PowerPoint Tips, Tricks and Shortcuts
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How to Use a Laser Pointer in PowerPoint (with Shortcuts)
During a PowerPoint slide show, you can change your mouse into a laser pointer to focus attention on a specific area on your slide. You can show or hide the built-in laser pointer using keyboard shortcuts or by using the context menu.
How to Add Audio in PowerPoint Presentations
You can add audio in PowerPoint from a file on your PC or from a shared drive. Audio is played during a slide show and you can insert music, sound clips, or voice recordings. Since audio files are copied into PowerPoint presentations by default, they can increase file size and may need to be compressed. To play audio, your computer must be equipped with a sound card and speakers.
PowerPoint Keyboard Shortcuts for Copy, Paste and Paste Special
Check out these three easy ways to copy shape, picture or text formatting quickly and easily in PowerPoint using buttons or keyboard shortcuts.
How to Create a Mouse Over or Hover Over Pop-up Effect in PowerPoint
You can create a pop-up effect in PowerPoint when you hover over or mouse over text, pictures or other objects. When you hover over an object during a slide show, you can have PowerPoint jump to another slide to make it appear that an object is a pop-up.
How to Turn Off Autofit in PowerPoint to Stop Automatic Formatting
You can turn off Autofit to stop PowerPoint from changing font size automatically in placeholders, text boxes and shapes containing text. Depending on your preferences, you can turn Autofit off for objects in the current presentation or in all new presentations.
How to Insert Linked or Unlinked Excel Worksheet Data into PowerPoint
You can insert Excel worksheet data into PowerPoint as an object or a table. Objects can be linked or unlinked. If you insert worksheet data as a table, it cannot be linked but can be formatted in PowerPoint.
20 PowerPoint Tips and Shortcuts to Work Faster with SmartArt
If you’re inserting and formatting SmartArt in PowerPoint, there are several tips and shortcuts you can use to work faster with SmartArt objects.
How to Use the Selection Pane in PowerPoint to Select, Reorder, Rename and Hide Objects
One of PowerPoint’s most useful tools is the Selection Pane. You can use it when you’re working with multiple images and objects that are stacked on top of each other on a slide. With the Selection Pane, you can select, reorder, rename, show and hide objects on a PowerPoint slide.
How to Change PowerPoint Slide Size
You can change slide size or aspect ratio in Microsoft PowerPoint from widescreen to standard or vice versa. Widescreen (16:9 aspect ratio) is the default in 2013 and later versions of PowerPoint and standard (4:3 aspect ratio) is the default in 2010 and earlier versions.
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