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Make Slides that Pop Using Color Contrast – PowerPoint Video Tip #18

The secret to making slides that pop is color contrast. Watch this video showing how to select and modify colors to improve a slide’s appearance.   […]

What to Do When the Picture Won’t Fit – PowerPoint video tip #17

What do you do when you have a picture that is tall and leaves a lot of space on your wide PowerPoint slide? Here’s an artistic […]

How to Crop Around an Irregular Shape – PowerPoint Video Tip #16

How do you crop around an image, removing the background? Especially when the shape you want to keep is not a regular circle, square or triangle? […]

Cool PowerPoint Slide Transition – PowerPoint Video Tip #15

Here’s a clever slide transition you might find useful. Part of the image stays in focus while everything else around it becomes blurry. (Here’s how to […]

Even More Ways to Print White Lines in PowerPoint – PowerPoint Video Tip #14

In a previous video, I showed you white lines in PowerPoint are printed as black lines. And I showed you a workaround. Then presentation designer Krzysztof […]

How to Print White Lines – PowerPoint Video Tip #13

So you’ve created a great-looking slide. But it may not look the same when they are printed as handouts. PowerPoint especially has trouble with white lines, […]

How to Create Triangle-Shaped Tables – PowerPoint Video Tip #12

You can build pyramid shapes using SmartArt, but there are some limitations to SmartArt I don’t like: can’t use other shapes (eg. circle, hexagon), text pop-up […]

Straighten Out Sloppy Slides with 3 Alignment Tools – PowerPoint Video Tip #11

Sloppy slides are like the used car salesman with the bad hair combover, rumpled suit and ketchup stains on his tie. You don’t know if you […]

Create Gorgeous Textured Slide Backgrounds – PowerPoint Video Tip #10

Textured backgrounds give your slides more personality. Here’s how to create them yourself, using free images available online. Also see this post on textured backgrounds by […]

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