Illustrator may be a vector program, but that doesn't mean you're limited to solid colors and gradients when it comes to shape fills. Using texture to fill objects can add visual interest and a sense ...

Though you can always choose a premade template, you may want to customize your PowerPoint slide backgrounds manually. You can add a custom background to one or more slides, and you'll also have the ...

Now let us see these steps in detail. On the Selection Pane, hide every placeholder on the first slide. Close the Selection Pane. Go back to the Slide Master tab and click the Background Styles button ...

PowerPoint has a great set of special effects, graphics, animations, and template themes. There’s just one problem: Everybody else has the same effects, animations, and template themes that you have.

The programs in iWork ’09 share many features, including the ability to create bar charts. Somewhat strangely, though, they don’t share the same fills for those bar charts. As an example, Pages offers ...