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1. #POWERPOINT FOR MAC VS WINDOWS PC#
2. #POWERPOINT FOR MAC VS WINDOWS SERIES#
3. #POWERPOINT FOR MAC VS WINDOWS WINDOWS#

With these custom shortcuts enabled, I can align and distribute items in fractions of a second just by using the keyboard.

#POWERPOINT FOR MAC VS WINDOWS PC#

I have a dozen or so custom shortcuts, but by far the most useful are the align and distribute tools that have no shortcuts at all in PowerPoint on the Mac or the PC despite being some of the most often used tools.

And that’s it! If a shortcut already exists in PowerPoint, whatever you entered will override the default, and you’ll see your new shortcut listed in the File menu. Here you’ll be able to add PowerPoint as an application and then enter any File Menu item (you need to spell it exactly as it appears in PowerPoint), and then enter a keyboard shortcut. Under Apple System Preferences, go to Keyboard, then Shortcuts and finally App Shortcuts. Adobe allows custom keyboard shortcuts, but this is a feature of their individual programs-something few other applications have, including Microsoft’s. A little-known feature of macOS is that you can change and customize the File menu functions for any program.

#POWERPOINT FOR MAC VS WINDOWS WINDOWS#

Now we get to something that makes Windows users drool because it’s technically not a Microsoft feature at all, but rather a macOS one. I have used the feature when creating image-only slideshows to give things a bit of movement and depth, but you could easily use it to give graphic backgrounds just a little something extra under text. More after the jump! Continue reading below↓įree and Premium members see fewer ads! Sign up and log-in today. You can, if need be, edit the animations as you would any others.

The animations are typical motion paths and grow/shrinks that you could have created manually, but the feature will save you loads of time if this is the effect you’re after. Again, think of Ken Burns slowly moving one of those Civil War images around the screen, and you get the idea.

#POWERPOINT FOR MAC VS WINDOWS SERIES#

What happens next is that PowerPoint fits the image to full-screen and applies a series of slow and subtle animations that pan and zoom your image to feature the parts of that image in the order you just selected. Clicking this will bring up a window with that image and instructions to “Click on what’s important to guide the animation path.” Select as many points as you like on the image and click Apply. Whenever you select an image on a slide, you will see “Animate as Background” as an option on the far right of the Picture Format tab. This may be the one true design feature that can be found only on the Mac (although it can be played back on Windows.) Animate as Background applies a Ken Burns effect that pans and zooms a background by automatically creating a series of motion paths and grow/shrink animations. It’s fun, maybe, but I much prefer just using Selection Pane when I need to adjust layering. Like the name implies, you can physically reorder these layers, changing the Z-order on your slide. Click Reorder Objects in the Arrange tools and you’ll enter a 3D Tron-like world of dimensional layers-one for each item on your slide. This is a weird one with a user experience that feels like it doesn’t even belong in Microsoft Office. On the Mac, however, this feature is always available with a check box right next to the Size controls in the ribbon. On the PC you can only lock the aspect ratio of an item in the Format panel, and that can only be brought up via a right-click or a nearly hidden arrow in the corner of the Size controls in the ribbon.