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Free PowerPoint Design Intervention
What’s the next best thing to getting someone to critique your PowerPoint presentation for design and effectiveness for free?  Well, watching someone else get that advice may come in as a fairly close second. This video will re-introduce you to Julie Read More...
World’s Best Presentation 2009
Last week, the online presentation hosting site SlideShare announced the winners of their annual “World’s Best Presentation Contest.” On their website, you’ll find thousands entries for your viewing pleasure . What a great place to search for design inspiration. Read More...
Design Share
One of the most powerful features of PowerPoint is the ability to click a button and morph your presentation in to a completely different animal.  Designers have the ability to define nearly every aspect of how your content is arranged, colored, Read More...
September is Alive with Presentations
Some quick notes about three special events of interest to PowerPoint users. Slideshare's 2nd Annual Best Presentation Contest Winner The results of Slideshare's 2nd annual presentation contest are in, and the winner is Jeff Brenman's Thirst , a compelling Read More...
Office Themes: The Infinite Variety Generator - Part 1
Today's post is the first of two parts covering a fairly large and important topic for PowerPoint: applying and customizing themes. We'll be focusing on the variety you can generate using the controls on PowerPoint 2007's Design Tab. The Variety Problem Read More...
Picture Layouts Explained
My last post had a screen shot of a nice slide in it. In the text of my post I explained how create that slide, but the lack of clear, visual step by step instructions may have obscured just how easy it is to create slides like that in PowerPoint 2007. Read More...
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