Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 - Give a Picture a Reflection

SUMMARY: Make a picture in a PowerPoint 2010 presentation appear to cause a reflection on a glossy surface.

One commonly-used graphics design technique that adds depth to an image is to have it look like a picture is causing a reflection on a glossy surface. Such a feature is easy to implement in Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 as several built-in reflection types are available. Dedicated tweakers can go a step further and configure the exact reflection size, offset distance, transparency, and blur.

1. Select a desired picture.

2. Click the "Format (Picture Tools)" tab that appears.

3. In the "Picture Styles" group, click the "Picture Effects" button / pull-down.

4. Select "Reflection" from the pop-up menu that appears.

5. A secondary pop-up menu appears where you can choose from nine default reflection types.

Adding a reflection to a picture in a PowerPoint 2010 presentation

If you're detail-oriented and want to fine-tune the reflection effect, click the "Reflection Options" menu item instead. From here you may modify:

* Reflection transparency (0% opaque, 100% fully transparent)

* Reflection size (as a percentage of the original image, from 0% to 100%)

* Reflection distance (how far the reflection should appear from the original image)

* Blur (the greater the number, the more "out-of-focus" the reflection will appear)

Click "OK" on the dialog box to close it.

Tweaking advanced Picture Reflection options in PowerPoint 2010

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Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 - Leave the Text, Take the Formatting (Away)

SUMMARY: Have you tweaked the formatting of a section of text inside a PowerPoint 2010 presentation to the point it is unusable? Quickly remove all formatting while keeping the text intact.

So you've tweaked and tweaked and tweaked a block of text in a Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 presentation by adding reflections, glowing effects, shadows, texture fills, and more. What if you don't like the results and want to return it back to normal, and repeatedly pressing CTRL + Z doesn't work because you've gone past the number of undos PowerPoint 2010 allows? How do you quickly remove all text formatting?

The first step (and depending on your tweaks, perhaps the only one required) is to apply the Clear All Formatting tool. Highlight the offending text and either:

A. Select the "Home" tab in the ribbon, then click the "Clear All Formatting" button in the "Font" section (see the screenshot to the right).

OR

B. Press CTRL + SPACE

Unfortunately, if you've applied the 3-D Rotation or Transform effect on the text, the "Clear All Formatting" tool will not remove this. Here's how to clear WordArt effects:

1. With the text still selected, click the "Format (Drawing Tools)" tab in the Ribbon.

2. In the "WordArt Styles" section, click the "Quick Styles" button if it appears. Otherwise, you should see a group of letter A's. Next to these should be a down pointed arrow with a line over it - click it. See the screenshot to the right.

2. A pop-up appears with a variety of WordArt styles. At the bottom, click "Clear WordArt".

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Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 - Force All Documents to Open in a Particular View

SUMMARY: If you open many PowerPoint 2010 documents daily and every author saves them with their own view, force PowerPoint to start on one particular view.

If you work in an office environment requiring the opening of many Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 presentations from a variety of authors, you may have noticed that presentations get saved with a variety of views. Perhaps one person was working on Notes when they saved their presentation, another likes using the Outline View, and yet another forgoes notes and displays slides along with thumbnails.

Instead of opening every presentation in the view saved inside the file, you can force PowerPoint 2010 to open every presentation in the view you desire.

1. Select the "File" tab in the Ribbon.

2. The Microsoft Office Backstage View appears. Click the "Options" button.

(Or instead of steps 1 and 2, press Alt + T, then the letter O.)

3. The "PowerPoint Options" dialog box appears. Click "Advanced" in the left pane.

4. Underneath "Display", next to "Open all documents using this view", click the pull-down. From here you can choose from the following options:

* The view saved in the file (default)

* Normal - outline, notes and slides

* Normal - thumbnails, notes and slide

* Normal - outline and slide

* Normal - thumbnails and slide

* Normal - notes and slide

* Normal - slide only

* Outline Only

* Slide Sorter

* Notes

Configuring PowerPoint 2010 to open documents in a particular view

5. Click "OK" on the bottom-right of the dialog box to close it.

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Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 - Is Underlined Text Boring? Apply Waves, Dots, Colors, More

SUMMARY: A variety of ways to underline text is at your disposal when designing slides in PowerPoint 2010.

You probably know that pressing the "U" button in the "Font" section of the "Home" tab of the Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 Ribbon underlines the selected text. CTRL + U does the same thing.

What you might not know is that there are other ways you can underline text such as with dots, dashes, double underlines, and waves. You can even make the underline colors different from the font colors, as seen in the screenshot to the right.

1. Select the text you wish to underline.

2. Open the "Font" dialog box. You can do this by selecting the "Home" tab in the Ribbon, then clicking the arrow at the bottom-right of the "Font" section. Or, press CTRL + SHIFT + F.

Opening the "Font" dialog box in PowerPoint 2010

3. The "Font" dialog box appears. As desired, click the pull-down next to "Underline style" to choose from a variety of different ways to underline your text. Click the pull-down next to "Underline color" to open a pop-up menu where you can choose a different color underline. Clicking the "More Colors" link in this pop-up menu lets you choose from any color.

Applying font underline options in PowerPoint 2010

4. Click "OK" to close the dialog box.

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