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How to Align Objects in PowerPoint (4 Ways)

How to Align Objects in PowerPoint (4 Ways)

You can align objects on your PowerPoint slides in several ways. Objects you align may be shapes, images, placeholders or text boxes. The most common way to align objects is to use the Align command which appears on multiple tabs in the Ribbon.

Microsoft Teams Keyboard Shortcuts (40+ Shortcuts)

Microsoft Teams Keyboard Shortcuts (40+ Shortcuts)

If you're a Microsoft Teams user, you can save alot of time using your keyboard to access Teams commands. Check out this essential list of keyboard shortcuts for Microsoft Teams for Windows users (Desktop).

How to Remove the Background from a Picture in PowerPoint (2 Ways)

How to Remove the Background from a Picture in PowerPoint (2 Ways)

You can remove the background from a picture in PowerPoint and keep a specific part or parts of the image. The background you remove can be a solid color or it can include different colors and other images. There are two common strategies for removing the background from a picture in PowerPoint – use the Remove Background tool or set the background color of the picture to a transparent color.

How to Space Objects an Equal Distance Apart in PowerPoint

How to Space Objects an Equal Distance Apart in PowerPoint

You can space objects an equal distance apart in a couple of ways in PowerPoint. These objects may be shapes, images, placeholders or text boxes. If the objects are not consistent in size, it's problematic to try to space them evenly apart.

How to Change Slide Background in PowerPoint

How to Change Slide Background in PowerPoint

In PowerPoint, you can change the background of individual slides, selected slides based on a layout, or all slides based on a slide master. Slide backgrounds can be changed to a color, pattern, gradient, texture or picture. In this article, we'll review applying color, gradient and picture backgrounds.

How to Remove Blanks in a Pivot Table in Excel (6 Ways)

How to Remove Blanks in a Pivot Table in Excel (6 Ways)

To remove blanks in pivot tables, you can set pivot table options to display data in empty cells, filter to remove blanks, apply conditional formatting, find and replace blanks or change pivot table design settings …

How to Crop a Picture in PowerPoint (4 Ways)

How to Crop a Picture in PowerPoint (4 Ways)

In PowerPoint, you can crop a picture in several different ways. You can apply basic cropping, crop to a shape such as an oval or triangle, crop to aspect ratio or crop to a precise size. After you have applied cropping, you can change the cropped area, adjust the position of the picture and / or resize the picture.

How to Create a Table of Contents in Word

How to Create a Table of Contents in Word

You can create a table of contents quickly in Word using built-in heading styles. Although you can insert a table of contents (TOC) using different strategies in Word documents, it's easiest to use Heading 1, Heading 2 and so on to format headings and then generate your table of contents. You can then change the formatting and update the TOC when your document changes.

How to Quickly Remove All Page Breaks in Word

How to Quickly Remove All Page Breaks in Word

You can quickly remove all page breaks in a Microsoft Word file using Find and Replace. The following method will delete all manual page breaks created using the Breaks command or by pressing Ctrl + Enter …

How to Blur an Image in PowerPoint

How to Blur an Image in PowerPoint

You can achieve some interesting effects in your PowerPoint presentations by applying a blur effect to a picture. Blur is an artistic effect and you can increase the blur using the Format Picture task pane or dialog box …

How to Add Page Numbers in Word

How to Add Page Numbers in Word

You can add page numbers in Word documents at the top or bottom of pages in headers or footers. Numbers in headers and footers should be inserted as fields so that they will automatically update as the document is edited. In this article, we'll review numbering in simple and more complex Word documents.

How to Crop an Image into a Circle in PowerPoint Using Merge Shapes

How to Crop an Image into a Circle in PowerPoint Using Merge Shapes

Starting in Microsoft PowerPoint 2013, you can use the Merge Shapes tool to crop an image into a circle. You can use Intersect in Merge Shapes to cut out a circle (or other shape) from a picture. If you have a version of PowerPoint prior to 2013, you'll need to use a different method (such as crop to shape) to cut a circle out of a picture.

4 Strikethrough Shortcuts in Microsoft Word to Cross Out Text

4 Strikethrough Shortcuts in Microsoft Word to Cross Out Text

You can apply strikethrough to text in Word to create a line through text. Although you can cross out text using Strikethrough on the Home tab in the Ribbon or the Font dialog box, you can also write your own Strikethrough keyboard shortcut in Microsoft Word.

How to Get Slide Design Ideas Using PowerPoint Designer

How to Get Slide Design Ideas Using PowerPoint Designer

If you are a Microsoft 365 subscriber, you can use PowerPoint Designer to get design ideas for slides. Designer takes advantage of Microsoft's Intelligent Services for suggesting layouts for images. It can also help with the design for slides containing other types of content.

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