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• PowerPoint design / Visual communication

Find out how you can make more accessible and inclusive presentations by thinking carefully about fonts, layouts, colours and structure.

• PowerPoint design / Visual communication

Icons are a fantastic and versatile way of making your presentations more visually engaging. However, icons can also end up being at best decorative or at worse distracting when not used carefully. Learn three tips for choosing the right icons for your presentations.

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Microsoft announced that Publisher is leaving us in October 2026. Read on for nostalgic Publisher memories and three great alternatives to explore before the Big Switch Off.

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We’re calling out one of the major injustices of corporate rebrands across the globe – PowerPoint falling to the bottom of the rebranding checklist. We discuss why it's a problem and how to fix it!

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Placeholders in PowerPoint form part of a layout and keep content in the right place on a slide. But sometimes, you want the names you see in the Selection Pane in the slide to follow what you set in the master. We're going to unravel a bit of PowerPoint history and find a solution to this conundrum in the process.

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It's Christmas! After a late night with too much eggnog and brandy snaps we set ourselves a challenge to see who could come up with the wildest PowerPoint Christmas card! So it's the day after the night before, and through blurry eyes we can reveal our efforts...

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How can you quickly create on-brand, polished materials for your next event? Here are 3 trade show booth ideas you can make 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…

• PowerPoint design

Though there are lots of ways photos can be edited, one of the most common things our clients want to do with an image is to isolate the subject by removing the background. There are an increasing number of ways to do this, some using clever AI. But which is the best? Let’s find out!

• PowerPoint productivity

As the saying goes, a picture speaks a thousand words. PowerPoint offers you multiple image sources to help you create your latest presentation masterpiece, but it isn't very consistent in how it presents them to you. Let's fix that!