Tables
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Last Updated: February 6th 2010
08/17/2011 12:01 AM
Cookie Cutter Shapes in PowerPoint 2010
This technique originated from a video clip that Bruce Gabrielle posted on his blog -- this video showed you how you can create a triangular table in PowerPoint by either creating a picture of the table itself (which makes the table non-editable) or by creating a picture of the table with just empty cells so that you can place a transparent table with figures or words over it. While both techniques are amazing, I wanted to use a process whereby not only is the table editable, but the ending shape need not be limited to just a triangle. Also you can use this to hide and show parts of not just a table, but almost anything else including video clips.
09/08/2009 01:21 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: Learn PowerPoint 2007: Ungroup Tables in PowerPoint 2007
Tables can be animated within PowerPoint 2007 too -- but either the entire table can be animated -- or nothing! Yes, that's a case of extremes -- either you have it all or don't have it. To get over this problem, the workaround is to ungroup the table so that your table gets converted to a collection of shapes. And although this does not work as well as it does in PowerPoint 2003, you still can animate every individual shape as you want.
09/08/2009 01:19 AM
A PowerPoint Blog: Learn PowerPoint: Ungroup Tables in PowerPoint 2003
Tables can be animated within PowerPoint -- but either the entire table can be animated -- or nothing! Yes, that's a case of extremes -- either you have it all or don't have it. To get over this problem, the workaround is to ungroup the table so that your table gets converted to a collection of shapes -- and then you can animate every individual shape as you want.