by Geetesh Bajaj, August 6th 2013
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Handmade Slides: Map Pins for PowerPoint - Flag Pins
 We've already brought you so many map pin styles -- and now to make
this entire series complete, we bring you more than 200 map pins -- one for each country in the
world! These map pins have the flag of the country placed within the pin -- use these map pins
on world or continent maps to show which countries your business extends to. Of course you can use it
for any number of other reasons. These map pins can be placed on a map to show a location -- and
similarly multiple map pins can be placed to show multiple locations. It's easy with this complete
collection of map pins (more than 300 map pins in this collection). The map pin graphics are already
placed in PowerPoint slides you will download -- just copy the individual pin you want, and then
paste the pin within your own slides that already contain a map.
Download and use these map pins in your slides
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Bing Image Search
 While Google may have the largest and most up-to-date search index,
other search providers like Microsoft's Bing need to up the ante by providing more usability options so that visitors can get more optimum and
narrowed-down results. And that's exactly what Microsoft seems to have done with Bing's Image Search options – everything is streamlined
and you can filter and sort results with so much dexterity – it's almost like you are sorting numbers in Excel – just that this is
also so much more visual!
Learn how you can search images using Bing's amazing image search functions
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Bing Image Search by Size

When you search for pictures on Bing's Image Search site, the resultant page provides various
filters to fine-tune and narrow down your results. These filters are located on the top area
of the Search Results page. Bing's Image Search by Size filters allow you to search pictures
of various resolutions. Essentially, there are 5 Size options -- and descriptions mentioned
below for these options are not set in stone -- rather these are guidelines.
Learn how to search images in Bing by using the built in Size filters
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Learn PowerPoint 2013 for Windows
Types of Shapes
Shapes play a
significant role within any slides you create for your PowerPoint presentation. In more ways
that you may want to count, shapes are like the building blocks of almost anything you do on
your PowerPoint slides -- PowerPoint 2013 provides hundreds of shapes efficiently categorized
into 9 types.
Insert Shapes
Shapes are the building blocks of whatever you create in PowerPoint -- in fact even a text box that you add to your
slide is essentially a shape that has a no fill. Once you get proficient with shapes, you can do so much more -- for
example, you can combine multiple shapes to create fancier shapes. However, you need to start with the very basics --
and there's so much to learn even at this foundation level. The first task you need to do is to insert a shape --
fortunately PowerPoint makes it easy to do this task. To insert a new shape on your PowerPoint slide, follow these steps.
Insert and/or Link Pictures
You know that pictures located in
any of your folders can be inserted on a slide. However, have you wondered about the relation a
picture on the slide has with the original picture located in your folder? Yet, there are options
within PowerPoint that let you maintain the relation between the original picture and the inserted
picture -- for example, if you make changes to your original picture, PowerPoint will update its copy on the slide!
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Learn PowerPoint 2011 for Mac
What is AutoCorrect?
The AutoCorrect feature in PowerPoint fixes a number of common typos and spelling errors within
your slides -- automatically as you type any text.
AutoCorrect also lets you map specific keyboard sequences to a symbol, such as replacing two
en dashes with an em dash the moment you hit the Enter key after the second en dash. The best feature within
AutoCorrect is that it works so seamlessly that you may not even know that it is working behind the scenes.
And this unawareness about AutoCorrect can ironically also cause some problems! You may for example not want
the two en dashes to automatically change to an em dash -- in this tutorial you will learn how you can take
advantage of AutoCorrect, and also how you can override its options as required.
AutoCorrect Options
The AutoCorrect feature in PowerPoint fixes a number of common typos and spelling errors within
your slides -- automatically as you type any text.
AutoCorrect also lets you map specific keyboard sequences to a symbol, such as replacing two
en dashes with an em dash the moment you hit the Enter key after the second en dash. The best feature within
AutoCorrect is that it works so seamlessly that you may not even know that it is working behind the scenes.
And this unawareness about AutoCorrect can ironically also cause some problems! You may for example not want
the two en dashes to automatically change to an em dash -- in this tutorial you will learn how you can take
advantage of AutoCorrect, and also how you can override its options as required.
Creating and Editing AutoCorrect Entries
The AutoCorrect feature is dependent on a small list of words and phrases stored on your
computer. This list contains two columns called Replace and With -- for example the Replace
entry for teh will correspond to the With entry containing the word the. Although this list
works for PowerPoint users, what you must know is that this AutoCorrect list is set globally
across all Microsoft Office programs such as Word, Excel, Outlook, etc. If you add, edit, or
delete entries within this AutoCorrect list, all changes will be reflected beyond PowerPoint.
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Are you aware of all PowerPoint keyboard shortcuts?
Want to check if your favorites have been included in this e-book, or if there are a few that can help you
perform your PowerPoint tasks quicker and better? Or if you don't use keyboard shortcuts, do you want to get started?
This 56 page PDF e-book downloads quick, costs you $0 or more, and is a valuable resource.
The PowerPoint Keyboard Shortcuts
E-Book covers the last four Windows versions of PowerPoint: PowerPoint 2013, 2010, 2007, and 2003.
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Checklist before Delivering Presentation
Do all or some of you have a checklist that you look up before delivering a presentation? Tasks such as disabling Skype
or other IM notifications, turning off wifi and bluetooth, etc.
Picky, Picky, Picky about Colors
PowerPoint 2013 introduced a color picker to the interface (finally!), but I keep reading and hearing that you
can't choose colors outside your current slide.
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