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Commercial software presentation program included in all editions of the Microsoft Office suite.

Microsoft PowerPoint is a commercial software presentation program included in all editions of the Microsoft Office suite.

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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 which has annimations attached. Are there any way…
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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 culprit is high resolution images on the master…
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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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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 that contains the current slide, and Subtitle is…
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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 all the text to the same font. How can I do…
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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 of the square, so I can read it... Is there any…
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Why might powerpoint not let me adjust the height of a table row?

Powerpoint is fighting me every time I try to adjust the height of a table row, and I'm wondering if folks have ideas why that might be the case. See the attached picture; the Argentina row is of height 0.41", while the Nicaragua row is 0.61". …
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How does one clear the visited hyperlinks history in PowerPoint?

Clearing the Internet Explorer cache doesn't seem to work, and I can't find the answer through Google or the Microsoft help files. Any ideas? Using Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 and 2007.
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Powerpoint align equation at equal sign

How do i align equations at the equal sign in powerpoint ? In microsoft word there is an option to align at the equal sign but I've spent 10 minutes and can't find a similar option for powerpoint.
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Resize Powerpoint slide to fit content (and safe as PDF without white margins)

Question Overview I'm using Powerpoint to create my drawings. When using the normal slide size, there is some white area around the graphics. In Visio, one could crop the page to fit the margins of the contained graphics. How is this possible in…
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How to change PowerPoint 2013 measurement unit from inches to points (pt) as in Mac Office 2011

I am used to work in "pt" units (points) in Mac Office 2011 PowerPoint and I find no way to set the unit of measurement to pt (points) in PowerPoint 2013. Is there any way to set the measurement unit as pt?
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How can I create a regular hexagon using PowerPoint?

I want to create a regular hexagon where each side is exactly the same length. First I tried drawing a hexagon using shift, but it wasn't regular (see what happens when I rotate it 60 degrees): So I figured I could probably create one by drawing…
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How do I add a new "bullet" style to the list of frequently used bullets in powerpoint?

Powerpoint conveniently gives me a list of default bullet styles to use, but I want to add another - the dash ("-"). How can I do this? Thanks! /YGA
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How to correctly set and use a bullet list in a Powerpoint template?

I'm currently trying to prepare a slide master for a set of presentations. In the Slide Master, I defined a multi-level bullet list with custom formatting/spacing (for both, Slide Master and the "Title and Content" layout) to look like…
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Is it possible to have meaningful labels in the Custom Animation pane?

The Custom Animation panel shows items with labels such as "Rectangle 37", "Group 59", etc., which are meaningless and hard to associate with the items on the slide. Is there a way to name these items with meaningful labels that can be assigned by…
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