Category: PowerPoint
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Remove a Placeholder
Today is a quick post. If there’s a Placeholder on a source slide you no longer want, click the placeholder and press Delete on your keyboard. Yep, it’s that simple. You can do this on a regular slide or in the Slide Master. If you delete while under the Slide Master you’ll change the layout.
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A Place for Your Stuff
If you don’t know about Layouts please go back and read the last post. As discussed, those little boxes with dashed outlines on each layout are called Placeholders. They can contain text, one picture per box, a chart, a video, a sound clip, and other objects. They are boxes designated for content and used on…
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Lord of the Slides
This month I’ll be covering the purpose of source slides known as the Slide Master. What is the Slide Master? Is it a view or a deck? In truth, both. It’s the information (fonts, colors, images, shapes, effects, backgrounds, footers, and more) that controls your layouts for all your slides in a given presentation. Say…
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Replace All Fonts at Once
Are you in a personal hellscape working on a collaborative presentation where everyone has sent you slides and all of them used different fonts? Sure, you sent them a template, but people decided to be creative and now this thing looks like an ugly patchwork. Or maybe life is less dramatic and you decided you…
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Can PowerPoint Do Math?
Say you’ve put together a business case and you’ve included your beautiful graph that you built-in Excel into your presentation to prove the savings behind your proposal. Then your boss says, can you show your math? Rather than present all the data and how you came up with your numbers, you can display the formula…
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Display Settings in PowerPoint
If you want to change your view, you likely go to the View ribbon. If you want to start your presentation you likely go to the Slide Show ribbon but there’s a quicker way. Look to the bottom right of the PowerPoint window and you’ll see this little bar. This first option expands the Notes…
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Powerpoint hotkeys
Didn’t get enough of the hotkeys listed for Word? Craving more? Simply annoyed because so many don’t work in PowerPoint? Welp, here you go. Shortcut keys specific to PowerPoint. Alt + F4 Closes all open applications Ctrl + V Paste Alt + F7 Opens Spell Check from the mouse menu Ctrl + W Closes the…
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