Yearly Archives: 2010

While giving a presentation, sometimes we need to move to the start of the presentation. This post lets you know how to do it using a simple hotkey. Read More

Many a times it’s required to insert a slide with some different layout, PowerPoint 2010 offers a long list of layouts, having different positions and elements controls.Let’s see how to insert a slide with a different layout. Read More

Want to hide the pointer while presenting content slides to your audience? While presenting your presentation content to the audience, often we need to temporarily remove graphics, table data laser marker or mouse pointer from the presentation slide. Although PowerPoint 2010 comes packed with 3 types of  pointers (arrow, pen and highlighter) and allows you to easily handle not only mouse pointer, but also other overlaid objects. Even though PowerPoint 2010 automatically hides the pointer after a few seconds, you can choose to permanently hide the pointer or keep it visible on the screen. If you're among those who get distracted by the mouse pointer while giving presentations, here is a cool tip that would let you quickly hide the pointer on the screen. Read More

You may know that PowerPoint not only provides a wide range of text, image and chart tools to create presentation-related objects, but also supports adding objects from other MS Office 2010 suite applications including MS Word, MS Visio, MS Excel and MS Access. Apart from directly importing document's content, table data, charts and other elements, you can also embed files into your presentation slides. As far as charts and table data elements are concerned, PowerPoint supports multiple types of charts and tables as well as offers Excel-like controls to quickly adjust charts and tables' labels and titles. If you're a heavy user of PowerPoint, then you must've noticed that it often fails to adjust the chart labels and titles on the presentation slide. While some users choose to re-import the chart from Excel to adjust the chart's elements without even using the PowerPoint native tools to set the chart and table elements. One issue which many users face with charts in PowerPoint is that it doesn't automatically set the chart title over the chart. In this post, we will explain how you can overlay chart title over the chart in the slide. Read More

If you need to create multiple presentations with same theme, it’d be better to choose a theme and make it default, PowerPoint 2010 offers a simple way to let you set a default theme. Lets see how to do it. Read More

PowerPoint 2010 offers a new feature called Sections, which will help in categorizing and organizing slides into multiple groups, so that you can manage like types of slides in their respective group. In this post we will look at adding and editing a section title. Read More

Like its counterparts, PowerPoint 2010 offer multiple ways to insert  hyperlinks, you can easily link an email address, a document, a webpage or any other application. Lets take a look at how to insert hyperlinks in slide. Read More

Since charts helps in summarizing a long document and boring statistics, it is recommended to always include self-explanatory charts to help your audience in understanding the idea/concept/stats, etc. In this post we will look at inserting chart in PowerPoint 2010 presentation.  To quickly insert chart in slide, head over to Insert tab and under Illustrations click Chart. It will bring up Insert Chart dialog, showing numerous types of chart and their categories. Select the chart and click OK. Read More