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Your academic posters should be keeping pace with the rate science is moving, not trailing behind! It’s time to upgrade your template and create beautiful and effective academic posters using PowerPoint.

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If you're unfamiliar with the tech, delivering presentations can be a really nerve-racking experience. This blog post gives you a useful rundown of the features of Presenter view in PowerPoint and how they can help you showcase your content with confidence.

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Microsoft's new Font Picker has some sparkling new features sure to save you time when you're whipping up your next masterpiece.

It can seem daunting to take a text-heavy slide or list of bullets and turn it into something visual, especially if you don’t think you’re super creative. However, the first step is simply reducing the amount of text on your slides – and you don’t have to be an artist to do that!

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All the best things in life do loop-the-loops. Rollercoasters, fancy planes, and… PowerPoint! Learn how to make a loop-the-loop-ing infinite Motion Path in PowerPoint for silky smooth repeating image carousels, never-ending animations, and more!

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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.

Every slide in your sales presentation should earn its place by contributing to the story you’re telling and helping to persuade your prospect to change their behaviour. However, there are certain slides that are pure filler. It’s time to look at your sales presentation with a critical eye and get rid of slides that aren’t pulling their weight!

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Two years after BrightSlide first hit the virtual shelves it has more to offer than ever. Here are the top 5 features we think you should know about. 

In the agency world, it’s fair to say that PowerPoint design sits somewhere at the bottom of the pile. Working with a specialist presentation design company will generally deliver better results, with less effort, and typically at lower cost. So why do some companies still not use presentation agencies for slide design?

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By applying some key principles of presentation design, you can make your PowerPoint design really standout and deliver both a more ‘popping’, but also more effective presentation.