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Audio in PowerPoint – Basics: Insert Online Audio in PowerPoint

You can insert an audio file from your PC into your PowerPoint slide. PowerPoint 2013 even enables you to insert an audio file from online sources without any need to open your web browser. Follow these steps to insert an online audio clip into your PowerPoint presentation.

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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Insert Online Audio in PowerPoint 2013

Tutorial Code: 14 09 04
Previous: 14 08 03 Sound Across Specific Slides in PowerPoint
Next: 14 10 01 Add Bookmarks for Audio Clips in PowerPoint

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Ten Tips for Cool PowerPoint Charts: Don’t Hurry With Charts!

While we realize that this advice is not too helpful if your boss needs those charts in the next 30 minutes, there’s no debate about the fact that creating charts a little slowly can help you create better looking specimens that your audiences can assimilate better.

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

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PowerPoint Chart Tips 03: Don’t Hurry With Charts!

Tutorial Code: 10 15 04
Previous: 10 15 03 PowerPoint Chart Tips 02: Plan Your Chart Type
Next: 10 15 05 PowerPoint Chart Tips 04: Inspiration is Not Afar

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Ten Tips for Cool PowerPoint Charts: Plan Your Chart Type

While there are always going to be some people who can end up with wonderful charting results without any planning, it does not work that way for everyone. To understand this better, let’s explore an analogy. Have you seen those folks, who have the gift of the ladle? They need no clues about what they are cooking, yet they just seem to know what to do next. And they end up creating a culinary masterpiece.

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PowerPoint Chart Tips 02: Plan Your Chart Type

Tutorial Code: 10 15 03
Previous: 10 15 02 PowerPoint Chart Tips 01: Clean Charts
Next: 10 15 04 PowerPoint Chart Tips 03: Don’t Hurry With Charts!

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Flash Movie Clips: Insert Flash Movies using the Insert Tab in PowerPoint

PowerPoint provides another way to insert Flash movies that is much more intuitive and simpler. However, the resulting Flash movies will play only within PowerPoint 2010, with older versions including PowerPoint 2007 not supporting playback of movies inserted using this process.

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

Insert Flash Movies using the Insert Tab in PowerPoint 2010

Tutorial Code: 14 08 01
Previous: 14 07 03 Missing “Video from Web Site” Option
Next: 14 08 02 Insert Flash Movies using the Developer Tab in PowerPoint

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Ten Tips for Cool PowerPoint Charts: Clean Charts

The biggest bane of charts seen on PowerPoint slides is that they are too crowded, include too much detail that’s much more than what audiences want, and have so little white space. By white space, of course, we don’t just mean space that is colored white; rather we mean empty, breathing space. If we had to sum up what we need in two words, then those two words would be “clean charts.”

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PowerPoint Chart Tips 01: Clean Charts

Tutorial Code: 10 15 02
Previous: 10 15 01 Ten Tips for Cool PowerPoint Charts in PowerPoint
Next: 10 15 03 PowerPoint Chart Tips 02: Plan Your Chart Type

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