Presentations Glossary

Interactivity and Linking Basics: Anatomy of a Link in PowerPoint

Linking (or hyperlinking) makes objects and documents connected to each other. To provide an analogy, consider each slide or presentation to be an individual computer on a network. Individual computers do some awesome work, but the network is much more useful and increases the worth of each individual computer. In this case, linking adds the network to your PowerPoint files. Linking can happen from one slide to another, or even to another file or a website from within PowerPoint presentations. In each of these linking scenarios, you will find that three factors are always present, which we call the anatomy of a link.

To learn more, click a link from the tutorials listed below.

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Anatomy of a Link in PowerPoint

Tutorial Code: 15 01 01
Previous: 14 12 01 Animating Slide Objects While Media is Playing in PowerPoint
Next: 15 02 01 Linking Between Slides in PowerPoint

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Tagged as: 15-01, Basics, Interactivity and Linking, PowerPoint Tutorials

Audio in PowerPoint – Advanced: Advanced Audio Options

When you insert an audio clip into a PowerPoint slide, you can control its volume, set it to play looped, or even hide the audio icon. These are some of the advanced options available for any inserted audio clip in PowerPoint. Remember that these advanced options only exist so that you can use them when they are required, rather than using them just because they exist!

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

Advanced Audio Options in PowerPoint 2013

Advanced Audio Options in PowerPoint 2010

Tutorial Code: 14 11 03
Previous: 14 11 02 Trim Audio Clips in PowerPoint
Next: 14 11 04 Format Tab for Audio Clips in PowerPoint

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Tagged as: 14-11, Audio in PowerPoint - Advanced, Multimedia, PowerPoint Tutorials

Kristaps Petersons

    Kristaps Petersons is from Riga, Latvia (Europe). He’s one of the members of the board of Directors at the Presentation Guild. With more than 15 years of experience in national and international broadcast journalism and film-making, Kristaps creates high-stakes lobby, sales and image presentations to his clients since 2015. Among his clients are names like Roche, Novartis, McDonald’s, Carlsberg Group, Volkswagen AG and governments like Canada, the UAE, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia and Latvia.

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

Presentation Summit 2022: Conversation with Kristaps Petersons
May 26, 2022

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PowerPoint Chart Types: Surface Charts in PowerPoint

A surface chart is useful when you want to find optimum combinations between two sets of data. As in a topographic map, colors and patterns indicate areas that are in the same range of values. Use a surface chart when both categories and data series are numeric values.

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.

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Surface Charts in PowerPoint

Tutorial Code: 10 14 09
Previous: 10 14 08 Stock Charts in PowerPoint
Next: 10 14 10 Doughnut (Donut) Charts in PowerPoint

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Tagged as: 10-14, Charts and Graphs, PowerPoint Chart Types, PowerPoint Tutorials

Morph in PowerPoint: Using the Morph Transition with Words in PowerPoint

While it’s easy and effective to use Morph transition effects between typical slides, curves, or even exclamation-named objects, there are many more Morph tricks to play with. Morph allows you to play with words and characters, and in this tutorial, we will explore using the Morph transition effect in PowerPoint to create animated effects using words. In a subsequent tutorial, we will explore animating on the character level.

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

Using the Morph Transition with Words in PowerPoint 365

Tutorial Code: 13 10 04
Previous: 13 10 03 Using Exclamation Named Objects with Morph in PowerPoint
Next: 13 10 05 Using the Morph Transition with Characters in PowerPoint

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Tagged as: 13-10, Animations and Transitions, Morph in PowerPoint, PowerPoint Tutorials