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Add More Power to Your PowerPoint Documents

Microsoft PowerPoint is a powerful tool for conveying ideas to a large audience. You can find many PowerPoint training courses that will show you a wide array of special features you can add to your presentations, including music and animation - but that is not necessarily a good thing.

The best PowerPoint training courses try to explain not just the "how" but the "why", and more importantly the "why not". All of the features of PowerPoint have their place, but that place may not be in your current presentation.

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Take a Break During a Slide Show

A useful PowerPoint tip for those who give presentations

If you want to stop for a break in your slide show presentation without losing your place, just press the lowercase B key or press the PERIOD (.). This will make the screen go black.

If it is a self-running presentation, it will pause.

To resume the show, press either key again, and it resume right where you left off.

» Tip: Slide Show Break

Controlling alignment and spacing between shapes in PowerPoint.

Instead of trying to align shapes exactly or space shapes an even distance apart from each other by dragging them manually on the screen, use features from the Drawing toolbar to align or space shapes perfectly.

Both the Align and the Distribute features can be found by clicking the 'Draw' button on the Drawing toolbar.

The Align feature allows you to align shapes along the top, bottom, left, right or middle edges or positions.

The Distribute feature will automatically adjust the position of shapes to create an even amount of space between them, either vertically or horizontally.

Before using either of these features, you need to select the shapes you wish to align or distribute on your slide. This can be done by clicking on one shape, holding down the Shift key and continuing to hold Shift down while you click the other shapes you want to select.

» Tip: Alignment spacing shapes PowerPoint

Hi - how to add audio to a powerpoint?
Thanks

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