PowerPoint has some little-known functions, but very useful for making presentations more elaborate. The Office suite program allows you to add YouTube videos to the slides, remove the background from the photos or change the format of the images to make them round, for example. It is also possible to work with layers, just like in Photoshop, making it easy to edit the items separately. Learn, in the following tutorial, how to use eight little-known features of PowerPoint.
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1. Change the text color for an image
You can replace the traditional solid colors of the texts with any image, leaving the words stylized with landscapes or photos.
Customize your text with photos instead of solid colors from PowerPoint Photo: Reproduo / Rodrigo Fernandes
Step 1. Select the text you want to style and access the Format tab in the top menu. Then choose Text Fill and then click on the Image … option.
Exchange the solid colors of texts for images in PowerPoint Photo: Reproduo / Rodrigo Fernandes
Step 2. You can choose a photo from your computer, search the internet on Bing without leaving PowerPoint or upload images from your OneDrive.
PowerPoint allows you to search for the image that will be used to customize your text on your computer, on the internet or in the cloud Photo: Reproduo / Rodrigo Fernandes
Step 3. Click on the image of your choice and then confirm the action on the Insert button.
Select the image to be used to customize your text in PowerPoint Photo: Reproduo / Rodrigo Fernandes
2. Insert YouTube videos
You can include any YouTube video in your slides. It is worth mentioning that, in order to reproduce them during the presentations, Internet access is required.
Include YouTube videos in PowerPoint slide shows Photo: Reproduo / Rodrigo Fernandes
Step 1. Access the Insert tab, from the main menu at the top of the screen. Then choose the Video option and then go to Video Online ….
Add videos online in PowerPoint slide shows Photo: Reproduo / Rodrigo Fernandes
Step 2. Search for videos or paste the URL address of a specific YouTube video into the search field. To perform searches on YouTube without leaving PowerPoint, just click on the magnifying glass icon in the right corner of the search bar.
Search for YouTube videos to insert them in the slides Photo: Reproduo / Rodrigo Fernandes
Step 3. Select the desired video from the results and place it in the presentation by clicking the Insert button in the lower right corner of the window. You can move and resize the video as you like within the slide.
Mark the video found and include it in the PowerPoint presentations Photo: Reproduo / Rodrigo Fernandes
3. Remove the background from a photo
The following function allows you to remove the background landscape from photos and highlight only the object that is in the foreground.
PowerPoint allows removing background from images Photo: Reproduo / Rodrigo Fernandes
Step 1. After adding an image to the slide, enter the Format section and choose, immediately afterwards, the Remove Background option in the upper left corner.
Remove the background of images in PowerPoint Photo: Reproduo / Rodrigo Fernandes
Step 2. Click the Mark areas to remove button and draw strokes on the photo with the cursor to select the areas that will be excluded. The entire area in purple will be removed.
Mark the areas that will be removed from the image Photo: Reproduo / Rodrigo Fernandes
Step 3. Then, click the Mark areas to keep button and repeat the process, this time choosing what will be visible in the photo. At the end, select Keep changes to end edits.
Mark the areas of the image that will remain visible Photo: Reproduo / Rodrigo Fernandes
4. Change the image format
You can leave the photos in any format: circle, star, arrow, balloons, among others.
Step 1. Add an image to the slide and then go to the Format tab. Then click on the arrow below the Cut button and then on Cut to Demarcate Shape ". To select the desired shape, just click on the cone.
Change the format of images in PowerPoint Photo: Reproduo / Rodrigo Fernandes
5. Insert photos straight from the cloud
You can also insert any photo from your OneDrive right into the slides.
Step 1. On the Insert tab, choose the Online Images option. In the window that opens, select Browse, next to OneDrive. It is worth mentioning that I need to log in with a Microsoft account to open OneDrive.
Add images saved on your OneDrive to PowerPoint slides Photo: Reproduo / Rodrigo Fernandes
Step 2. Open the desired folder and select the photo to be included on the slide. Confirm by clicking Insert, in the lower right corner of the window.
Select the photo in the cloud and add it to your slide Photo: Reproduo / Rodrigo Fernandes
6. Insert clickable buttons to control the slides
You can add buttons to control your slides during presentations. It is possible to insert icons with links to the first or last slide, to advance or rewind the presentation, or to open a website or other computer file.
Step 1. On the Insert tab, in the main menu, choose the Shapes option. Select a cone from the Steel buttons section and insert it on the slide.
Adicione botes de aes nos seus slides Foto: Reproduo/Rodrigo Fernandes
Passo 2. Escolha qual ao aquele boto realizar ao ser clicado durante a apresentao. Confirme a configurao em OK.
Escolha a ao que o boto vai realizar durante apresentao de slides Foto: Reproduo/Rodrigo Fernandes
Passo 3. Voc pode editar o estilo e as cores do boto no menu de formatao.
Personalize o boto de acordo com o estilo da sua apresentao Foto: Reproduo/Rodrigo Fernandes
7. Utilizar camadas, como no Photoshop
O Painel de Seleo do PowerPoint mostra os objetos separados individualmente, em um formato semelhante s camadas do Photoshop. Desta forma, voc pode organizar sua tela de trabalho e editar os objetos separadamente.
Passo 1. No menu principal, acesse Selecionar, no canto direito da tela ao lado do cone de seta. Em seguida, v at Painel de Seleo…. Todos os objetos aparecero listados direita da janela.
Painel de Seleo do PowerPoint mostra objetos separados individualmente, em formato semelhante s camadas do Photoshop Foto: Reproduo/Rodrigo Fernandes
Passo 2. Selecione o cone de olho ao lado de cada objeto para escond-lo ou mostr-lo na tela. Assim voc deixa a rea de trabalho mais limpa e organizada enquanto edita os outros itens da apresentao.
cone de olho revela ou esconde objetos no PowerPoint Foto: Reproduo/Rodrigo Fernandes
Passo 3. Clique nas setas para posicionar o item em um nvel acima ou abaixo dos outros. Isso mover o objeto para frente ou para atrs dos outros cones presentes no slide.
Coloque os objetos na ordem de sua preferncia Foto: Reproduo/Rodrigo Fernandes
8. Salvar a apresentao em PDF
Caso voc no queira salvar seu documento como apresentao de slides, voc pode salv-lo em formato PDF.
Passo 1. Em "Arquivo", no canto superior esquerdo, escolha a opo "Exportar" no menu lateral esquerda. Em seguida, abra a opo "Criar documento PDF/XPS" e clique no boto "Criar PDF/XPS" para salvar o arquivo no formato PDF.
Salve sua apresentao de slides do PowerPoint em formato PDF Foto: Reproduo/Rodrigo Fernandes
Ready. Aproveite essas dicas curiosas e deixe suas apresentaes de slides ainda mais elaboradas.