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How to Use the Notes and Notes Master in Microsoft PowerPoint

In this PowerPoint tutorial, you’ll see how to enter speaker’s notes more comfortably and efficiently, and how to use the Notes Master view to fine-tune your notes and slide thumbnails for easier reading and use. Want to learn more about this and other features in …

How to Add Animations in Microsoft PowerPoint

In this PowerPoint tutorial, we’ll show you how to animate objects in a Microsoft PowerPoint slide, and change the sequence and timing to use them to your advantage. Want to learn more about this and other capabilities in PowerPoint? Check out our PowerPoint training courses, …

How to Add Basic Transitions in Microsoft PowerPoint

In this PowerPoint tutorial, we’ll show you how to set up transitions in Microsoft PowerPoint, and do some fine-tuning on making them look clean and professional. Want to learn more about this and other capabilities in PowerPoint? Check out our PowerPoint training courses, taught by …

How to Use the Slide Master View in PowerPoint

In this PowerPoint tutorial, we’ll show you how to use the Slide Master view. It can help you keep your presentation’s appearance consistent throughout. Adding graphics and formatting text in the view are easy once you get there. Want to learn more about these and …

How to Create a Theme in Microsoft PowerPoint

In PowerPoint, themes are an important part of the presentation. Even if nobody directly notices them, they are as necessary to the slide deck as the foundation for a house. Consistent appearance throughout the show improves understandability, and its professional look. Creating a theme is …

How to Select Precise Colors with Pickers and Libraries

More than ever in today’s business world, having one’s company stand out from the competition is important; product branding, and the use of color in particular, is integral to this. Product branding is the term we normally use to describe a distinctive scheme of hue/shade/etc. …

Creating Themes in Microsoft PowerPoint

When preparing business presentations using PowerPoint, one needs to make really sure the show has a coherent, consistent appearance. Themes are an easy way to do this. Because the brain is wired to start understanding and working with pictures from infancy, keeping the graphic elements …

Using Slide Master View in PowerPoint

One of the few parts of PowerPoint that isn’t quite intuitive is the Slide Master view. Getting to it is easy–go to the View tab–>Master Views group, and click Slide Master. Then it gets a little more complicated. To some people it looks as if …

PowerPoint Tips and Tricks

…or, Some Ideas for Good PowerPoint Presentations There are people who believe the joke that says, “We have met the enemy, and he is PowerPoint.” I don’t think so. But it is true that some people, through no fault of their own, don’t know where …

Office 2013 – Recover Unsaved Documents

Admit it; you’ve done this more than once. You open an Office application like Word or Excel and type out your next great novel or number-crunching masterpiece. Then, in a state of haste, you start closing windows and accidentally close the one window you intended to leave open. One second later you realize, this was the one windows you shouldn’t have closed. All is lost… or is it?