December 21, 2012

How to Create a Custom Color Palette in PowerPoint

I always recommend using a color palette when you build slides. You will get your work done faster, enjoy building slides more and the slides will […]
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February 28, 2012

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 […]
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October 24, 2011

Cheat Sheet for Creating Numbers Inside Circles

Sometimes it comes in handy to use numbers within your text to refer to numbers in your diagram. Like this slide. You might just use a […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 – […]
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