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August 31, 2010

4 Reasons Businesses are Shifting to PowerPoint from Text

Businesses are shifting away from text documents to PowerPoint documents for strategic plans. This study by Sarah Kaplan at the University of Toronto is the first […]

April 29, 2010

Spaghetti Slide Makeover

PowerPoint is like a unicycle. I can look pretty silly on a unicycle if I don’t get some lessons. So whose fault is it if I keep falling on my axle? The unicycle’s fault? Or mine?

October 20, 2009

Changing PPT Defaults to Not Resize Text

After a workshop at the University of Washington Foster School of Business, I got this email question from one of the workshop attendees: One of my […]

September 29, 2009

Copying and Pasting Excel Graphs

When you copy a graph from Excel, don’t just paste it into the slide using Control-V. This will paste it as a graph still linked to […]

August 19, 2009

Changing Excel Chart Defaults

Here’s a neat trick that will save you time and frustration when creating charts – save your charts as templates and re-use the settings again in […]

August 2, 2009

Create Automatic Slide Titles

So you have to create a slide deck with 20 slides. What a pain it is to create each new slide and manually insert a title […]

July 30, 2009

Slide Makeover: Pie Chart into Persuasion

We often produce slides with graphs but fail to communicate clearly because we focus on the data and not on the message. The data is not […]

July 29, 2009

The Magical ALT Key

I used to get very frustrated when I was trying to line up shapes or text boxes in PowerPoint. You’d move it up a nudge – […]

July 28, 2009

The Visual Slide Revolution (Dave Paradi) Book Review

Dave Paradi’s book The Visual Slide Revolution is the first book I’ve seen that correctly diagnosed the business shift toward visual communications. Rather than focusing on […]