by Echo Swinford | Mar 16, 2015 | Content Placeholders, Editing and Formatting, Graphics in PowerPoint, Images in PowerPoint, Picture Placeholders, PowerPoint 2013, PPT 2013
My last blog post discussed the difference in behavior between the picture icon in the Content placeholder and the actual Picture placeholder. To recap, the picture icon in the Content placeholder (used on the left in the image below) inserts the entire picture, while...
by Echo Swinford | Jan 8, 2015 | Content Placeholders, Editing and Formatting, Graphics in PowerPoint, Images in PowerPoint, Picture Placeholders, PowerPoint 2013, PPT 2007, PPT 2010, PPT 2013, Tutorials
I recently saw one of the most poorly built templates I’ve ever run across. It was created for a company in an industry where photographs of products and services are extremely important. The template had a lot of problems, but probably the worst was the builder...
by Echo Swinford | May 30, 2014 | Editing and Formatting, Handouts, PowerPoint 2013, PPT 2002-2003, PPT 2007, PPT 2010, Send to Word, Tutorials
PowerPoint handouts leave a lot to be desired. You can print slide thumbnails 3 per page. You can even print notes pages – which have one slide per page plus its notes. But if you want to print multiple slide thumbnails per page and include the speaker notes, you’re...
by Echo Swinford | Nov 6, 2013 | .ZIP files, Editing and Formatting, Extracting Files, File Extensions, Multimedia, PowerPoint 2013, PPT 2010, Tutorials
Every year at the Presentation Summit, it seems that all of us speakers randomly end up on a similar theme. It must be something in the air or water – or maybe it’s a vibe the Help Center puts off – because it’s completely unplanned. For example, one year...
by Echo Swinford | Jun 10, 2013 | Color, Editing and Formatting, PowerPoint 2013
PowerPoint 2013 introduced a color picker to the interface (finally!), but I keep reading and hearing that you can’t choose colors outside your current slide – for example, that you can’t choose a color from a website. This is absolutely. not....
by Echo Swinford | Jan 1, 2009 | Color, Editing and Formatting, PPT 2007
Text shadows vs shape shadows PowerPoint has a two different types of shadows: text shadows and shape shadows. Text shadows are added by clicking the shadow icon on the Formatting toolbar (PPT 2003) or the Home tab (PPT 2007). (2003) (2007) You can also add text...
