I help presentation designers be more productive in PowerPoint through the design of add-ins, delivery of training, and speaking at events.
Two teenagers for my sins, Connor and Kaitlyn. All three of us supported by my incredible wife, Becky. She’s my rock.
Dougal the Labradoodle, Lol and Dan the cats.
I’m Scottish, so a really good single cask single malt, sipped slowly next to an open log fire. Followed by lots of coffee the next day.
Centigrade or Fahrenheit? As a Brit living in the US, I’m very confused!
B. Eng. Communications Engineering from Plymouth.
Fancy dress costumes.
Passion, PowerPoint, perseverance.
Making stuff. I designed and built my own home office from scratch.
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Tell me more!PowerPoint is an incredibly powerful app for creating presentations, printed documents, interactive kiosk shows, videos and so much more. But like any other piece of software, it has its limits. That’s where add-ins come in to play. Like your smartphone, you can customise PowerPoint with new apps, bringing it new…
Though there are lots of ways photos can be edited, one of the most common things our clients want to do with an image is to isolate the subject by removing the background. There are an increasing number of ways to do this, some using clever AI. But which is the best? Let’s find out!
As the saying goes, a picture speaks a thousand words. PowerPoint offers you multiple image sources to help you create your latest presentation masterpiece, but it isn't very consistent in how it presents them to you. Let's fix that!
How do you make sure that your graphs and charts have consistent branding across Excel, PowerPoint and Word? Learn how to create and use custom templates that support your brand identity across Microsoft Office.
Unleash your creativity and use this simple technique to loop sequences of animations throughout a slide no matter how long or complex the sequence is!
You can do some really cool things in Microsoft Office with just a few lines of Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) - from creating your own custom formula in Excel to correcting branded content in PowerPoint to merging address data for a mail campaign in Word. And sometimes you need to share that VBA solution with colleagues and clients, via the Internet. A change that Microsoft rolled out at the end of March 2022 tweaks the process required by Windows users to gain access to this active content.
