by Echo Swinford | Jan 8, 2015 | Content Placeholders, Editing and Formatting, Graphics in PowerPoint, Images in PowerPoint, Picture Placeholders, PowerPoint 2013, PPT 2007, PPT 2010, PPT 2013, Tutorials
I recently saw one of the most poorly built templates I’ve ever run across. It was created for a company in an industry where photographs of products and services are extremely important. The template had a lot of problems, but probably the worst was the builder...
by Echo Swinford | Jul 2, 2014 | PowerPoint 2013, PPT 2007, PPT 2010, Themes and Templates
PowerPoint templates get a bad rap. That’s because most PowerPoint templates are pretty bad. They’re often ugly and they’re rarely built right. The thing is, it doesn’t have to be that way. A professionally designed and expertly crafted...
by Echo Swinford | May 30, 2014 | Editing and Formatting, Handouts, PowerPoint 2013, PPT 2002-2003, PPT 2007, PPT 2010, Send to Word, Tutorials
PowerPoint handouts leave a lot to be desired. You can print slide thumbnails 3 per page. You can even print notes pages – which have one slide per page plus its notes. But if you want to print multiple slide thumbnails per page and include the speaker notes, you’re...
by Echo Swinford | Feb 18, 2013 | PowerPoint 2013, PPT 2007, PPT 2010
I’ve been getting a lot of questions lately about these new slide sizes folks are starting to see. PowerPoint 2013 uses a 16×9 dimension as its default, but it’s not the old 10″ x 5.63″ size we’re used to. Why does PowerPoint 2013...
by Echo Swinford | Jun 20, 2012 | Office 365, PowerPoint 2013, PPT 2007, PPT 2010, PPT 2013, PPT 2016, PPT 2019
Adding Custom Colors to the Color Picker You can add your own custom colors to Office 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, and Office 365 themes (.THMX file extension). For that matter, you can also add them to PowerPoint template (POTX) and presentation (PPTX) files. In the...
by Echo Swinford | Jan 1, 2011 | PPT 2007, PPT 2010, Themes and Templates
Lately I’ve been seeing lots of questions around the web asking how to change a presentation’s template. Or is it a theme? Or maybe it’s a slide master? There seems to be a lot of confusion around this. The truth is, it doesn’t really matter if...
