Give a Magic Touch to Your Office Programs with Add-ins

You customize you Office products like Excel and PowerPoint by adding features that are not standard.

There are a lot of add-ins like map graphs, Power BI extensions, Forms polls, Emoji and Stickers.

You can find the Add-ins in the Insert tab.

You can choose and use useful and interactive add-ins from various stores.

Excel – Bing Maps Add-in

Allows you to show data like Latitude, Longitude, City and Country in your Excel lists with points on Bing Maps.

Excel – People Graph Add-in

How about using symbols instead of using standard Doughnut or Column charts?

With this add-in, you can express your numeral data with symbols.

You can customize the theme, symbol and chart view and use them the way you want.

Excel – Selection to HTML Add-in

What do you say about an assistant that writes the HTML codes for you?

You can turn all the data in your Excel list -including tables and text- into HTML text directly.

All you need to do is to choose the list range that you want to turn and then press the COPY HTML CODE button that is located in the window of the add-in.

HTML codes have been created and copied in the background instantly, now you can paste them anywhere you want and use them.

Excel – Mini Calendar and Date Picker Add-in

You can quickly plan with the dates you choose from the calendar.

You can customize the features like the week number, the first of the day and color.

PowerPoint – Forms

You can respond the electronic forms during the presentation.

You can add and use any form you want to the presentation with the Forms feature.

Word/PowerPoint/Outlook – Emoji Keyboard Add-in

You can use the emojis you use on your phone in your PowerPoint presentations as well.

PowerPoint – To Do List Pro Add-in

Do you need To-Do lists during a presentation?

You can keep your action steps as a To-Do list while preparing a presentation.

PowerPoint – Web Viewer Add-in

Would you like to show the preview of any website you want while presenting.

You can preview the website without having to stop your presentation and open the browser.

PowerPoint – Pixton Comic Characters Add-in

Make your presentations fun!

You can customize the look, clothes and stance of cartoon characters.

You can make your characters more impressive with speech balloons. Now your presentations are more colorful.

Word – To Do Add-in

You can use To-Do to make your work more planned.

Add information like hour and minute to the tasks and then press the Add Task button. You get to check the task duration with the countdown timer.

PowerPoint Shortcuts: The Most Frequently Used

You can have full control during your presentation with the PowerPoint shortcuts.

Start the Presentation: F5

You can start your presentation with the F5 shortcut.

Advance to the Next Slide: N

You can use the N key to advance to the next slide.

Return to the Previous Slide: P

You can use the P key to return to the previous slide.

You can use the N and P shortcuts (Next and Previous) to switch between slides.

Return to the First Slide: 1 + Enter

You might want to return to the first slide during the presentation. In this situation, you can return without having to return one-by-one. For that you need to press 1 and then Enter.

Start the Presentation from the Current Slide: Shift+ F5

You can start your presentation from the current slide without being lost between pages with the Shift F5 shortcut.

Display the Slide You Want: Slide Number + Enter

Use Slide page number and Enter to display the slide you want during the presentation. When you go 20 Enter you can go to the 20th slide.

Group Objects: Ctrl + G 

You can group the object for them to take actions together. Choose the object and then use the CTRL G shortcut for this action.

Blackboard: B 

You can use the screen as a blackboard during the presentation. You can write with a pen on the black background and make your presentation effective.

Whiteboard: W 

You can use the screen as a whiteboard during the presentation. You can write with a pen on the white background and make your presentation effective.

Erase all the Marks: E 

You can use this to erase all the marks done with the pen and cursor.

Return to the mouse cursor after you write with the pen: Ctrl + A 

You can use this shortcut to return to the mouse cursor after you write with the pen.

Hide the Pen or Cursor: Ctrl + H 

You can use this shortcut when you don’t want to see a pen or cursor in the screen.

Show hidden pen and cursors: Ctrl + U

Enables you to bring back the cursors you have hidden.

Save the Presentation As: F12

You can use this shortcut when you want to save your presentation as different formats like PDF or video, or when you want to change its location.

Now, you are ready you present faster with the PowerPoint shortcuts!

In and Out Animations with Buttons

You can try different method to make a more effective presentation. This way, you can present in a more catchy way visually and more effectively.

The enveloped move outward when you click the mail box in the animation above.

We can start by adding images.

We choose all of the envelope items that need to move when we click the mail box. Click the Add Animation button from the Animations tab and choose More Motion Paths. We add the animation by choosing Right.

When you add the animation it will look like the image below. The road map of the animation is shown with the dotted lines. Green dots are the start of the motion and the red dots are the end of the motion.

We change the start and end motion of the animation by dragging the green and red dots.

We drag and leave the green dots (starting points) to one point in the box since we want the envelopes to move outwards from the mail box. You can leave the end points the way you want.

Now, for the envelopes to move when we click the mail box let’s choose all the envelopes and click Trigger button next to the Add Animation button and then choose the mail box image within On click of. (If you don’t know the name of this image, or if there are multiple images and you don’t know which one, you can track the items with the Home Tab- Editing-Select.)