February 16, 2011

Turn Clip Art Into Custom Icons – PowerPoint Video Tip #1

Here’s a neat trick for turning clip art into your own set of professional-looking custom icons, which I learned from the talented presentation designer Magda Maslowska. Enjoy! About […]
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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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