Perhaps one of the most underrated effect in PowerPoint is the Random Bars Transition Effect. This effect displays horizontal or vertical bars when you switch from one slide to another. While this might not seem as a very useful effect, however, that depends upon your usage of it. On a personal note, I consider this …
The Reveal Transition Effect, as the name suggests, brings forward the next slide by revealing it from within the current slide. It is somewhat similar to the Fade and Wipe effects, however, it provides a distinct option by which you can add this effect to your PowerPoint slides using both a Smooth or Through Black …
In previous posts we explored the use of Push and Fade Transition Effect in PowerPoint 2013. Among the plethora of transitions that you can apply to your PowerPoint slides, one very interesting effect is the Wipe Transition Effect. Let’s take a look at how you can apply the Wipe Transition Effect and what might be …
The Transitions tab in PowerPoint provides a number of handy transition effects that can be used to switch between slides in a stylish way. In a previous post we showed you the utility and method of using the Fade Transition effect in PowerPoint 2013. This time we will explore the Push Transition Effect.
Perhaps one of the most important feature that Microsoft PowerPoint truly lacks, is the ability to annotate slideshows during presentations. While even less capable applications like PDF Presenter provide this functionality, (with perfect integration for PDF presentations), PowerPoint does not cater for this luxury. Having said that we all know how the functionality of applications …
In a previous post we showed you how to run two different slideshows on separate monitors. But what about running your PowerPoint slideshows as Screen Savers? OfficeOne Screen Saver is an application which lets you run your PowerPoint presentations as slideshows in screen saver mode. Moreover, you can even run different slideshows on separate monitors …
Previously, we brought you a review of the SlideDynamic add-in for PowerPoint, which allows inserting online and offline Prezi in PowerPoint presentations. This time we will show you how to use another handy functionality of this add-in, i.e. to insert PDF files in MS PowerPoint presentations. There can be several advantages of inserting PDF documents …
If you have ever tried to run a slideshow across multiple monitors using Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer you might have noticed that although you can setup a slideshow to run on a secondary monitor, however, when you try to work on the other monitor, the slideshow freezes. This pretty much reduces the utility for the end …
In this tutorial we will explore adding audio to your PowerPoint presentation. Using audio in a PowerPoint presentation can help with or take over the duties of narrating when you are before a crowd. If your presentation is serving as a tutorial audio can be effective in both narrating and background music. First, let’s open …
Advanced video editing applications have only a handful of names which can perhaps be listed as useable by novice, intermediate and advanced computer users. Some of these names include CamtasiaStudio and Windows Live Movie Maker. The rest of the applications like Adobe Premiere Pro are too advanced to even comprehend by novice or intermediate computer …
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