by Geetesh Bajaj, November 5th 2013
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Gear Graphics for PowerPoint
 Gears -- these denote that things are moving, something is
happening. Yes, gears mean action. Have you ever wanted to use animated or non animated gear graphics in your PowerPoint slides?
We created these special gear graphics for you that animate perfectly all the time. What's more, we animated each of these gears
so that you can be sure that they will work perfectly. Even better, we welcome you to copy these animated gears and paste them in
your own slides. What could be easier?
Download and use these gears in your slides
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How to Avoid the Horror of Frankenslides

We’ve all seen them. We may have even created them ourselves. Frankenslides. You know, the decks where we
borrow a few slides from that person in Finance and combine them with the product slides from Engineering,
then throw in a few compulsory "features and benefits" slides from Marketing—each of which has its own look
and feel? The content may be great, but the execution—not so much. The inconsistent treatment of all those
different design elements leaves your audience feeling unsettled and makes your idea seem only half-baked.
Learn how you can combine
slides so that they don’t end up being in a mess
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Chart Area Appearance Options
In the charts you create within PowerPoint, the Chart Area doesn't show any fill or any kind of formatting unless you have
applied a particular Chart Style -- in fact the Chart Area is completely transparent with no fill or outline attribute.
This default status works well most of the time since essentially the Chart Area is just the area above which all chart
elements are placed. However, you can opt to format this area as required -- this is quite easy and entails just a few
clicks.
Chart Area Font Options
By default, text used within a chart is not really formatted and looks very simple. Note that the font style used by default
is derived from the information available within the Theme or template used for the slides. Now you really should not change
the text formats within your chart unless you have a compelling reason to do so because there's no reason to make appearances
inconsistent just because PowerPoint allows you to do so!
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Add Gradient Fills to Shapes
Gradient fills are typically blended fills between two or more colors that graduate from one color to another. Although shapes filled
with gradients look so incredible, make sure you choose the colors that form the gradient very carefully. PowePoint's basic gradients
are all very useable since they just blend a basic color with white or black making the result lighter or darker.
More Gradients
Add a quick gradient fill to your shape, and you may run into limitations -- for one, PowerPoint's default gradient options choose
all the gradient colors for you -- and all available gradients seem to be based on the same color family. While this sort of
restraint does keep your slides looking consistent and aesthetic, they also seem to prevent you from playing more with gradients.
To play more, you must choose the More Gradients option -- this option leads you to a detailed gradient editor that's capable of
making changes to the gradient type, direction, angle, color, etc. We explain these extra gradient options available within
PowerPoint 2013 in this tutorial.
Gradient Stops
Once you add gradient fills to shapes in PowerPoint 2013, you may want to make the gradient fill look a little different -- or even a whole
lot different. Yes, you can use the More Gradients option to add different types of gradients as fills to the shapes but that only provides
more gradient fill types, and does not let you customize the colors within the gradient. In this tutorial, we'll step into a little more detail
and show you how gradient stops work. When you are done with this tutorial, you can create your own gradients, or edit existing ones.
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These “map pin” graphics are already placed in PowerPoint slides – just copy them and paste within a slide that already
contains a map to create a look that lets you highlight a location on your map! Other than maps, you can also
use these
map pins like regular push pins so that a picture, shape, or anything else appears as if it has been pushed onto a surface,
board, or wall with a pin!
All these map pin graphics can be rotated and resized, as required. Since they are essentially pictures, all types of edits
that you can do with pictures work with them too! Some of them already have shadows built-in!
Download and use these map pins in your slides.
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