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Tints and shades auto-generated by Microsoft from Theme Colors often take your content off-brand. How can you get the custom colors you want in PowerPoint? Read on to find out!

Creating interactive content by hand in PowerPoint can be super time consuming! Our iSpring review investigates whether this tool is a true time saver for enthusiastic eLearning creators.

A step-by-step guide to creating polished, professional timelines in PowerPoint from one of our PowerPoint design experts!

We've rounded up some key Google Slides accessibility tools and features to help more people access your content more fully.

Branching scenarios are a great way of providing authentic assessment in Articulate Rise. They offer learners a chance to put theory into practice, by facing realistic situations that they might encounter in real life and getting feedback on what they’ve done well or need to improve.

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We’ve been investigating what gets lost in translation when you open a file from Microsoft PowerPoint in Google Slides. While both platforms broadly serve the same purpose, there are lots of differences between the two and we’ve noticed certain glitches and issues when you convert PowerPoint to Google Slides. Here's what to look out for.

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We love PowerPoint at BrightCarbon. It’s such a versatile application which can be used for so much more than ‘just’ designing presentations. You can create videos, printed collateral, interactive eLearning, even animated GIFs and so much more. But did you know you can even create games? We’ve built one for you, using VBA, and it’s free to download and adapt.

NXPowerLite is the latest incarnation of a nifty Office compression solution which helps to reduce file sizes in a multitude of ways. Whether you pin it to your taskbar or choose to compress directly within Microsoft products such as PowerPoint, Word, Excel or Outlook, NXPowerLite makes compression so easy!

Interactive PowerPoint quizzes are a great way of levelling up your eLearning content. Whether used for formative or summative assessment, interactive quizzes help learners to have a more engaging experience, identify areas where they need more help, and retain more of what they learned in the course of their training. In this post we cover all the practicalities of creating interactive assessments in PowerPoint.

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With a bit of clever coding, and some BrightCarbon magic, you can create Smart Icons and Illustrations in PowerPoint.