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How to update PowerPoint preview thumbnail icons

Have you ever noticed the PowerPoint icons that show up on your desktop or inside Windows File Explorer? Sometimes the default application icon is shown and sometimes you see a...

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How to consistently brand PowerPoint, Excel and Word documents

Your brand is important. There you have it folks. No need to read any more! But seriously, your brand identity is represented in an ever-increasing number of channels and media...

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10 Best fonts to use in your next PowerPoint presentation

The design choices we make in our presentations – the colours, the icons, the photography and illustrations – all form a kind of shorthand through which our audiences recognise our...

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Unravelling PowerPoint picture size and resolution

If you come from a print media background you’ll be familiar with the importance of image resolution and how it affects quality. If you come from a web design environment...

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How to compress PowerPoint presentations and reduce picture file size

Media-rich presentations are great. Including high-quality images and videos often adds hugely to audience engagement, but it also adds file size. Adding to your file size means that your presentation...

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How to change slide size in PowerPoint

Why would anyone want to change the slide size in PowerPoint? You open a file, it’s the perfect 16:9 (no 4:3 fans here!), and you get stuck in, right? Well,...

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Presentation design principles for better PowerPoint design

I’m often asked how to make presentations more effervescent. How they can have more fizz. Or, worst of all, “Can you make my presentation pop?” Well, the answer is yes....

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Insights from a presentation master: Q&A with Echo Swinford

Echo Swinford, the one-woman team behind presentation consultancy Echosvoice, has been a PowerPoint MVP since 2000. She’s President of the Presentation Guild, an author, and a templates master! Once we...

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The best add-ons for Google Slides

Google Slides has a lot of useful tools for presentation creation and collaboration, but if you want to improve your performance and add extra functionality, add-ons can come in really...

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Restore default slide master layouts in PowerPoint with VBA

PowerPoint is an awesome tool for creating your latest presentation template but if you’re the person responsible for creating them in your organisation, you’ll know that PowerPoint often behaves like...

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How to create beautiful and effective academic posters in PowerPoint

It’s time to show the world your research, how exciting! After all your hard work, all those hours in the lab, you can finally present your findings and talk to...

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How to present in Google Slides with Present mode toolbar

If there’s one thing that gets our goat at BrightCarbon its people “presenting” their slides without using present mode. The slides are much smaller, you lose any animations, and it...

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How to create editable PowerPoint maps

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...

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The ULTIMATE guide to virtual presentations

For many organizations, the days of giving face-to-face presentations for every meeting are over. Though face-to-face meetings are still a powerful communications tool, conference organizers, marketing teams, and B2B sales...

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