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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?

Convert a PowerPoint Presentation to Video

This tutorial applies to PowerPoint 2013, but several earlier versions of PowerPoint possess the same abilities. The exact steps and options will vary slightly from version to version.

Showing your PowerPoint masterpiece can be thrilling, but what if you want to reach a wider audience? How can we take our presentation from the confines of the boardroom (or is that bored room?) and set it free so the world can bask in its glory?

Very easily; we convert it into a video.

In this tutorial, we discover a feature introduced in PowerPoint 2010 which allows you to take your slides and encode them to a video that can be loaded to your corporate network for on-demand viewing through an intranet portal, or posted to a more globally accessible site such as YouTube.

Selecting Objects in Word with the Selection Pane

If you have ever inserted an object (like a picture, shape, or clipart) into a Word document and then made the unfortunate move where you pushed it behind your text… …and now it seems forever trapped behind a sea of impenetrable words. No matter how …