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.

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…

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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.  

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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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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!

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.

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Video is great for engaging people during a presentation, with something dynamic and emotive, or to provide a clear explanation of a difficult concept. Finding video can be difficult, but there’s a little-known site called YouTube that has a few billion videos to choose from. This blog post takes you through the simple steps to embedding YouTube video in PowerPoint.