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How to Chop-off the Logo without Hurting the Teddy

Or Crop Unwanted Part of an Image without Harming the Main Element Well, I think both of these titles can together explain the gist of this post. Sometimes when dealing with PowerPoint, we may find ourselves stuck at some images, which have certain queer edges, making it almost impossible to crop without mutilating the main object. The image of the teddy given in the beginning of the post explains this problem well. If we try to simply crop this image to avoid the logo ( Howtodo.com is what it reads), we will find that we can do it only either incompletely or cutting away one of the legs of the teddy. So, how can we chop off the logo without hurting the teddy? In such cases, we can do it more effectively with some small tricks. Just click on the image, and rotate the image by clicking and turning on the rotating handle in such a way that the logo is placed at the bottom of the image. Now, copy the image, and using the paste special option, paste it as a PNG. ...

Give PowerPoint Hyperlinks to a Specific Slide of Another PowerPoint File

Another PowerPoint trick which I learned during my interaction with colleagues. We know how to give hyperlinks from an object in our PowerPoint slide to web pages. Yes; right click on the object, click on ‘Hyperlink’, and type your desired web page URL. Using the same feature, you can give hyperlinks to other documents saved in your computer also. But in this post, I am trying to talk you about a hidden trick which will help you to give hyperlink to a specific slide of another PowerPoint file kept in our system. Please note that, this method will help you to give links to the slides of PowerPoint files only. I may disappoint you saying that this method is completely PowerPoint slideshow specific and will not work in Articulate. How to give hyperlinks from an object in a PowerPoint file to a specific slide of another PowerPoint file So the method is here: • Open the PowerPoint file and spot the object from which you want to give a link. • Right click on it, from the...