PowerPoint, presentation design, and eLearning articles, including:

• Effective eLearning

Our comprehensive guide to handling legacy Flash eLearning content has everything you need to be able to choose what to do with your content, plus tonnes of tips to help you rapidly republish or recreate your courses!

• PowerPoint productivity / Presentation technology
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If you've ever run or written a macro for PowerPoint, Excel or Word on a Windows PC you'll probably be familiar with the Developer tab. Move over to the Mac and you'll be able to turn on the Mac Developer tab for both Excel and Word but it simply doesn't exist for PowerPoint. Until now!

• PowerPoint design

With a dash of patience and a dollop of creativity you can create professional looking assets using just the tools you can find in PowerPoint.

• Google Slides
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In Google Slides, editing the Theme and Layouts is an easy way to ensure that your presentations have a set style that stays true to your brand. Getting to grips with the Google Slides Theme builder and Layouts can also speed up your content creation, providing a firm jumping off point for all your future presentations.  

• PowerPoint design

Underwhelmed by the built-in slide transitions in PowerPoint? Or just baffled? PowerPoint has almost 50 transitions to choose from! A few of them are tasteful, but many of them are cheesy and distracting. Create your own instead with this helpful guide.

• PowerPoint productivity / Presentation technology
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One of the things we recommend PowerPoint users do is create a quick acccess toolbar. It's a easy way to get to some of the hidden functionality in PowerPoint. But when do you find the time to create one? What tools should you add to it? Here at BrightCarbon we've created a PowerPoint toolbar to help.

• Presentation technology

Adobe Spark is an online and mobile design app developed to help people with no design expertise create social graphics, web pages, and short videos with impact. We decided to check it out.

• PowerPoint design / PowerPoint productivity
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There’s no native feature in PowerPoint that lets you run your slides in a random order. But, where there's a will, there's a way! And with a touch of VBA, we've got a way.

• Sales messaging / Visual communication
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As humans we find stories incredibly compelling, but why is that? And how can we make sure we're infusing storytelling in our presentations to keep our audiences engaged and invested? Read on to find out the rest of the story!

• Presentation technology / Visual communication

Those of us who are seasoned presentation creators can easily be tempted to dismiss Prezi as a one trick pony, great for the novelty value but not for much else. Well, here at BrightCarbon we like a challenge, so we set about exploring what Prezi can really do.