Questions tagged [microsoft-powerpoint]
Commercial software presentation program included in all editions of the Microsoft Office suite.
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How to change Powerpoint text in textbox on animation
How do I change the text within a textbox when an animation starts playing?
For the graduation of some of our students we are looking to make it so their photo appears in tune with their name on a ...
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How to change the default bullet style in Powerpoint 2013?
How do I set a custom bullet style as default, which can be used anytime.
OS - Win 7 (64)
Office 2013
This is the default bullet list:
This is the custom bullet style I have created:
How to ensure ...
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How do you stop PowerPoint or macOS from converting double-dashes to em dashes?
Is there a way to stop PowerPoint or macOS from converting double-dashes ("--") to em dashes ("—")? Context: I am using a text box in a slide in PowerPoint for Mac v16.78 on a ...
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Set a master font in PowerPoint to a non-predefined font
Trying to set up a custom font pairing in the Slide Master view in PowerPoint 365 for Mac (version 16.26). Microsoft says on its help page that:
You don't have to choose from the pre-defined font ...
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Deploy Powerpoint templates over Office 365
Our company has Office 365 with the Office 2016 suite and Sharepoint Online.
I'd like to know if it's possible to push our custom templates to all users in Powerpoint and change the default create ...
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Navigation while live editing & presenting in Powerpoint 2010
When presenting on a TV or a projector, especially during work meeting, I often haven the presentation on my laptop monitor open in edit mode and in presentation mode on the external screen.
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How do I get an event to fire when the slide changes in PowerPoint?
I already know of two supposed fixes, which I will list below, along with the reason they don't work for me.
The first is to use the SlideShowNextSlide subroutine. The problem with this is that it ...
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Presenter view in window mode while slideshow is in fullscreen?
Is there any way to use the presenter view in a window mode while the slideshow is on a second monitor in fullscreen?
I tried all the slideshow options. Either both can be in fullscreen or only the ...
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power point: how to change transparency of entire grouped object?
In a power point presentation I have an object that is a grouped cluster of a bunch of stuff, mostly text and a couple of images. I want to use it on my title slide, but set the transparency high so ...
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Online voice over lectures in powerpoint frustrations
My issue is this. While listening to PP and pause the audio to make my desire edits to the slide, I have to listen to the entire slide lecture again because the audio bar restarts. Occasionally, the ...
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How do you insert a LaTeX equation in PowerPoint under Windows?
I was wondering how may I insert latex equations into powerpoint directly without the use of Microsoft Windows to convert latex to Microsoft equations then copy and past.
I understand from this link ...
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Animating individual lines of an equation array in PowerPoint
I want to reveal one line in an equation array (generated using the "\eqarray" command in PowerPoint) at a time. I.e., I want to mimic adding a "\pause" at the end of each line break in an equation ...
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PowerPoint Shape Issues - Arrows Off Center and Join/Cap Types Unresponsive
I've got the same issue as what's referenced here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42562386/ms-powerpoint-arrows-are-off-center#new-answer
Looks like that user hasn't posted on this side yet, ...
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How to create a shortcut key in PowerPoint 2016?
I am using PowerPoint 2016 and need to insert Microsoft Equations (the new latex-like type) a lot. Is there a way to assign a shortcut key (e.g. Ctrl+Alt+F) to do this instead of having to go through ...
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How can I edit notes in presenters view for PowerPoint 2016?
I am using Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2016 on Windows 10 x64 to present using presenters view.
While presenting I want to edit/copy/paste into the notes section of the presenters view.
How do I ...
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Is there a built-in way to disable scrolling within the edit mode of PowerPoint 2013?
There's a very similar question here: Disable scrolling to next slide in Powerpoint Edit Mode, but unfortunately the two answers don't really answer what the title of the question appears to ask.
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PowerPoint to pdf -- loss of image quality (samples provided)
We hope we can get some competent help. We tried to solve this for the past couple of hours, but no luck.
We have a PPT PowerPoint file (MS Office 2007) which includes a couple of screenshots and ...
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Powerpoint - deleting images - the image with relationship ID rId23 was not found in file
Powerpoint has gone into the unfortunate habit of deleting images from presentations, replacing them with red crosses and the text "the image with relationship ID rId23 was not found in file". this is ...
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Why are these characters shown in PowerPoint designer, but not in presentation?
I have a PowerPoint presentation styled after windows 8, and I'm using the Segoe UI Light font. These characters display correctly in design mode, but not in presentation mode. Can anyone tell me why?
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How to assign shortcut key to a macro in PowerPoint 2007?
How to assign a shortcut key to my macro? Is there any way to directly assign it through VBA code?
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Hyperlink in PowerPoint 2007
Suppose, on the left hand side, I have about 10 symbols and on the right hand side, there is some text for details of the said symbol. After clicking a particular symbol, the corresponding text should ...
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How can I get one slide to reference the number of another in powerpoint?
I would like to have a textbox in one of my powerpoint slides say "see slide [x]" where x is another slide. Is there any way to do this cleanly so that it updates dynamically as I move the slides ...
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Import formatted text from Word into PowerPoint
I understand the basics of importing an Word outline into PowerPoint. I want to know how to import the text blocks into pre-styled text boxes that have been positioned on the slide to a specific ...
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How force text-only pasting in emacs?
On my mac I always have an emacs buffer open and occasionally I have to copy content from PowerPoint or Word. Unfortunately, copying to the clipboard and yanking into emacs saves all the ugly ...
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How do I insert the current year in PowerPoint
I'd like to have the current year appear on the footer of my slides.
I've been doing this by manually typing the year, but every year, I need to update all my slides. Can I insert the year ...
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Merge multiple (more than two!) PowerPoint presentations into one
I'm collecting status reports from 20 different project managers and each of them sends a PowerPoint presentation containing just one slide with a status summary. I would like to merge all these files ...
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Powerpoint- fast ways to "insert and link" an image
I make a lot of slides with png images (graphs made with matplotlib) that are frequently updated. I love being able to insert and link these images, since the slides stay up-to-date when the images ...
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Trying to return to "Presenter Mode" in powerpoint after a hyperlink to a website
I have created a ppt presentation with internal and external hyperlinks. When the selected external link takes me to a webpage, I want to be able to jump back into presenter mode when done viewing ...
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Importing presentation from powerpoint to google slides or libreoffice impress - issue with Cambria Math fonts for equation
I am using MS PowerPoint to create presentations that have lots of maths equations. It's easy to create a presentation with MS Equation editor and they are neat. However, using PowerPoint is the only ...
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Linked Images in PowerPoint 2016 Not Updating Automatically
I used Insert -> Pictures -> Insert and Link to try to link images to slides in PowerPoint. The links show up in the "Edit Links to Files" tab as Manual.
See here.
In this image, the "Automatic ...
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Saving Charts with Multiple Series in Excel and PowerPoint
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I'm trying to create a multi-series chart/infograph to display total number of sales for the day as compared to the average. The chart consists of three series:
Series 1: The base bar graph ...
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How do I "Use Destination Theme and Link Data" in PowerPoint (MS Office 365 Business)
I want to select a table from an Excel file and paste/link it into a PowerPoint presentation with the destination theme, so that if the Excel file is updated, the corresponding PowerPoint presentation ...
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How to Lay Out Text Boxes with Even Spacing in PowerPoint?
I would like to draw an irregular grid of text boxes with even spacing between them in PowerPoint. Like this:
In HTML with CSS, I can create a grid or table and set the margin between the cells, like ...
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How do I insert a new blank PowerPoint slide without leaving presentation mode?
I have a Surface Book with a pen that I use with PowerPoint for lectures. I like being able to scribble on my slides with the pen, but sometimes, e.g., if I'd like to draw a whole diagram in response ...
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How to embed fonts in a pdf or pptx document?
I have a powerpoint document (I am using Powerpoint 2016 for Mac), and I am trying to embed fonts. If I embed the fonts in the powerpoint presentation, I want to export the pptx file to a pdf which ...
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How to Open 2 Different Powerpoint Slides and Run Slideshows on 2 Different Monitors in a Dual Monitors Setup on Windows Startup
I have a dual monitor setup on Windows 10.
I already have 2 different powerpoint 2016 slides open after Windows startup using shortcuts in the startup folders. Now I need these two different ...
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Search PowerPoint presentations for text
I have a large collection of PowerPoint presentations in the XML/.pptx format. I would like to find all presentations containing a particular string of text. Is there a good way to do this?
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Powerpoint Dashed Line appears solid in slideshow
quick powerpoint question. I have a chart, made in excel, pasted into the powerpoint. I have a dash line overlaid on a solid line. When I go to slideshow mode, they both appear solid. Is there any way ...
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How can I change the Aspect ratio & Size of pictures in Powerpoint 2010 in all slides?
I need to make power point presentation for my work. I want to automatically change the pictures of different slides.
I want to change aspect ratio, size and alignment of all the pictures of slides ...
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Stop printing ppt template final pages
We use powerpoint templates to create our internal and external decks. When printing the decks I'd like it so that the final 2 pages never print but I want them available to display when presented on ...
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Automatic update of powerpoint graphs from a linked excel
So I've been having a bit of a problem recently, I somewhat solved it, but I'd love to see if anyone has a better suggestion.
I have created a powerpoint file with a bunch of graphs using the simple ...
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what is the shortcut key to Swap Presenter View and Slide show view while presenting in powerpoint 2016?
what is the shortcut key to Swap Presenter View and Slide show view while presenting in PowerPoint 2016?
the item is visible in the picture but I need a shortcut key, I also couldn't find it in the ...
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Excel table only partly pasting into powerpoiint
I'm trying to paste a table into powerpoint and for some reason only part of the table is showing. I need to use copy/paste link as this powerpoint is often updated by different people every month. ...
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PowerPoint: make layout obey slide master again
When editing the footer on a slide master, its child layouts automatically inherit the footer text. However, after accidentally editing a layout, they are not in sync anymore. I always have to edit ...
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Automatically hide certain shapes with Disappear-animation in exported PDF
In my slides I have a few shapes covering other content. Those shapes have a "Disappear" animation on them and are supposed to hide information such that the audience can think about it first.
Note: ...
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Why does my image's quality go down when saving PPT to PDF?
In power point 2013, on the first slide I have this picture in PNG
Aftering saving the PPT to PDF it becomes
As you can see the image has became blurry around the edges of the letters.
Now this is ...
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Powerpoint 2010: Reapply last text color with keyboard / Default action with ribbon hotkeys
In Powerpoint 2010 one can click the text-color chooser to reapply the last color selected.
However, when navigating to it with the ribbon hotkeys – in the German version [Alt], R, F, B – the color-...
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Need To Insert a Digital Count-down timer in PowerPoint 2010
Need some advice please, I need to insert a simple count down timer or digital clock in PowerPoint 2010 and must be in the following format:
Countdown to project go-live:
DDD-HH-MM-SS
Need it to ...
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How to record a slide show in windowed mode in Powerpoint 2010?
I want to use the builtin functions for recording a slide show and saving it as a video in MS PowerPoint 2010.
However, when I start the recording, the slide show switches to fullscreen, which is a ...
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How to adjust length of line connecting animated shapes
I have two shapes (two circles) and a line that connects both.
Is it possible to keep this connection while the shapes are moving?
Meaning that the line would move and change size according to the ...
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