It’s hard to believe, but apparently there are people out there who have not seen any Star Wars movies!! For those of you that have seen it, I am about to show you how to replicate the opening text sequences using PowerPoint to create the PowerPoint Star Wars Effect. For those of you that have […]
Continue readingI’m often asked for help with, or to recommend a good (cheap) program for designing certain shapes like banners etc. There are many good ways to do this out there, feel free to look into some yourself, this is what I usually tell people, but I also give them an Office design tip. A […]
Continue readingWould you like to add video to PowerPoint presentations? Videos and other media can add to your presentations, enhance slides and for longer presentations they can give you a break from talking and give your audience a break from listening to you (no offence intended). So how do you add video? A common technique I […]
Continue readingSo you’ve put together the content of your presentation and you are now ready to animate it. This is where the PowerPoint animation pane comes into play. As well as making animation easier, faster and less painful to work with, the PowerPoint animation pane may also give you easier access to some options. If […]
Continue readingSo, you have put together your presentation and are happy with the content, but how do you get your audience to listen to you presenting? Here are 2 PowerPoint tips to help you. #1 Use short points to make your point There are a few advantages to using short points to get your message […]
Continue readingThe first PowerPoint Animation tip I would give any client would be to leave it to the end!! I’ve seen so many presentations with good content ruined by poor attempts at animation which end up making the whole presentation look rushed and devalues the good content. I have even been told by some people […]
Continue readingIf you are using a mouse with your computer/laptop you may already be familiar with the left button and the right button, but do you use the middle button much? Talking to different people at different levels of computer skill, I was surprised by the number that did not use the middle button, or know […]
Continue readingThis tip is aimed at people who already use keyboard shortcuts or are looking to try them out. You may already have noticed that when you use the right-click button on your mouse you get a different menu on screen depending on what you are clicking on. This is a context menu, if you right-click […]
Continue readingThis tip is aimed at those of you who use keyboard shortcuts, or are interested in trying them out. My example below uses Excel 2010, but can be applied to other Office 2010 programs Whether they use them or not, a lot of people are at least aware of some of the basic “Ctrl+” shortcuts: […]
Continue readingPowerPoint is a presentation software program that is part of the Office package. It comes with a host of options for creating professional presentations. However, in my experience it is a program that people aren’t as comfortable with as they are with others like Excel, Word, etc. I have sat with a lot of people […]
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