPoint Touch

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Tagged as: 23-03, Crop Pictures, PowerPoint Tutorials, Touch Devices

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Using Floaties: Text Floatie within PowerPoint Touch

On a touch device such as Microsoft’s Surface tablets, you may not have access to a regular keyboard and mouse. Everything happens with a tap or a slide or some other gesture. To adapt an existing program such as Word, Excel, or PowerPoint for a touch environment is no easy task.

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

Text Floatie within PowerPoint Touch in Office 2013

Tutorial Code: 23 02 04
Previous: 23 02 03 Picture Floatie within PowerPoint Touch
Next: 23 03 01 Crop Pictures within PowerPoint Touch

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Tagged as: 23-02, PowerPoint Tutorials, Touch Devices, Using the Touch Floatie

Using Floaties: Picture Floatie within PowerPoint Touch

Tap on a selected picture on a Touch device and you will see a floatie spawning right there. In this case, you see the Picture floatie that provides formatting options for the tapped picture.

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 Floatie within PowerPoint Touch in Office 2013

Tutorial Code: 23 02 03
Previous: 23 02 02 Shape Floatie within PowerPoint Touch
Next: 23 02 04 Text Floatie within PowerPoint Touch

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Tagged as: 23-02, PowerPoint Tutorials, Touch Devices, Using the Touch Floatie

Using Floaties: Shape Floatie within PowerPoint Touch

Whenever you tap on an object in Word, Excel, or PowerPoint versions of Office 2013 while using a touch device such as the Microsoft Surface, you will see a floatie spawning right there! In our Touch Floatie within PowerPoint Touch tutorial, we explored how you can bring up floaties with differing options, depending upon the object you tap. The resultant floatie contains all the options required to format the tapped slide object.

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

Shape Floatie within PowerPoint Touch in Office 2013

Tutorial Code: 23 02 02
Previous: 23 02 01 Touch Floatie within PowerPoint Touch
Next: 23 02 03 Picture Floatie within PowerPoint Touch

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Tagged as: 23-02, PowerPoint Tutorials, Touch Devices, Using the Touch Floatie