Questions tagged [microsoft-powerpoint]
Commercial software presentation program included in all editions of the Microsoft Office suite.
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How do I change the language of all Powerpoint slides at once?
I want to change the proofing language of all my slides in a Powerpoint. I've tried setting the language via the Language Preferences menu, however this only changes it for new powerpoints.
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How can I embed programming source code in Powerpoint slide and keep code highlighting?
Is it possible to embed programming source code to Powerpoint slide, and keep code highlighting/coloring?
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Export PowerPoint to PDF with each animation on a separate slide
I have a PowerPoint presentation where I extensively use simple animations, only appear/disappear effects triggered by the mouse (not time based), without any smooth transitions.
Is it possible to ...
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Replacing background graphics of a PowerPoint theme
I'm using this theme (this is my .pptx file).
When I check the "Hide Background Graphics" checkbox, the butterflies' graphics disappear.
I want to replace such buttefly graphic by my own designed ...
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How can I add additional connector (glue) points to a shape in word or powerpoint?
How can I add additional connector points to a shape in word or powerpoint?
In openoffice draw these are called glue points.
What I want in ms powerpoint:
What I can do in open office draw:
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Change the spell-checking language on a PowerPoint presentation
I received a PowerPoint presentation with dozens of slides, each of them with a number of text boxes. Although the presentation is written in English, the language for spell checking is set to ...
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Powerpoint: how to insert document property (aka 'field') in slide?
How can I insert a document property (e.g. the author's name) in a slide in PowerPoint 2007? I know this can be done in Microsoft Word, but I can't find how to do it in PowerPoint.
(The idea is that ...
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Create a PDF from PowerPoint with animations
I have PowerPoint slides with visual effects on them, so each line appears after clicking on the screen in the presentation. When I convert them to PDF the slides are mostly empty and only some titles ...
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Adding object to existing group
I'm making a powerpoint presentation that are using alot of annimation, since this is to be recorded as a video. Only tool I had that suited my needs and I allready had.
I now have a bunch of groups ...
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Remove all unused master slides in a PowerPoint presentation
My company recently created a new PowerPoint template. On its own without any slides, it is 9MB in size. This is completely unusable for sending to mobile devices and annoys customers. The main ...
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Change default slide layout in Powerpoint
How can I change the default layout for a new slide in Powerpoint?
When I go to View -> Slide Master, I can edit and add new layouts (sometimes I can also delete a layout, but not always, which is ...
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How do I animate only one word in a row?
I have a list of bullet points in my slide. In each row, I'd like to animate one word only, to give the word emphasis. But I see I can only animate a whole row.
Is there any way to animate a ...
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How can I determine the size of individual slides in a PowerPoint slide deck?
I have a powerpoint file containing images and it has gotten too big for emailing and I need to decide which slides to cut out. But how can I tell which slides are consuming all the space? There could ...
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Insert Animated GIF into Powerpoint 2013?
As per title, I am looking for a way to embed animated GIF files within my powerpoint presentation. I was hoping for this to be native functionality but either inserting as image or as video does not ...
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Disable scrolling to next slide in Powerpoint Edit Mode
When editing in PowerPoint lately (using 2010, but occurs in other versions I believe), I have often pasted in large images that are larger than the screen. I'll then scroll down (with my trackpad) to ...
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Powerpoint: animation to build a table, one row at a time
I've got a slide in PowerPoint 2007 containing a table with several rows.
I'd like to build this slide one row at a time (so that the audience doesn't see each row until I'm ready to talk about it).
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Cannot edit footer in PowerPoint 2010 (seems to be embedded into background)
I am not a big expert in Microsoft PowerPoint. At work we have PowePoint 2010 installed. We have a corporation-specific template that includes a kind of footer. Now, I am not sure that I can call it a ...
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How can I view a PowerPoint slideshow in windowed mode (ie, not full screen)?
This slideshow is only opening in full screen mode. I can't find any context menu options that will switch it to windowed mode.
Update: I am opening this .pptx file as an attachment from within a ...
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How to simultaneously rename a file in MS Office and delete old version?
In Microsoft Office, when wanting to save a file to a different file name without keeping a copy of the previous file name, doing so requires two steps:
First, File -> Save As... and select the new ...
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How do I change the title of a PowerPoint exported to PDF?
I'm uploading a PDF exported from a PowerPoint file to my website. However, it shows "PowerPoint Presentation" as the title:
How do I change this?
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Force PowerPoint to paste in place like every other graphics editor in the world?
Is there a way to force Power Point to paste copied objects exactly on top of the original object?
The auto-displacement a little down and to the right is very frustrating.
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When exporting from PowerPoint to PDF, how do I prevent image compression?
It seems Powerpoint is compressing the images in my slides (each slide in my powerpoint is 1 large image). I have turned off image compression in the advanced settings.
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How to insert column break in PowerPoint 2010?
I found a solution for PowerPoint 2007 but it doesn't work for PowerPoint 2010 because there is no such menu. Do you know if it is hidden somewhere or other ways to insert a column break in multi-...
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How to make an MPEG2 video file with the highest quality possible using FFMPEG?
I have got a WMV (v9 (WMV3), 960x720, 30.000030 fps, planar 4:2:0 YUV, produced by PowerPoint 2010) file and need to convert it to MPEG2 - the only format my TVset can read from an USB flash drive (I ...
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PowerPoint Rehearse Timings with Use Presenter View Checked
I am trying to rehearse a presentation and have been dismayed to discover that when trying to use Rehearse Timings I do not get a Presenter View. When just doing slideshow I do but not when attempting ...
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How to disable Office 365/PowerPoint's "Design Ideas"?
Like most of Microsoft's new features, I find them annoying and I find that they get in my way. The latest one to annoy me is the Office 365 "Design ideas" popup in PowerPoint. This sidebar pops up ...
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Skip animations on current slide in PowerPoint
This is most likely a fairly simple question but I could not find any answers when I looked around (might be just me who is not really good at googling).
I have a fairly long powerpoint presentation ...
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Powerpoint 2016 - Inserting automatic titles/headers based on section name
I have my slides organised into sections, and would like each slide to automatically have its title (header) be of the form "SectionName >> Subtitle". SectionName should be the name of the section ...
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How to extract all images from a PowerPoint presentation?
I have a PowerPoint presentation that is basically a slideshow. How can I extract all the images into a folder?
I've seen articles that direct you to save the presentation as HTML, but this file ...
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Convert PDF with embedded fonts to EMF for PowerPoint
Is there a free (i.e. gratis) way to convert a PDF file to Windows EMF (Enhanced Meta File) in such a way that text which uses fonts embedded in the PDF will be rendered the same way in MS Office ...
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Power Point: How do I generate this character in mathcal?
(Mathcal is a font used in Latex https://proofwiki.org/wiki/Symbols:%5Cmathcal)
I have posted the question on Tex SE and it was closed
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/313269/how-to-use-...
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Changing bounds of excel file embedded in powerpoint
When I embed an excel files into powerpoint, I'm having two issues.
On some of the spreadsheets, empty columns are displayed on the right hand side of the powerpoint slide
On other spreadsheets that ...
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Tools to extract text from powerpoint pptx in linux?
Any there any linux tools that will extract the text from a Powerpoint pptx file? I tried catppt but it just returns file.pptx is not OLE file or Error. abiword --to=txt file.pptx also returns an ...
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Go to a specific slide in powerpoint when creating the slides
This might be very simple to achieve, but I don't know how to see it through.
When I create presentations using MS powerpoint, I have to go from slide to slide (say from Slide 3 to slide 45). So far I ...
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How can I convert a PowerPoint to plain text?
I have a Powerpoint Presentation (.pptx) file with 100 slides. I want to take all of the text from it and save it as a plain text file.
How can I do this? PowerPoint doesn't seem to let you save it ...
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Start multiple animation sequences simultaneously in PowerPoint
I'm using PowerPoint 2010 and trying to create an animation. In one of my slides, I've different objects with different paths. I'm trying to run all of them at once (not one after another). I know ...
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PowerPoint: How to animate bullet and sub-bullets such that both have different animations on the master slide?
I am always finding myself wanting to do different animation on bullets and sub-bullets, not as a whole.
Currently, the only available option is to do all the bullets (and their sub-bullets) to come ...
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How to move bullet closer to text in Powerpoint
How can I move the bullet closer to the text in Powerpoint 2007?
I want the gap to be half of what it is by default.
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How to ensure exactly vertical/horizontal connectors between identical size and aligned shapes?
I create a shape and duplicate it, then connect them with an angular connector line.
Then I decided to placed them in a vertical line, expecting the connector to become one straight line, but it ...
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Is it possible to increase only the vertical size of a shape in PowerPoint?
I have a shape (rounded rectangle) in PowerPoint 2007 of which I would like to increase the vertical size only (to illustrate de-bottlenecking). So, the width will stay the same but the height will ...
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What is the shortcut key for starting the slideshow from the selected or active slide?
What is the shortcut key for starting the slideshow from the selected or active slide?
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How do I track changes in Powerpoint?
In Microsoft Word, one can track changes.
How do I do so in Powerpoint?
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Multiple instances of PowerPoint (2007)
How can I open PowerPoint twice so I can view two presentations, one on each screen of my dual monitor set up?
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How to set all text in all slides to the same font?
I'm making a presentation that's looking a lot like the Frankenstein monster right now. There are 4 different fonts being used throughout all the slides, and I'd like to normalize this. I want to set ...
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PowerPoint 2016 - Do not enumerate hidden slides
I have hidden slides in my presentation, but the problem is that when I generate the PDF or I use the presentation mode of the PowerPoint, it enumerates the hidden slides and then, for instance, you ...
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Change default math font in Powerpoint
The default math font for MS Powerpoint 2016 is "Cambria Math". In some cases, I want to change it (e.q. "XITS Math").
I found a solution for MS Word (Select a different math font in Microsoft Word)....
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How do I embed video in PowerPoint with relative paths?
I'm using PowerPoint 2003. Does anyone know how to embed a video in a PowerPoint presentation in such a way that it can be moved to another computer?
Possible solutions I'm considering:
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How do I fade in an Object from half transparent to opaque in PowerPoint 2010?
How can I fade-in an object from being half-transparent to fully opaque? Basically the transparency animation under emphasis does the exact opposite of what I am trying to achieve, which makes an ...
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Is there a way to make a text or object of a slide master be on top level of a child item?
Is there a way to make a text or object of a slide master be on top level of a child item?
Ex:
- Master slide have a text or table
- Layout (Master Child) have a square
The text must be on the top ...
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LaTeX vs Powerpoint for presentations [closed]
I had been wondering what are the advantages of using LaTeX (specifically the presentation packages: beamer or texpower) over powerpoint for presentations. The advantages which I have seen on the web ...
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