by Geetesh Bajaj, January 21st 2014
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PowerPoint Animation: Ceiling Fan
How can you create a ceiling fan in PowerPoint and animate it to play? That was certainly an interesting challenge and actually quite easy
to achieve in PowerPoint. You can download and reuse this slide for your own presentations.
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Bar Charts in PowerPoint
 A Bar chart maps
data as a bar within a chart's Plot area. A bar is essentially a rectangle that's typically thin width-wise and long length-wise. In simple terms, a Bar
chart is a Column chart that has been rotated 90 degrees! Data that is arranged in columns or rows on a worksheet can be plotted in a Bar chart. Bar charts
illustrate comparisons among individual items. While Bar charts do not possess the utter simplicity of Column charts where a higher column indicates better
results, they can be more suitable to present data in an almost timeline-like style.
Learn about Bar Charts, and how you can use them within PowerPoint |
Add Sound / Music to a PDF
There are times when you have to share your PowerPoint presentation as a PDF - mainly because you want to send a non-editable
file format to someone. However any sound or music clips within your original PowerPoint file do not get included within the converted
PDF. At other times, you may just want to add some sound or music to an existing PDF, even if that PDF was not created from a
PowerPoint file.
Learn how to add sound/music to a PDF |
 Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac
Text Alignment in Table Cells
An individual cell within a Table acts just like any other text box as far as its content or even appearance is concerned. Therefore,
all text alignment options used for text containers work with Table cells too with a few exceptions. Text alignment options for Table
cell content can be found within the Table Layout tab of the Ribbon -- look for them in the Alignment group.
Draw Tables
In PowerPoint, you can insert a table quickly by specifying your required number of rows and columns -- that's easy but there are
other intuitive ways to create tables. Speaking about intuitive, what can be more intuitive than directly drawing a table on your
PowerPoint slide almost like sketching with pen on paper? |
 Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows
Convert Text to Shapes by Fragmenting
PowerPoint 2013 enables you to use its repertoire of Shapes to create some amazing artwork. Its Merge Shape commands allow you
to create complex shapes by merging several simple shapes. Additionally, these options also let you convert your text to shapes
so that you can see the text even on a computer that does not have a particular font installed. We already showed you how you
can convert an entire text box to one shape using the Intersect command. However, if you want your resultant shapes to be
individual for each character, then you will need to use the Fragment option, as explained in this tutorial.
Merge Shapes with Pictures
PowerPoint 2013 really did take the Merge Shapes command to a whole new level. Not only can you merge shapes with other
shapes and text, you can also merge shapes with pictures! First you may wonder what's so awesome about merging shapes with
pictures? But play a bit and you'll realize that this opens up huge possibilities. We will start simple in this tutorial and
explore how you can create cookie cutter shapes with this option.
Create Jigsaw Shapes
PowerPoint's Merge Shapes commands open new opportunities and possibilities for you. Typically, whenever we needed to create a jigsaw puzzle
in PowerPoint, we would source the actual jigsaw shapes from Office.com or from one of the many stock image sites. However, the Merge Shapes
commands make it so easy to create your own jigsaws with nothing more than a few shapes! |
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