Questions tagged [microsoft-powerpoint-2013]
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Disable Font "Floaty" menu in Powerpoint 2013
I am using Powerpoint on Windows 10. No matter where I click on text, I am plagued by a floating font menu that blocks my view of the content of the slide that I am composing.
I used the following ...
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Is there a way to move or remove the navigation buttons during a Powerpoint Presentation?
During a Microsoft Powerpoint presentation, when you touch the screen of a touch-screen or pen-enabled device, these navigation/inking options appear in the bottom-left of your presentation:
Can ...
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How can updating a link result in sharing confidential information in Microsoft PowerPoint 2013?
I have a Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 file that contains a few linked object. Each time I open it I get the following warning:
How can updating a link result in sharing confidential information?
I use ...
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How can I do a clean "file" shape in powerpoint?
The usual shape for a file is a sheet with a folded corner. There's a shape almost like this in Powerpoint but the corner is upside down.
If I rotate or flip the shape upside down text is also upside ...
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MS Word to Powerpoint and back
We have to create documents in MS-Word, the contents of which are converted to PowerPoint on a regular basis. There are typically dozens of of slides in the PPTX files, and sometimes the number is ...
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How to add a shape with gradient colour that matches background gradient colour?
I want to cover over part of an image. Normally I do this by adding a rectangle shaped with the same colour as the background. This works fine when the background is a single colour.
However, in a ...
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Animating transparency in powerpoint
I want to make a picture in a powerpoint slide become more transparent gradually, and then remain so for the rest of that slide's display.
I cannot find an option to animate the transparency process ...
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Add freeform shape option - PowerPoint
In my powerpoint I opened an image, I clicked on image, I went to Format-->Crop-->Crop to Shape, but I didn't find the Freeform option. How can I add it?
Thank you in advance.
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Delay when between slides with audio
I'm putting together a power point presentation that I have precise audio behind that matches up with when the slides move. However, after I rehearse my timings, the rehearsed time is anywhere between ...
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Show the notes pane: make it the default in a PowerPoint template
The notes pane is not visible by default in PowerPoint. I observe that people are not even aware that the notes pane exists. I wonder whether it's possible to change the default state of that pane ...
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How to enable Powerpoint, Review, Start Inking in ribbon
I love the inking tool in Powerpoint, which I regularly use to highlight points of interest in screenshots.
But for mysterious reasons, sometimes the tool is missing in the ribbon:
After endless ...
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In powerpoint, how do I get the bullet icon in a text box to use the same icon as in the "Click here" box?
Using PowerPoint 2013.
I have a set of slides with mostly ordinary slides with green bullets. They all use the "default" bullet style using a green filled triangle. They all use "Appearance" ...
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how to tie powerpoint bullet to related image for purposes of animation?
I'm building a set of slides with bullets. I want to use "appearance" animations so I can step through the bullets with the space bar. On several slides, I have a screenshot image that I've positioned ...
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How to assign a keyboard shortcut for a powerpoint macro
I had written a VBA code for powerpoint to go to a specific slide while editing the slides.
However, I was unable to bind that to a shortcut key (I wanted to bind it to Ctrl+G).
In excel there ...
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PowerPoint: make layout obey slide master again
When editing the footer on a slide master, its child layouts automatically inherit the footer text. However, after accidentally editing a layout, they are not in sync anymore. I always have to edit ...
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