Science PowerPoint tips and tutorials

Excel is one of the preferred programs to create charts in science. Although copying them into a PowerPoint slide is easy, converting these charts into PowerPoint format, for the purpose of editing, may be somewhat cumbersome. There are several ways of editing Excel charts in PowerPoint. However, in order to modify it extensively in one would need to either go back to Excel and do editing there, or invoke Excel program while in PowerPoint and make the necessary changes still using Excel. Here we show how to quickly and completely convert copied charts into PowerPoint text and vector graphics. After this conversion you will have full control over each little graphical detail contained in the chart. (more…)

PowerPoint has adequate set of tools and overall depth to draw simple and complex chemical structures such as cyclic carbon elements. Although there are many more sophisticated drawing programs better suited for chemical structures in general, for the infrequent drawing needs in the area of chemistry PowerPoint is as good as any other such program. When used creatively, PowerPoint XP or 2003 will let you draw quite complex chemical structures that may surpass those created by more expensive software. (more…)