Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Slides Zoom In-Out



PowerPoint allows users to zoom in and zoom out of the slides to help focus on specific sections or look at the entire slide as a whole. The minimum zoom supported by PowerPoint is 10% and the maximum is 400%. The zoom bar is located in the bottom right corner of the PowerPoint window.

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To change the zoom settings from the zoom bar, you can click on the marker and drag it. Dragging to the left will zoom out and to the right will zoom in.

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Alternately, you can click on the zoom percent to open the zoom dialog. Here you have the option to auto-fit the slide in the screen, or choose from six pre-defined zoom settings, or define your own zoom setting.

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Sunday, April 9, 2023

Special Characters



PowerPoint supports the insertion of special characters. This allows the users to adjust the font characteristics of these characters just like any other text giving them greater flexibility in terms of the presentation design. The following steps will help you insert special characters.

Step 1 − In the Insert Tab, under the Symbols group, click on the Symbolcommand.

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Step 2 − In the Symbol dialog, select one of the special characters you want to insert in the presentation.

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Step 3 − If you cannot find the character you are looking for, you can change the font subset from the dropdown and look at a new set of characters.

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Step 4 − If you know the character code of the symbol, you can enter it in the Character Code field and search for it.

Step 5 − To insert a character, you can either double-click on it in the Symbol dialog or, select it and press the Insert button.

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Step 6 − The Symbol dialog does not disappear after you insert a character, which means you can add as many characters as you want from this dialog.

Step 7 − Once you are done, you can click Close to close the dialog.

Friday, April 7, 2023

Duplicating Content



PowerPoint is a multi-content program that supports many non-text content types like shapes, charts, pictures, clip arts, SmartArt and multimedia files. While working with the content, it may sometimes be required to duplicate the content as part of the presentation development. PowerPoint offers options to duplicate the non-text content using the cutcopy-paste features.

Cut-Paste Procedure

In this procedure, the original content is moved to a different location. When you use the Cut option, you can also create multiple copies, it is just that the content in the original location is lost. The following steps will make you understand how to work with the cutpaste procedure.

Step 1 − Select the content you want to move. Right-click on it to access the Cut option.

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Step 2 − Now move the cursor to the location where you want the content to be moved and right-click to access the Paste options.

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Step 3 − Select one of the paste options to paste the content.

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Copy-Paste Procedure

This is exactly similar to the cut-paste procedure except that the original content is retained in the original location.

Step 1 − Select the content you want to move. Right-click on it to access the Copy option.

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Step 2 − Now move the cursor to the location where you want the content to be moved and right-click to access the Paste options.

Step 3 − Select one of the paste options to paste the content.

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The Use Destination Theme option retains the content as the original content, but uses the destination location theme settings. The Picture option just pastes the content as an image with original settings. Once pasted as a picture you cannot change the parameters of the original content; for example, if you pasted a chart as an image, you cannot edit the data on the chart image.

Thursday, April 6, 2023

Setting Language Type



PowerPoint is a multi-lingual tool; it is evident that there will be an option to set the default language to be used in the slides. The following steps will help you set the language type in PowerPoint.

Step 1 − Under the Review ribbon, in the Language group, click on Language

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Step 2 − If you have not selected any content, you will be able to just set the Language Preferences

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Step 3 − If you have selected a portion of content with text in it, you can also set the proofing language.

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Step 4 − When you select the "Set Proofing Language", you get the language dialog. Wherein, you can select one of the many languages available in PowerPoint. If you are selecting a language just for the selected text, click OK. If you are selecting a language for the entire presentation click Default. You can also check the "Do not check spelling" checkbox, if you do not want PowerPoint to automatically check for spelling errors based on dictionaries available.

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Step 5 − When you select "Language Preferences", you get the PowerPoint Options dialog where you can change the language settings like loading dictionaries for various languages, prioritizing the display and help languages, and the Screen tip language setting.

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Tuesday, April 4, 2023

Content Translation



One of the newer features in PowerPoint is the content translation. This feature allows you to select content and have it translated into a different language. The following steps will help you translate content in PowerPoint.

Step 1 − Select the text to be translated and click on Translate - Translate Selected Text under the Language section of the Review ribbon.

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Step 2 − In the research sidebar, the "From" language is set to default language settings for the content. The "To" language is set to the alphabetically first language supported by PowerPoint.

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Step 3 − From the "To" language dropdown, select the language you want the selected portion of text translated into. Click on Insert to replace the selected text from the default language to the new translated text.

Step 4 − Notice that if you replace the portion of text using translation, the default language for the replaced text also changes automatically.

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Spelling Check



One of the best proofing tools available in PowerPoint is the spelling check. This is an automated proofing feature which will review the entire presentation for errors. To use this feature, you need to first set the Proofing language from the Language section under the Review ribbon.

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In the Language dialog, you can select the language you want to use for your presentation. If you have some content selected, you can click OK and select it for just that section. If you want to use the selected language for the entire presentation you should click default.

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Once the proofing language is set you can see it at the bottom of the PowerPoint window. If there are proofing errors in the presentation, you will also see an icon of a book with a red cross on top of it.

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You can review the errors in the presentation by clicking on the red cross at the bottom of the window or by clicking on "Spelling" under the Proofingsection in the Review ribbon.

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From the Spelling dialog, you can take the necessary actions to ignore, correct or edit the errors in the presentation. The table below describes the various options you have in the Spelling dialog.

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S.NoSpelling Dialog Option & Description
1

Ignore

Ignores the error for the current instance.

2

Ignore All

Ignores the error for all the instances in the presentation.

3

Change

Accepts the suggested change for the current instance.

4

Change All

Accepts the suggested change for all the instances in the presentation.

5

Add

Uses the first suggested word each time you click Add.

6

Suggest

Includes this word in the PowerPoint dictionary.

7

AutoCorrect

Automatically corrects similar errors going forward.

8

Close

Closes the Spelling dialog.

9

Options

Sets up how PowerPoint should proof the presentation.

Monday, April 3, 2023

Undo Edited Changes



Like any other program, there are times when you may want to undo some of the changes you made to the slides. PowerPoint offers the "Undo/ Redo" option to facilitate this. While working with the "Undo/ Redo" options, you must remember that these will always be sequential which means you can only undo actions in the order they were executed. You cannot undo the last action, retain the remaining 10 actions and undo the eleventh one. If you want to undo the eleventh action, all the subsequent 10 actions will also be undone.

To undo the last action, click on the Undo button in the PowerPoint Quick Access bar.

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You can keep clicking on this button repeatedly to undo the series of actions; however a more graceful way of undoing multiple actions is to use the dropdown next to the undo button. Here you can select the list of actions you want to undo by sliding your cursor on top of the actions and click on them.

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Redo is an option available only after you have undone at least one action. The redo follows the same logic as the undo option, except in the reverse order. You can click on the redo button one or more times to redo previously undone action in the sequence. You do not have the dropdown option with redo though.

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