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...
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 | Nov 5, 2012 | PowerPoint 2013
Well, now that PowerPoint 2013 has released to manufacturing, it’s time to publish my big list of new features. This is my list of new stuff in PowerPoint 2013, definitely not the same list Microsoft marketing publishes. So here we go… Start UI. PowerPoint...
