August 31, 2010
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 […]