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 | Mar 13, 2014 | hotfix, PPT 2010
Last night I was working on a client-provided file. I saved it from Outlook to my hard drive (not SkyDrive/OneDrive, not Dropbox, not a server drive — this was actually on my computer). Then I opened it, deleted most of the slides, and did a Save As to rename...
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 | 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....
