by Echo Swinford | Nov 6, 2013 | .ZIP files, Editing and Formatting, Extracting Files, File Extensions, Multimedia, PowerPoint 2013, PPT 2010, Tutorials
Every year at the Presentation Summit, it seems that all of us speakers randomly end up on a similar theme. It must be something in the air or water – or maybe it’s a vibe the Help Center puts off – because it’s completely unplanned. For example, one year...
by Echo Swinford | Jun 10, 2013 | Color, Editing and Formatting, PowerPoint 2013
PowerPoint 2013 introduced a color picker to the interface (finally!), but I keep reading and hearing that you can’t choose colors outside your current slide – for example, that you can’t choose a color from a website. This is absolutely. not....
by Echo Swinford | May 20, 2013 | PowerPoint 2013, PPT 2010
The most common way to turn your rectangular picture into a perfect circle is to create a circle shape and fill it with an image. I came up with a quicker method earlier this week. How did I not discover this before?! This method works in PowerPoint 2010 and 2013....
by Echo Swinford | May 4, 2013 | PowerPoint 2013, PPT 2010
I spent part of last week onsite at a client’s office helping the in-house presentation specialist (let’s call her Rhonda) with a huge pitch deck. As so often happens, the content wasn’t quite finished, so the slides were still in flux and a 4:00 am...
by Echo Swinford | Mar 13, 2013 | PowerPoint 2013, PPT 2010, Themes and Templates
In previous versions of PowerPoint, you could save a default template so that when you started PowerPoint or a new, blank presentation, you’d get the template of your choice rather than the default (blank white) Office template. This can be very helpful if you...
