![]() ![]() Using the comment tab, users can annotate their PDF by adding texts, highlights, sticky notes, and links, among others.It also has an OCR function that can be used to edit image rich or scanned PDF documents.Users can convert their PDF to or from several formats like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, among others.Users can optimize PDF pages easily and also add footnotes, headers bate, and numbering.With the Create PDF feature, users can convert or scan a variety of different file formats into a single PDF.So, if you need that client logo or project background image you’ve been using in InDesign, just pull it up and insert it all without ever leaving PowerPoint. This allows you access content from your Creative Cloud account and any shared libraries you have access to. ![]() TheNounProject also offers an add-in which gives access to their entire catalog of icons in SVG format.Īnother Office Add-in you can add to the ribbon is Adobe Creative Cloud. You’ll need paid accounts to make use of most of these, but Pexels is completely free, and others such as Adobe Stock allow you to insert watermarked images before purchasing. Under the Insert tab, there’s a little-known tool called Get Add-ins which opens up Microsoft Office to a whole host of 3 rd party tools and sites including stock services like Adobe Stock, Dreamstime, Shutterstock, Pixabay, Pickit, and Pexels. Illustrations (a tasteful of collection of responsive SVGs designed to match your file’s color palette).Videos (similar to the collection of stock photographs these can also be accessed from the Insert: Video pull-down).Stickers (cute drawings that your kids will love).Cutout People (transparent PNGs including sets using the same model).Icons (solid and outline styles also accessible from the Icons button on the Insert tab).Also available are Microsoft collections of: If you’re searching for Stock Images in the dialog shown above, look carefully and you’ll see that it’s only one of six options for content. ![]() Icons, Cutout People, Stickers, Videos & Illustrations But according to the licensing terms, you are not allowed to extract one of these images for use on a website or in InDesign, for example. You can use them in PowerPoint, Word, and Excel and any materials you create with these programs. One thing to know about these images is that they are for use only within the Office ecosystem. Microsoft doesn’t reveal where these images come from, but a little web-sleuthing reveals that many of these images are for sale at Getty and iStock. When you select Stock Images you’ll be taken to a similar categorized dialog accompanied by a search bar.īut instead of the internet wild west, the results here are a curated collection of high-quality and tasteful photography. If you’re a Microsoft365 user (and you should be), you have access to thousands of professional-level stock images through the same Insert: Pictures pull-down. One of my favorite uses for this search is finding transparent company logos. You can turn off the Creative Commons option if you like, and also filter with a host of criteria. The default is to show Creative Commons imagery only, but keep in mind that there’s no guarantee that just because Bing thinks something is CC, that it actually is. (Don’t hate on me for this, but I actually think Bing’s image search is a big better than Google’s.) Your keyword search will bring up internet-wide results, so know that it will be the wild west of searches. This dialog is essentially a Bing image search-the same you would get by going to /images. Selecting this will bring up a PowerPoint dialog with a bunch of pre-populated categories, plus a search bar at the top. In PowerPoint, under the Pictures pull-down on the Insert Tab, you’ll see Online Pictures. In fact, you may never even have to leave PowerPoint to access high-quality and even free imagery. With the ever-increasing number of places to download stock imagery on the web, there are few excuses these days for using cheesy or lo-res imagery in presentations. ![]()
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