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• PowerPoint design / PowerPoint productivity
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PowerPoint maps are great tools to tell visual stories – showing locations around the world and how they might all connect, global route maps for travel or logistics and different options, or really anything in the universe that you can show on some kind of map. What’s really neat, is that Office 365 has maps for PowerPoint built-in. Read on to find out everything you need to know about to make the most of this functionality in your presentations.

• Google Slides / Presentation technology
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Google has recently introduced some long-anticipated upgrades to basic features, and some entirely new tools too. We’ve taken a look and written up a general overview of what’s new, so you can make the most of these new features and get the best out of Google Slides.

• PowerPoint design / PowerPoint productivity
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Error bars are an important part of data visualisation, as they show the variance in the data. It’s very easy to add error bars to graphs and charts in PowerPoint, and in this article, we'll show you how!

• Presentation technology / Industry insights
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think-cell is a PowerPoint add-on with chart and layout automation functions. Their latest update includes big data reporting capabilities and automatic layout generation. We got a special sneak preview of the latest version, and the inside scoop on the best features of the update from CEO and co-founder Markus Hannebauer.

• Effective eLearning / Industry insights

Clark Quinn has made a career out of aligning corporate and organizational goals with learning science and computer science. He kindly agreed to let me pick his brain and find out what led him down the path to melding together technology and education disciplines.

• Presentation technology

In 2016, we reviewed Visme a piece of online software for content creation. Now that they are coming out of Beta, we thought an updated review was due!

• PowerPoint design / PowerPoint productivity
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PowerPoint color themes are key to make your presentation look consistent and professional. Using the color theme correctly also makes it easy to change colors and branding later. Read on to find out how you can create your own color theme in PowerPoint, and apply it across Office.

• Industry insights
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Not all companies have an in-house presentation expert, but they should! Sherri Hodge is an in-house presentation expert at Weinberg, Wheeler, Hudgins, Gunn & Dial, LLC, a law firm in the US. This interview explores how she developed PowerPoint expertise over the course of an interesting career, and how she navigates the varied responsibilities of developing presentations for a law firm.

• PowerPoint productivity
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Adding slide numbers in PowerPoint, on the face of it, is pretty easy. PowerPoint provides a wealth of ways to add page numbers onto your slides; however, some of these methods don’t always work. Don't get frustrated, read on to learn the different ways to add slide numbers in PowerPoint, and find the one that works for your presentation!

• PowerPoint design
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Learn how to automatically generate total values for your graphs and charts using PowerPoint’s Combination Chart option.