Setting Spell Check Options
Sometimes while working in PowerPoint it may so happen that you know a particular word is misspelled, but PowerPoint's spell check doesn't seem to think so! This may be because your word is in all CAPS, or it may contain some numbers -- in these cases, and in number of other instances, PowerPoint just ignores any misspellings. Fortunately, you can turn off the options that instruct PowerPoint to ignore these misspellings. Remember though that changing these options will apply to all Microsoft Office applications you have installed on your computer -- including Word, Excel, and Outlook.

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Find and Replace Words
Imagine this situation -- you created a long presentation for a particular event or concept and then realize that you used the wrong terminology throughout the presentation. Then what would you do? Of course you can manually find the problem word and replace its each occurrence. But what if you have more than a few slides? Or even then, you might miss out locating the problem word in some occurrences. The best solution is using PowerPoint's Find and Replace option.

Manipulating Shapes by Dragging Yellow Squares
There are so many different types of shapes that PowerPoint provides you with, and you can format these shapes by resizing, rotating, flipping, etc. Other than these basic formatting tasks, you must explore the special yellow square handles. Shapes in PowerPoint generally when selected, display eight resizing handles and a single rotation handle. In addition, some shapes also have one or more yellow square handles -- these yellow square handles enables you to change some facets of the selected shape, or in some cases you can change the entire shape.

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Format Painter
You can easily duplicate stuff in PowerPoint -- you can just select a shape and press the Command+D key combination. However, such duplication copies everything: the shape, and its format attributes, such as all fills, outlines, and effects. Sometimes you may only want to use those fill, outline, and effect attributes for other shapes you create. Fortunately, the Format Painter command can rescue you from this monotonous task very easily. So what does the Format Painter command do?

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Select, Deselect, View, and Hide Shapes Using the Selection Pane
To format any slide object in PowerPoint, you must select it. There are couple of ways with which you can select any slide object. Other than the obvious way of clicking the slide object to select, you can also use the Selection Pane. It’s always more difficult to select overlapping slide objects or objects placed behind a larger object in busy, populated slides -- to select slide objects that are difficult to locate, you can use the Selection Pane.