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...
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 | Feb 8, 2013 | PowerPoint 2013, PPT 2010, Themes and Templates, XML editing
My latest book, Building PowerPoint Templates: Step by Step with the Experts, was released last October. (Get it here or here.) Co-author Julie Terberg and I spent the better part of a year working on it, and it’s exciting to see all our hard work finally come...
by Echo Swinford | Jun 20, 2012 | PPT 2010, Themes and Templates
Where to Save Your Office 2007 and 2010 Themes Installed themes When you install Office 2007, a set of default themes is installed to this folder on both Windows Vista and Windows XP: C:\\Program Files\Microsoft \OfficeDocument\ Themes 12. The installed themes show up...
by Echo Swinford | Jun 20, 2012 | PPT 2010
Each theme (.THMX file extension) includes one color scheme, one font set, and one effects scheme. You can edit the color scheme and font set in the PowerPoint interface and save the theme. The new color scheme and font set will travel with the theme. If you create...
