While you may have already discovered how to add text boxes or how to add pictures to a slideshow in Microsoft Powerpoint, you may have run into problems where a picture is overlapping some text and making it impossible to read. Fortunately, you don’t need to adjust the order in which you add elements to … Read more
Some of the presentations that you will create in Powerpoint 2010 are time or date-sensitive. Whether this is because the presentation is updated on a regular basis, or because your audience needs to see the date and time on the slides, there are several reasons why you might be looking for a way to include … Read more
Many of the pictures that you encounter on the Internet include something called alternate text, or “alt text.” This is a description of the picture that is added to it which allows a screen reader, as well as some other mechanisms, to be able to determine the contents of the picture. This is very common … Read more
Files can really start to accumulate on a computer after you have been using it for a while, especially if you have to create and edit documents on a daily basis. While you may have a good organization system in place to find files when you need them, you might be looking for a method … Read more
Last updated: March 12, 2019 The default orientation in Microsoft Powerpoint 2010 is landscape, but that may not always be the best choice for every slideshow that you create. Occasionally you might have a lot of slides with long lists or tall pictures, which suits itself better to slides with a portrait orientation. Powerpoint 2010 … Read more
Powerpoint presentations are often a collaborative work that can be broken into multiple parts. The individual parts can then be combined into one large slideshow that is presented as a group. But it can be confusing for your Powerpoint audience if the page numbering continues to reset at 1 for each section, so you will … Read more
Powerpoint presentations with a large number of slides can quickly become difficult to manage. The default layout of the program only shows a handful of slides in the Slides pane at one time, which can make it difficult to locate the correct slide amidst a lot of slides that may all look similar. Powerpoint 2010 … Read more
Last updated: January 9, 2017 Learning how to change the size of a Powerpoint slide is a useful thing to know if you use Powerpoint with some regularity. Typically the size of Powerpoint slides is dictated by the default page size set for the program. In some parts of the worlds this is going to … Read more
Creating and editing files in Powerpoint 2010 provides you with a lot of ways to customize the content and appearance of your slideshows. But once you have finished creating your presentation you might be looking for an easier way to distribute it. Presentations that are sent in the Powerpoint file format can be easily edited … Read more
When you create a lot of Powerpoint presentations, especially when they are about similar topics, it is likely that you will have a slide that you want to re-use. You may already know how to insert a slide from another presentation, but this can be tedious when you want to add multiple slides, or even an … Read more