How to Apply a Custom Animation Effect

First, Select the required text or object Then, Select the Animation tab In the Animation group click on the Custom Animation Custom Animation task pane now appears on the right Click on the Add Effect, it will display four more options that are further divided into different options Select your desired effect See the below … Read more

How to Add Slide

There are a number of ways to add a slide in PowerPoint presentation. The most frequently used option is to click the New Slide button. See the below image: The other ways you can add a slide are: Office Themes, Duplicate Selected Slide and Reuse Slides. 1) Using the Office Themes to add slide: First, … Read more

Features of the Tabs

The features included in the Home tab are Clipboard, Slides, Font, Paragraph, Drawing and Editing. See the image: The features included in the Insert tab are Tables, Illustrations, Links, Text and Media Clips. See the image: The features included in the Design tab are Page Setup, Themes and Background. See the image: The features included … Read more

How to Advance Slides

First, Select the slide Select the Animations tab Now, In the Transition to This Slide group locate the Advance Slide section It now shows two options; On Mouse Click and the Automatically After Enter the desired time for the selected slide in the Automatically After option Select the next slide and again choose the desired … Read more

Creating a Presentation

As soon as you open PowerPoint window, by default a slide appears. The slide has by default two placeholders or text boxes. Additional text boxes can also be added using the Insert tab. To start creating your presentation, just click on the placeholder or text box a blinking cursor will appear. Then type the required … Read more

Ribbon and Tabs

The Ribbon is an user interface element which was first introduced by Microsoft in Microsoft Office 2007. It is usually located below the Quick Access Toolbar and the Title Bar and it comprises seven tabs; Home, Insert, Page layout, References, Mailing, Review and the View tab. Each tab has a specific group of related commands … Read more

To Convert Text to Table

First, Select the text Then, Select the Insert tab Now, In Tables group click on the Table command Now, Select the ‘Convert Text to Table’ option It will now display a dialog box In the ‘Separate text at’ section select your desired option Click OK, now the text will convert itself to a table

Title Bar

The title bar lies right next to the Quick Access Toolbar and it displays the title of the currently open document or application. It is present on almost all the windows displayed on your computer monitor screen. So, if in case there are several windows across the screen, you can identify each window by looking … Read more

Ruler

The Ruler is generally located below the Ribbon around the top edge of the document and is used to change the format of the document, i.e. it helps you align the text, tables, graphics and other such elements inside your document. It uses inches or centimeters as the measurement unit depending on your choice and … Read more

Quick Access Toolbar

The Quick Access Toolbar lies next to the Microsoft Office Button and it is a customizable toolbar that comes with a set of independent commands. It gives you a very quick access to commonly used commands such as the Save, Undo, Redo, etc. See the image: When you click on the drop-down arrow next to … Read more